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the_rckTwo kind of mind boggling things— First, I’ve gotten the same spam phishing call on our landline six times in the last three hours. I really don’t think the IRS is going to use a robocall to tell me that it has issued a warrant for my arrest, especially not without specifying my name or otherwise identifying who they’re trying to reach. (I’ve also in that time gotten one other spam call about my 'current credit card account.')
Second, do you remember that lost package of cotton underwear I ordered from Amazon? Amazon’s records showed that they’d shipped me ten pairs of cotton bikini underwear (I was quite sure I’d ordered briefs. I don’t wear bikini cut underwear) via UPS and that the package had been delivered on the 1st of July. I complained about the non-delivery and ended up with a refund. Today, a package arrived from Amazon, via the USPS, that contained five pairs of cotton briefs. I am extremely confused. Amazon said they shipped via UPS and that UPS said they’d delivered the package. Amazon said the package contained ten pairs, not five, and that those were bikini cut, not briefs. There’s no packing slip. There’s no date anywhere on the envelope. I suppose I could try the tracking number on the package to see when it shipped. That just seems like a lot of trouble given how long the number is and that I’d have to transcribe it.
Hm. Looking at the label, I think that Amazon sent it UPS to deliver to our local post office and then had the post office deliver it here. Why on earth do that? Would it account for a twelve day delay? UPS tracking said they put the package on our porch, and that’s a lot different than delivering it to the USPS office out on Green Road. It also doesn’t account for the package only containing half of what it was supposed to. I’m not at all sure I want to wade into the confusion of this with Amazon customer service people, but I feel like I ought to pay for these since they actually arrived.
Second, do you remember that lost package of cotton underwear I ordered from Amazon? Amazon’s records showed that they’d shipped me ten pairs of cotton bikini underwear (I was quite sure I’d ordered briefs. I don’t wear bikini cut underwear) via UPS and that the package had been delivered on the 1st of July. I complained about the non-delivery and ended up with a refund. Today, a package arrived from Amazon, via the USPS, that contained five pairs of cotton briefs. I am extremely confused. Amazon said they shipped via UPS and that UPS said they’d delivered the package. Amazon said the package contained ten pairs, not five, and that those were bikini cut, not briefs. There’s no packing slip. There’s no date anywhere on the envelope. I suppose I could try the tracking number on the package to see when it shipped. That just seems like a lot of trouble given how long the number is and that I’d have to transcribe it.
Hm. Looking at the label, I think that Amazon sent it UPS to deliver to our local post office and then had the post office deliver it here. Why on earth do that? Would it account for a twelve day delay? UPS tracking said they put the package on our porch, and that’s a lot different than delivering it to the USPS office out on Green Road. It also doesn’t account for the package only containing half of what it was supposed to. I’m not at all sure I want to wade into the confusion of this with Amazon customer service people, but I feel like I ought to pay for these since they actually arrived.
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Date: 2016-07-13 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-13 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-13 09:16 pm (UTC)That is so strange!
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Date: 2016-07-13 09:49 pm (UTC)I also am 100% sure that things wouldn't jump from problem to arrest warrant without a heck of a lot of intervening and very careful steps. They'd be much more likely to jump to garnishing one's paycheck or paycheck equivalent.
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Date: 2016-07-14 03:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-13 09:53 pm (UTC)Yeah, amazon delivery has gone down hill since they started using the post office :-/
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Date: 2016-07-13 10:01 pm (UTC)They just sent this through UPS which seems to have utterly botched it. UPS claims to have delivered the package to my front door and rung the bell on the 1st of July at 11 something or another in the morning. I was home all day. My daughter was home all day. No one rang the doorbell. No packages arrived except one DVD via the USPS. We're on a side street without much traffic. If we get five people walking by all day that's a lot (well, there's a lot more foot traffic when the elementary school is in session, but it's July). We know our neighbors; if they got my underwear, they'd have walked them over here.
And this can't be the package UPS said they delivered then because it only contained half of what Amazon told me they were sending in that package.
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Date: 2016-07-14 07:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-14 07:07 pm (UTC)It wasn't even a magazine that I had any interest in-- Field and Stream is somehow not my sort of thing.
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Date: 2016-07-14 08:36 am (UTC)I do know that in recent months there's been a thing where other carriers hand off packages to USPS and then USPS delivers them (several days later). It does seem to occasionally cause the same kind of confusion you saw, where a package shows up as "delivered" from the other carrier, but what they mean is "transferred to USPS for actual street delivery", leading to a lot of confused people, because I think you can also not find the package AT USPS with the old tracking number at that point.
But that would not explain your case, with UPS claiming to deliver to your front door, or the missing half of the package, or the reported difference in styles. Weird!
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Date: 2016-07-14 07:05 pm (UTC)I don't think I'm going to try to talk to Amazon at this point. It's just one more stress that I really don't need right now.