Day 73 (Turkey): Ankara (will it ever end?)

So, after finding out last night that Haluk and Guler were going to leave on Monday, I needed to try to find a game plan for things to come. They were going to leave early on Monday morning and I still had no idea where the package was - the tracking number still coming up empty. So, I called DPD again and was told that with “98% certainty, your package will be in Ankara on Monday”. Alright, did I hear something before along the lines of having certainty in this regard? At any rate, Haluk said that they would be waiting one more day … I didn’t really know what to say. A massive thank you!!!

So, DPD better deliver now or else … what else. I am completely at their mercy now and if it doesn’t come in, I will have to reroute the package which supposedly will take another day. Yikes! At least they were able to add my cell phone number to the information and the promise now is that if delivery fails they would call me. I was also assured that my tracking number would be visible tonight (meaning Friday). I had some hope, but when I logged on Friday just before midnight, there was still nothing. This means I am flying blindly right now, can’t organize anything and can’t make any predictions as to the arrival. If anyone has any idea what DPD really stands for, then please do let me know (previously: Deutscher Paket Dienst [German Parcel Service is already taken by a differnet company, but you get what I mean; now rebranded as: Dynamic Parcel Distribution]) … I’ll try to be creative (one word: the people I am talking to are really trying hard and seem to understand that things didn’t go as they should have, but I have the feeling that the system somehow really has its flaws).