Postal Service in Crisis

In the throes of post-Glastonbury madness I scoured the interweb searching for our new favourite song, the Radio Slave remix of Paul McCartney's "Temporary Secretary". I ordered it from perfectbeat.com on the 5th of July. With no sign of my moderately expensive single-sided import 12" after a few weeks (to allow for our ever-reliable postal service), I tried contacting them a few times by email/customer support form and eventually resorted to transatlantic phone calls. They promised to send me another copy if they could find one (limited edition of 500), or to credit my card. They don’t appear to have done either, which is why they don’t get a link.

But I woke up this morning to find a rather forlorn package with more postmarks than was strictly necessary, and a large stamp saying