Thoroughly Non-dependable Transporters
Today, having waited for many days for my new iPod to be delivered, I finally decided to bite the bullet, phone up and find out where it was. Many phonecalls to TNT and several wasted hours later, I get a call from a compunctious chap called Chuck telling me that it was missing from the depot and from his van. He could only assume, therefore that it had been stolen. When did this happen, I asked him. Sometime between (he pauses to think) Monday morning and… (further pause) Monday afternoon. Today is Thursday. If what they tell me is true - that they check the undelivered stock at the end of the day and lock it up in the managers’ office overnight - why was its absence not noted on Monday evening? You would have thought that Apple would be a pretty big contract at this time of year and that they wouldn’t want to piss them off…
Unfortunately for them, Apple are pissed off, but not ‘arf as riled as I, dear Blog. Let this be my second consumer-related post (after that one about 4×4s). TNT ATE MY IPOD! Damn them. You ain’t heard the last of this, boys…
December 23rd, 2005 at 5:30 am
I’m appalled! It’s appalling. I’ve thought of more hilarious TNT word gags though - Terribly Naughty Tykes? Thick Necked Thieves? Trust Not Them? That’s enough genius for today!
xxx
December 23rd, 2005 at 8:31 am
TNT managed to, after bouncing it to derby and then back to canbridge several times, completely loose my sisters phone, and admitted this only after a day and a half of angry phonecalls to their incompetent and rude call centres, although they did manage to get my iBook G4 to me without difficulty. The prize however goes to UPS, who, after getting the case for said iBook all the way to Cardiff, decided it would be better to redirect it to Rotterdamn, and inform Apple that it had been delivered and a dautchman living in Cardiff called Mr Ceizyl had signed for it.
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
notable milieu. So also gaol!