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Stand and Deliver (or not)
There are various things I will miss about Highgate (No… Archway! No… Highgate!) but it has to be said that the generally lousy service offered by our postal workers is not going to be one of them.
The thievery is now something we’re so used to that nothing even remotely DVD or CD shaped gets sent to our home any more. And the staff at the delivery office have such a complete lack of interest in answering their phone to arrange redelivery that any parcel at all – whether a signature is needed or not – similarly comes to work instead.
But sometimes something happens to further annoy me about them. And Friday was one of those occasions.
On Friday I had the day off so – bearing in mind the timing of various likely deliveries – I decided to chance it and have a few parcels sent home. My Friday morning was spent idly pottering about: I had a long soak in the bath and a subsequent panelbeating session, I wrote the pub quiz for Tuesday, and I whacked some stuff in the slow cooker to stew for dinner, and so on. By about 1:00 I found myself thinking “oooh, I wonder if there’s any post” so I slipped out of the flat, and checked the trays in the communal hallway of our house.
There, nestling in a pile of letters and bills was the unwelcome sight of a “while you were out” card for one of the parcels.
I could have hit the bloody roof, I tell you. I had been in all that time and the buzzer hadn’t buzzed once.
The only possible explanation for this is that he didn’t ring because he didn’t actually bring the parcel with him. (It’s happened before: when the fifth Harry Potter book was published everyone on our street that Saturday morning got a card through the door because they simply couldn’t be bothered with the increased demands.)
It is, it must be said, a pathetic service and one I have never seen the like of before.
Still, I guess Holloway has had a long association with a prison so I shouldn’t be at all surprised that its postal service is about as criminal as they come.
Posted on May 31, 2007 | Filed Under The World we Live In
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