Facepalm... Deliveries.

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

So, I got to wondering where the two tubes of expensive white 'exterior' glue/filler/sealant I'd ordered had got to.

Delivered today at 11:30 ??

D'uh ? I was up and about, in fact I answered door to postie soon after that.
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Copy/paste lonnnng tracking number into courier's site. Not recognised.
Copy/paste lonnnng tracking number into courier's site. Not recognised.
Copy/paste lonnnng tracking number into courier's site. Recognised, but 'proof' pic is not of my house...

Not my wall, nor window-sill with parcel, nor nice vertical blinds, nor adjacent down-spout...

Courier informed by chat after struggle with phone-bot which, of course, repeatedly claimed tracking number Was Not Recognised.

They're investigating...

Let's hear it for 'Hapless Hermes', now re-branded as 'Wrong Evri Time'...

To be fair, they've improved their 'Right First Time' to ~80%, have not previously wrecked or lost another parcel this month...

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

Okay, I'd a Plan_B, several tubes of 'indoor' stuff for what was, after all, a dry, 'indoor' task...

But, I must be more riled than I'd thought: A dozen braw squirts in, my good caulking gun's mechanism just deformed beyond functional.
And my modest spare was, of course, 'Missing, Presumed'...

It will probably re-appear in a couple of days, after I've got my money's worth from 'rush order' replacements arriving tomorrow...

D'uh...

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

UPS' recruitment criteria may be faltering...

Got home from hasty shopping dash to find UPS card through door.
Blank.
No boxes ticked, no reference, nothing but card's existence : Yeah, verily, 'The Medium IS The Message'...