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April First can fuck all the offs in the English language
6 years ago
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So I had a delivery note for a surprise package from a friend in Texas come through the door on Thursday, but unlike with Amazon deliveries, they didn't leave it with a neighbour as they required a signature for it. Instead I was to pick it up from the depot the next working day.
Friday I go to the depot, they can't find it. Thinking it's been filed in the wrong place, they say they'll give me a call on Saturday.
Saturday call doesn't come.
Monday I go back, and then learn that mere hours after the delivery notice, the mail van had been broken into during what was obviously a planned job, during the thirty-minute changeover when the van was parked outside the Merthyr town hall. It's only after that I learn the contents were said friend's entire Neo Geo Pocket collection, being passed on to a retro enthusiast who would appreciate it. Said collection has yet to turn up anywhere (have a look on eBay UK to get some idea how much it would cost over here to replace it.)
I suffer from intense depression at the best of times, and was so bummed out I binged on Diazepam to make myself sleep because I'd lost the will to be awake and simply didn't want to face the rest of the day. It's about 24 hours of total sleep later and I still don't feel fully with it again yet.
Oh, and to top it all off, guess what day Monday was.
So I'm warning everybody right now; any future April Fool japes will henceforth be repaid with a rake in the face, and no jury in the world will convict me.
Friday I go to the depot, they can't find it. Thinking it's been filed in the wrong place, they say they'll give me a call on Saturday.
Saturday call doesn't come.
Monday I go back, and then learn that mere hours after the delivery notice, the mail van had been broken into during what was obviously a planned job, during the thirty-minute changeover when the van was parked outside the Merthyr town hall. It's only after that I learn the contents were said friend's entire Neo Geo Pocket collection, being passed on to a retro enthusiast who would appreciate it. Said collection has yet to turn up anywhere (have a look on eBay UK to get some idea how much it would cost over here to replace it.)
I suffer from intense depression at the best of times, and was so bummed out I binged on Diazepam to make myself sleep because I'd lost the will to be awake and simply didn't want to face the rest of the day. It's about 24 hours of total sleep later and I still don't feel fully with it again yet.
Oh, and to top it all off, guess what day Monday was.
So I'm warning everybody right now; any future April Fool japes will henceforth be repaid with a rake in the face, and no jury in the world will convict me.
Lizardman
~lizardman
I’m sorry that it didn’t arrive...
ealadubh
~ealadubh
OP
That's the point. It fucking DID. They just didn't try to LEAVE it here.
basically they lied about delivering it.
ealadubh
~ealadubh
OP
It was a special delivery, so they needed a signiature for it. The time on the note was 10.20, but I don't recall what I was doing at that point.
stormnobleheart
~stormnobleheart
I am sorry that the post office screwed around until your package was stolen during the weekend. Was the package insured? Some individuals are complete bung-holes. At my new job one of my supervisors was talking about how her office was broken into during the weekend and how the thieves made off with items for veterans in need.
