Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

I've got to stay in today, as theoretically Amazon Logistics are re-delivering the parcel they couldn't deliver Friday. (They were supposed to try again yesterday, but failed. *taps foot*)

I long for the days when Amazon just used Royal Mail like everyone else. I'd have got my parcel by now, as I could have collected it from the sorting office. *grumbles* On the plus side, I now have the order number (it's a birthday gift so I didn't make the order originally) so I can ask the sender to amend it to get sent to my work address if all else fails.

And Amazon wonders why I'm going to cancel my Prime membership when it expires in April.

Also, eeee! Parcel!! *bounce*

Amazon may or may not be The Giant Evil Wot Destroys Independent Book Stores, but I really can't fault their customer service, it's excellent.

I ordered Criminal Minds Season 5 DVDs last week, and chose the free next day delivery option as I am a paying Prime member. They didn't show up. Still haven't in fact. Last Saturday, having nipped over to the sorting office and confirmed there wasn't a parcel there for me to collect, I emailed Amazon's customer service and explained. Got a response the same day, immediately offering to extend my Prime membership an extra month free and requesting that I wait until yesterday to see if the parcel showed up.

It didn't. But before I could email them again, customer services emailed me, confirming my membership extension and requesting I let them know if the parcel was still MIA. I did and, again, same day response, a new DVD set was sent out to me gratis. Not only that, it was shipped guaranteed next day delivery.

I just got an email from the delivery company advising me of when, exactly, my parcel will be delivered today so I don't have to guess and stay in all day. (Between 11 and 12 this morning, which is handy).

Colour me impressed, I thought I'd have to jump through hoops to prove somehow I didn't get delivery. Bravo Amazon, well done.

Oh this is cruelty to Mitchy's! I have to be very, very frugal for the next two months or so and now amazon.co.uk has a stock clearance sale??

Soooooooooo mean!

Snurched from theweaselking:-

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Want some :D


In other non-news, the urge to smuggle a flamethrower into work to deal with my desk continues to grow. Despite beating back a paper mountain today, I know full well that it will grow again tomorrow.

We have a birthday present pool at work, which is basically the six ladies of the office. The five whose birthday it isn't all chip in a fiver towards a present for the sixth. We've got 2 birthdays coming up, because TooShy's birthday is the day before mine :) Anyway, plots are being hatched for my birthday present and I pointed them to my amazon wishlist. Strangely, they couldn't view it at work. They can log into Amazon just fine, but it completely fails to display my wishlist, which I know exists because a) I can see it and b) I got jenni411 to see if she could search and find it using the criteria they were using. Most odd. Possibly it's a weird filter on our network but it seems an odd thing to get blocked. All else fails, I'll have to give them the list and then get them to email what they've bought to someone who can edit my wishlist for me. :)

I have absolutely no plans for my birthday, none at all. I'm still paying off a couple of largeish debts so I'm thinking I might just postpone any celebrations until the summer when I can enjoy it properly. I suspect I may treat myself to a trip to the cinema on the day and some extensive RP of the evening. Suits me fine :)

How annoying is this? I've just read this terrific book called "Death and Restoration" by Iain Pears, all about a Art Theft detective in Rome and her art dealer/college lecturer to-be-husband. There are seven books in the series. The other six are all for sale, via Amazon marketplace, very, very cheaply, and guess what? Total cost of six books is £3.85. Shipping.....£16. SIXTEEN QUID! Because, of course, all the books are with different marketplace sellers who have their individual shipping charges, even where they are only charging a penny (yes, you read that right, two of the books are for sale for 0.01p) for the product.

You'd think they'd figure out this shipping business a bit better, it doesn't cost that much to ship an effing paperback book!

I've been thwarted. Foiled. *glowers* I wish to kick things.

*perks* Could try abebooks.com I guess....*ambles off, casually...*