DPD and Missing Delivery

Delivery firms: guaranteed to make you angry at one or more points over a given twelve-month period.

DPD, the delivery firm, contacted me to say that my new broadband router was coming on such-and-such a day. They sent me the hour's slot during which they would call. I arranged to stay in either side of it in case they were early or late. Nothing came. Then an email arrived saying they were sorry I had not been in:

"Sorry, we missed you. Your driver Muhammad won't be back today but we'll be back Thu 26 June with your parcel."

A photograph accompanied the message of a random street. Muhammad had lied. He had never called, and he never missed me. They came the next day when I was at the chapel, foisting it onto a neighbour, and then giving him someone else's name. When I complained, DPD said I should raise the matter with the sender, Vodafone. The contract to deliver was with them, after all. I contacted Vodafone, which said I should contact DPD. Clearly, this makes for an excellent commercial partnership, seeing as each company is as competent and honest as the other. If one started offering deliveries, and the other electronic communications, the decrease in quality would be imperceptible.

Deliverance (rather than delivery) is a popular theme among Biblical writers, and it is spoken of with a high degree of certainty. The final 'delivery', however, from the book of Revelation, is rather more chilling, and states:

The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 20:13

No-one will be missed, excused, lost, delayed or returned, though there shall be plenty who would prefer that. Thank God for His gracious offer to deliver us from death and hell if in Jesus Christ we sincerely trust. 

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