Friday, 18 October 2024

Complaint to the Maréchal général des logis

The supplementary supplies mentioned in the last post have begun to arrive. First the magnetic bases on Tuesday, then the polypropylene boxes yesterday, and today the MDF bases, scatter material and sticky labels.

The Maréchal général des logis needs a kick up the derrière  because look how he sent them. Bear in mind the plastic boxes and the labels were on the same order to the Range. What a waste of wagon space.

The tiny little flat white thing are the labels.

You have to go out of your way to do something this stupid. It's actually harder to do this than do the common sense thing. Why put that much effort into getting it wrong?

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More happily some progress has been made on painting the Carthaginians and re-boxing the SYW figures. Just waiting on news on the arrival of the reinforcements.

15 comments:

  1. Non! Absolute nonsense, what a packing faux pas!
    Proportionate packaging is but a dream these days!
    Alan Tradgardland

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    1. ‘Proportionate packaging prevents petroleum proliferation’ might be the new 5 Ps! It’s also easier to get in the letter box.
      Chris

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  2. Funny if it wasn’t almost criminal.

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    1. A more temperate, not to say reasonable man than I offered the following mitigation:
      “I suspect that the overstressed and underpaid staff in those warehouses just grab what is to hand, or perhaps orders for different items are split and packaged by different departments, depending how their ranging is organised. Plus maybe there is a bit of 'extreme compliance' where policies and rules are obviously stupid.”
      I blame the management.
      Chris

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    2. Your correspondent is obviously an intelligent chap :)
      I wonder if sometimes they do stuff to relieve the sheer boredom; competitions for the most outrageous packing? I remember an IT story where the overnight Operations shift at a computer centre had a challenge to see who could get through security at the front door by showing the most unlikely ID card - video club memberships (it was the 1980s), etc etc. The winner was waved through having flashed a can of sardines..

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    3. Great story!
      I had a tin of sardines yesterday, but I used them for their conventional purpose. Formerly known as ‘pilchards’ but they can charge more for ‘sardines’. Anyway, I wonder if the gates at work will accept it.
      Chris

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    4. I once wrote on the inside of a box containing 40kg of Mozarella bound for Saudi Arabia “help I’m being held prisoner in a cheese factory” It was 3 o’clock in the morning and I volunteered for a night shift for some reason. Oh how I laughed. Not.

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    5. JBM, I can imagine the Saudi security services looking at that and thinking, "hmm, imprisonment in a cheese factory. Doesn't sound very cruel, but we'll give it a go".

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  3. Crazy and un-necessary. It would appear that some despatching processes need refining.

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    1. I’ve calmed down a bit now.
      See the comment above from an ‘intelligent correspondent’.
      Chris

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  4. If the contents arrive undamaged, I am happy.

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    1. To be fair, the contents did arrive undamaged.

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  5. Maybe their bin was full so they solved the problem by posting it to you. 😂
    And I am sure it was disappointing to receive the big box with just the labels, you were hoping for a couple of sets of figures, weren't you Chris? 😁

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    1. 😆You’ve nailed it Ben.
      Chris

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