waiting for the courier

one (1) dvd - "class of 1984"
one (1) dvd - "vice squad"

He said, in a caribbean accent, "Now my day is completed, hahaha." I laughed a little too loudly back. (But now I have a digital camera + giant hard-drive!!)

all i want to see is "delivered" show up on the online tracker
that's all, just that and right now. so far 1 of 8
fuck you fedex wtf it all should've arrived 2 days ago

i feel like i've entered some inner realm of shipping - people have been sharing their horror stories

eff these guys

"Where is the woman who said she would come."

UGH. So awful. Recently got up at 8am, took a day off from research, and waited around until 6pm until my package arrived. AND COD TO BOOT.

:(

Ugh, that should be C.O.D. Although a package of COD might me o.k.

this is like 'robyn where is our entire booth and equipment for gigantic trade show' and me being like 'it's there but it's not there and it is 2 days late not b/c of anything we did - i have talked to everyone' also i am 1000s of miles away eesh
so dumb

finally

that was a fun day

how about when they delivered my laptop to the wrong address and someone signed for it?

that was fun

HONOLULU,
HI, US 02/21/2008 11:53 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN

Gradee travels cheap.

and you went and confronted them!

also, lol at this point: 2 of the packages still aren't at the booth space
i am going to yoga

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it was laughs and laughs when fedex left my iMac box sitting out on the wet stoop in plain sight at the house upstairs and then wouldn't even deliver a fucking iPod to my door because I wasn't around to sign for it

i'm waiting for UPS today. killing time playing around with ArcGIS and habitually refreshing the tracking screen on the UPS website.

i missed yoga :( :( but am going to do home yoga

i have a minor rant but wld much rather think/do other things right now

still waiting for UPS. they stop delivering at 7 (2 hours from now).

i wish their trucks had a GPS thingy that we could watch real-time on the website and know where our packages were during the day other than "out for delivery."

no one's ever going to open an out-of-hours delivery service, are they? i've always said whoever did would make "a million dollars". it would probably be more.

i thought this ws a coke thread at first, thankfully for all of us, no. what's a stoop though? a step, a porch? something like that, i imagine.

or something.

oh god, really?

ha

yeah i really don't get that fedex et al not only have huge windows of expected package arrival times but that they don't have 24-hr service! i have all kinds of problems with capitalism (obv) but dammit if i'm gonna work for the system i have a right to criticize all levels of its hypocrisy, incl this one. if taxis and buses are 24-hrs why not these big-time jets in the sky with their name on it couriers

faster bigger stronger until it's all over, right?
i'm just trying to figure out the game here

packaged arrived at 6:45pm. wtf do these drivers do the other 12 hours of their business day?

apparently some dudes in my hood ran an after-hours bike courier business that specialized in delivering munchies and beer to people having parties. flat rate, usually got beerz/smoked up

it is true that delivering a bunch of stupid documents and cogs in the capitalist machine for a lot of stressed out people is kinda less fun than that

FACT

i have thought about reviving this business

also i do realize that fed ex et al have stuff going on 24-7. but uh maybe not enough stuff.
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'business'

i'm glad you finally got yr delivery jbr!

I loathe waiting at home for parcels and wasting whole days off. If you're lucky enough to work somewhere where it's possible to get personal stuff delivered, then that's the way to go. At least there you're sitting about wasting the day anyway.

how about when they delivered my laptop to the wrong address and someone signed for it?
that was fun

This has happened to me (with smaller items, thankfully) a couple of times. Great fun.

A good one my boyfriend has had a couple of times: "we couldn't deliver your item, so for safe keeping we put it in the dustbin near your front door". The bin was on the driveway because it was bin day. Well done couriers.

(Apologies for wacky British words but I feel altogether unconvincing rewriting it with words like "trashcan" and "garbage collection day" or whatever so anyway)

well today i waited in all day for Amazon's so called Express delivery from City Link. Nothing has arrived, I'm pretty peeved but at least Amazon for pretty upfront and gave me my refund quickly enough.

holy shit @ couriers putting things in trash cans!!

waiting for the courier to arrive blows and i knew it blew but now i know that what blows more is bosses freaking at you and thousands of dollars of materials out there on a truck somewhere and deadlines and the impotent pain of being on hold and the hesitation to eventually let it all go and just go eat some fucking lunch

(i think everything's fine now tho. also: work bought lunch!)

Oh yes I know about this pressure. And then the subtext is that if you were more involved/concerned/resourceful, you could somehow force the delivery service to "find" your packages and deliver them immediately.

As far as I can tell it mostly involves screaming at people on the phone until they do what you want. Seems...unappealing.

And then the subtext is that if you were more involved/concerned/resourceful, you could somehow force the delivery service to "find" your packages and deliver them immediately.

very devil wears prada.

Rly? In my experience, this is called "working in an office". u_u

Oh heck am I ever anxious for my new computorb to arrive "before 3 p.m." There is nothing like waiting for a package or for a repair person to make the day d---r------a--g--------

Same here! Except sadly I am not waiting for a computing machine...but there's some kind of package/present from me mum arriving this afternoon.

My computing machine has been dead for a week, the new one will be employed to write a paper on Paradi$e ₤o$t.

I plan on keeping it after completing that task, though.

so the courier delivery i am awaiting tomorrow from a company about twelve miles away has just been sent to a transit hub in the midlands about a hundred miles away, presumably to make the exact return journey overnight

I really don't get why couriers are used so much for important packages because it's more likely you'll not get the package. Your regular delivery person is infinitely more reliable.

I hesitate to order from amazon itself because they or the couriers they use are far harder to contact and more able to get away with poor service. My order was late, I was asked to contact them for further instruction and then DPD said my current order is not in their database. Unless the delivery person is coming back, I think this will be 40 pounds down the drain. And do I want this thing badly enough to order it from someone else?

Weeks ago I walked a fair distance to a DHL building and they needed photo ID, which I've never had. I don't fancy buying one any time soon or finding out however you get a provisional driver's card (is it okay to admit you don't actually want to drive?)
Luckily they re-sent the package at a specified time.

It did actually come, so the 40 pounds was not down the drain.