so close, and yet
Sun Mar 17 10:27:21 EDT 2013
It certainly must occur to shipping companies that letting customers see that their packages are spending the weekend close to their homes is annoying and frustrating. The bike parts I ordered traveled from Niagra Falls, NY to Laurel MD, 402 miles (647km) in 18.5 hours. They got there 13:25 Friday, but they're not getting to me until Monday; they will take 3 days to go the last 23 miles (37km). (Last weekend, at the new data center, I was only 5 miles (8km) from Laurel.) Factor in that weekends are good times to do maintenance, and Saturday delivery would have been very useful. If the order I placed Tuesday night had shipped Wednesday night instead of Thursday night, it probably would have been here Friday.
Add that the UPS tracking page shows it leaving Laurel about 1:30 Saturday morning, plenty of time to get to Alexandria, VA for sorting and local delivery Saturday. But that's the last entry.
Monday 08:46
Tracking shows 48+ hours to go from Laurel, MD to Alexandria, VA (the next town south of me), and out on the road for delivery shortly after 6am today. We're getting snow/rain/sleet wintery mix, expecting no accumulation, and turning to rain this afternoon. Rain tonight and tomorrow, so if I want to work on the bike I'll have to bring it in the house. Getting it through the door is always a challenge, and the clutter has worsened to the point that there's no where for it to go. (4 cages of rats and mice took a lot of the open space.)
Monday 21:04
The package arrived today, as scheduled. It is cold (39°F/4°C) and raining. It would have been a miserable night to bike home, and I won't be working on the bike tonight either.
Since no one would want to be riding a bike today, I suppose it's not so important that the repairs couldn't be done over the weekend. But trying to do them tomorrow to possibly ride Thursday will still be a stretch. (Wednesday is choir rehearsal - no time, and no cycling.)
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It certainly must occur to shipping companies that letting customers see that their packages are spending the weekend close to their homes is annoying and frustrating. The bike parts I ordered traveled from Niagra Falls, NY to Laurel MD, 402 miles (647km) in 18.5 hours. They got there 13:25 Friday, but they're not getting to me until Monday; they will take 3 days to go the last 23 miles (37km). (Last weekend, at the new data center, I was only 5 miles (8km) from Laurel.) Factor in that weekends are good times to do maintenance, and Saturday delivery would have been very useful. If the order I placed Tuesday night had shipped Wednesday night instead of Thursday night, it probably would have been here Friday.
Add that the UPS tracking page shows it leaving Laurel about 1:30 Saturday morning, plenty of time to get to Alexandria, VA for sorting and local delivery Saturday. But that's the last entry.
Monday 08:46
Tracking shows 48+ hours to go from Laurel, MD to Alexandria, VA (the next town south of me), and out on the road for delivery shortly after 6am today. We're getting snow/rain/sleet wintery mix, expecting no accumulation, and turning to rain this afternoon. Rain tonight and tomorrow, so if I want to work on the bike I'll have to bring it in the house. Getting it through the door is always a challenge, and the clutter has worsened to the point that there's no where for it to go. (4 cages of rats and mice took a lot of the open space.)
Monday 21:04
The package arrived today, as scheduled. It is cold (39°F/4°C) and raining. It would have been a miserable night to bike home, and I won't be working on the bike tonight either.
Since no one would want to be riding a bike today, I suppose it's not so important that the repairs couldn't be done over the weekend. But trying to do them tomorrow to possibly ride Thursday will still be a stretch. (Wednesday is choir rehearsal - no time, and no cycling.)
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/587138.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]