Skipped a huge backlog, sorry.

Came back from my trip to find my mom had cleaned/decluttered my room. This is huge. I was trying to psych myself up for doing it when I returned. It's such a load off my mind to have it done. Yay, Mom!

Thanks to JZ for making time to see me while I was bopping around the SF Bay Area. It was a pleasure seeing you and catching up on things JZ-like.

Sox, I just called the number on the delivery ticket and went from there with my delivery complaint. They filed it for me just fine.

Amych, I'm glad it worked out relatively okay.

MOVE SHRIFT.

Devi has repurposed my work laptop as a catwarmer. I guess this means I can't open it and check up on stuff any more tonight.

Cats are good for my sanity.

Sox, I just called the number on the delivery ticket and went from there with my delivery complaint. They filed it for me just fine.

cool, I'll try the number from the website, tomorrow.

Devi has repurposed my work laptop as a catwarmer.

as is right and proper.

The U.S. post office made major trouble in Delivering to a post office box in South Berkeley. Sent priority, lost, then found and delivered late with the replacement.

I looked all over their website for a "are we delivering oddly?" customer service link. Cannot find one.

When I had a fit over UPS a while back, I tried phone calls and emails and got brushed off both ways. I was going to send an epic letter to the corporate office but it was such a complicated story that I gave up and sent much shorter messages to Amazon & a few other companies saying "Listen, you're swell, but since you ship via UPS I can't shop on your site, because it's just not worth the frustration. Just thought you should know in case I'm not the only one."

I've also sent grateful emails to companies that ship via Fed Ex or USPS, and a couple of times I've said things like, "I really want to give you my money, and I would be happy to pay the difference in cost if you could ship this ANY OTHER WAY."

"Listen, you're swell, but since you ship via UPS I can't shop on your site, because it's just not worth the frustration. Just thought you should know in case I'm not the only one."

I have a friend who was told by someone in UPS customer service that basically UPS didn't care about keeping the deliverees happy, they just care about keeping their big corporate clients happy, and she's been leaving pretty similar messages ever since.

Oh look, UPS complaining, let me join! Today, the ninja delivery person must have snuck up the stairs to leave a You weren't home! We'll try again tomorrow" note on the door, because Pete was sitting in the living room the whole afternoon. Dammit, I wanted that absinthe delivery, UPS.

UPS left packages, a week late, at my friends house when they'd been asked to hold them because they were out of town. Luckily, I was catsitting and they didn't get stolen (they have a big problem with that being right across from a bus stop.)

I love that my front door is tucked in a funny corner and isn't a big deal if a box is left outside. On the other hand, I've had deliveries where I've been home but they have put a note on my door and then took the box to the office.