{"id":186,"date":"2006-03-16T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=186"},"modified":"2006-03-16T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T14:28:00","slug":"jennifer-on-her-way-here-aka-ups-annoys-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2006\/03\/16\/jennifer-on-her-way-here-aka-ups-annoys-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer: on her way here? AKA UPS annoys me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>EDIT:<\/b> <i>Elle m&#8217;attend chez moi!<\/i> Tracking says it was signed for by me despite the fact that I was at work downtown when the delivery occurred. I guess my signed note worked this time!<\/p>\n<p>According to UPS tracking, Jennifer is &#8220;out for delivery&#8221; as of 4:15 AM. However, I do not know if I will get her today. <!--more--> Sometimes UPS will deliver 3 day select packages without a signature; sometimes a signature is required. I have tried to obviate the signature requirement by leaving a signed note on the door that says &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><i>Dear UPS,<br \/>\nGimme my dolly.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>\nan impatient customer.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This strategy works only sporadically. Sometimes I return home to find an attempted delivery notice next to my signed note. I find this incredibly irritating. Why doesn&#8217;t UPS just leave the following &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><i>Dear impatient customer,<br \/>\nWe tried to deliver your dolly when we knew you&#8217;d be at work, but, of course, you were at work, so we stood on the steps for 30 seconds while ringing your doorbell. Then we sprinted off. <\/p>\n<p>You know, you could have gotten your dolly today if you had <b>STAYED HOME,<\/b> but nooooo, you had to go off and do something <b>responsible<\/b> and <b>money-earning<\/b> like work. Loser. <\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t get the dolly you&#8217;ve been waiting for. Now you&#8217;ll have to either bribe your landlords to sign for the dolly [assuming they&#8217;ll be around], set up another delivery time [assuming that we come when we say we will], pick up the dolly at our distribution center [oh wait &#8212; you don&#8217;t have a car, <b>loser!]<\/b> or take time off from work to stake out the mailbox. Good luck.<\/p>\n<p>Excuse us. You weren&#8217;t supposed to hear that maniacal sniggering.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever want to send something less expensively and more rapidly, may we suggest the U.S. postal service?<\/p>\n<p>See you later [maybe]. In the mean time, we&#8217;ll be playing with your dolly. Neener.<\/p>\n<p>Fondly,<br \/>\nUPS.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I chose UPS because the sender said it would be quicker for her to get to the UPS office rather than the post office. Thinking that UPS would be quicker, I neglected to factor in the &#8220;neener game&#8221; that UPS likes to play. Let this be an object lesson never to use UPS again [even if, by some miracle, they feel like delivering Jennifer today].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDIT: Elle m&#8217;attend chez moi! Tracking says it was signed for by me despite the fact that I was at work downtown when the delivery occurred. I guess my signed note worked this time! According to UPS tracking, Jennifer is &#8220;out for delivery&#8221; as of 4:15 AM. However, I do not know if I will&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2006\/03\/16\/jennifer-on-her-way-here-aka-ups-annoys-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jennifer: on her way here? AKA UPS annoys me.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}