Is the mail getting through........Is it hell
It's not the bored housewives internet shopping there are very few housewives, might have to share them round if there gets any less.........!!! It is the complete and utter incompetence of the BFPO and the Movers at BZN. We have just received our first batch of parcels for 13 weeks. Amongst the excuses have been:
there is no mail for ASI.......followed a week or so later by, we have found it now but you can't have it because your only allowed a certain weight.
the mail has been booted off for urgent operational reasons (spares) as a guy with the urgent spare the size of a biscuit tin happily strolls down the road at ASI and the 70 accumulated bags of mail sit for another week at BZN to be joined by 5 or 6 more.
you are only allocated one pallet and that's it...........but the adults in the falklands can have a lot more.......because they have all the guns.
there is no way to allocate more space on the aircraft..........yes there is it's a 747 and the charter operator will sell you more space and lets face it it's never full because the allocation is based on a Tristar, but you will have to pay...............ah I see a problem has anyone got a crow bar to prise the DTMA purse open.
You don't need 70 bags of mail............correct it's what has accumulated for weeks and weeks.
If you have your mail we will have to boot the food off............boot the one star and his mates off who are going fishing in the Falklands and we'll have both thanks.
Whoops the movers have hit another 747 and all flights are cancelled until we repair it...............never mind we can send you a Tristar in few weeks when it gets really critical and the boys can practice fixing it in some different places.
The other problem if you follow the Travellers Tale thread is that even the charter is unreliable. Last flight from the UK started with a 5 day stay in a luxurious Cotswold hotel called The Gateway.......sounds great......... and has yet to come back through ASI. The previous one to that left a week and a half ago. Not so bad if you're in the UK but a bit of a bugger for the guys down south who have reached tourex.
Still it beats the hell out of being in the UK and freezing to death