For me (a UK experience) its not so bad if its the post office doing the delivering... I get the little card through the door and know I have to go to the local parcel depot the next day, only a few minutes away.
It gets much worse if its one of the independent parcel services though: same process, except that the depot could be miles away. For one of them I think my "local" depot is 25 miles away - when one parcel ended up there I just told them to send it back and got a refund, and bought from an alternate source that used a different courier! Actually there is another variation: sometimes they try to find somewhere to "hide" the parcel and then leave you a note to tell you where it is. Once, an enterprising driver took it upon himself to go all the way round the back of my house and leave the parcel in the rubbish bin ("trash can" if you are the wrong side of the Atlantic) - which was partly occupied with rubbish at the time. Luckily it was well wrapped... Ceejay -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31258 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss