.... random rants and rambles. no agenda. yet.

Earlier this week, I ordered something online and was happy to note that it would be sent to me sometime this week. "Sometime this week" suited me fine because my item was not at all urgent but it would be nice to have it, is all. Well, everyone loves getting parcels, right?

So anyway, I didn't think about it much until last night when the company I bought it from emailed to tell me; "Your order has been despatched" and "Delivery will take place between 7.30am and 6pm;" but it did not say on which day, quite unhelpfully.

Rather stupidly, the company also gave me my own special tracking number which I could enter on my account page to see where my parcel was. Of course, I did that, even though really, the parcel is not urgent at all, and now I am all worked up because it arrived in a depot in Oldham at 25 past midnight and has apparently been sorted, and...

And nothing.
It's been sorted, that's it.

I'm now wondering what is the point of sorting something if you aren't going to do anything with it for hours and hours afterwards, and more importantly, what is the point of telling me this, because it's all too much information and now I'm repeatedly refreshing the tracking page, worried that my parcel has been left behind when all of the other officially sorted parcels were flung in the van and driven to their correct destinations.

Really, "sometime this week" would have done me just fine.