A post about post
Morning! Just a quick post today. I was rather uninspired on Sunday, so didn’t get around to writing anything in advance. In fact, I had a whole day off; no work of any sort, just some online shopping and some pottering around at home. Talking of shopping…
The other day I sent a package to the UK; some old camera equipment for one of our nephews. I packaged everything up and wrapped it well, put the pieces (camera, lenses etc.) into an old camera bag and into an old water box. Found some brown paper, covered the box and wrote the addresses to and from, and then wondered how much it would cost to post. I took it to the post office where it was weighed, 4.2 kilos, and was told how much it would be to send it ‘snail mail’. €35.00 approx. And off it went. That was on the Friday morning.
It arrived in the UK, at its destination, on the Wednesday morning, which I thought was pretty good going, particularly as it wasn’t going with a courier. This is unlike a hard drive with a film on it that a friend of mine sent as an entry to the Cape Town Film Festival the other week. This was sent by post, from the UK, and the post office told him it would take three to four days as some kind of priority mail. What they didn’t say was that South Africa was having a huge problem with the post and there was a month’s worth of backlog. This meant the file had still not arrived with two days to go before the film was due to be shown. My friend got onto the post office and, somehow, the CEO of… whatever it’s called. A couple of emails later and the package was found (in the backlog, in Cape Town), and finally delivered just in time. I think the fact that he got a national South Africa newspaper interested in the story over there helped.
Anyway… Random postal thought on a Monday morning, early, so not fascinating news, but good news. The Greek/British postal service did me proud without me having to get the press on board.
