Hey Strega - did you just get home? You often seem to show up here around 4:45 Central (just before I usually go home).

Heh, yes. Though it's also because I've been slacking off all week and leaving early; usually I stay till 6. And, um, post from the office instead.

Also, HA! I just got one of those calls where the girl said her name and then waited expectantly. Had to hold in the laughter.

BWAH!!

And this conversation reminds me that I need to call UPS and tell them how much they suck. Sigh. Today they returned some stuff I ordered even though 1) according to their own schedule, I should have been able to pick it up today, and 2) I never got the card telling me I had to pick up anything, so it's lucky I happened to check the tracking #. And the usual 3) why the hell won't they just leave stuff at my door instead of making me sign for it?

Speaking of sucking, why is it that there seems to be such a long lagtime between order and delivery at Amazon these days? The last three orders have shipped two to three WEEKS after I made the order. They used to be so quick.

Isn't there a checkbox on the card (not that they left you one) that you can mark to get them to leave it without a sig. Also, why is the time on the card (not that they left you one) usually a time at which you or your neighbors were at home.

In sum, they suck.

Oh, I got to go by the DHL guy's house when I went back home. Seriously strange guy.

That reminds me. USPS has had Bob's gift located in Jersey City since Friday. I CAN SEE JERSEY CITY FROM HERE. Amazon refuses to understand that this is three days later that "3-5 business days" and wants me to wait a few days to see if it gets magically delivered, even though USPS somehow misrouted it but cannot seem to reroute it. Their tracking sucks. AUGH!

Their tracking sucks. AUGH!

Oh yeah. USPS tracking seems to be mostly, "Uhm, it left."

I had ordered some clothes last month that I ended up using the tracking number to see where the hell they were. USPS had delivered them from Virginia to Bolingbrook, IL, but then they sat in the Bolingbrook post office for six days before being sent to me. I have no idea what the hold-up was.

Oh yeah. USPS tracking seems to be mostly, "Uhm, it left."

Mine was tracked by:

Feb 12: we heard you had a package!
Feb. 16: the package is in New Jersey!
Feb. 20: this package didn't cross the fricking river in the last four days, we don't know why, but we're trying.
Feb 22: Oh, that's right. NOTHING!

Why even have tracking if you can't tell me shit.

Actually, this is a cut and paste from the tracking website:

Mis-Shipped, February 20, 2007, 10:19 am
Enroute, February 16, 2007, 7:03 pm, JERSEY CITY, NJ 07097
Electronic Shipping Info Received, February 12, 2007

Mis-fucking-shipped. OK, now I'm getting pissed off again. Time to write an angry email to Amazon. No matter what Joel said, their excuses were complete bullshit not at all addressed to the problem of this package being MISSING!

Every now and then, a package from our UK office will get missorted and sent through the import office in KY instead of NJ, which is at least a 1 day delay. Somehow, our clients always assume that saying "but I needed it TODAY!!!!" will magically allow us to retrieve packages from a UPS warehouse halfway across the country using only the power of our minds. Because, you know, we totally sent it there on purpose to fuck with them.