Thieves!

[erastes]

well i found out what happened to my contrib copies of "Travelrotica" I was clearing out my junk mail pile and sorting it into recycle and shred piles when i found a large empty envelope from Alyson post dated 1st August. It was just a large white A4 envelope. and empty.

*fumes*

So some BUGGER had stolen them! Well I hope he enjoyed the gay porn!

Very cross indeed. I'll have to buy my own now. That's NOT how things are supposed to go. Grr Grr Grr.

In other news I've been cat shopping and have two beds they will never sleep in, two bowls, two new carriers, and an assortment of toys they will eschew for things like loo roll holders if I know cats.

Comments

[julesjones]

You're in the UK, aren't you? Fill out a claim form at the post office for stolen/damaged mail. You may be outside the time limit by now, but it's certainly worth trying (and ASAP, in case the limit is two months). Keep the envelope as evidence. That it is gay smut is irrelevant -- I got them to cough up for several slash zines that had been damaged by my postie's habit of going to great effort to force the fat A4 envelope marked "do not bend" through a DL sized letter box rather than ring the doorbell and wait for me to open the door.

And yes, it may be an error at Alyson's end.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'll do that. Alyson's error was putting them in such a bloody flimsy envelope. *biffs them*

[julesjones]

It was definitely the envelope with the books? My trib copies of Ultimate Gay Erotica 2005 arrived in one of those stout cardboard flat rate envelope the USPS so nicely hands out, but that was to a US address. Alyson may have preferred to send international tribs by boat to save on shipping costs.