[OT] Veering OT, was Re: [ILUG] OLPC

[Ivan Griffin]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Justin Mason wrote:

> Personally, given the rate of "lost" packages I've had in shipping
> electronic goods and games by An Post, I have a different theory; I
> suspect they'd had enough of dealing with returns and claims for lost
> shipments, given a small volume of sales, and the WEEE stuff was just a
> good excuse to cut us off.
>

This is very interesting - and I thought it was just me :-)  The amount of 
online orders I've had go missing is very worrying.

More often than not, the retailer takes the hit and re-ships.

I would love to see some statistics to determine if this is a real 
problem, or just isolated incidents...

> it's a real shame.  I got through $1000s of purchases through Amazon.com
> when I lived in the US, where their service is sooo much better....
>

Whose service? The US Postal System or Amazon.com?