Yet another bumfuck nowhere

[pez]

......if I don't stay home to wait for parcel tomorrow (or rearrange delivery which will have to be a weekday anyway since they don't do weekends unless the sender specified it and I don't know who the sender is or if the parcel is even for me because the courier was too lazy to write down the name), I'll have to get the parcel from here. That's my "local" depot. IT'S NOT EVEN IN MY COUNTY.

Do I

1) Not go to work?
2) Leave the parcel alone until the sender does something about it?

I hate this bloody country. I really really do.

Comments

[solaas.livejournal.com]

Leave it! It's probably to Liz, from me, via Amazon. They sent it with Citylink on the 13th.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Oh okay! Then I guess Amazon or the Amazon marketplace people will be poking you later. If they do let you send to a different name and address, I can give you my work address where I can receive it and then bring it to Liz.

[solaas.livejournal.com]

Alrighty, I'll let you know. Sigh. It's Amazon proper, because I used her wishlist and the "secret" address there. I don't recall seeing any choice for weekend deliveries. Probably wouldn't have thought to use it, either, since I thought your mail troubles went mostly away ater moving out of London. Bah and humbug and a pox on the deliverers!

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Receiving things is a lot better out of London, but the system they use to deliver parcels is still the same, so there are often problems still. Weekday deliveries with estimated time of 7:30 - 17:30 really don't help matters. XD And the depots are always in an industrial estate somewhere inaccessible!

But if it's Amazon, at least they'll get back to you I'm sure!

If the parcel's for Liz, I can imagine the courier staring at her name and thinking "I CAN'T BE BOTHERED," which might be why there isn't a name on the card! XD

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

As our local postman says, "I see you still haven't changed your name to Smith... D:"

[solaas.livejournal.com]

I don't get it! Your surname isn't that difficult. Okay, it has a syllable or two more than mine or Pez's, but come on! :|

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Our postmen are really nice and kind of chatty like that. XD Also, when people answer the door they'll say things like "parcel for Mr/Ms [name]," so I guess when they see Liz's name they go fdsdhkjafhskalfdshakl. *snort*

Only a syllable or two more than mine? Really? :P

[solaas.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

Mmmyeaaah.... *waves hand* More or less. I'm approximatin', yaknow. :P

[xiu]

I still like how between me, Pez, and Liz we have all of two vowels in our last names, and I'm the only one with an E (Liz's pseudo-vowel Y doesn't count).

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

I get the impression that you northern lot find it a lot less scary, actually, I think because of a) the fact that you automatically recognise all the vowels, where an english person might not necessarily, and b) your pronunciation of the letter j making it look a bit less completely bizarre in that position. I do think the way we sound letters in english by default makes it a bit scarier for people than it needs to be. Also that they just see the big string of letters with a j on the end and panic without trying to figure it out. XDDDDD

[solaas.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a sound theory, actually. English 'dz' for 'j' would make your name sound odd. It would've been far scarier to me if it had had less vowels. Polish names can be nightmarish. >>;