On the 22nd of December my paypal “cheque” finally cleared and I confidently expected to hear the ring on the door just before or just after Xmas.
Xmas came and went. Eventually I gave the supplier a ring and they emailed me a tracking number.
What a delight! From this tracking number I can now see that the parcel was picked up by “Speedy Express Delivery Service” at 14:15:47 on 2014-12-29 …. It then arrived in Sofia (which I found was the capital of Bulgaria) at 22:16:59 on the same day …
So, what has “Speedy delivery” being doing with my parcel since?
… Nothing!
Until I checked it just now to find that as of 08:32:50 7 days after SPEEDY delivery picked it up, it has finally made it to Budapest in Hungary (next door to Bulgaria) where the status is: “Processed in Office”.
At this rate of progress I am confidently expecting my “Speedy delivery” parcel to arrive some time around March – and as a sceptic I fully anticipate it to be a box mashed to pieces missing the contents and with a customs demand that must be paid before I get the parcel to see it is without its contents.
Welcome to the internet age!
Orders placed at the speed of light.
Parcels delivered at the speed of a gestating elephant.
And the only real difference … is that I can now see online how slowly my “snail-mail” is getting to me.
