crappy pos malaysia EMPLOYEE(s)?
Thursday, July 20, 2006
reasons for the title are as follows:
1. friend from bangi sent a parcel / package to me on saturday, 08.07.06 via registered mail.
2. registered mail supposed to be delivered to the address (at least i think so), but it wasn't.
3. from item 2, a collection slip was on my table at work ONLY on tuesday, 18.07.06 during lunch break (hence inter-connectivity with no.2 as well).
4. due to workload, could only collect the package from the GENERAL post office in town during lunch break today.
5. reached the post office at 1.30 pm, collected the package. was kinda astonished to see package wrapped with red present paper, with hearts as the background.
6. walked back to car, in the car, opened the package.
7. aaaiiiihhh? this is not what my friend was supposed to send me! can it be a joke? can it? the joke was something totally different, a gift from japan, perhaps?
8. hhhmmmm... how odd. let's call her.
9. phone call (while driving away from the post office):
friend: NO! i did NOT send you a package wrapped with red present paper. i wrapped the box with brown paper.
me: ehmmm... your address is not complete as well.... all it has is your name, then BANDAR BARU BANGI, SELANGOR. whereas my address is not as per what i sms-ed to you. and it sure doesn't look like your handwriting.
friend: i wrote the exact address you sms-ed me. ergghhh kena rembat! (ergghhh they took it!)
me: i'll head back to the post office, and find out what we can do.
friend: ok.
10. went back to the counter, the employee looked flustered and kept insisting the stupid red package is what my friend sent me. i kept telling him it's not. then i lifted the sticker... lo and behold! brown paper traces!
11. i think that he's not only flustered, but also exasperated with me. (heh, salah org la kalo tak boleh make a scene). i kept telling him, that i just want an address, or someone that i can lodge a complain with. after all, there's no hope of me getting the ORIGINAL package, and neither is there any hope of my friend receiving it back. so all i wanna do is lodge a complain, so there'll be a paper trail (at the very least). after all, only with the formal complaints will pos malaysia be able to do something about it, right?
12. so he gave me two telephone numbers to call after 2 pm. i asked for an address so that i can write a formal complain, but he kept insisting on the phone call. so ok, i left with the numbers.
13. around 2.15-ish i called the first number. i explained the situation and the person who answered the phone gave me another number to call (how typical, right?). the phone call lasted less than 5 minutes, i think.
14. called the 2nd number. spoke to a lady, who sounded quite patient and wanted to see the package (read: so need to go to her office). she gave directions.
15. me decided to go, workload can still wait. (hah!)
16. reached her office. retold story (damn crappy la having to keep retelling it). story being: swapped packages. she checked, then asked her officer / sub-ordinate to weigh the package.
17. (should have written this first) the inconsistencies and dubious nature of the package:
a. Package content (duh! so obvious)
b. Package wrapping
c. Package handwriting / addresses
d. Postage stamp (original was rm 4 + whilst the stupid red package was only rm 2.70)
e. Sticker ripped from original package. Traces of brown paper evident
f. No postage mark
18. so from item 16, the weight of the package only amounted to rm 1 postage. and only then noticed that sender's address was written as: bandar baru bangi, PETALING JAYA, selangor.
19. so from item 18, it's clear-cut and evident to the lady & her staff that the package was swapped. she kept saying that it can be in her department in miri (tho)...
20. she doesn't have an address where i can write a complain to either. she kept trying to call someone on the phone, but couldn't get thru. No fax number either.
21. they're saying that the package was swapped in the post office she sent the package. errrhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm................
22. so moral of the story? am gonna send back the stupid red package to friend in bangi. it's up to her to create a scene (or not) at the post office she sent the package..
23. the title crappy pos malaysia EMPLOYEE(s)? only refers to the people doing the swapping. [crap, man]
24. and just what was in the package? looky here:
(and just what am i supposed to do with 10 chopsticks? eat much more than what i'm eating now? *said in joking manner to friend in the 1st conversation upon opening the stupid red package*)
shouldn't all packages be wrapped in either brown paper or plain white paper? and for bigger parcels to be tied with string?
and does anyone know where i can leave a paper trail at?
and all amidst this situation, am moderately calm.
told friend: depa rip off kite banyak ni je, nanti bila kite rip off org lain biar juta-juta!
(they ripped us off only this much, when we rip off others, let it be in millions!)hah!
on another note, can always try and 'hitch' up with a tan sri. THEN rip off the tan sri. heh!
(will. not. do. those. ripping. off. scenarios. even. if. opportunity. ever. presents. itself)
and all amidst this situation, am moderately calm.
told friend: depa rip off kite banyak ni je, nanti bila kite rip off org lain biar juta-juta!
(they ripped us off only this much, when we rip off others, let it be in millions!)hah!
on another note, can always try and 'hitch' up with a tan sri. THEN rip off the tan sri. heh!
(will. not. do. those. ripping. off. scenarios. even. if. opportunity. ever. presents. itself)
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