Is it just me?

Last Friday I bought a new iPad from the Apple online store in Austria.

I had an old steam driven iPad 2 and this was so 2011 that I was nearly dying of embarrassment.

So on Monday TNT rang me to say it was ready to be delivered and I could have it the next day – I could choose between 8 am -1pm or 1pm - 5pm

I chose between 8am to 1 pm - and to no surprise at all it did not arrive. Nor did it arrive in the afternoon.

TNT rang at 7.30 am on Wednesday to say that the delivery man had forgotten the packet the previous day.

Forgotten the packet?

Did he forget all his packets or just mine? Perhaps he set off with an empty truck and just cruised around all day wondering why things were so quiet.

Anyway – they said that I could have it on Wednesday and I said I was going out at 11 and they would have to deliver it by then – which they promised to do as a special matter because they had let me down the previous day.

Of course they did not.

I rang them later in the day and they said the delivery man was too busy in the morning but I could have it in the afternoon.

Well it eventually arrived.

On Thursday TNT rang to say they had a delivery for me from Apple and I said I had already had one and was not expecting another.

(Shriek! Did I order 2 iPads?).         

They insisted and said they would deliver the next morning – which of course they did not. After all – it is hard to deliver something that does not exist.

So I (groan) rang them again and after a significant amount of farnarkling they agreed that they probably did not have a package for me.

I wonder if it was just me or if all their deliveries are like this.