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We've been awaiting the arrival of a new computer, being sent from France, for a variety of good reasons, and the freighters have a very cute blobby window which pops into our life and allows us to track our parcel; well, that's the idea, however, the tracking blob does not seem to be attached/connected to any sentient lifeforms at the other end, and for a week we've watched a 'no progress' situation develop in our heads, mainly, as phoning Slovenia and Germany, the two likely transits, get us zero, and the French end doesn't know anything at all. Wouldn't you like to be able to sell a well-decorated box of nothing to some freight giant for half a million, and go out and pose on the proceeds? There are too many such events going on for me to be content with the state of affairs. What really troubles me is having shown us an apparently 'instantaneous' update of our progress, the process of being compensated for these idiots losing our computer will take three months... you don't believe it? That's what it took to get recompensed for a digital camera sent France - Italy, when the clerk INSISTED we describe the contents, a detail specifically to avoid at all costs when sending to Italy, and which brings me to the obvious; shouldn't all our purchases be in plain brown wrappers instead of blaring to all what's inside? Well, we don't get to control how something is wrapped, but we'd sure like to change how ALL of the freight systems in Europe operate, but don't hold your breath for positive news.... Nuff said.