| I don\'t believe it...
Gahhhhhh, sometimes you just get these Victor Meldrew moments.....
On June 20th, I ordered "Twist of the Wrist II" and the MCN Circuit Guide from Amazon.co.uk along with a bunch of HP Inkjet cartridges. because this little lot came to well over £100 I thought, yes, I will have free delivery thanks and went through choosing the 'free' option (part of which is selecting the maximum number of deliveries against that order - three, apparently).
Anyway, there was a big delay to the whole order caused by the MCN Circuit guide. By now, I've run out of ink anyway and so got some cartridges yesterday from PC World. So, when I got home, I popped on to the Amazon site to cancel the order for the print cartridges...whad'ya know...they shipped yesterday afternoon (they hadn't shipped in the morning, which is why I went to PC World)...Hmmmmm.
On the delivery advice it said the order was dispatched and would be delivered in 3-5 days by Securicor Express.
So, today I'm working from home. About half eleven, I went down the road for five minutes to get some bread and came back to find the Securicor note through my door telling me that they were unable to deliver because I wasn't in...
So far, just a minor irritation nothing to get stressed about. On reading the card however, it seems that I now have to collect my stuff from the Securicor depot in Milton Keynes....
Now here's the Victor Meldrew bit. The Amazon distribution centre for the whole of the UK is on an industrial estate near Junction 13 of the M1 in Ridgmont. It is about three miles from my house in the next village to where I live. To collect my stuff from Securicor, I have to drive right past Amazons front door and on for another seven or eight miles....
You have to laugh  | 
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