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[Poll #273830]
Apr. 5th, 2004
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Apr. 5th, 2004 02:39 pmArgh! UPS can bite my ass.
My beloved Freaks and Geeks box set is sitting out there waiting for me. Sadly, it's being delivered by UPS, which means that someone has to be home to receive the package. If I'd realized this...well, I probably wouldn't have done anything different, but it wouldn't have been so annoying when I got home on Thursday to find that they'd attempted to deliver it but no one was there.
So, second delivery attempt was scheduled for Friday, while I'm at work (of course). I couldn't do anything about that, but I called UPS to arrange to pick it up instead. The pick-up location is extraordinarily far away. I got a brilliant idea, and arranged to have it delivered to work, to the courier desk. Then they tell me there are taxes due, which they didn't mention on the delivery notice, where they had nice little boxes that supposedly would have allowed me to authorized them to just leave the package (which I would have done, but I'm in an apartment building, which makes it too difficult). They suggest I leave a cheque at the courier desk. Fine. I get home on Friday, and they've attempted to deliver the package anyway. Second try, down the drain.
Today, I go down to the courier desk, where I discover that contrary to popular belief, UPS does not deliver to the courier desk, but to shipping and receiving. Why, I don't know. So I go down to S&R, where the scary man says no, I can't leave a cheque, and no, there is nothing else I can do other than hope that I'm at my desk when the package arrives so that I can run down and hand over my cheque, assuming that they will even take my cheque, which shipperdude seems to think is highly unlikely.
And if I'm not at my desk? That'll be the third attempt at delivery, and it'll go out to the pick-up location wayyyy far away. And hopefully won't get sent back to the States, because that would be more pain than I need. As it is, this is one of those times I really wish I had a car.
My beloved Freaks and Geeks box set is sitting out there waiting for me. Sadly, it's being delivered by UPS, which means that someone has to be home to receive the package. If I'd realized this...well, I probably wouldn't have done anything different, but it wouldn't have been so annoying when I got home on Thursday to find that they'd attempted to deliver it but no one was there.
So, second delivery attempt was scheduled for Friday, while I'm at work (of course). I couldn't do anything about that, but I called UPS to arrange to pick it up instead. The pick-up location is extraordinarily far away. I got a brilliant idea, and arranged to have it delivered to work, to the courier desk. Then they tell me there are taxes due, which they didn't mention on the delivery notice, where they had nice little boxes that supposedly would have allowed me to authorized them to just leave the package (which I would have done, but I'm in an apartment building, which makes it too difficult). They suggest I leave a cheque at the courier desk. Fine. I get home on Friday, and they've attempted to deliver the package anyway. Second try, down the drain.
Today, I go down to the courier desk, where I discover that contrary to popular belief, UPS does not deliver to the courier desk, but to shipping and receiving. Why, I don't know. So I go down to S&R, where the scary man says no, I can't leave a cheque, and no, there is nothing else I can do other than hope that I'm at my desk when the package arrives so that I can run down and hand over my cheque, assuming that they will even take my cheque, which shipperdude seems to think is highly unlikely.
And if I'm not at my desk? That'll be the third attempt at delivery, and it'll go out to the pick-up location wayyyy far away. And hopefully won't get sent back to the States, because that would be more pain than I need. As it is, this is one of those times I really wish I had a car.