{"id":81,"date":"2006-06-21T22:37:02","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T20:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/index.php\/2006\/06\/21\/raid-card-delivery-with-ups-aarghhh\/"},"modified":"2006-06-21T22:37:02","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T20:37:02","slug":"raid-card-delivery-with-ups-aarghhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/2006\/06\/21\/raid-card-delivery-with-ups-aarghhh\/","title":{"rendered":"RAID card delivery with UPS\u2026 aarghhh!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, it looks like everything that can go wrong will go wrong. When I<br \/>\nordered the RAID card, I explicitly selected delivery by regular post<br \/>\n(which means I will get the package). Nevertheless, something went<br \/>\nwrong and the package will be delivered by UPS. In fact it arrived<br \/>\nyesterday, when I was at work, today, when I was also at work, and will<br \/>\narrive again for the final time tomorrow (when I will be at work<br \/>\nagain). <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>Changing the delivery address will not help because there is a maximum<br \/>\nof three deliveries. So that means I can collect the card, probably in<br \/>\nBest, which is 2 x 45 minutes drive.&nbsp; And, no doubt, collecting<br \/>\nthe package will only be possible on working days during working hours<br \/>\n(when I will be at work). <\/p>\n<p>If there is something which does not work, it is delivery by courier.<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t matter whether its DHL or UPS, they simply lose the package<br \/>\n(like DHL lost my new labour contract in 1998), or will require dozens<br \/>\nof phone calls to make sure you finally get the package. Of course, UPS<br \/>\nalso doesn&#8217;t provide any guarantee when the package will be delivered,<br \/>\nso the basic model is basically that of the society of 1950 when there<br \/>\nis always someone at home to receive the package. Also, this brings<br \/>\nback memories of the time I agreed with DHL to collect a package at<br \/>\ntheir warehouse where it turned out they couldn&#8217;t find it. <\/p>\n<p>Oh man, this sucks! Now I am doubting between canceling the order and<br \/>\nordering the card elsewhere or to have the card delivered again by<br \/>\nregular mail. Anyway, I am trying the second option now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, it looks like everything that can go wrong will go wrong. When I ordered the RAID card, I explicitly selected delivery by regular post (which means I will get the package). Nevertheless, something went wrong and the package will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/2006\/06\/21\/raid-card-delivery-with-ups-aarghhh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}