| | 1 | = Packages Hate Me = |
| | 2 | I am a package repellant. |
| | 3 | |
| | 4 | In the most recent occurance, I had a hard drive die last Sunday. I set up an |
| | 5 | advance RMA with Western Digital, and they shipped a replacement second-day |
| | 6 | UPS. I watched the tracking information on Thursday, and nothing changed all |
| | 7 | day, until after the campus mail room closed, UPS attempted to deliver my |
| | 8 | package and failed. |
| | 9 | |
| | 10 | This was no big deal, but the sooner I got the hard drive, the |
| | 11 | sooner I could start a potentially long recovery process. I called UPS to see |
| | 12 | if I could pick up the package from the sorting facility. I was told it would |
| | 13 | not be possible until the next morning, but if I did not get it from the mail |
| | 14 | room that morning, it would probably have to wait until Monday, so I asked |
| | 15 | them to hold the package. I stopped by the next morning and waited about half |
| | 16 | an hour only to be told that the package went back out on the truck. Doh! |
| | 17 | Now it was doomed to be delivered while I was at work and rest in the mail |
| | 18 | room until it next opened on Monday. I asked if I could pick it up before |
| | 19 | they close in the evening, after I got out of work. "Sure!," they said. Sure |
| | 20 | enough, it was delivered before I got out of work. |
| | 21 | |
| | 22 | The package was in the campus mail room the following morning. Second-day |
| | 23 | shipping became sixth-day. |
