Stolen Birthday Gift
If you sent me a birthday gift the other week, please let me know via email. I may have had a parcel stolen but I don’t know what it was or who sent it.
On Tuesday, a slip was left from the postman saying that he had tried to deliver a packet that was too large to fit through the letterbox. I was a little annoyed because I had been in that morning and he had not rang the bell. I didn’t notice at the time that the date on the slip was from the previous week.
When I went to the post office this morning to collect the package, they told me that someone collected it a week ago and that “They must have said they didn’t have the slip with them and shown a bill or something with your name on.” Top marks for your verification procedures, Royal Mail. Good to know that all a thief has to do to prove he is you is steal a bill while he’s going through the rest of your post.
Obviously there are no managers working at the weekend so I’m waiting until Monday for a call back from someone who might be able to work out what happened. I’m still hoping that the whole thing is an administrative mistake but given our recent troubles with dvds being stolen in the post I am tempted to think the worst.