I got a slip in my PO box about a package I needed to claim because I guess it didn't fit in the box. It's taken me weeks to find the time to claim the package because post offices are so slow. I've tried a couple of times but I had places to go and couldn't wait it out.
Finally today, I carved out time to wait, however long it took. My post office has a "Quick Window" for such non-cash transactions. "Quick" is used loosely. In fact, I could have waited on line for the slow window and gotten there about the same time someone moseyed up to the quick window and helped me. OK, it was maybe 5 minutes, but I rang and knocked several times and the clerks behind the counter, who could see me standing there, carefully avoided making eye contact with me.
I finally got the package.
So, what was this special delivery I wasted precious minutes of my life on? A large poster showing where all the Intercontinental Hotels in the world are located.
A massive waste of time, money and paper. What did they imagine I would do with this? Frame it? Hang it? It won't fit into my files. I'm sure I can learn whatever I need to know online, and I don't need to know anyway.
Straight into the recycling bin it goes. Little is stupider than stupid PR.
2 comments:
Our corporate office sends stupid promotional posters and stuff like that to the agent's office I work in. It always goes straight to trash bin. Waste of money AND time.
They at least overnight it DHL, and the driver has an amazingly sexy Barry White-esque voice so I annoy the crap out of him by asking him questions about his day and the weather just so he'll talk. So at least there's one good thing.
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