Who's able to delay an SMS for 4 days?

Only Trenitalia could manage to accomplish this amazing feat! I guess that they have the gift of delay. They are like the Midas of delay, everything they touch, or get involved with gets inevitably delayed.

I had bought a train ticket online and during the check out the user has the chance to insert a cell phone number to where Trenitalia sends a transaction confirmation SMS. It contains not only the seat number but also a code to be given to the ticket inspector.

I was traveling the day after. Only when I arrived to the train I realized that I didn't had received the confirmation SMS. Fortunately I had writen my seat and the code on the back of a supermarket receipt otherwise I would be in real trouble.

I had completely forgot this episode, when four days later it bounced back to me in the form of "beep-beep beep-beep". I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the SMS I had just received... It was the Trenitalia message informing me that my train to Rome was leaving three days ago at 9:45 and that they had assigned me seat 34 on car 12.