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We are all aware of that old rule of thumb which says that you wait 30 minutes for a bus, then 3 come at once. Well, I've had just the opposite happen here at home.
I'm off to a meeting later on this afternoon. Yesterday I filled out an application for a renewal US passport, seeing that it would cost £1,700 to file for renunciation of US citizenship. As the Royal Mail is on strike most of the time these days, I paid £25 for a courier to take the application then deliver my new passport once it arrives at the Embassy. The courier would pick it up anytime from 8am to 6pm. As I'll be leaving around 4:15pm today, I told the courier company to send the courier on Wednesday, as I have nothing planned and could stick around all day and wait.
At 2 pm today the doorbell rang. I answered, and it was the courier. I told him, "You weren't supposed to come until tomorrow." and he said, "I'll go away and come back tomorrow then." but I stopped him from leaving and gave him the application and supporting documents.
One might think this is an example of super service. I think of it as silliness. Several times I instructed the courier company to send someone on Wednesday, and reiterated that I would not be able to be here all day today. They assured me that the courier would be here on Wednesday. I feel odd complaining about it, but if the courier had arrived today at 5 pm, I wouldn't have been here and I would probably have had to argue with the company over sending someone tomorrow.
You can't win.
Except, the courier was a tall, rangy, Hispanic bike messenger, so I got some eye candy out of it.
I'm off to a meeting later on this afternoon. Yesterday I filled out an application for a renewal US passport, seeing that it would cost £1,700 to file for renunciation of US citizenship. As the Royal Mail is on strike most of the time these days, I paid £25 for a courier to take the application then deliver my new passport once it arrives at the Embassy. The courier would pick it up anytime from 8am to 6pm. As I'll be leaving around 4:15pm today, I told the courier company to send the courier on Wednesday, as I have nothing planned and could stick around all day and wait.
At 2 pm today the doorbell rang. I answered, and it was the courier. I told him, "You weren't supposed to come until tomorrow." and he said, "I'll go away and come back tomorrow then." but I stopped him from leaving and gave him the application and supporting documents.
One might think this is an example of super service. I think of it as silliness. Several times I instructed the courier company to send someone on Wednesday, and reiterated that I would not be able to be here all day today. They assured me that the courier would be here on Wednesday. I feel odd complaining about it, but if the courier had arrived today at 5 pm, I wouldn't have been here and I would probably have had to argue with the company over sending someone tomorrow.
You can't win.
Except, the courier was a tall, rangy, Hispanic bike messenger, so I got some eye candy out of it.
