Friday, December 11, 2009

Frustrations in the Ease of Home Delivery

It's Christmas time.

That means for most of us that we are dabbling in the trend of online shopping. Oh, it sounds so promising. Search, find, click, save, ship. You can find bargains online, true, and sometime score the occassional free shipping too if you do it right.

Sounds so great...

THEN comes the Dance of the Delivery Services.

You don't know if it's coming FedEx, UPS or USPS. For some reason, some will be left on the door step, some require signatures, some get hung up in customs. And of course if you're not there when those dudes come, you gotta start tracking them down before they take your package back ever so rudely!

Why can you not schedule when you get delivered to. And why do they think someone will always be home on a Tuesday at 2 p.m. to sign for something?

Ugh, what a lovely little holiday tradition.

But it saves us time, right?

Right?

Is this thing on?

Oh well...Merry Shipping

2 comments:

Carolyn said...

when you live in a small rural area like mine, you adore online shopping and the UPS man is your friend. :) I'm a convert for sure.

SPECIAL SPECK said...

So true. So true. But here they come beat on your door...usually while you are still in your pjs or they call you on your phone in unintelligible chinese...well, unintelligible to me : ) until you can finally understand one word--"package" then ding! it's all clear! : )