December 31, 2005
USPS Still Sucks
My brother is unlucky enough to have a birthday on Dec 23, which means he typically gets presents combined for his Christmas and Birthday. It hasn’t been as bad as he’s gotten older, but I’m sure that fact drastically affected his presents as a child. This year, though, since we did our Christmas presents in November, everyone had a good chance to recover and separate the two occasions.
In typical fashion, I started shopping for his presents on about Dec 21. I live in Georgia, he lives in Texas, so it was pretty apparent something wouldn’t actually arrive by his birthday. So I got him an Amazon.com
Amazon.com shipped it out on Dec 21. The USPS web site says it is “In transit”. But here’s the kicker. It says it was shipped from Dallas, TX. My brother lives in Corpus Christi, TX. Now, I’m no expert on Texas geography, and I know (from driving across it) that it’s a very large state. But it does not take a week to ship something from Dallas to Corpus Christi. I would hope that it’s already arrived, but at this point I have no idea whether the computer system at USPS is down, or whether the package never made it. I’m going to have to call my brother today and check up on it, as I simply can’t trust the USPS to give me good information. Ugh…
In other news, it appears he’s getting a promotion. Effective tomorrow, Capt Warbiany becomes Major Warbiany. Congrats!
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Brad -
I ordered an some accessories for my iPod the same day from Amazon and they tranisted from AZ to CA over the Christmas weekend via USPS, so this might be worth looking into soon.
(Note: I did not trust said iPod to the USPS. Ordered it on the 21st and recieved it via UPS on the 23rd.)
You should use FedEx there private so they are actually decent
Hope he gets it soon, Brad…
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