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I’ve decided I’m going to stop relying to the weather forecast for snow. We’ve had two storms in the past week that “showed up late” (almost 12 hours in both cases) and then amounted to nothing. We were supposed to get snow earlier this week and we got ice, sleet, and freezing rain instead. Today we were supposed to get about 6″ of snow. Now that it’s all said and done, we have a dusting, with an icy crust on top. You’d think with all the fancy computers and predicting technology we have now, they could at least be a little more accurate with what they spew out on the news.
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I’ve been scratching my head since I got this tracking number Wednesday night. I had ordered a new card reader from Amazon.com and paid the $3.99 overnight shipping for Amazon Prime members hoping to receive the package on Friday. Amazon shipped the package Next Day Air Saver from a warehouse about 10 miles from my house. This is where things get strange.
I checked the tracking Thursday morning expecting it to see it in the local sort facility waiting to go out for delivery Friday, but instead, it had been placed on a plane and flown to the UPS hub in Louisville, KY! By Friday morning it had come back to the regional sort facility, but too late to get to my local sort facility to go out today.
Curious about the UPS holiday schedule, I looked it up only to find that as long as my package went out on Wednesday as either international or Next Day Air, it would be delivered on Friday.
Wednesday, Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve
Delivery of air and international packages only. No UPS Ground pickups or deliveries today. Pickup service provided for air and international shipments via UPS On-Call Pickup service, at all UPS Drop Boxes or if prearranged by Tuesday, Dec. 30. (Next Day Air packages picked up today will be delivered on Friday, Jan. 2.)
Friday was originally reflected as the delivery date before it was diverted to Louisville. Friday morning it was showing “On Time” with a delivery date of Monday, January 5th. Oddly enough UPS somehow managed to get the package to my door today. I guess maybe it was just a glitch with their tracking system.
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Just wanted to wish everybody a Happy New Year. What resolutions or goals have you set for yourself for 2009?
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I was looking through the ads in the newspaper yesterday morning and came across one I didn’t expect to see. The ad is for Value City Furniture and was titled “After Christmas Sale – Starts Today!”
Confused, I looked at my watch, and it was indeed only December 21st, 4 days before Christmas. Just to double check, I looked at the back of the ad and it said that sale prices were “in effect from receipt of circular through January 5th, 2009.”
I’m really not sure if the ad came early by accident or if the furniture companies really are getting that ruthless and have begun a new sort of post-Christmas-sale creep.
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I know there are a few people that still subscribe to my feed, so please don’t have a heart attract now that something actually appeared in your feed reader. I’m starting to get back to my online life, one I had for years and one that I so abruptly left three years ago. There will be more to come soon, so please, stay tuned!
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