I’m pissed. I left my lens cap at Dr. Z’s over the Olympic weekend and he mailed it back to me. Here’s how it arrived:
Or rather: Didn’t. The envelope was empty. The image on the left shows how I was robbed, the one on the right shows some curious stamping — apparently the envelope, which took almost a week to arrive, made a stop in Fraud Prevention.
Too bad it didn’t make a stop in Theft Prevention.
The first two things I remember learning about the post were, first, that opening other people’s mail was a cardinal sin. Second, that postmen were the most unrepentant of sinners — thieves, all: “Never mail anything valuable,” our parents told us.
Of course, this was all before postal workers got their reputation as violent psychopaths.
Email is driving this backwards institution under, and good riddance to bad rubbish. “You can’t send physical objects via email,” their line of last defence goes (not yet anyway).
And it’s clear you can’t send them via the post either.
Maybe I’m applying my hostile attribution bias here. Maybe the cap fell out because of a sorting machine and it was routed to fraud prevention for investigation, and cleared there.
So: Canada Post is either full of criminals, or incompetent. Where’s my explanation and apology?
In any case, I don’t know how an individual or business could trust them. Why risk it? Why wouldn’t I just use FedEx or similar — someone who actually cares about customer service?
