So thanks to the sticky in this forum I finally get tucking and it's amazing. The new dress ( that this post is about ) looks wonderful.
Anyway so I thought I would share my online shopping story.
I saw this lovely dress online and brought it on the basis that they offered next day delivery. The reason for needing next day was due to family and friends visiting two days later - not that I wanted to show it off to them mind you . So fine I placed the order that night well before the cut off time.
Being paranoid about anyone finding out what I am "up to" I cleared my appointments for the next day and stayed at home waiting in eager anticipation for the delivery person to arrive.
The advertised delivery times are 9am to 9pm - I find that ridiculous. So by 12pm no delivery man and I'm starting to get nervous. By 1am I call the delivery company who say they have not scanned the item and it could be lost - finely by 3am a call to the company I purchased the dress from reveals it had not even been dispatched as promised by the multiple confirmation emails I received. They promise it will be in the post the very next day.
OK.. So at this point I get a semi sleepless night as my family and friends are to arrive on the same day as this delivery and from past experiences I know that woman's fashion packaging is not normally discreet, and my family assume me to live alone and be single so it's going to be quite awkward - to say the least - if they are on my door step at the same time the driver drops my new floral dress.
Next morning I'm checking in with my family (who are not returning calls or txt messages) to ascertain the ETA. at the same time I am calling the delivery company.
The delivery company puts me through to the dispatch department and I can hear the manager talking to the actual driver in the background so feel relieved to be given the "from the horses mouth" delivery time of before 1am. OK thank god, my family are due at 3pm.
BUT NO... 1pm comes and goes and no delivery person.... 1:30pm and still nothing... back on the phone this time they get the driver to call me back.. "ah yeah, no worries I'll be their in 20 minutes" ... 20 minutes pass, 30, 60.. it's now 2:30pm .. 30 minutes before my family is set to arrive on my door step. At this point I am ****ing bricks.
At the last moment I get the call from the delivery person... "I can't find your house, I'm down the road" .. I have to walk down the road get him, bring him back so he can photograph my front door and gave me the package.
Once he left I burst out laughing in relief. ..
10 minutes later my family arrives!