Post Office Blues

It takes forever for an overseas package to get delivered to recipients in MetroManila.
this particular fact highlights the fact that Service in the Philippines is NOT to International Standards
SAD, but true.

How can we market services and products by little intrepreneurs if our post office is slow?  Businesses require fast service to-and-from supplier/vendor.

For example, businesses in Mainland China and Hongkong offer free delivery.  They offer tracking services of parcels as well, for example i tracked a parcel that was sent off last April, it was enroute for delivery to the post office last April 13.

well, ladies and gentlemen, lapis and fountain pen, i have not yet received the package as of this date.
hello???? how efficient then is our post office? 

and this is not just for a single package.....

and guess what?  the post office uniformly charges 50 pesos for each and every parcel, no matter how small.
so is that further tax on us poor consumers?


not only this, but the post office loses packages.  good golly gee.
no wonder i have the post office blues

Do you use Shakey's 77-777?

i love pizzas but i recently ordered from shakey's and was terribly disappointed when their call taker gave the wrong number for the pizza delivery guy.  i used to have the number 442-xxxx but i had changed it a long time ago.  AND i have informed the Shakey's call taker several times that that number is NO LONGER MINE!

and yet, that is the number the delivery guy was given ------!!!!!!

i got so angry at how INEFFICIENT their call taker guy was - and the poor delivery guy got the brunt of my anger although i was careful to tell him i was not angry at him but at the call taker.  the delivery guy (who was from the new Anonas branch) was profuse in this apologies but i told him it was not his fault.  i even tipped him.

still, i wanted to blog about it in the hopes that Shakey's management WILL TAKE NOTE!!