What a great headline… Anyway, today I want to talk about something that annoys me. I ship a lot of international packages and I don’t use tracking on international shipments to keep costs down. So sometimes packages get lost. Truth be told, packages only started getting lost recently, so I suspect foul-play somewhere along the postal chain. Why? I have no idea, but when you ship for years without many problems and suddenly a percentage of your beta-sitosterol packages goes missing something is up. It started with local packages, and so I started using tracking. The disappearing packages stopped, but then my international packages started going missing. So it’s pretty obvious some disgruntled individual is making short-work of my shipments. I’ve heard stories of postmen and UPS drivers dumping their shipments in the river or in abandoned houses so this really isn’t a surprise.
So one customer recommended I ship internationally with DHL, and I spent a long time today filling out the credit application to open up an account. When I got around to sending my first package, these asshole wanted over 10x the price that the post office charges to ship internationally. I sent them an angry email, and I am waiting for their reply. There is something very wrong with the world we live in, that’s all I can say!
