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| | Where IS my NEW Baby?!
03/26/07
Ok ... so ... a few of you may have noticed that ... - I have a daughter who lives in Portland.
- She's seriously thinking of popping down to Dallas, TX for a long weekend in April.
- Nothing hugely urgent -- just her haircut is six months old and there's this once-a-year nationally-top-ranked art show ...
- This kind of chatter use to be reserved for the likes of the Kennedys and the Rockefellers.
So obviously air travel has come a very long way. VERY! We live in a new world. Really.So but for some reason ... UPS wants us all to believe that they still actually put all of those "ground shipments" into their little brown trucks and actually Drive them across country ... from say ... Colorado to New York. Personally I don't believe this. I have proof, too.  This is a screen shot of the tracking of my NEW computer from Colorado to New York. First, as we've established ... I don't think it's in a little brown truck somewhere. Nope. Because if it were ... they could at least have the decency to stop and scan the box and transmit it's new location ... like ... is it safe to assume that it's made it across the flatlands of Kansas ... or did the driver take the scenic route through the southern edge of Kansas? No. They can't stop and scan the package and let me know if it could be in, oh say, Indiana, visiting my friend Laurie. No. They can't tell me any of this. Why? (well aside from the very high unlikelihood that my friend would know a UPS driver who would know that she's my friend and that that box is my new baby ...) ... They cannot scan the box and give me a location update because the box is not in a truck. Shipping it by truck from Colorado to New York would be hugely inefficient. It would NOT fit into the new world. So ... you see ... obviously ... there's a plot. - It boarded an airplane.
- My new computer is sitting down in NYC right this minute in a warehouse.
- They can't scan it and provide me with an update on it's current location because then I would expect delivery today.
- This is all about their convenience.
Look, don't expect logical from me. They aren't telling me where my new baby is. For four six days all I've known is that it's left it's originating city in Colorado ... well really do I even know that? What exactly does "Departure Scan" really mean? My nerves are wearing thin. | | | (3) |  | Last comment made by Mike ~ 03/27/07 |
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| Comments | | | | Yeah, maybe I can talk extravagant but i bet the Kennedys and the Rockefellers didn't think of a few dozen different ways to spend that money as soon as the statement came out of their mouths. I still want to go, i think the next week or two will determine if i go or not. We're talking to a lender about a house - eek!
Okay, about your shipping comment - LOL! I've heard similar rants on another message board. I think you're right, they don't drive all the way from CO to NY. But the thing is when you pick ground you're saying "I'm alright, i can't wait, you more "urgent" packages get delivered first." This comment didn't sit well with the irate guy on the message board either - he was really pissed that his package was sitting in a warehouse for three days not being delivered.
~ Fine. Whatever, I knew someone would go all logical on me. Who's child are you?!
Technically, I don't have a problem with it sitting still. I just want to know WHERE it is. That's what tracking is suppose to do these days ... the way I see it. I mean with all technicalities in place ... it could still be sitting in Colorado. ... I just want to know that someone is checking up on it and Knows where my baby is! I want to know that it's not alone and cold and un-cared for ... or worse.
Personally, I hope you go home for a visit. ~pam | | |
| | | I hate waiting for things anyway. That sort of stuff drives me bonkers, I'll admit.
~Thanks for the sympathy Sari. ... And nothing has changed this morning either ... sigh ... ~pam | | |
| | | I think mailing companies put up a tracking features to ease the anxiety of its customers, telling them that their packages are moving. I don't know about you. Personally, I think it is a big mistake. When I track items online, I get more anxious.
Mike
http://somethingaboutparenting.typepad.com/
~Thanks for the empathy ... it is definitely the response it's generating in me because they really aren't tracking it move across the nation for me.
Well ... as to their motives ... that's what we want to think ... that they're trying to help us out. But no ... the real reason is so that their call center doesn't have to be populated with as many people. And yes, that is the voice of experience :~) pam
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