Breaking Glass ~ The pitfalls of online shopping

Hello Hello Hivians.

One of my favourite subscriptions is to Amazon Prime, which generally means free next day deliveries for purchases made on the Amazon website.

Breaking Glass

Some of you know I love my punk, and I know @geneeverett falls into that category. So when I hear Breaking Glass then I immediately think of the album from London punk Hazel O'Conner from the film of the same name that she and her band starred in, in 1980.

It was her debut album and was way better than the film I reckon!

Some tunes from the film and album in this quick wee video 👇

However, this is not a Tuesday and it is not a ttt post!

No .... it is about another sort of breaking glass...

Mrs T has been feverishly making green smoothies with the new magic bullet blender that she got. She makes three bottles at a time. These are stuck in the fridge and one is drunk each morning!

This is all well and good but the bottle are plastic.

So being as we love glass, she sourced some thick glass bottles with metal screw caps from Amazon.

They had good reviews and came as a pack of two.

No bother, she wanted 3 bottles, so get 2 packs says I and that way we have one spare in case we break one!

She also got some charcoal sticks to put in our drinking water.

The button was pressed and the delivery came today this evening.

I took the package and gave it to her to open...

I hear broken glass she says ....

She opened up the first box of two and they were okay...

Knowing there was a breakage in there we were prepared and I was taking videos and pictures of everything.

Amazon used to send things in cardboard boxes now though, to be more eco friendly they often use brown paper bags as you can above. The cardboard box was from the manufacturer.

Each bottle was wrapped in some sort of slightly cushioned plasticy type packaging. Mrs T is pointing & pushing the packaging ... It shouldn't be doing that...

This was what was underneath..

One broken bottle ...

So onto the Amazon website I went, expecting to write a Hive type post complete with photographs of the damage...

Imagine my surprise when I find where I need to be, damaged product and the box was undamaged.

I then had 200 characters to say where and what the damage was!

I didn't even need a fluffing picture!

They gave me a QR code to scan at an EVRI dropoff point, which happens to be the wee Tesco grocery shop I use round the corner.

We did make use of the good package and here they are in the fridge...

So yeah online shopping is great but sometimes the delivery screws you.

Do you know that nowhere on any box / bag does it say fragile or have a glass sticker.

I know how things are packed and shipped inside an Amazon warehouse and shipping dock, this is a fluffing recipe for disaster!

Have you had any broken glass deliveries?

Thanks so much for popping in and may you have a fluffing awesome rest of your week.