InfoNotice Ninjas - DPChallenge Forums

01/14/2005 06:55:20 PM · #1

UPS you're breaking my balls. I wait around for a freakin' delivery from you all day. I sit not more than 5 feet from the door with only a window and blinds separating. I keep the TV low and I don't wear my headphones so that there will be no way I can miss you. I anxiously track my package online as if a notice will appear that you'll be here in 15 minutes. What happens? I see a note in the Activity section that states, "THE RECEIVER WAS UNAVAILABLE TO SIGN ON THE 1ST DELIVERY ATTEMPT. A 2ND DELIVERY ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE" The new scheduled delivery date is the 18th. WTH, this has to be some mistake. I check the time. It was 5 minutes ago. I haven't gotten out of my chair for over an hour. The window is even open about an inch and the door is within a foot of it. I phone UPS and head for the door. Yep there is a notice stuck to my door. The InfoNotice Ninja has struck again.

This isn't the first time such a senario has played out. I haven't had package arrive on time in years. If not for UPS sending their sneaky ninjas then for UPS telling me 3 days in the real world have nothing to do with 3 days in theirs.

From now on I'm placing trip wires on my porch to drop tin cans full of rocks from the roof. Maybe I'll lay out a feild of those poppers the kids are always playing with. I'll see how good the UPS InfoNotice Ninjas really are.

01/14/2005 08:11:24 PM · #2

Yeah.. they said they'd be back at 4:30. What time is it now??? BOOOOOO UPS BOOOOOOO

frychikn

Olympus C-5050Z

01/14/2005 08:17:38 PM · #3

This reminds me of an incident, not with UPS but with the post office about 14 years ago. My father, in Florida, would send me a big box of oranges every year for Christmas. Some years, due to the weather I guess, the oranges weren't ready to be picked until sometime in January. This was one of those years.

I lived on the second floor of a walk-up in Chicago, and this January day featured sub-zero temperatures all day. I stayed at home and telecommuted that day because of the dangerously cold weather. Around 11:00 AM I heard my doorbell ring. I went to my closet to grab a jacket (the front stairway of my building was outside of the heated zone), and walked down the stairs to the front door. It took me about a minute. When I opened the front door nobody was there, just a big box of oranges from Florida with 'Perishable' warnings all over the box exposed to a -10 temperature. Luckily for me I had stayed home that day.
Had I gone to the office I would have arrived home around 5:30 PM and my oranges would have been either stolen or ruined.

I was really pissed-off but I didn't bother calling the post office because I knew it would have been a waste of time.

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/14/2005 08:34:57 PM · #4

I really liked it when I lived in Southern California. I knew the mailman and we had the same UPS guy for 11 years. Sometimes there was a new guy when they brought in reinforcements for Christmas but you could always count on them. Up here in San Francisco nothing seems to work out. It's like a delivery black hole. Well, the opposite maybe. Packages fly out of here but getting in is always screwed up. I sent a letter to my mother. It arrived on the 2nd day. She sends one to me and it shows up in my mailbox on average 5 to 7 days later.

brianlh

Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi

01/14/2005 09:39:48 PM · #5

Semi-unrelated, but semi-related, this reminds me of my recent UPS experience.. not so much about the Ninja, but the fact that they confirmed a delivery date of the 7th, but didn't show up until 7pm.. i didn't even know UPS operated at those hours! I was about to leave when they showed up.. and since it was the FOURTH delivery attempt (I accidentally shipped it to LA when I was in NorCal), they were gonna send it back to Amazon if I wasn't there. sheesh.

01/14/2005 09:44:58 PM · #6

Well I just got the first two of three packages. lol The look on the delivery guys face said it all. He was not pleased with having to come back tonight. I'm glad I called. :)