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rfunk at 12:03pm on 13/03/2008
rfunk at 12:03pm on 13/03/2008I recently had some computer problems that climaxed in the case sounding an alarm like a European ambulance. I feared that I'd have to replace the motherboard and therefore pretty much everything else inside the case (I liken it to a head-and-spine transplant), but luckily some testing indicated that I had a bad memory module. Yesterday morning I ordered more memory from Crucial, with 2-day Fedex shipping.
This morning I was pleased to see on the Fedex tracker that my order was already in Columbus. Wow, I might get this today!
Nope. It soon went into a holding pattern: "At local FedEx facility / COLUMBUS, OH / Package not due for delivery"
In other words, they could deliver it today, but they don't have to until tomorrow, so why bother being early?
(I don't blame them for that and can think of various business reasons for it, but still.....)
At least the sun is out and the snow is melting. I can wait.
This morning I was pleased to see on the Fedex tracker that my order was already in Columbus. Wow, I might get this today!
Nope. It soon went into a holding pattern: "At local FedEx facility / COLUMBUS, OH / Package not due for delivery"
In other words, they could deliver it today, but they don't have to until tomorrow, so why bother being early?
(I don't blame them for that and can think of various business reasons for it, but still.....)
At least the sun is out and the snow is melting. I can wait.
patient
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I've had the high and lows of shipping this week. Ordered something from Amazon early Tuesday morning with the free shipping and part of the order arrived Wednesday afternoon!
Then an important package for work I ordered last Friday to be shipped next-day... didn't show up... because part of the order was out of stock for three weeks and for some reason they didn't think that we requested it at the expensive overnight shipping we'd want to wait until the end of the month. :P
Hope it's there today!