BLAH!

Now a week ago i blogged about how my shipments are still not arriving to me because the local transporter needed to get the company stamp and then submit to the airport for clearance.

They promised that they will just go to the office which is a few blocks away from them to get the stamp and i should be getting my stuff by this week.

Today is already Thursday and tomorrow will be weekends in Algeria. Yes my shipments are still not here.

What is the complication? Apparently it took them until only Monday to get the stamp. And when were questioned why, they couldnt give me an answer. And then, when they submitted the documents for clearance, the airport highest authority refused to sign it because of the "high-ended" gadgets in the shipment. For this is referred to Algerian standard only because the sort of "high-ended' gadgets are nothing less than a pc, a rice cooker, a printer, a slow cooker and PS3. The Algeria government is afraid that we are taking in these items to sell. I cant believe it! And what amused me is the transporter after knowing the situation, didint inform us but keep numbed.

So we have been pushing again and again until they finally told us the situation. Toyota is quite a huge company here and  the company has been dealing a lot with the airport authorities and the local government in terms of importing parts and vehicles. So what we did is to ask some people in Toyota who has connection with these authorities to make some phone calls for the release.

Now we are told that the shipment should be cleared by this afternoon and that it should be sent to us by tomorrow. Having knowing how the Algerian works here, since tomorrow is the start of weekend of 2 days, this promise seems like a joke to us. And i am sure they will keep numb again and nothing will be send to us this weekend. Instead, what will happen is, we will be calling them on Sunday and it will be clear that the shipments will still be in the airport, and then it might only reach us next Thursday.

By then why should i bother anymore when i will be flying off to Beirut on Sunday? Meaning all i got to do is to unpack the stuff and that's it!

Pissed?? Blah more like loosing hope!