Need a prayer to the UPS gods...
BY: condorman on 2010-12-23 3:58 PM

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...

RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods...
BY: Dino019 on 2010-12-23 4:13 PM

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.

Good Luck!!!

RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods...
BY: peby on 2010-12-23 4:24 PM

SoccerGK might be po'ed if it does.  
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RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods...
BY: ThatGirl on 2010-12-23 6:20 PM

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

RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods...
BY: abqtj on 2010-12-24 2:01 AM



LOL! Yup 
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RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods...
BY: rowdypaint on 2010-12-24 11:46 AM

Still throwing rocks for a timely arrival of UPS truck.

RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods...
BY: mkarr0110 on 2010-12-24 5:47 PM

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.
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RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods...
BY: wwlani on 2010-12-26 7:59 AM

Well - did it arrive?

RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods...
BY: mkarr0110 on 2010-12-26 2:09 PM

by the silence i imagine hes sitting on the phone waiting for the 5h17y customer service
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RE: Need a prayer to the UPS gods...
BY: condorman on 2010-12-28 8:45 AM

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...