Busy

[slowfox]

Not much to say - busy couple of days at work, more of the same coming up.

Have managed to exhaust my dog-walking podcasts for the day, though, so I need to find some more listening material to pad out the week (tend to get a glut of things in the later half of the week, but given that I tend to go on something of a listening/Mali-walking splurge on Sunday evening, by Tuesday I'm all out).

Got a note through the door of Castle Fox from a courier company - they couldn't deliver a parcel today, so I contacted them to arrange picking up from the depot.

Except, I discover, that the depot is in York, and is only open from 9am to 7pm. No way can I get there in that time frame, so I'm going to try postponing the next delivery attempt to next Monday, and take said day off. All the time that the courier depot is in Hull, home delivery's not too much of a hassle, but trekking out to York and back isn't my idea of 'home delivery', somehow :-/

Comments

[cynthia_black]

Life does sound busy :-(

Re the delivery: Is there somewhere you can ask them to stash the parcel on a re-delivery? Or a neighbour who could take it in for you?

[slowfox]

Life is busy :-/

Nope, nowhere to stash the parcel, and I don't know any of the immediate neighbours well enough (nor are they necessarily going to be in 'some time between 9am and 6pm), nor would I want to... well, impose on them...

[aome]

Wow, talk about a delivery hassle! And I thought it was annoying to have to venture out 15 mins to our package depot. :P

[slowfox]

Given that I'm out all week because, duh, I have a job which is how I'm able to pay for the things I buy, I don't mind the 15 minute trip out to the sorting office or wherever to pick things up.

But York is like 36 miles. Each way. Aside from the time (I'd reckon on an hour each way), the petrol cost would be something like £7 for the round trip, so you can see that the appeal of collection is somewhat less than immediately apparent ;-P