Weather related delay. Really?
Amazon, if you’re listening… I can’t wait for the drone delivery system to begin. After all, you’ve proven that the post office can do a mediocre job and that another firm, known locally as P*-later is terrible. Time to try your A game.
I received a head’s up email several days ago (actually, a warning, in retrospect). My next hard drive was shipped. With that slight downturn in optics, because the delivery was coming “the hard way”. I watched the progress, and did a small happy-jig when the tracking site showed that my parcel was put in the truck at just before 9 a.m. today. I mean, I live seventy-five minutes away; what could go wrong?
Well, when there had been no delivery by 5 p.m., I knew that something had derailed my train. The site showed that there was a delay in my transit. Specifically, a “weather delay – service will resume weather permitting”. I’ve saved a screen capture. Because, locally, we had one of the nicest days you can have at this time of year: clear, blue sky, sunshine, temperature above freezing, no wind. In layman’s terms, the quoted reason is balderdash.
This is not my first rodeo with this firm. Several months back, I received a call from the local Radio Shack store (local meaning thirty minutes, each way) to advise me that P*-later had left a number of parcels in their store. The driver didn’t have enough time left in the shift to make my delivery AND get back to meet the cargo flight.
What should I assume? That tomorrow the weather will be better? The distances shorter? The clock running slower? The flight arriving later? I can’t wait to see how this plays out.
