The Daily Mail, bastion of the borgeois and staunch supporter of moral standards, is today reporting about the scandal that is the great internet gifts shambles. They are picking up on a story at least two years late according to my terrible amazon.com experiences, but hey, it must be a slow news week.
Anyway, their incisive investigations lead them to estimate up to 500,000 presents will not be delivered in time for Christmas this year. This figure is arrived at by taking the possible up to 1% of late deliveries estimated by Amazon, and applying it to the estimated 55m items Royal Mail say they will deliver from online retailers. Not the most scientific method, and they fail to mention their margin of error. They also provide details of precisely four distressed customers missing their presents. I wonder if they ordered 125,000 gifts each?
Either way, I did all my Christmas shopping in the high street this year, due to a lack of organisation and being away most of the last few weeks, which makes it difficult for the postman to deliver.