I got home on the weekend a couple of weeks ago after having been out all afternoon, and found a failed delivery notice for my games delivery. I'd missed it by about an hour, d'oh! I didn't have time to do anything about it as I was in a rush to get to Sannomiya. So naturally, I missed the next delivery too and found another notice in my door on Sunday morning just before I left for lunch with Emerald. I took the notices to school with the intention of getting a teacher to help me out, but figured I'd try to do it myself. I jumped onto the website of Yamato, the delivery company, and tracked the shipment. Turns out that it was on the truck that day already and scheduled for delivery at some mystery time.

Yamato has an English website that is relatively good, and they give a different call centre number on this to the number on the failed delivery slip. So I figured it might even be in English, but it wasn't, haha. The lady could speak a little English, though, which really helped, and I managed to get through it mostly in Japanese! Translating the kanji for "failed delivery slip" before calling really helped - "gofuzai renraku hyou". So all good! I gave them my phone number and address and set up a delivery for after 6pm that night, w00t!

I really must find a way to tell the delivery company never to deliver on weekends or before 6pm on weeknights. It's inane, really. I'm never home during weekdays because I have work and I'm usually only at home on weekends to sleep. I know they can't possibly know that, but it really is silly that they keep trying to deliver at times when I know I'll definitely never be home. I like shops that give you a space to specify a delivery time, like Faith Go. That was really easy to organise and there were no missed deliveries ;) Anyway, until I can learn the Japanese to do that, I guess I'll just have to try to explain to shops I buy things from that they should get the delivery company to only come on weekdays after 6pm :)