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I had amazing sid card story with one provider, where they simply failed to send it upon registration.

For a month and a half I wrote to their alive and embodied customer service agent once every 5 days explaining the situation. Each and every time they promised to resend it to me anew to the same or even to a different address. The place I live in never loses a single letter in a post system and delivers most of them withing three days.

After a month and a half and a threat to get customer authority on their corporate ass, the mail started arriving. All of it. Like 5 different sim cards.

I still wonder where exactly they been all this time.



They stopped paying their outsourced SIM Card burning and shipping vendor. This isn’t a state in their support database, which dutifully queued up requests as-if everything is fine. Eventually they paid their vendor and the requests got popped off the queue.


Based on my experience with corporate accounting, this is all too likely.


That sounds pretty believable. I would imagine somebody in customer support would have noticed it sooner than a month and a half if all of the customers weren’t getting sim cards.


Or they were out of stock of a component, but same idea.


for sim cards? thats like running out of dirt.


Sure, but any supply that is consumed can be exhausted locally, including dirt.

Maybe the restock was in the .0006% of containers that fall off ships yearly! Who knows.

I’m not even arguing that this is what happened here; just that a lifetime in ops and logistics has taught me there is a steady, non-zero failure rate.


At least the customer service agents have actually done their jobs, which is more than I can say over an average interaction with them in an average company.




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