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Finding the way
| 题名： | Finding the way |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Steve Gooding |
| 摘要： | One of the fairly new but now commonplace experiences of modern household life has become a ring at the doorbell, meaning that someone has just hopped out of a delivery van and left a parcel or package propped against your front door. Online purchases and home deliveries must surely count as the retail revolution of this century. Aside from grumbling on those occasions when we've been out and found the package has been left with the neighbour that side (who we don't really get on with) rather than this side (perfectly friendly), I haven't thought that much about it, other than when opening the credit card statement, which generally brings a tear to my parsimonious eye. But last week we found ourselves holding a parcel destined for someone else - right house number, wrong street. A relatively easy mistake to make, even in this world of pretty reliable sat-nav journey planners. 'No matter,' I thought, 'the correct street isn't that far away. The dog, always up for a walk, and I will trot round and deliver the package to its rightful owner.' In the rain. I should have guessed that was, itself, a bad omen. Off we set. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Highways |
| 卷： | 91 |
| 期： | 10 |
| 页码： | 10-10 |
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