I HATE idiotic shipping logistics!
I bought two cable adapters from Apple Monday night. They're basically unattainable locally, and a lot of their stuff doesn't get discounted, thus it's easiest just to go direct through their app. Plus, free two-day shipping.
And that last part is important to this story. Free two-day shipping. From Southern California to Southern New Mexico, a distance of less than 900 miles.
We've had a winter storm developing for the last couple of days and it decided to cut loose last night and today. Today I checked for the delivery of my cables, and they are in MASSACHUSETTS.
THEY WENT FROM ONE SIDE OF THE COUNTRY, COMPLETELY SKIPPING MY STATE, TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY.
GAAAAAH!
To quote Colonel Potter, What in the ever loving Sam Hill are these people doing? Their main hub is, if I recall correctly, Nashville. So it went from California then was shunted up to the northeast? It'll now have to go back to Nashville to be sent back out west to Albuquerque before it goes down to Las Cruces then over to me.
And if they'd sent it two-day Post Office, it'd probably be sitting in my box, waiting for me to pick it up now. I will be shocked if I get it Friday. Perhaps Saturday. More likely Monday.
Fortunately my need for the adapters is not critical. It's important, but not critical.
STILL!
GAAAAAH!
I guess what really gets me is you have no choice how things get shipped. Everyone seems to use one shipper: USPS, UPS, or FedEx. At least in the USA. You can't tell them 'Please ship it USPS'. Because that would be my preference! FedEx is very unreliable up here and they don't like sending their people out in the snow - heaven forfend that they equip their people with snow tires or chains or training for snow weather, oh, and this is UPS that's responsible for this debacle.
Some day I'll have my adapters.
And that last part is important to this story. Free two-day shipping. From Southern California to Southern New Mexico, a distance of less than 900 miles.
We've had a winter storm developing for the last couple of days and it decided to cut loose last night and today. Today I checked for the delivery of my cables, and they are in MASSACHUSETTS.
THEY WENT FROM ONE SIDE OF THE COUNTRY, COMPLETELY SKIPPING MY STATE, TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY.
GAAAAAH!
To quote Colonel Potter, What in the ever loving Sam Hill are these people doing? Their main hub is, if I recall correctly, Nashville. So it went from California then was shunted up to the northeast? It'll now have to go back to Nashville to be sent back out west to Albuquerque before it goes down to Las Cruces then over to me.
And if they'd sent it two-day Post Office, it'd probably be sitting in my box, waiting for me to pick it up now. I will be shocked if I get it Friday. Perhaps Saturday. More likely Monday.
Fortunately my need for the adapters is not critical. It's important, but not critical.
STILL!
GAAAAAH!
I guess what really gets me is you have no choice how things get shipped. Everyone seems to use one shipper: USPS, UPS, or FedEx. At least in the USA. You can't tell them 'Please ship it USPS'. Because that would be my preference! FedEx is very unreliable up here and they don't like sending their people out in the snow - heaven forfend that they equip their people with snow tires or chains or training for snow weather, oh, and this is UPS that's responsible for this debacle.
Some day I'll have my adapters.