Hello everyone!!! Not super pissed but thought id share an experience of mine.
So it all starts when i receive an order of team bags and toploaders, i finally decided to top load my ultras as opposed to leaving them in pages. Will it make a difference to the preservation of my cards? Unlikely but screw it itll make me feel more serious and prevent holos bending?? Maybe??
Anyway my order comes in and i get a little annoyed that a couple packs of toploaders i bought were full of, like, cardboard dust? Not a huge deal but took a while to wipe each one where i noticed a few were splitting on the sides, much like a handfull of 9 pocket pages from the last time i bought pages. Anyway i get to the end of my sorting and my team bag count is five short (which i honestly found to be both strange and kinda annoying).And thats a bit of the bad.
So annoying in fact that i decide to do something i dont normally do. Formerly complain…
I shoot through an email to ultra pro who get back to me in a couple days requesting a list of info which i end up providing.
About 2 weeks go by when finally the charming lady on the other side of a screen somewhere in america gets back to me again saying thankyou and asks a couple more specific questions.
Literally 2 days go by and BAM! I get a slip in my mail saying ive got a package to pick up. I assume its some replacements from ultra pro as im not expecting anything else and the good part of that is it arrived quick, fucking quick… 60usd for postage quick. The slip says i need to pick up the parcel from a post office which is not my usual one but still in my area. Its not far but requires a special trip which i make.
I get to the post office and the guy in front of me kind of storms off unhappy about something after being served. We are after all, dealing with Australia post. I walk up to the counter person and present my card. She shakes her head and says “mmm i think ull be in the same boat” as she walks off to collect my package. I hope your playing at home @ozenigma cos if u guessed what i guessed ur exactly rite. I knew exactly what boat she was talking about and began to hemorrhage at the thought of the incompetence and utter disorganization of this company which must rely very heavily on being organised.
The woman returns empty handed and pumps the number into the keypad. If you guessed: snaps package is at his usual post office and hes about to get the run around. Congratulations to you.
She calls over one of the other staff and starts ranting on about how the stupid driver from yesterday dropped everything from the area at their post office and got annoyed when they told him to redistribute it today. I resist the urge to give them a spray and say thankyou before leaving. I resisted because it really gets my goat when assholes rip into people for shit that isnt their fault (even though this time it was) just cos theyre having a rough day. I have literally had an old fool think about punching on with me at me in a bank once cos i stuck up for the teller (young girl) by asking him if he had literally nothing else to do while on his pension our taxes were paying for apart from trying to ruin other peoples day but thats another story.
Anyway i got my package and ultra pro had provided me with some toploaders and team bags and a box of pages. 8 pocket pages??? Didnt even know they existed. Kinda annoying but oh well they helped me out and ill use them eventually i suppose? Anyone used them before?
Final thought. My society has such a small capability of solving problems. What in the hell were those fools at the post office thinking? So the driver screwed up, maybe it was his first day i dont know why but we all make mistakes. My beef is with the decision those ladies at the post office made in forcing him to redistribute the mail to another branch instead of saying hey mate keep in mind this area goes to x location for next time. Did they not think of the obvious flow on effect of customers following the instructions in their mail, going to their branch to get their mail and getting the run around to have to go somewhere else and waste their fuel and time AND put themselves in a deserving situation of getting grilled by pissed off customers all day, because the services which have just jumped infinite% in price cant even get the right address on the cards they leave in peoples mail boxes anymore?
Zero thinking. Unnecessary screwing around of customers. Assanine decision. Morons. Hemorrhage. F aus post. ///RANT:END
And for those of you still reading well done. Its nowhere near the hemorrhage others have endured but hearing of others hemorrhages helps us make light of our own in a way
so It feels so sadness inside. I also had to go to hospital and do a bunch of shit, and Thats what really makes my day shit, it would have been okay to get to post office and shit be there after hospital -.- I will throw things. I want my CARDLINGS… Oh well can’t wait till monday. It has to be there monday… Its just impossible.