Poland... nah! close enough!

[Jerry]

Ok, ParcelForce f****d up nicely! ScottishKilts.net sent me my new kilt plus accessories at monday by Euro 48. Should have been here by today at least. We'll... PF delivered my parcel to Poland instead of Finland! Now it has been stored there for 2 days because of "insufficient address". I needed it today because tomorrow I leave to Southern-Finland until after christmas. ScottishKilts.net promised to deal with ParcelForce so it will be delivered to my friend in Southern-Finland. So I get it next friday when I go visit him. Damn... I already thought the jonesing was over! Thanks ParcelForce, you should take lessons for "Basics of Reading" :P Well, people do mistakes... I'm not flawles either but...

Sounds like DHL, but at least "Parcelforce" tried to remedy the situation.

[David in Maryland]

Quite intresting. Thanks for the link.
Things like this mean a great deal to me, as they serve to remind me of my roots, and now I know even more about them.

Thanks! 8)

Did you try out each glass individually?

[Sherry]

Ackwell, of course, meant "blew it" instead of "blew up." For a moment there, Ackwell, I was afraid you had really lost your temper!

I believe this is the first time I ever heard of a package being delivered to the wrong country. Tho' it happens to luggage, so I guess it shouldn't be so surprising.

Sherry

[GlassMan]

I buy my stained glass supplies by wholesale and recently a shipment from the distributor did not arrive. It was one box out of 7 that were missing. So we checked with FedEx ground for the location. Apparently that one box got separated from it's brothers and took a trip from New Jersey to Virginia (DC Metro Area) by way of Reno, Nevada.

Of course it's still not as bad as an order the distributor is waiting on from a manufacturer (and which has several back-orders of mine on it). The freight company can't find their entire truck! How do you lose a truck?

[Southern Breeze]

I've almost lost count of the times things I've orderd have been sent to Chatsworth California instead of Chatsworth Georgia. Fed Ex in L.A has called twice for directions and that gives new meaning to the term mutual confusion.

[arrogcow]

Granted it is in Poland, but at least you know where it is. My new kilt was shipped from them on Tuesday, but the tracking has not been updated for just over 48 hours (since 1 am Glasgow time on the 8th - I suspect that they no longer track once it in on its way to the US, but am unsure). However, Parcelforce's web site says that the delivery for where I live should only be 3 working days, so hopefully I'll get it tomorow. Keep your fingers crossed (my luck it is in Poland with yours).

Adam

[Jerry]

This isn't quite the same thing, and I hope it doesn't seem like I'm hijacking ackwell's thread, but I do think it is slightly related. My cousin and I enlisted in the navy on the same day. I was allowed to delay leaving for boot camp for 30 days to finish out a semester in college while he left the following Monday. I arrived at Great Lakes a month after he did. Neither of us knew where the other was on the base, but, we did have mailing addresses for each other. Shortly after I got there, my cousin sent me a letter. I received it nearly 3 years later when my ship returned from a Med cruise. It had so many post marks on it that I couldn't read some of them. The Ironic thing was that when he sent the letter we were quartered in opposite ends of the same building.

[AckZel]

Yeah, and the the first and third epistles of Paul to the Corinthians are still somewhere in the Poste Italiane ;)

[arrogcow]

Mine is still in limbo. It has finally left the international hub (according to their web site), funny thing the time it says is left is 09:55 on 12/13/05 and as it is only about 23:30 on 12/12/05 in Glasgow right now, I wonder where Postalforce's hub is (I'm thinking Guam, the time would be about right). So much for International Datapost service only taking 3 days (according to them).

Adam

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

John M., those are some awesome shot glasses! I wish I had a set of those for my port (I know, it should be enjoyed in a snifter, but those really are some great glasses)!