DSL Held Hostage, Day 16: UPS Obsession
Jan. 23rd, 2003 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aThe advent of the Internet certainly allows for a new level of obsession in package tracking. It makes you wonder how much information is too much.
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kimberly_a is waiting for a Christmas cloak that UPS still claims will be delivered yesterday. According to their tracking records, however, it had only made it as far as Utah by the end of business yesterday. Today, it bravely set off at 4am in the morning and stumbled in to Nevada around noon. Perhaps after some gambling and whoring it'll actually make it to California tomorrow.
(I must say the fact that it's hopping state by state boggles me, and explains why it's already late.)
Meanwhile, our DSL modem finally set out from Van Nuys, California yesterday around 3PM, about 9 hours before our activation date for the line. 9 hours later it had made it to Sylmar, California, a total trek of about 13 miles. If that rate of travel continues, we'll see the modem sometime in late 2005.
Me, I'm still holding out hope for a slightly early delivery, because "DSL Held Hostage, Day 851" would just be sad.
And to answer my original question: in this case, I don't think there can be too much information. UPS is bad enough about delivering packages to residences, that it's a pretty nice to know what day you actually have to spend 4 hours waiting for them, rather than to just assume they'll be there on the day you predict, when in actuality your package could still be Utah. Or Van Nuys.
kimberly_a is waiting for a Christmas cloak that UPS still claims will be delivered yesterday. According to their tracking records, however, it had only made it as far as Utah by the end of business yesterday. Today, it bravely set off at 4am in the morning and stumbled in to Nevada around noon. Perhaps after some gambling and whoring it'll actually make it to California tomorrow.(I must say the fact that it's hopping state by state boggles me, and explains why it's already late.)
Meanwhile, our DSL modem finally set out from Van Nuys, California yesterday around 3PM, about 9 hours before our activation date for the line. 9 hours later it had made it to Sylmar, California, a total trek of about 13 miles. If that rate of travel continues, we'll see the modem sometime in late 2005.
Me, I'm still holding out hope for a slightly early delivery, because "DSL Held Hostage, Day 851" would just be sad.
And to answer my original question: in this case, I don't think there can be too much information. UPS is bad enough about delivering packages to residences, that it's a pretty nice to know what day you actually have to spend 4 hours waiting for them, rather than to just assume they'll be there on the day you predict, when in actuality your package could still be Utah. Or Van Nuys.
