This so much freaking disgusting. I bought a Mega CD 1 to Yakumo. Paid perfectly, he shipped. The console left Shimonsheki, went to Osaka and shipped to Spain. When it arrived to Spain, IT DISAPEARED. Like, the tracking was unexistent. That seriously screwed me. So, today I went to recieve some Saturn games (sold by Wombat, thanks Wombat), and asked for the Mega CD. IT HAD ARRIVED THERE 15 DAYS AGO!!! And they didn't tell nothing to me!! The heavy thing is... IT HAS SHIPPED BACK TO JAPAN?? WHAT THE FUCK WE'RE THOSE RETARDS THINKING ABOUT???? I'll have to do whatever I'm able to so I don't lose the awful lot of money that costs shipping that thing. I've lost all my respect to our local mail system. And, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, USE EMS. Cheers. :banghead:
yes, Spain like Greece seems to have a fucked up mail system. Although Greece's is fucked up because the customs are paranoid and want to gut everything.
I think it's fair to say everyone's mail system sucks. Some more than others. This doesn't compare to yours, but I got this set of decals right? I wasn't home to sign for it. So they left me a notice it says "PICK UP OR WE'LL REDELIVER" apparently, if it's not express you have to call for them to redeliver. ...except it doesn't say that. So I waited about 2 weeks and nothing, and called 3 different times asking about it's location and no one could find it despite the tracking saying it's in my local post office. Eventually a dude found it in a safe and I was able to pick it up.
almost happened to me once too. managed to stop them when they were preparing to send it back to the US. >=/
Well, I have to say the workers at my local post office (and postman) are some of the nicest people I've met. The postman knew of my buying habit and always left notes or something if I was not at home. Never lost any package. Sadly I moved from that place and although I'm not far away I'm not sure if I can still use that office with my new home's postal code.
I've got always very bad opinions about our mail system. I've got crushed parcels, EMS speed post parcels that took months to arrive... What's your city? Here in Valencia the workers at the postal office there're very nice people too, but they're negligent as much as they can.
In Poland, it's totally the other way round now. The 'official' (government owned) post office provides constantly excellent service and stuff always arrives on time, no damage at all etc. Thinks have changed a lot since the 90s when the post company sucked a lot. They're probably preparing for the deregulation of the European Post Market in 2008 (2009?), thank fuck this is gonna happen. Funny thing is, all the 'professional' courier companies blow. I've tried it all - UPS, DHL, countless local companies - they all suffer from the same, known problems. I won't even get started on that.
Or because the mail men deliver the mail on scooter without any kind of uniform and just throw it on the floor so any passer by can pick it up off your door step and walk off with it. Having said that, at least on Crete, no one ever seems to steal anything.
Reminds me of when I had my Dell laptop. Any repairs required the use of shipping it via DHL. On one occasion, when being returned to me, moron delivery person left the package (with laptop inside) tucked inside the screen door, but no notice or anything while the package had a big "Signature Required" label on it...mind you this was the middle of summer, and I don't know what time of day they delivered it and I found it mid-afternoon.
A few years ago I ordered a PDA from Amazon and it wasn't at my front door when I came home from school and played my GBA (on mute) in the family room waiting for it (I tracked it that morning, was out for delivery) and the dude didn't ring or anything. I found out i had it when I opened my front door to go to my friends house
Japan has pretty good service, but with that comes a much higher cost. I've had one package arrive damaged out of maybe 1000. I pointed it out to the delivery person the next time I saw him. He made a call with his mobile phone and 5 minutes later he took the pacakge back from me. The Sender gave me a refund the next day. No forms, no waiting, no nothing... In the US I had a 360 disappear on me. I called the post office and they said the sender has to take care of everything. When the sender went to the post office they said that I was the one who needed to make the claim. We went back and forth for weeks until finally the sender just stopped responding. In the end a postal employee just walked out with a new 360 and got away scot-free. The Sender was returning the item to me so I had no PayPal claim to make or anything.
What the fuck you can´t send packages from your former post office, because you live in another postal code ? that is fucking stupid. Heck around here I can send a package from where ever to the place I want it to be sent. But anyway, the postmen (wether they are package delivery or not) are some of the most stupid around here. But still I have only lost one package through all those years. And I still blame a greedy postman for getting my pirate handheld "lost", that stupid imbecile motherfucker. Anyway They had forgot putting a reminder of a package at my fathers postbox today, so well he got down and asked for his package. Since he knew he had gotten a package with two books in it today. And there is a reason why I always send with a registered package. Since then I can give the post office a polite hell, if they "loose" the package.
I live in Valladolid and after reading all the problems people usually have with our mail system I've always considered myself really lucky with my post office. The only parcel I've received damaged (well, not damaged, totally destroyed and put in a sack) was a christmas box for my father, and this was like 7 years ago. Que conste que se hace raro hablar con otro español en inglés :icon_bigg. I meant the other way. Here you can send anything through the post office of your choice, but when you receive a reminder of a package they direct you to the post office of your area, and I'd like to keep using the same as before.
Okay, just called to the Correos reclamations phone and they told me that there is no way back: the Mega CD is being returned to Yakumo, and I cannot stop it. Dah, I guess that Japan Post will give the shipping money back to him when he gets it, or who knows...
