Comments on: Another Blue Note Day At Jazz Collector

By: Mattyman

Mattyman — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:15:46 +0000

erratum: “to weeks ago” of course should read “TWO weeks ago”.
Mattyman.

By: Mattyman

Mattyman — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:13:58 +0000

Rudolf, you took the words right out of my mouth! Amen, brother. And in the meantime all the financial news papers are reporting one thing and one thing only: who is going to be the follow up to Ad Scheepbouwer. Well, I couldn’t care less about his follow up, but apparently that’s the only thing these a-holes worry about, while in the meantime their customers -me in particular- never know if the next package is going to be delivered or not. The Netherlands is only a speck on the world map, but still the powers that be felt the need to privatize countless of good old reliable services. And just so you know: I bought a few nice Blue Notes on eBay about to weeks ago from a seller on the west coast of the U.S. and guess what: still no sign of any package delivered. Now y’all understand why I kept on ranting about the Dutch mail…
Enjoy your week off, Rudolf 😉
Mattyman, The Netherlands.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:18:35 +0000

two afterthoughts:
today is a day of a general strike France: still I got my mail delivered!
When I was in Holland the other day, I wanted to send one postcard, the Post obliged me to buy five stamps for five postcards. I threw them my postcard right in their face. To hell with TNT, and Ad Scheepbouwer, their greedy CEO.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:02:05 +0000

my friends: unfortunately I will not participate during a week in our discussions, I am off for a week.
Anyway, my postman, when he is up, and enters through the kitchen, knows that there is always “un petit blanc” waiting for him.
Of course, the privatisation in the Netherlands was an outright shame.

By: Mattyman

Mattyman — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:29:39 +0000

I know, Al, and it is a crying shame that these things happen. I have to admit that with my packages it’s been “so far so good”, but one thing is clear: the privatisation of the mail market has only deteriorated the levels of quality, reliability and service.
Mattyman, The Netherlands.

By: Al

Al — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:59:12 +0000

Mattyman — one of the only delivery problems I ever encountered in all my years on ebay was in The Netherlands. I shipped a big box of records and they never got delivered. They did, however, get returned to me, for which I had to pay double shipping. Now I see why.

By: Mattyman

Mattyman — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:42:50 +0000

Well, folks, I live in a regular Dutch small village right next to a big city but here in The Netherlands we face another problem: a few years ago our government decided to privatize the mail market. It would create “more competition” and thus “lower prices” they said. NONE of that has happened and here TNT (the former state run PTT) is about to lay off over 4500 people, folks that shove the envelopes in our mailboxes. Things have gone downhill since the mail stopped being state run. Now I see students delivering the mail and they don’t give a rat’s ass about to whom or where they deliver the mail; hence the fact that I’ve become more and more worried about the proper delivery of the cherished Blue Notes that I buy through eBay every once in a blue moon. So, Rudolf, your story makes me jealous! 😉
Mattyman, The Netherlands.

By: London Calling

London Calling — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:37:56 +0000

Criticize La Poste? Surely not Rudolf. You are fortunate your postman is not always “en greve”, and looking forward to retirement on full salary, oooh, at fifty five. Vive La France!

Cheers!

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:10:08 +0000

London Calling: I live high up in the mountains. So no junk mail, but the postman comes all the way up to deliver the mail. Even for one letter he comes up on his mobylette, partly walking and pushing up the thing because of the steepness of the road.
Don’t criticize La Poste, s’il vous plaît!

By: London Calling

London Calling — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:59:04 +0000

Without giving too much away, ahem, when I am not in UK I am in my place in the south of France. Where I live everyone lives in apartments – “houses” are impossibly expensive – £1m plus.

Our letter box is a series of “boites aux lettres” each with a small slit – no postman ventures up five flights of stairs .

The postbox is stuffed with unwanted mail for supermarket special offers. You could not rely on this system if your life depended on it!.

Sometimes there is a small note amongst the junk that you have an undelivered package.