Unfortunately this happens. We order parts for work from all over the world and it is common that magnets, bearings and such are held up.....
I'm not apologising for any of the
sloooow postal service processes out there, & certainly not having a dig at those hardworking Postal workers out there who
do try to move the mail quickly & accurately, but considering the world as it is today, it's probably not all that strange for these sorts of items in particular to take longer than 'normal' mail!! :sour:
Just think about it for a minute -
you know that you're expecting magnets (or bearings, or lumpy metal parts, or whatever) but do they?? And you can probably guess that the package you expect is going to be a bit of an odd shape & probably also a bit heavier than the usual mail in the system - certainly heavier for its size than most.... Soooo, just consider this from the postal system or workers point of view for a moment - here's some stuff that's wrapped '
pretty well'; it weighs '
quite a lot' for a package of this size; it probably has a few other similar packages gathered around it; & it might even be hard to pick up off the metal sorting tray.... What else does it take to start ringing alarm bells in your mind?? :shocked:
Even (or maybe
especially) if it is labelled clearly, just about the only
other DANGER Will Robinson, DANGER warnings I can think of that you could add to these packages would be greasy smeared finger marks (didja notice any of them on the packing tape? Russ
always leaves sticky/greasy finger marks; Brenda, not so much!!
) & a funny almond-like smell emanating from the package!! Oh, wait a minute, does it tick or upset electronic gear?? :yikes:
Anyone else concerned yet?? I must admit that originally, I didn't even think about what these packages
might bear some similarities to, but then when people started mentioning they took a while to get thru & that some had obviously been 'inspected' strenuously, it slowly dawned.... These packages have quite a few of the 'give-aways' that might just cause a bomb scare - and the more Russ & the Girls in the office try to 'disguise' those hall-marks, the scarier the package is likely to become!! More bubble wrap & tape?? Uh-oh!! Put it in a little box & hand-write the address labels? Yeah, Nope!! How about sending them overseas from an obscure country town address?!? Sending them in batches to a heap of US addresses?!? What about sticking a warning label on the outside?! Yeah, Sure!! No-one with mayhem in mind would ever think of doing any of that!! :shocked:
So like I said, I'm not trying to make excuses, & I really don't have a solution - but it is now just a little clearer in
my mind why some of these packages could be taking a bit longer than expected to get thru the system & why some are damaged/torn a bit more than you might expect.... not sure that there's anything that Russ or the Girls in the office (both/either of them!) could do to alleviate the concern, either?? :dontknow:
