How typical is this?! The one year that I'm finally on the ball, ahead of the game and have all my Christmas presents bought or ordered by the very beginning of December, the postal people have to go and ruin it all!

All my efforts of finding a nice money-saving way of still getting my loved ones decent gifts might now be somewhat wasted, as two of my presents have somehow gotten 'lost' on their merry way to my door.

This whole 'lost in the post' routine is not going to fly on Christmas morning when I don't have presents to give some of my family members, so this is just not good enough!

The r4i I ordered for my brother and the book I bought for my Dad were both paid for weeks ago and were apparently sent out within a couple of days, now the companies are having to send replacements!

Photo: Ashley R. Good (Flickr)