I’ll add some variety to this
blog and write about something else than comics today. The subject of this
post is Royal Mail – the service that the vast majority of eBay sellers and
other dealers have used over the years to send my comics from the UK to
Lithuania where I live.
Generally speaking I have no
complaints because only two or three of my packages failed to turn up in the
course of nearly a decade. A few of the parcels, however, did quite a bit of
travelling before reaching me, so I assume some people have no clue where my
country is. Let’s picture two post office employees processing my package at a
sorting station somewhere in the UK:
“Look, this one is to Lithuania. Do you know where it
is?”
“Sounds exotic, should be Asia.”
“Asia be it, then…”:
I thought asking my sellers to
add EUROPE after LITHUANIA in my address would help the post office do a
better job. I am sure most of the times the hint was appreciated, but not on this
occasion:
