A favorite pastime of mine is stalking my UPS shipments. I love how you can monitor the progress of your package as it makes it way from Amazon, through Kentucky, and eventually to its final destination.
That is until things go wrong.
I ordered a 30″ Apple Cinema display from Amazon on Monday with next day delivery. It “shipped” on Monday evening as expected but disappeared from the face of the earth. What would normally be a very predictable trip south of the Mason-Dixon line to Louisville and back up this direction was instead the deafening silence of no updates for the entire day it was supposed to arrive.
My monitor lost almost exactly 24 hours of its life, completely unaccounted for. That’s a curious gap in time. 24 hours minus 10 seconds. Spooky. Paging Special Agent Fox Mulder.
Anyway, as you can see, it’s back among us and well on it’s way.
Oh, and uh, yes, I’ve purchased a completely over-the-top, unnecessary, but ultimate in displays. 4 years of hard work allows me to justify such a splurge. OK, there’s no use. Don’t judge me. I have been waiting years to be able to do this.
Stay tuned for a picture of that behemoth sitting next to my new Asus eee PC.
And Amazon is refunding me the overnight shipping charge. All $3.99 of it. (I’m a Prime member.)
