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OT kinda just venting

I am way out from a major shopping centre so I do a lot of shopping on the internet, and a lot of that is from the States or the UK as well for stuff I just can't source here.

The past month has been a nightmare for ordering and postage and I just can't believe it is the coming of Christmas.

I saw a gorgeous panel that I wanted to give as a Christmas gift so I tried to order on the internet from the only supplier I could find - in the UK. They offered only surface mail so I emailed and offered to pay extra for Air Mail, name the price. No, they don't do that, only surface mail. It will take more than three months to get here and cost almost the same! OK - whatever! I can find another gift.

So after some more browsing I ordered a heap of sewing "things" from FD in the States to make up the little gifts I give all my sewers for Christmas every year. When it hadn't arrived after two weeks (average is about 8-10 days) I emailed. Three days later they replied that they were waiting for stocks of the needles I wanted as they only has

38 of something I wanted 40 of. No thought to let me know! So I emailed to send what they had (I only need 34 anyway really) and another three days later they send a response that it will go out "probably by the end of the week". No way will I get it in time for our end of year get together!

I had also ordered gift bags (to make up all the bits and pieces together into pretty bags) from a supplier for delivery to a US address to be onforwarded. Again, nothing for two weeks so I chased it up. Apparently there was a problem with the delivery (no explaination of what) and it was returned to the despatcher. They have not been in touch with me after I asked for an update on what was happening with my order, and it was returned to them probably 8-10 days ago.

And just to top things off - I sent a quilty CD to the States and it has mysteriously disappeared in transit.

So . . . . . whoever you are and whatever I did to p*## you off -

I'M SORRY! REALLY I AM!!! I AM REALLY REALLY REALLY SORRY!!!!!!!!

So please get off my case and let things go back to normal.

Venting over . . . thankyou. Have a nice day.

Reply to
CATS
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Cheryl, I can really feel for you in this situation. Before we moved here, I lived a couple of hours from any shopping and also did a lot of internet shopping. For one Christmas, I ordered some things in September. Keep in mind that I ordered from the US and was living in the US, too. One company never did deliver, even after multiple emails and phone calls, all of which promised delivery in a "few days". The other company finally FedEx'ed my stuff several days *after* Christmas -- but at least this company also knocked a significant portion of the price off for my "inconvenience". Still, that didn't really make up for the lack of the gifts on Christmas Day. It's so frustrating!

Reply to
Sandy Foster

That's really rotten luck Cheryl. I do sympathise with you. Try to calm down tomorrow - terminal frustration is very bad for you (I know this >GI am way out from a major shopping centre so I do a lot of

Reply to
Patti

Sympathy heading your way! And you are right, there's something distinctly scewed up with the mail these days -I've been waiting 3 weeks for a Friendship Quilt block that was supposed to be here at least 2 weeks ago. So frustrating! And that's not even a retail order, just regular mail! Roberta in D

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Reply to
Roberta Zollner

All the mail gets really screwed up round here at the best of times. Christmas just makes it worse... I got a letter one summer from the university, in Canterbury (40 mins away by car on a slow day). It had been posted on the 12th December! GRR ARGH! It was about registering for exams, too, so if I hadn't been taking a year out for the baby (now

12!), I'd have been really screwed!

On the other hand, I got a parcel from Amazon yesterday that was ordered on Sunday night, and a parcel on Monday from Lancashire, for which I phoned the order in on Friday... There's no accounting for it!

I blame Sittingbourne sorting office - for all of it! ;)

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Kate Dicey

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