robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Oct 4 late PM - ordered a 32" 4K BenQ monitor for photo editing from Amazon themselves - the wife said "Get yourself something for your birthday on the 8th." Arrival on the 9th, birthday the 8th, I could live with that. I got the Asurion extended warranty via e-mail over night.

Oct 5 AM - wife asked a question about the monitor I ordered - went to Amazon site to check and a pop-up asked if I wanted "Free one day from shipping delivery" Hey I could have it on my birthday. So I checked Yes. Expected delivery date changed to the 10th!?!?!?!?!?!? I called Amazon and all I could get is delivery is one day from shipping and it hasn't shipped yet. Don't know when it will ship.

Oct 9 comes, still no notice of shipping, still says delivery on 10th.

Oct 10 still hasn't shipped but still says delivery on 10th - well there are a couple of Amazon warehouse hubs in the LA Metro Area so???????

Oct 11 still no shipping notice but it still says delivery on the 10th. I start researching and find Adorama can get me the same monitor for $8 more and 3 day guaranteed delivery. then I go further and look for other monitors available locally if within $200 of the price - nope all the local computer stores here around Corona say "back ordered" on all the ones I like.

Oct 12 AM - I cancel the Asurion warranty I have for a monitor I haven't got and after some more research this PM I go to cancel the order and order a different monitor from one of the sellers on Amazon and up pops a "shipped" notice. But it says delivery Oct 20 - that is "One Day"??????????????????????????????

Now it is almost Midnight and I just checked:
2:37 PM Eastern at UPS Auburndale FL
6:00 PM left Auburndale FL
8:39 PM at UPS Jacksonville FL
9:37 PM UPS Auburndale FL ?
11:14 PM UPS Jacksonville FL ??

I can hardly wait to check when I get up tomorrow to see what has happened.
In the mean time I have been refreshing all the cuss words I know - native English, and picked up a few cuss words in Vietnamese, Japanese & German in the Army and Spanish from teaching in East LA. Oh and according to our kids and other people here in So California my "Southern" counts as a 6th source of cuss words. Whenever I read Southern Authors who write in dialect our oldest says he has to get a copy of "Southern for Dummies" to understand me.

MSW

they weren't shipping with DHL were they? I'm out here in the weeds - so far in the weeds that USPS doesn't come here: they give me a free Post Office box, and i go to the post office to pick up my mail. Had one of their drivers complain that my house wasn't on his e- map and he couldn't get there from here. I asked if he had a normal map, made of paper, with squiggly black lines on it ....

huh?

dave.m

You just made a serious error of judgement

You assumed the driver could read a squiggly lines on a map! As a retired land surveyor I can advise that before satnavs, google maps etc, only a small proportion of people could read and navigate with a map - and most of those had a military/ working background that needed it, or were ethusiastic outdoors people.

Today, without a navigation device or app it seems many cannot get from A to A+ let alone B without voice prompts and 'auto reroute'


And as a Murphy - why is it my fault?

Clapperboard

dave.m Please don't start rejecting the blame, all blame. Murphy's law is the only legislation we can believe in these days!
Full marks for your response!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Tracking app leads to UPS and it hasn't been updated since 11:14 PM Eastern time - plus it still shows the day as Oct 12th.

Heh! Maps are fun, I have loved them since I was a little kid. Then my Freshman year in college I took a class in Geology taught by a man who had been a field geologist for Chevron and he introduced us to and taught us how to use USGS Topo sheets. And in the Army I worked with maps a lot. Back to college and took classes like Air Photo and Map Interpretation, Field Geography and did a summer field school in the mtns SW of Mexico City, collected maps of everywhere I went.

MAPS ARE FUN!!! and the bigger the better.

My students got maps, maps and then some - maps - in my history and geography classes. They had to not only learn the who, what & why of history, they had to learn the where.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Not your fault, it is that cousin of yours who is always making all those "laws".

I used to buy one of the "365 Day" calendars of "Murphy's Laws" and would not let my students look at the next day, except on Friday they could look at Sat & Sun. Have you ever seen 8th and 9th grade boys run to be first to their history class so they could see what the calendar said for that day? Gave our daughter one her second year at UCLA and when the word got around her dorm room became a very popular place, to look at her calendar. She and her 3 room mates asked me to not get her another one, they needed some peace and quiet to study.

dave.m

Thanks - think

dave.m

never seen one those calendars - most of what i've seen are not necessarily what I would show my mum

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

They were all suitable for public consumption. After all it was a calendar sold by the biggest bookstore in the country to the general public.

Now in the Army in the 60's we had the military version.
What ever can go wrong will, sooner or later and probably both times. Then it will get worse.

And O'Tooles commentary: Murphy is an optimist!

Bill_de Loc: US

Reading maps in the Army was easy. We started at point A an headed for point B. If something got in the way we blew it up and kept going. If we thought we were off track a couple of WP rounds at 300 feet told us right where we were.

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robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I was in the Tac Ops Center of a General Support Group (Engineer Group when I got my orders but the day I arrived a week later it changed to GS). After we arrived in Nam we also became the Sub Area Command for 1st Log Cmd in Qui Nhon. Our biggest sub unit was an Engineer Brigade and as a GS Group we were part of the Brigade. I typed orders and sent them down the line, the Brigade sent orders to us as the GS Gp and I returned the completion report with the same messenger because of course we knew about it and had already done it. Weird at times.

But a lot of work with maps, we even had a draftsman/cartographer who had worked at USGS as a cartographer before he came in the Army. We kept the intel maps, free fire zone maps etc. And being on the coast we constantly got Navy ships asking for targets in the free fire zones when they had over age ammo to burn (made during WW II) or needed gunnery practice etc.

One night our Senior NCO said lets go outside, this should be interesting. So we walked out and looked toward the bay. Just then the whole eastern horizon lit up like dawn and a constant stream of rocket exhausts lifted up, arched over our camp and disappeared inland towards the abandoned village we had given them as a target. It was a complete arch before the last rockets left the LST. An LST with the hold for tanks and other vehicles filled with, I think it was 100 rocket launchers. The Sgt said "I can't believe the Navy hasn't changed that ship's call sign in this many years!" Seems in Korea he had called in fire missions from the same ship. We later found out it had been using the same radio call sign since WW II.

billmck Loc: Central KY

I had a somewhat similar issue with Amazon several months ago. I ordered a 4K Sony 55” TV that was in stock. Got the notice it was shipped, but it never arrived, and the tracking info was terrible. I called Amazon, and they shipped another and it arrived in a couple of days.

Bill_de Loc: US

Who was the shipper?

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cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

Covid-19 seems to have pushed every shipping company over the edge including Amazon. Most deliveries are running late. Used to get most Amazon either the next day or in two days but that no longer applies. FedEx Ground (which used to be DHL) is even more awful than usual. Best of luck.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Well yesterday the tracking showed it left Jacksonville again at 5PM Eastern. No updates since. The way things have been going it is now with a wagon train pulled by oxen. That or it was put on a reproduction of a clipper ship doing a reenactment of the trip around the horn to California for the gold rush.