TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact
The world’s connectivity has brought with it many welcome advances; medicine, restaurant quality food delivered to your hungover little hands and the ability to purchase a piece of clothing and have it arrive anywhere in Australia the next day.
Yes, this truly is a time to be alive.
However, as Bettina Smith is today revealing, no matter how streamline technology has made our lives, one thing we can’t escape is our laziness.
Bettina proved this today after yet another week passed without her making so much as an attempt to go to the post office and collect a parcel she paid $27.50 to have express posted three weeks ago.
“I don’t know what’s wrong with me!”
“Well, actually, it’s probably not me who is the problem” the millennial deflected, sticking true to the stereotype.
“How am I supposed to go to the post office near my house during business hours when I work in the city all week?”
“It’s a pretty poorly constructed system if you ask me.”
When our reporter suggested Bettina could go to the post office on Saturday morning between 9:00am and 1:00pm, she was nearly laughed out of the interview.
“Mmm ok, hun, not all of us go to bed at 9:30 on a Friday night. As if I could even get off the couch before 3:00pm on a Saturday”
“Maybe I’ll pay an Airtasker to go get it for me” she added.
Slightly wounded from being insulted about her Friday night bedtime, our reporter decided to withhold information around the post office’s after-hours collection window – ‘good luck getting that parcel before it’s sent back to the warehouse’ the reporter said.
More to come.
