Third World Stupidity - TTPOST Edition

So, you live in Trinidad.

This means that on the odd occasion you might want to purchase something that;

a) just isn't available in the country, or

b) is so friggin expensive locally that it is infact cheaper for you to purchase said item online and pay up to three times the purchase price to get it shipped to you.

Enter TTPOST. The Trini answer to the US Postal Service. Complete with glossy adverts about how efficient and easy it is to ship with them.

Needless to say, they offer more than one service to ship from the US to Trinidad. One is the regular parcel post and the other is the very quick SkyBox option. Skybox allows you to ship to a US address and TTPOST takes over from there.

Enter Fat Girl Walking, who wants to ship a bulky package from the States to Trinidad and isn't interested in turning over her first born child for the privilege. She looks at the estimated shipping charges for the SkyBox option and almost falls on the floor laughing.

Regular Parcel Post it is!

This particular package proceeded on its way to Trinidad via USPS Priority and because of the very thoughtfully supplied Tracking Number, Fat Girl Walking was able to see that it left Miami a week ago.

TTPOST, bless their friggin hearts has the stupidest protocol for collecting your package. Instead of sayyy calling you up to let you know that your package has arrived, they instead receive your package at the Post Office and then MAIL you a teeny little slip of paper letting you know that it has arrived.

You CAN'T collect your package without that teeny little slip of paper.

This means that Fat Girl Walking has been checking her mailbox numerous times every day for the last week in the most OCD manner possible.

Fat Girl Walking finally hit her limit this morning when the post lady passed and still had NOTHING.

So, she called up TTPOST and asked about the package... Remember ? The package that LEFT the US a WEEK AGO ???!!!!

Well that package, and if I might quote the lovely TTPOST lady, "Arrive in Trinidad today and yuh will have to wait for us tuh send yuh de notification, an dat will take a nex week."

Will someone PLEASE explain to me how In This Day and Age a package takes an entire week to travel from Miami to Trinidad ?

Did they send it by boat ?

Messenger Pigeon ?

Also, while you are trying to wrap your head around that one...WHYYYY do I have to wait another week after it has arrived at my local Post Office to receive that goddammed little slip of paper that carries no more information than my address and how much I have to pay to liberate said package from the Post Office ??

Is it that they are trying to push their SkyBox option ? Does the non-SkyBox mail just sit in a warehouse for a bit, twiddling its thumbs, until word comes down from on high that it can proceed on its way ??

EPIC FAIL TTPOST.

Truly Third World Stupidity at its Best.