I have used “Please Mr. Postman” before in 2013 but it is highly appropriate again this year. There is a new blog post, but I will re-use the blog title and song summary. Last year I used the stereo version of the song. This year I feature the mono. Listen and compare if that is your thing. It is mine.
This is a cover of The Marveletts 1961 hit – not The Supremes or The Shirelles as many think. It was released as the B-side to another cover, “Roll Over Beethoven” and while it charted in America, it didn’t hit very high and wasn’t even a single in Britain. According to BeatleSongs it was recorded in a single day along with a few others. Tell Me Why analyzes the song as sounding “delirious, pent up and manic” with the Beatles version of the song sounding as if the singer (in this case John) is “dying with lovesick agony” over not getting a letter or postcard from the one he loves.
For Christmas most of our presents were ordered online. As they came in we placed them in Tevye’s room, away from prying eyes. This meant we didn’t open each package as it arrived, but instead just stacked the packages.
The shirt we received
Just under a week before Christmas, Saturday night, we are going through packages after the kids go to sleep. We tear into what came from What In The World. We had purchased a T-shirt for Kyle from them that was humorous but not offensive. Well, maybe. Whatever. Point was maybe we should have opened the package earlier, but we didn’t. When we opened it the wrong shirt was in there. The packing slip noted the correct shirt, but the one we received was not only the wrong shirt, it was one we couldn’t give to Kyle as it was a joke shirt about being named Richard.
Monday morning I call What In The World. Three days before Christmas. I tell the person on the phone we got the wrong shirt despite the invoice denoting the correct shirt being ordered. The customer service person was very polite and apologetic. I say that I will send back the shirt we did get, but I want to make sure the shirt we ordered arrives in time for Christmas. He said that not only could we keep the (wrong) shirt we got, but the correct one would be overnighted to us.
Tuesday the shirt did not arrive.
There was an email Wednesday morning saying the shirt has shipped. On Wednesday. Included in the email was a USPS (United States Postal Service) tracking number. Going to the USPS website I am told the tracking number is invalid.
Wednesday the shirt did not arrive.
The shirt we were supposed to get
Thursday, Christmas, Kyle had one less present to open.
Friday I check the tracking number in the email and USPS again, and again am told the tracking number is invalid.
In the email there is an order number, and on Monday I go the the What On Earth website and check on the status using the order number. According to this information the shirt was shipped via FedEx. On Friday.
According to the FedEx tracking information the shirt went from Ohio to Missouri to New Mexico and as I type this out it is sitting in Utah.
Estimated arrival is Friday January 2.
To say I am a dissatisfied customer would be an understatement.