It's Friday and I am waiting for my oats to be delivered. I ordered one from iherb last week but it seems to be taking a long time (7-9 days) to get here. We didn't buy some cereal since last week so I found this weeks' breakfast to be stressful. I did get to cook and try some new things (like Pita bread) but still missed my own food. I just had to place my order for oats in gmarket specially when I found that the price has gone down a bit (from 36k to 30k) with a bag of Honey Butter Chips to boot.
I've been checking my iherb order but it just got to the Korean warehouse yesterday afternoon. I think it will have to move from that to the local courier warehouse before it gets to be delivered. It will also have to go through custom check today. So hopefully with the quick and efficient delivery system here in Korea, I might get that iherb parcel by tomorrow or Monday at the most. I'm just hoping that those EO bottles won't be broken coz I've heard that some people who order flour/oat had some problems. I'm crossing my fingers mine won't have any or else I'll have to deal with the Korean language again.
My local gmarket order, on the other hand, is out for delivery soon since it has already arrived in my local area. I just placed the payment yesterday and from what I've seen in the tracking link, payment was cleared right away yesterday. The goods were shipped out early evening and has been on the move while I was sleeping overnight. It got into the town at 8 this morning and already in my area just after an hour and a half. So if I really can't wait, I can just drop by at their office a few blocks from my place and pick it up. But of course, I will rather wait and write stuff here. :D I'm just keeping an ear open for a message or a call from the delivery guy or perhaps just the doorbell ring today.
Delivery system here is really cool compared to how it is in my hometown. It takes a while for payment to be cleared, when they finally ship out, it sleeps in a warehouse for at least a night. It takes hours or sometime a day for a product to move from one part of the metro to the hangar where they will be shipped out to the provincial island. By the time it gets to the island, it may have to stay in the local office for a while before they finally get someone to deliver it coz there is only one office in the downtown to process all the incoming documents and parcels. Quickest time frame can be 3 days but worst case would 5 days or a week.
That is for the private courier service. It's totally different case via the post office. It is worse. Which reminds me about a couple of stuff I've sent through them a few months ago and I haven't heard if it already got there. Oh geez. One was a small packet of paper gift for my son's friends and another is a document for my mom. Gotta check that one out. To make it worse, I just sent it as regular mail forgetting how bad Philpost system is. I should've sent it with tracking no. at least, even if it won't be that quick. I don't mind the slower one as long as it gets there within the reasonable time.
As for my current location, I can finally have oats for breakfast/snack on Sunday when I head out to my all-day Korean class when those oats gets here. However, I just remembered that Team A food thing is happening this Sunday so lunch will be covered I think.
Waiting.
(3 PM Update)
And it got here just now! It came in a big box that for a minute I thought it was the international one. International packages I've opened before usually has tons of fillers and bubble wraps. This one got bigger because of the extra chips that came with it.
Inside the original quaker oat box are just two bags of oats, roughly 2 kilos each. I may have to move one of the boxes in my 1 kg containers and mix em up with my usual nut and dried fruits.
Happy as a bee now so I may have to stock up my nuts and fruits next.
I guess they will update the tracking info later when they get back to the office. It would be more fancy if it gets updated the minute they deliver. I've signed some electronic machines before for bank cards and I figured it might automatically update somewhere but not with the regular goods.
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