despite the words sounding very different, CTT, the portuguese government post company, and my repeated attempts to redirect the delivery to PONTA DELGADA they sent it to PONTA DO SOL

even in my bad pronunciation i find it difficult to believe that their common first word really makes them that easy to confuse

according to the tracking, it's still on the other side of the island

ah the blackview bv4800 saga how i wish you would end

part of the problem now is that amazon doesn't allow delivery notes in the fucking shipment address

and they don't let me ask to have it shipped to a service center

i only have to be like 500m away and it's too bad, goes back to the DC for the next day, and i'm 100m away from my "front door" up on the road already as it is

anyway... i'm going to try and make some sense out of this today, will be heading out to the service center to ask if there is some way for me to just always have stuff going to my address go there

postal services in the communist evropeyski sosialistichni soyuz are so bad, seriously, wtf 

 i think part of the problem is that ponta delgada is actually an island in portugual as well, when i select it to redirect it's right at the bottom of the list... the poor dears probably are always under the gun because the company pays them shit wages and doesn't employ enough staff... as it is, the post office in sao vicente isn't even open half the week and even in that other half it's only open half the day because the staff person has lunch and then goes to another location in Seixal

annndd there's no competition, of course... well, very occasionally i think someone else ships amazon stuff, and tehy have been pretty reliable but yeah. lol... now i live deep into the back of an area on a caminho i just don't think i should get stuff delivered to this address... gonna really need to figure this shit out 

 That is one issue with most rural and out of the way areas. 

I really hope you can get it straightened out soon.  

 haha nah, this is portugal, everywhere in portugal, CTT is a clown show, and customs charges like wounded bulls

i finally got it also, now booted into windows to do all the voodoo to root it

the girl who was there when i arrived couldn't find it but the dude who also works there came back from wherever he was and recognised me and went straight to it...

it's a nice little thing... it's not going to have any network capability without being plugged in (i might try to get reverse tethering to work, that actually is also possible when rooted) the camera is maybe not quite as fancy but it has a wrist strap loop, it's shock proof and waterproof so it will suit my adventuring much better, even if the photographs are not quite as fancy... 13MP is good enough for me tho, and its "HDR" is reasonable... not quite as nice at macro as my old... what was it... alcatel pixi 4... cheap as piss i bought in 2014 but it took amazing macro photos 

 I'm glad you finally got it! 

Rooting phones is often a bit fun. Enjoy!