We order parts from all over New Zealand and overseas to do our repairs and refurbishments. Some of the companies that we deal with just send the stuff and assume that we will get it. And I am more than happy with that. Other companies send us a whole stack of automated emails telling us the progress of the shipment.

We ordered some electrical switches from Mitre 10. (Interestingly they are cheaper to buy from Mitre 10 than from our electrical wholesaler.  But that is a story for another day.) We got SIX emails about the parcel from three different sources!

We don’t need ANY emails about the parcel delivery!  We will just assume it will turn up and if it doesn’t we will then look up the tracking information.  It is bad enough that our email inboxes are flooded with spam and scam messages!