UPS Launches Faster-Than-Light Service?
Being the geek that I am, I buy a lot of stuff online. This weekend I snagged an hard drive caddy for my HP laptop on eBay, made necessary because HP sells them for the extraordinary and extortionary price of $145. The whole laptop only cost me $613!
In any case, I ordered the part for $20 on eBay and was pleased when I got my UPS Quantum View email telling me at had been shipped. When I when to check on where it was, I became less pleased as it said the package had been delivered already to Houston. I live in Pittsburgh. So, I started swearing and panicking and trying to figure out where on earth they put a Houston address to my name.
Then I gave it a second look:
Wow! They are fast! They delivered it three and half months before they picked it up! A bit of a database fail there.
I would laugh, although the progress has not been updated in the last couple of days and I am now concerned that they have dropped the package into some bottomless pit somewhere. Database fails cause pain.
I just want a second hard drive in my laptop. Sigh.
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