Odyssey of a shipment July 27
How hard can it be to send a contract from Amsterdam to Vienna? Well, as it points out - very. But lets get this in turn.
FunkFeuer registered for a LIR membership with the RIPE NCC some days ago. To finish this process the paper contract had to be signed and therefor was sent to the association “office”. As there are no office times and only sporadic meetings DHL couldn’t deliver it there. Okay, no problem so far - gave them the address of my office to drop the shipment there. Next day the deliverer phoned me that he is at the office and asked where to drop the shipment - as i wasn’t there i told him to hand it over to my colleague. When i came to the office some hours later no shipment there, asking my colleague he never heard of anything. Good. Phoning DHL they tell me that the shipment was delivered to the original office location to a woman i’ve never heard of before. Okay, so i went there and had a look - no person in the whole building by that name. Take a deep breath. Phoning DHL again they can’t tell me any more, but will try to reach the deliverer to find out more - in 2 hours or so. Great i don’t want to wait here and twiddle my thumbs. So i phoned my colleague if he could have a look if the named person was somewhere at the UniCredit staff. And, bingo - indeed there was a person by that name in the post department. Phoning him he told me - yes he has the shipment, but it’s in a office on the other end of Vienna. GREAT! So, travelling there took me another 40 minutes - but in the end, i had the shipment in my hands - for real!
But, to take up the cudgels for so i’ve got to tell that the reply shipment was delivered over night from Vienna to Amsterdam. At least according to the online tracking which also said that my shipment was delivered hours before i found it. 
teemu Jul 30
know what? I refuse to take deliveries via private Parcel Services - because they all suck. I always demand normal federal post high priority shipment, ’cause afterall they have been in business for year .. and ‘um “never change a running system”
wnagele Jul 30
i agree with that, at least they have access to the post boxes and can leave a message for you. so you can pick up the stuff later on, though dhl has an equivalent for post24 in germany they don’t seem to have this in austria.
but to be fair we have to say that private parcel distributors currently don’t have access to the post boxes and therefor can’t bring the same service.
teemu Aug 1
yeah, but it’s their problem. every 17yrs old summer-jobbing-postman can have a key to postboxes .. why can’t a international company try getting generalkeys ?