paper–

I hate paper. I love books. It’s the one waste of paper that I agree with. But I really dislike paper letters (except for love letters, of course), pamphlets, brochures, junkmail and so on.

In May 2004, I think, I stopped opening my personal mail. It piled. I sorted it by sender or categories. I trashed what was junk every now and then. At the end of the year I moved. I brought my piles of mail with me. I got more mail and I stored it. Later I moved. I brought my piles with me. I sorted again. Every now and then I needed something that had been sent to me. I spent a fair share looking in boxes and piles, or suitcases for that very pile of mail I thought I’d find what I was looking for. I lost documents, naturally.

Since I stopped opening my mail, I have moved 6 or 7 times. My piles always followed me. Piles in a box, more piles bundled in files, others in plastic bags, and of course some piles are in plastic bags that are bundled in files that are in boxes. If only I remembered where these were…

One of these days I will do like I said: find them, open them, sort them, be a good girl. Then, I’ll have to open them as they come.

My company is fortunate I’m a good girl when I treat business mail.

virtual-album system of iPhoto 5

So I upgraded to Tiger a few days ago. It comes with iPhoto 5.

I really regret the disappearance of iPhoto Library/Albums/ 🙁

I searched around and found on a forum that with iPhoto 5, Apple has beefed up the virtual-album system. And adding insult to injury, I read that one doesn’t need to know a thing about the organisation of one’s hard disk to use iPhoto.

Hrmpf.

Oops, they did it again

[This post originally appeared in Dullicious, where I blogged as Barbie-dull for several years.]

I mean ColiPoste. I’ve had to deal with them 3 times in a month and this is the 3rd time they claim they’ve attempted to deliver an item and we were absent. Yeah right.

No notification in the mailbox that they actually attempted to deliver. So maybe this is standard operating procedure.

Or maybe they’re trying to make the world believe that people are never at home.

Slackers!

ColiPoste–

[This post originally appeared in Dullicious, where I blogged as Barbie-dull for several years.]

Screenshot of the ColiPoste tracking page
Vhere is ze printer, Lebowski?!

A printer was ordered two days ago for my home office in Paris. On the website it said “Delivery on the same day”, I was hopeful.
Yesterday I was given the URI to track the parcel and it said the package was ready in Lyon. It was ready to be delivered this morning when I reloaded the page. And it was still ready to be delivered at the end of the morning.

I reloaded the page in the early afternoon and it outrageously said I was absent when the first attempt at delivery was made! What?! I dashed to the mailbox to look for the slip of paper announcing the time for the delivery attempt. No slip in the mailbox.

So I called their number. I pressed star to proceed. And then I chose to press “2″ in order to lodge a complaint. I gave the tracking number.

“Yes, Madam, you were absent when it was delivered.”
“Impossible, I didn’t go out of my apartment. Nobody rung the bell.”
“So you need to call that number again, press star and two.”
“This is what I just did, I pressed star and 2.”
“Then you have to do it again in 30 or 45 minutes.”

How frustrating. I called again a half hour later.

“Yes, Madam, you were absent when it was delivered.”
“I stayed home and nobody rung the bell.”
“You must have the notification of delivery attempt in your mailbox.”
“No, there was no slip of paper.”

The woman on the phone, Valérie, asked my phone number, wrote down the digicode for the entrance door, and said she would make sure the postman delivers the package on Saturday morning. She gave me a complaint number and said she would phone me in 48 hours to find out whether my parcel has been delivered.

/me crosses fingers that the postman actually rings our bell and delivers the printer tomorrow 🙂