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I love shopping. I fully understand it doesn't always have to involve a purchase, but an afternoon's pleasure can be gained from just wandering from shop to shop on the High Street. The advent of online shopping has brought me even greater satisfaction, curled up on the sofa with tablet or laptop, to browse and select what I desire. It's pure heaven.  However after one has clicked on the Pay Now button, it can be a descent into hell.  My partner and I have just been furnishing a flat in Birmingham How brilliant that we can sit and select items of furniture we want for our new abode while sitting on our sofa at home. Alas, the whole process has been a nightmare. Not because of the quality of the brands we have dealt with, or with the goods we have bought, but with the atrocious unpredictable passage of getting the goods from shop into our flat.  Most websites, whether it's monoliths like Amazon, or small boutique design firms, don't inform you who the cour