So my mother sends over a package from Belgium but she makes a silly mistake and switched up one number at the back. You'd think, no problem right? Happened a few times in Belgium that a company or a person did it wrong and it would still end up at my place. Bit delayed but it sure does end up at my place with me not even having to do a thing.
Not in Sweden though, when they first noticed name+address did not exist in said town they were still determined to deliver the package somewhere. No clue where, since there is no one but me in Sweden with that name (my last name is Dutch but isn't that common in Belgium either) or there is no street that has the same name. Yet they tried at some door and left a note to pick it up.
Called support they don't want to do anything unless my mother calls to them and explains herself even though we did tell them her English is not great at all (doubt they could understand her. Knowing most around here have a problem with English. They all know it until they have to speak it). She'll have to provide her information, mine and all that in broken English... yeah that is going to work perfectly.
What annoys me the most is... Post is fairly neat, we have a three step verification system that works. Even if one bit fails from the name-address-location set, you could still deliver it in most cases... but no, now we have to do this tedious thing just to get the package sent over to our town and I bet it's going to cost an arm and a leg.
Actually I take it back... what annoys me more is that they tried to deliver it somewhere with just a postal code to go by even though there is no one else in Sweden with my name and no street named like that in the town they send it to.
So you could track the package via some website?
Any chance that it will finally be delivered to you?
In 1990-1991 I was Stationed in Germany as NATO trooper
Post to me needed some special addressing, something like this:
Utrecht Veldpost
My name
SSVC, 42 Painfbat
Seedorf, Germany
I gave clear instructions to my family (father, mother, sister), but they kept fucking it up.
Still everything did arrived.
Ehh well this won't make you feel better, I hope your package arrives soon in good order.
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Eh fuck it, my fiancée is just going to impersonate me mum while calling (sounds messed up ).
Edit: Yup I could track it, seen it go through various other towns and them trying to deliver it. No other way for them to send the package to my town unless we call. Bit silly seeing they were sending it all over the place without a clue, but can't when the actual recipient calls them.
Sure it will arrive eventually, but I'm also sure they are going to charge us. Last time there was an error when a company gave the wrong details they asked 550 SEK (50'ish €) to send it to the correct address but the company paid it.
Yeah, the postal service here is anal about that for some reason.
I had a package reach it's service point for pickup but because I moved and the adress was to the old place (still in the same city) they just said fuck it and sent it back within 4-5 hours.
So I couldn't even go there to pick it up even though I had ID and all.
Oy.... man... after the call it's even worse. They don't want to send it to my town, they don't want to re-book it, they are going to check if the package with the wrong details have the wrong details and if so send it back to Belgium... Fucking cunts.
I'm angry but also laughing with how silly the whole thing is.
i don get the fucking problem? here i can even write the street name wrong and without any housnumber and it gets delivered without any delay to the correct person (actually that happened twice already, misspelled the streetname and forgot the number... )
i don get the fucking problem? here i can even write the street name wrong and without any housnumber and it gets delivered without any delay to the correct person (actually that happened twice already, misspelled the streetname and forgot the number... )
Yup, it should be rather easy. Especially knowing out of the +-9 mil people living here there's only one person with that name.
I'm just baffled, in most of Europe this would be just a small annoyance for the mail man or sorter but over here it's a big deal.
Apparently it is more secure to give someone my passport than me or my mother calling them to move it to another postal office where I could pick it up in person with my ID... Swedish post logic I guess.
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