Postal Service
Posted by Skrud at Monday, January 23rd 2006 at 4:20pm
Sometime over the holidays I ordered both seasons of Dead Like Me from BestBuy.ca, sensing that getting both box sets for the grand total of $46 was an excellent deal. (Hooray for boxing day!) Granted, they were out of stock, so I had to wait a bit until my DVDs would finally ship, which happened to be last week.
On Thursday, I received not one, but two shipping notices from Canada Post. One was timestamped at 12:02pm, and the other at 12:05pm. Yep, 3 minutes apart from each other. Both had completely different handwriting on them, and each slip listed a different post office location to pick up my package. The first slip listed the Uniprix Place Vertu post office, which is the local post office that most of my packages end up going to. However the second slip directed me to Jean Coutu on Gouin which is on the complete opposite end of Ville Saint-Laurent from where I live.
At first I suspected that some idiot at BestBuy decided to put each DVD Box-Set in a different package and put each package on a different truck bound for a different post office. However when I got to Uniprix this afternoon I noticed that the box had both seasons in it. So what could possibly be in the package at the other post office?
Nothing, it turns out. The conversation at the faraway post office went something like this:
- “What is your postal code?”
- “You don’t need to see my postal code.”
- “This is not the post office branch you’re looking for.”
- “Then why do I have this delivery slip?”
- “Move along.”
Well, the faraway post office branch does indeed cater to a different postal code than the one that I live in. Apparently the second delivery slip was an error. (The post office ladies made a few phone calls to find out wtf.) This argument is supported by the fact that the barcode on my delivery slip doesn’t yield any results.
The moral of the story is: Ship FedEx, or Purolator, or DHL, but not UPS.
