soon there'll be more Rivers of London for me

My copy of Broken Homes, the fourth in the Rivers of London series, is in the mail, even though I thought it was only coming out in a few days (also, some of Amazon's distribution warehouses in Germany are striking, so I wasn't sure whether my order would be affected). So I will have it earlier than I thought. Well, if the package is delivered properly.

I used to just have them deliver my packages to one of the automated machines, because the delivery people always hate coming up five flights of stairs and thus pretend I'm not home, even if I am, and my packages end up somewhere misplaced in the wild among half a dozen stores, the post office or neighbors I then can't reach. With the machine I'd have to fetch the package, but at least it was a sure thing. However they "improved" their service in that they made it more secure by demanding that you don't just receive an email and then authenticate yourself for the machine with a delivery card and PIN, but get a unique code on a cell phone via SMS. They won't send those via email, so if you don't own a cell phone you can't use that service anymore. So I'm back at the mercy of delivery people.

But, new Rivers of London!

yay!

Broken Homes already arrived today! Of course the delivery person didn't ring, even though I was home, seeing how the notification was already downstairs when I left at noon. Of course the note wasn't addressed to my name either, so I only found out that it was actually my package once the other had checked, found that it wasn't their package and corrected the notification, so I only found out when I came back this evening. Thankfully the store they dumped it at was still open at least. Sometimes I seriously wonder whether/how DHL tests for literacy before employing people.

However, this evening I will spend watching Pacific Rim, rather than start reading.