Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Screw postals

Man I hate Speedpost.
Ok so I ordered from Gojane and opted for direct international shipping to get my shoes as soon as possible. And international shipping - most of the time - costs more than Vpost but I was willing to pay more to get my shoes earlier.

Then I realised that USPS service will divert to Speedpost to my house (I thought it would be like Fedex or UPS or something) and I would face the horrors of Singapore post service again.

So like the postman came, but Farley was sleeping and I got the collection notice again.

K fine... so I just have to call and arrange a redelivery or self-collection. However, the default post office for Farley's house is at Jurong West, which is really nowhere near his house and out of the way. So I arranged for collection at IMM.

You know how normally if you collect a registered or international parcel from the post office you don't have to queue but just produce your notice at a corner counter right? I mean, that's what most PO do. But at the IMM branch... I stood at the parcel counter for like, 5 minutes before anyone paid attention to me. And it's obvious that you don't have to queue cos people queue to pay bills, buy stamps that kinda thing.

Then this sarky person came out and when Farley asked about the parcel, she just mumbled something along the line "Go queue."

I was like what the hell? But I went to queue. 10 minutes later while queueing, sarky woman appeared and left for her lunch break. Honestly, she just didn't want to search for my parcel and so passed the responsibility to the other counter staff because when it was my turn (2o minutes later) the parcel counter person SUDDENLY appeared and seem to fully expect me to show the notice - if you can understand what i just wrote.

You know, up till now most PO staff I've encountered are all professional and polite, they know where and how to look for your parcel but this guy? Man... he was from China and didn't understand what I said at all. He just took my notice, went into the inner room for 2 seconds then came out (I could see his reflection from the ajar door and he didn't even look anywhere for my parcel) and said my parcel was still in transit.

Like WTF??? I was in the PO for at least half an hour and then he just searched for 1 minute and tell me that my parcel is not there?

Seriously, I'm NEVER going to transfer my parcel there again. Bitches.


Gareth Pugh show tomorrow yay ^^

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