Parcel Conundrum

I have good news and bad news.

First the good news, I want to thank Amy Schwenke for her parcel. So very sweet of her, Amy kata nak hantar ikan kering saja but I received more than that. Siap dapat Maggi mee lagi tu..hehe..I'm so very touched. Terima Kasih bebanyak ek Amy, jasamu dikenang. Herzlichen Dank! 

( Ps: Comel gile handwriting ko Amy..hehe)

And since we are talking about kes pos-mengepos parcel ni, there's another story. I called my family a while ago which just my normal weekly ritual. Other than the usual update of whats going on in each others life, we also every now and then gossip about malaysian artiste. Alhamdulillah, everybody in the family sihat-sihat belaka and yes, Fahrin Ahmad cried on TV and yes, Linda Onn is meeting him in court.

The story is, my mom and makcik went to Mekah last December and naturally, diorang shopping la sikit-sikit buah tangan untuk family. Instead of shoving everything they bought into their baggage, makcik and my mom decided that they post most of the stuff home. Makanya, senang lah sikit nak bawak beg masing-masing bila on the way balik from Mekah.

So they posted two parcels. The first one sampai dengan selamat ke rumah kami di Penang but the second one ada problem. It seems that the my mother wrote the wrong phone number on the parcel and they couldnt get through to my sister. Last-last my mom and makcik sampai dulu ke rumah dari Mekah, barulah parcel tu sampai one week later.

Parcel tu pulak, rupanya dah macam separuh mati. Tali yang suppose to ikat parcel tu pun dah tak ada langsung. My mom pulak sign saja tanpa rasa was-was as the parcel came. You know what, bila buka parcel tu, half of the stuff was gone. Shoes for my sister and uncle, tasbih, ketayap (a.k.a kopiah) and what not, semua hilang. Eventhough those stuff tu, barang-barang biasa saja and bukan mahal harga ribu-ribu, still rasa marah bila dengar cerita ni. Geram dan very dissapointed.

Takkanlah benda-benda like shoes and tasbih tu hilang sebab tak lepas kastam. Takkanlah kastam bukak parcel tu sebab suspect ada benda-benda haram kot? Kalau pun check, mesti taruk balik kan. The funny thing is, my mom cakap the parcel came siap seal balik dengan cellophane tape. And we'll never know ni kerja side Malaysia or side Saudi, unless pergi report kat Encik Mazidul 999 tu kot. 

One more thing, my mom guna service City-Link, that means she paid extra for the courier service, which includes faster and registered mailing. Ironic kan?  Well it seems that tak kisah guna mailing service apa pun, perkara ni masih berlaku. Dah lama dengar dari kawan-kawan kat Malaysia, yang benda ni dah jadi macam lumrah. Siap ada yang pesan, bila terima parcel bukak parcel tu depan-depan postman tu, so that dia bleh jadi saksi.

Sedih mengingatkan ada orang yang tak amanah sampai begitu sekali. Sometimes orang kata nak buat jahat ni, mesti disebabkan negative temptations or maybe just the thrill of stealing. Tempations apanya kasut dan tasbih tu, bukannya gelang emas pun. Thrill? Thrill sangat ka curi tasbih dan ketayap, benda nak buat solat. Alamat sender pun dari Mekah, Arab Saudi, sampai hati diorang curi kan?
 

Sedihlah sangat sebab mengingatkan benda-benda kecik  gini pun boleh timbulkan pecah amanah. Kalau la manusia sampaikan tengok benda-benda begini pun boleh mencuri, apatah lagi kalau tempted dengan benda-benda lebih mewah, senang-senang saja diorang boleh buat jahat.