At the beginning of January I ordered a game from England (Ninja Gaiden Black) and over six weeks later it still hasn’t arrived. I contacted the seller chatted with them, and it seems that my package has just dissapeared into the void known as the postal service; at least they’ve given me a full refund. But now I’m stuck with no game, and the money is in my Paypal account so it’s pretty much useless to me anyways. Great…

Last time I had lost a package it took 4 months to track down. It was stuck in some post depot, just not going anywhere because some retard put a sticker ON TOP OF THE DESTINATION ADDRESS. Yeah, that’s clever. The least they could have done was return to sender. But no, we had to pay to have the package returned and resent. This sort of thing annoys me, mainly because my mate that sent me the package ended up footing the bill to fix what is essentially a screw up on their part.

As to what’s happened to my latest parcel, who knows? Stolen… possibly. Stuck in a depot somewhere… probably. There’s no real good reason to steal my item, it was an old XBOX game that’s not really worth much. Maybe some post office worker really wanted it. Unfortunately this item did not get shipping with a tracking number (even though I paid £5 to ship a £10 item), so trying to find it will be an exercise in futility. I phoned customs yesterday and they flatly refused to help me without a tracking number. I don’t know when this policy changed because I’ve tracked down stuff without a tracking number before — my name has always been enough to find my parcels. They even told me they used to track parcels without a tracking number, but will no longer do it… thanks buddy, you’ve been a great help.

So in the end I’m just going to forget about the money I’ve lost and order another copy (I really want this game). Even ordering a second copy will work out cheaper than if I had tried to source it locally. Oh well, I guess you can’t win them all, I just hope whoever has my NGB is enjoying the damn thing.