Sad Saturday

Thanks, Box Man!

I'm looking forward to putting this all behind me. Right now I'm sort of feeling double-whammy lousy, what with both being frustrated with the overall situation, and being upset with myself for letting that frustration get the best of me.

CX Bob said:

Thanks, Box Man!

I'm looking forward to putting this all behind me. Right now I'm sort of feeling double-whammy lousy, what with both being frustrated with the overall situation, and being upset with myself for letting that frustration get the best of me.

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Take care!

HMM - 1 1/2 pages commissurating about a delivery or lack of one, and the whole forum is insulted and indignant about a rather innocent reference to being f----ys because they liked something alot. Hmmmmmmm Oh, well. They don't accept apologies either, so I won"t.

Well, I'll certainly not reprise all that nastiness. Have a nice day and shoot something fantastic. I hope you get your package and all is OK. Welcome to all opinions.

John

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Okay! Apparently during the one 5-minute time period when I left the house today, UPS showed up to deliver my new lens a day early, and left me a "Sorry We Missed You!" note. I'm pretty sure neither the seller or UPS ever gave any indication that I would need to sign for this. Yeah, I'm pretty peed.

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Ah, UPS.

I still remember my first UPS delivery to Stately Wisniewski Manor some 30 years ago. An antique glass bottle. I came home, saw the box on the front porch, picked it up, and heard the wind-chime sounds of a box of broken glass.

And my latest UPS delivery some four days ago. The box oozing pasta sauce, so you know something is wrong. Open it and the bottles had been banged around hard enough that one lid was open (hence the box oozing sauce) another had the "click" button on the lid up, indicating it wasn't safe, and the other two had lids that were dented up but still holding vacuum.

And all the deliveries in between: broken electronics, broken ceramic sculptures, a flute they claim was delivered that I could not find (turns out they dumped in the ground cover next to the porch, where it remained hidden for six months), packages where they claimed no one answered but the front camera showed no one bothered to come up the front walk, a package tossed onto the porch from the front walk (he shoots! he scores!), a large box from a guitar company where the state was wrong, the city was wrong, the street was wrong, and the address was wrong. Literally nothing right, and a lost air conditioner.

UPS has lost or damaged more of my packages than USPS, Amazon, FedEx, and DHL combined.

Well, I have no idea why it took another entire day for my package to show up at the UPS 'access point', but I finally got it.

Thanks to everyone for commiserating, sharing your delivery stories, and listening to me witch and moan.

(I haven't even opened it. Almost feels anticlimactic now. Think I might have a couple beers and see if I can get a little more into a 'Christmas morning' mood.)

CX Bob said:

Well, I have no idea why it took another entire day for my package to show up at the UPS 'access point', but I finally got it.

Thanks to everyone for commiserating, sharing your delivery stories, and listening to me witch and moan.

(I haven't even opened it. Almost feels anticlimactic now. Think I might have a couple beers and see if I can get a little more into a 'Christmas morning' mood.)

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The Box is safely in your hands. Within this Box is another Box. It's time for the Un-Boxing which is never, ever anticlimactic. Take it from the Box Man. LOL

:-D

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Box Man

CX Bob said:

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CX, so this is what you look like.

All this time I thouht you were an older gentleman.

Then is it "Bobbi" with an "i" at the end not a "y?"

By the way, sorry about the drink. I owe you one.

:-D

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Box Man

Well now you're just being silly.

And you recently added another thing to my 'bucket list', like I don't already have enough stuff on there.

#96 Convince Box Man to actually read and give a chance to that classic old (and controversial at the time) book, "The Joy of Tripod".

CX Bob said:

Well now you're just being silly.

And you recently added another thing to my 'bucket list', like I don't already have enough stuff on there.

#96 Convince Box Man to actually read and give a chance to that classic old (and controversial at the time) book, "The Joy of Tripod".

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I like to have a good laugh from time-to-time, so yes, I can be silly.

The Joy of Tripod? It'll have to go on my reading list. I might do it after I bake holgerlinke's bread.

:-D

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Box Man