I've been incredibly fortunate in that I've not had a single misdelivery or item of lost mail in several years. Until today, that is, and it couldn't have been at a worse time if they'd actually tried. I sent a 500g Express Post parcel to Lot 13 Collins Promenade in Ingleburn, NSW yesterday, and about an hour ago decided to check and make sure it had been delivered.
Yes, it certainly was, at 1225 today, except that the bloody morons delivered it to an address in Thomastown, Victoria! I've just got off the phone from AP and they can't do anything now until next Monday, when they'll speak with the postman responsible, but I'm absolutely furious as there's not even a Collins Promenade in Thomastown. There is a Collins Street, but it only goes up to number 8, so I'm buggered if I know where my parcel is, but as I told the fellow at AP, I don't trust the recipient to return it, even though it's not eBay related.
Sadly, it was a surprise Xmas present for a close friend of mine, and the fact that it would have been completely unexpected makes no bloody difference in my eyes. I told him that I'll be taking the matter to the Postal Ombudsman, and also made sure that there is a discretionary insurance payout available of up to $50 plus the cost of the express post satchel (another $10.55), which will cover the value of the item I sent, but that's not the point.
I'm currently very angry and also quite upset as it was the only Xmas present I sent this year and I was so looking forward to imagining the look on the recipient's face as it was opened, and now I've been robbed of that one and only pleasure I'd been looking forward to this Xmas, and I'm extremely pi$sed about the whole rotten business.
Because there's no similar addres, I can't even write a letter to the person who received it, so all I can do is hope that they're honest, although my experiences lately tell me that people these days are generally quite the opposite. I have just seven words for Australia Post right now... F#ck you and have a lousy Christmas! ๐
