shepd's Journal: UPS spells F-U-N!

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Man those UPS guys are getting cheezier by the miunte. It's gonna take them 'till Monday to ship an overnight package from Quebec to Ontario that was sent off on Thursday. And they say I'll get a refund... sorta hard when shipping was included already!

I think I'll change my middle name to "NO-UPS" from now on when I get things shipped.

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It's always fun when people ship to my house by UPS! Fedex, usually a little late, but never a problem. Purolator always on time, but sometimes they drop refrigerators on my packages (FutureShop had a bit of a laugh at the now quarter-height CD-ROM I returned). Canada Post, bless them, always leaves packages at the mail depot and treats them so gingerly they must think I've been shipped nuclear waste.

But with UPS you never really do know what you'll be getting! Sometimes I have maps to my house drawn on my packages by drivers, or the package ends up in limbo hours away from my house 'till I call! Or my personal favourite, the "Yes, I know shipping from the US for this 2 lb. package was $75 already, but there's the $50 in brokerage fees and taxes you have to pay on top of that before we'll release the hostage package" line.

It's so much fun I think I might have just busted my spleen!