Friday, June 13, 2008

Lost shipment

This one has to take the record for time lost.

We sent a shipment out to a customer in December, 2006. It was a foreign address, so we allow up to 3 months for delivery. When it hadn't arrived by March, 2007, we reshipped to him, our normal procedure. He received the follow-up shipment without problems.

Today, we received back a package containing the original shipment. The box was beat up, but the books were still in sellable condition! That was over 18 months that the package was lost somewhere in the world!

Strange things happening...

1 comment:

Ben Byerly said...

I'm not surprised. I had a friend mail me a book in 2005; it arrived late last year two and a half years later . . . Nairobi.

Then again, another friend had a book mailed to him from Michigan. It got here in FOUR days!!