There's good news/bad news on the new MacBook Air I ordered July 23. The good news was that it shipped on the 29th with expected delivery by Aug 9- an improvement over the estimate of Aug 10 ~ Aug 19 when I ordered. Even better, it cleared US customs this morning (it was shipped from China), and UPS estimates delivery by tomorrow.


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A few weeks ago I ordered a package on Amazon. I knew the delivery was risky as soon as I saw the shipper sending it via UPS. UPS has at best a 50% success rate delivering to my address.


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Finally. Finally today UPS, aka FuckUPS, delivered. Though it took me taping a note like this up on my front door:

I AM HOME.
PLEASE KNOCK!...And keeping an ear cocked to the window all morning long to listen for the sound of the UPS truck driving up to the end of the terrace ( Read more... )

The ongoing saga with Verizon Home Internet is still not resolved. The problem now has shifted to UPS. After spending hours on the phone with Verizon last week Monday/Tuesday, they decided to ship me a new wireless gateway. To their credit they shipped it fast, on Wednesday, and via 2nd day air, so it was supposed to arrive on Friday. Supposed to. ( Read more... )

There have been a few articles in the news lately about trouble with Amazon Delivery. Following a FedEx decision to stop doing business with Amazon (see, e.g., WSJ article, 17 Sep 2019) over competition and prices Amazon has scrambled to further build out its own delivery service. They're doing that not by building a delivery organization in-house ( Read more... )

Back at our hotel in Seattle - Sun, 7 Oct 2018, 1:30pm.

After our Seattle Underground tour this morning we walked around the Pioneer Square neighborhood a bit more. As I noted previously, the namesake Pioneer Square park is ironically not a place worth spending time at unless you're a homeless vagrant, but there are a number of interesting places ( Read more... )

SInce sometime last year the screen door to our bedroom balcony has been fraying. One of the edges is pulling loose from the frame.


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Goddammit. UPS fucked up a delivery again. Once again the driver left a "Sorry we missed you..." note on my front door without ringing the doorbell or knocking on the door. I would know, because I've been home, working in my home office, all afternoon. Sadly this has happened to me beforeI called UPS Customer Service this afternoon but got no ( Read more... )

Back in June I expressed my frustration with UPS delivery. I waited at home all day for a signature-required delivery (it was nearly $1000 of camera lenses). Late in the afternoon the driver snuck up to the house and tagged a "Sorry you weren't home" note on my door without so much as ringing the doorbell or knocking. I heard his truck driving away ( Read more... )

A few days ago I ordered some camera lenses online. They almost didn't come today via UPS ( Read more... )