No one's ever sorry

alternateorg on August 19, 2002

I’m really getting fed up with this whole “it wasn’t my fault, so fuck you” mentality I’ve been receiving lately. Case in point: I’m a member of NetFlix, where I get DVDs delivered to me relatively frequently, in little red pouches just barely bigger than the DVD disc itself. This means that despite their small size, they cannot fit into my tallish,skinnyish mailbox I have downstairs in my building. So quite often (along with other large mail delivered by the post office), my DVDs get delivered to the open box next to the mailboxes, seemingly reserved for large mail and junk mail.

Can you see where this is going?

My building is cleaned every few weeks by the maintenence crew, and often this includes the emptying of the open bin. This is fine as mostly, people get the mail out of there they need and leave the junk mail for the trash. However, this past week, maintenence came AFTER the mail was deliverd, and BEFORE I got home. Meaning that any and all items delivered to me and put into the large bin were basically thrown into the trash. And this day just happened to be the day that I had two DVDs delivered to me by Netflix: Lord of the Rings and Heathers.

To me, the fault here is obvious: the maintenence crew/apt complex manager for throwing away what is all for all intents and purposes, my private mail. Whether the mailman is supposed to deliver items to that bin is not of my concern. All I know is that a. I (along with all other residents) have very often had items delivered there and b. that I had 2 DVDs delivered on that day that were never received by me. Now, the apartment staff is claiming that the fault is the Post Office for delivering mail to the bin when any oversized mail should be delivered to the office instead and to take it up with them. Which smells like bull-fucking-shit to me. Fuck the world and everyone in it. That’s what I say.

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6 Replies to “No one's ever sorry”

  1. sockdaddy August 20, 2002 at 4:51 pm

    power to the people!

  2. timmyd August 20, 2002 at 8:03 pm

    can you smell a hypocrite? From what you have written, it wasn’t your fault that they got delivered to the wrong place and thrown away, so fuck it. I’ll bitch about the maintenance crew. Don’t get me wrong, i agree with you, they should be more careful, but if the drill is that they chuck out the junk mail… well would you spend five minutes rifling through “free pen when you spend $800!” or “get a 32 percent APR credit card TODAY!” everyday. Just in case, for once in every 2 years, someone has not picked up his or her mail. It sure ain’t your fault, it sure ain’t the postman’s fault, and to be frank, I do think it was the maintenance guys fault, but it was a mistake. So now you’re the one using the typical ‘it wasn’t my fault, so fuck all of you’ attitude. And don’t fuck the earth, your dick might get muddy. (p.s. I wasn’t my fault either, so don’t lash back. Im just trying to point out YOUR ‘fuck everything because I’M not to blame here’ attitude. – and if its any consolation, I feel sorry for you, LOTR is a superb film. Heathers sucks though. Big time)Cheer up! i lost half an ounce of the finest indian cannabis today, but i can live with it.

  3. steve August 20, 2002 at 11:23 pm

    My father-in-law gave me an iPod for Christmas. Something went wrong and I had to send it to Apple to be fixed. It was return delivered on a Saturday by AirBorne Express, left in the mailroom of my apt. building. My building manager signed for it and it was stolen out of the mailroom……suck.

  4. kev August 21, 2002 at 4:20 pm

    i seriously dont see how this could have ended up in your eyes as me sloughing off the blame onto someone else… in netflix’s eyes, yes, it is my fault. i didn’t dispute that. what i did say is that through no fault of my own, these dvds got thrown away and as far as netflix is concerned, they need these 2 dvds back. and the bin in the building was never defined as junk-mail only, as we along with everyone have had things delivered there for 2 years now.

  5. Anonymous August 23, 2002 at 12:45 pm

    Why don’t you just get a PO Box for deliveries? Probably takes less time to go get one at the post office than the time spent bitching about losing stuff.

  6. SlowX August 28, 2002 at 4:01 pm

    It is getting tougher to keep ahead of the dogs… But for what it’s worth, netFlix does seem like a pretty decent company. When I simply didn’t get a CD I ordered from them, and when another time a CD I ordered came cracked in half, they simply replaced them.

    And, hell, the fact that Apple send back the iPod so fast is worth something, no?

    Woof.

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