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Need a prayer to the UPS gods...
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 2010-12-23 3:58 PM |
Champion  4942     Richmond, VA |  Subject: Need a prayer to the UPS gods...having lunch with the family today and the question comes up "what is the one present you are most hoping Santa brings you?" My 7 year old has had a VERY tough year and I'm sure we as parents are putting too much pressure on Christmas to try and end the year on a positive note for him. Anyway, he mentions that he wants more than anything a gift that weeks prior he said wasn't interested in. The problem is that this gift is NOT available in stores, but can only be ordered online. I know this because MUCH effort was spent trying to find this in the stores several weeks ago. So this afternoon I purchased it online ($29.99) and paid $32.50 for overnight shipping to get here by tomorrow. Odds are probably slim to none and I probably wasted the $32.50 (could have paid $8 for normal shipping) - so as a fallback he'll be getting a picture of this gift. But what a save it could be if UPS turned that baby around from Austin, TX to Richmond, VA in 24 hours... |
| 2010-12-23 4:13 PM in reply to: #3259694 |
Veteran 416 Denver | Subject: RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods... Well, VA is 1hr ahead of TX. So, hopefully, the place you ordered from is on the ball & gets the package out today. Overnight delivery is overnight delivery, no matter what time of year. |
| 2010-12-23 4:24 PM in reply to: #3259694 |
Elite 3290 Oliver, BC, "Wine Capital of Canada" | Subject: RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods... SoccerGK might be po'ed if it does. |
| 2010-12-23 6:20 PM in reply to: #3259694 |
Expert 745 Bethesda, MD/Northern NJ | Subject: RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods... I've generally have good luck with overnight shipping, particularly since I live in a heavily populated state on the east coast (as do you!). I think that gift can make it to Richmond, VA easily! Fingers crossed, and I'm sure your son will have a fantastic christmas either way, with such a thoughtful dad  |
| 2010-12-24 2:01 AM in reply to: #3259717 |
Master 2538 Albuquerque | Subject: RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods... |
| 2010-12-24 11:46 AM in reply to: #3259694 |
Expert 2189 Dodge County, MN (out in the corn) | Subject: RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods... Still throwing rocks for a timely arrival of UPS truck. |
| 2010-12-24 5:47 PM in reply to: #3259694 |
Expert 1690 | Subject: RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods... Sorry, I worked at a ups store for 3 years and your chances of getting anything there on time is slim to none. Next day packages do get priority but dealing with the volume thats going through right now i doubt it. I had next day packages that i shipped take 3-4 days for some people. |
| 2010-12-26 7:59 AM in reply to: #3259694 |
Expert 1456 Central New Jersey | Subject: RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods... Well - did it arrive? |
| 2010-12-26 2:09 PM in reply to: #3259694 |
Expert 1690 | Subject: RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods... by the silence i imagine hes sitting on the phone waiting for the 5h17y customer service |
| 2010-12-28 8:45 AM in reply to: #3261678 |
Champion 4942 Richmond, VA | Subject: RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods... wwlani - 2010-12-26 8:59 AM Well - did it arrive? Oh, how I have a funny story to tell. Short answer : No. Slightly longer short answer : No. Turns out the order hadn't even been processed TO BE shipped by the afternoon of December 24th. Long Answer The gifty was a piece of software, a video game for our home computer (Mac). We had the game (Zoo Tycoon) and the Expansion Pack and lost the original disk in the move. The game had been loaded on my wife's computer (which is on its last leg). So the last minute gift was a replacement version of this software that we can load on the home computer, as the boys love to play this Zoo Tycoon game. (note: you don't need the origianal disk to play the game, but to install the s/w) On Friday (Christmas Eve), as I was "tracking my order" to realize that they hadn't even processed the order, I tried to get a little creative. I copied all of the s/w from the wife's computer to the home computer and tried to run the game. Upon doing that, it turns out it wanted the original disk. (which we lost). So then I went to "plan B" and synched the two computers via a Firewire connection. I transferred the s/w and ran the software on the home computer, still synched to the wife's computer. Because of the synch, the home computer ran the software just fine without needing the disk. Unsynch computers, re-launch on the game now works fine without needing the disk. About 4 o'clock Chrismas Eve, cancelled the order and short thereafter received a confirmation email that since the order had not been processed or shipped, the order was cancelled and I was getting a full refund. Go figure... |
| 2010-12-28 3:00 PM in reply to: #3259694 |
Champion 4942 Richmond, VA | Subject: RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods... update : today at 3:30 the package arrives at my office. invoice shows the package was processed and shipped on 12/27. Which is funny because I have an email dated 12/24 confirming the order had been cancelled. WTF!
oh well... guess I now have a back-up copy of the software... |
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