Royal Mail Adventures

So! This adventure started with a whole bunch of annoyance, misty rain (the worst kind of rain, in my opinion) and stupid mail systems where no one really knows what’s going on except the last person you’re directed to!

Let me start from the beginning, and sum it up quickly so you don’t have to listen to me complain for many, many paragraphs about something relatively minor (and oh yes, I could certainly do that if I let myself!).

Nick and I had a package coming, and when Nick checked it online yesterday it said it had been delivered the day before. Well, we have no package and no card saying it had been missed. So, he checked the online services and rang DHL. DHL handed it over to royal mail and have nothing more to do with it, and the website we ordered from just said that if it was sent back to them, they’d re-mail it. So this morning after Nick had left for work, I rang Royal Mail. The woman I spoke to (who was appropriately tired-sounding for half 8 in the morning) said it was in a PO box in Canterbury but couldn’t tell me where, and suggested I just go to a post office. WELL. I decided that it was better to just get it out the way before I went to work at 11:15, so I left for the post office then and there. Long story short, I went to Wilkinson’s (for light bulbs), then to two separate post offices, then to the WRONG entrance of the sorting office, and then to the right one where they said we should have had a card because they did indeed have our parcel but there was a £13 customs charge on it. So I couldn’t have it. So they are re-sending the card, and now we will likely have two of the damn things. So I spent two hours walking around in misty rain for no reason. Getting annoyed.

So when I walked past our oriental supermarket I bought myself some consolation Pocky. Strawberry flavour. I even saved some for Nick – Shock! So yes, here are various moments from my long, miserable, frustrating morning!

And that about sums it all up!! We did manage to get that parcel that evening, though! I'll upload a photo of me wearing half the contents some time soon =D

Thanks for reading!