What's mildly irritating you today?

[Lamplighter]

Amazon gave us a book's Pre-Publication price ($10.50) + shipping ($5.40).
A week later we sold our house and moved to a new address about 5.5 miles away.
I changed our shipping address before the Publication Date.
Along comes the Publication Date and Amazon ships... to our old address.

Pkg tracking shows carrier attempted delivery, but USPS already has our Mail-Forwarding Notice.
Pkg goes into Never-Never Land
We contact Amazon... who points finger at USPS
But Amazon ships another copy - overnight delivery - no charge.


Next day 1st book arrives after 10-day side-trip of PDX->Seattle-PDX, but now with $5.80 Postage Due.
Following day, the Postman delivers the 2nd copy, coming via Philadelphia, Sacramento, and PDX.

All this for a $10.50 book

I now have 2 copies to sell on eBay
... Buyer pays shipping - delivery not guaranteed !

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[xoxoxoBruce]

The post office is not good at contingencies. Since they've gotten into this "last mile" system, with the retailer or carrier dumping your package at the nearest major postal hub, it's added at least two days delay in shipping. Like 1.5 days from South Carolina to Philly Post Office and 6 days 9 miles to me. But that's better than fedex, 2 days from CA to the fedex depot in Exton, PA and 10 days for the 15 miles to me. After all that they dumped it in the snow at the end of the driveway. I love UPS.