Old ipods are excellent. I still have one of those with the 160g hd. And I love it and still use it. (got a bunch of fav audiobooks I ripped from cd stored there).
I loved the click wheel style of ipod because you could operate it without looking at it.
If you wanna offload your old ipods, I could make a hope for the in TX. : )
An order from a really long time ago that you forgot about. Those little hockey puck lights that kept getting delayed and I told them to keep my order.
I want meh to send me a random box of stuff.
Update: This is the 4th attempt to deliver since Friday (which means 3 times, the driver looked at my hill of death, decided ‘Nah’, and claimed there was bad weather or I wasn’t home. In a pandemic. At 9 am on a Sunday.)
This seemed absurd for a 1 pound box, and then I hunted up the dimensions:
DIMENSIONS
37x21x18 in.
Um. That’s…rather largish.
I’ve checked through past orders for about 2 years and they’re all delivered. Also discovered it’s been something like 18 months since my last IRK, even though I’m VMP. So…have they decided to randomly bestow something upon me? Maybe they wanted to rub it in and it’s just a big exciting box with an empty IRK bag?
MAYBE IT’S A BUNCH OF BULLY STICKS SO I CAN FEED MY DOGS A BIG BAG OF DICKS?
The suspense is killing me, which is a nice change from the suspense of wondering if I’ve got COVID-19 or if our government is just going to completely self-immolate.
@RiotDemon@tinamarie1974 I would if I could find their complaint number. Their online customer service…isn’t. It’s just a bot that keeps repeating the same completely useless FAQs.
And I think we can write off delivery yet again. 2 days to get it from Texas to the local FedEx.
@brainmist@RiotDemon and their network has been stressed to the limit since April or May and they are heavily involved in operation warp speed. But that does not answer why a package already on a truck is not being delivered
@tinamarie1974 I had FedEx not deliver a laptop on a truck 3 days in a row last fall. Sometimes the driver marked it as business closed in the middle of the day. They were less than helpful about why that would be other than that they were very busy and sometimes the driver did not have time to make all the deliveries. When I asked them if they were indeed a logistics company and if they had any idea of how to estimate how many packages their driver could deliver in a day they had no answer.
I read Google reviews of that particular FedEx facility and they seemed to be less than efficient for lots of customers in that region. I try to ship UPS to that facility now.
@djslack@tinamarie1974 This isn’t the first time I’ve had FedEx claim I wasn’t home… Sometimes I’ve even spotted their truck going past my house without stopping. I think they realize there’ll be a 100’ walk to get there and just nope on out.
And yeah, I’ve seen some very similar experiences in their reviews.
@djslack@tinamarie1974 I can see that. Although less so after I watched a contacted delivery service haul a boxed dishwasher the same distance. Those guys got all the good reviews. But I think they were prepared for tougher deliveries.
@f00l There would not be texas air in meh boxes - unless you are talking about the unbagged kind that is in there before it escapes when the box (finally) crosses the TX border.
@brainmist Don’t look now, but you may actually be living in a Kafka novel. If so, the box will always be on the truck, except when it is at the distribution point, which is closed.
@Kyeh OK, if it’s a pallet of Martian watches, you are definitely getting one. Is it a prize? A curse? We’ll never know, because they’d have to get here first.
A FedEx driver in my neighborhood had a bad habit of pre-scanning all the packages on the route as delivered. I get a text my package is on my porch, nope. No package on the porch. Thirty minutes later and going through just as many fedex reps on the phone saying it’s not their problem. They delivered it. I hear a THUD outside. Package delivered and halfway between my sidewalk and my house. WTF???
@ironcheftoni They should have GPS on where it was actually located when marked as delivered. That is how I found out a package of mine was delivered at the apartment building down the street instead of mine. Had to make a stink though to get them to look that up. They do not volunteer that information. I found out that info by googling.
@AuntMean67@RiotDemon Maybe? Honestly, with FedEx, I kinda just ignore that they suck because I’m rarely in a hurry, and it usually gets here eventually. But when I don’t know what’s in the box, suddenly there’s suspense.
Of course, one more “attempted delivery, no one home” claim, and I think they can hold it at their distribution center. They’ve done that before. For a service, they’re incredibly unserving.
@AuntMean67 Update on the ‘investigation’ into my complaint that the driver has claimed an exception (that I wasn’t home) that a) isn’t true and b) doesn’t matter because no signature is required:
I was left a message that the driver says I wasn’t home.
@brainmist Yeah but it doesn’t say on the truck out for delivery. It could be in transit to the moon or something. Keep your expectations low low low. I had that message on a package several times over a period of nearly 2 weeks. God only knows where it really was. Shades of PB.
@Kidsandliz Apparently they didn’t appreciate my snark, because now its delivery date is tomorrow.
Their distribution center did call to let me know there person today had described my house as unreachable and… do you think it occurred to them at all that I must be reaching it some way? Anyway, I pointed out the short, level side alley that leads straight to my door and is clearly the most direct route on any map app. So we’ll see. But probably I’ll have to go pick it up.
@Kidsandliz@callow@tinamarie1974 Another friend suggested I get a sign printed, and of course if I do I have to spook it up a bit. “FedEx deliveries: take alley to side door.
Mortuary deliveries to boneyard”
@trailtroll Seems unlikely…yes, it’s 3’ long, but only 1 pound. Maybe the weight’s completely off? And the drivers don’t have dollies? But the problem wasn’t going to get resolved by pretending I just wasn’t home.
I only ever have issues with FedEx. Heck, Walmart sent some poor schlub out in an ice storm because they decided to deliver something early. I even called them and said “Don’t try it, this weather’s awful, I can pick it up later”. And still he came…
@trailtroll could be. Seems Meh puts a placeholder weight of 1lb on their outbound packages. Even the Pasta Drop boxes, eight boxes would show up and I knew there was 1 box @ 1 lb
@RiotDemon@sammydog01 LOL, no, I said if they couldn’t figure out the alley (which every other delivery person, including the daily USPS, uses), they could leave it at a FedEx store and, despite the whole pandemic and laying low thing, I’d schlep over to get it.
Looks like that will be the case; if they find my alley intimidating during the daytime, no way they’ll try it after dark.
New dimensions? A new reference? One that follows Meh’s typical order confirmation format? (and I just realized the other doesn’t…so maybe it really IS a pallet of Martian watches!!! But likely NOT something I ordered!)
@Kyeh@sammydog01 Maybe it’s something REALLY heavy and the warehouse people have gotten tired with loading and unloading it every single day.
And I would kinda enjoy a gazillion pounds of stroopwafels…for about a week.
I do hope, if this is an actual mystery package the folks at Meh decided to just wing my way (as opposed to something ordered and forgotten, or ordered by someone else) that the delivery drama doesn’t discourage you. I just figure if FedEx is going to deny me the fun of my mystery box, they can at least entertain us.
I wish I could see the route log for the truck. I honestly don’t think they’ve even been hitting my block. I can generally hear those trucks pretty well (and so can the dogs), and the one route they can take goes past the window I sit at to work. But I’ve yet to spot the illusive beast.
@brainmist Hey there! I think, not positive, but I think, this is my first shout out on meh. Thanks! And I’m anxiously waiting to find out 1) WHEN you get the box, 2) How it finally gets to you, and 3) What the heck is IN the box. Thanks for letting us all play along.
@Dakini I think a lot depends on where you are. And whether your house is clearly an unapproachable murder house whose neighbors just don’t ask questions if they see the owner digging at 3 am.
That said, I get deliveries from everyone else, including restaurant deliveries by people who likely don’t do this full time, with no issues. It’s only FedEx having problems.
@ybmuG I’m grateful for the moral support in these tumultuous times.
If this box doesn’t show… I’m trying not to be vindictive because times are hard for everyone, but right now I’m really tempted to just start ordering everything ridiculously big I can think of. When it’s finally too much to store, they can just bring me the entire truckload.
And with the weather we have rolling in, there’s zero chance they’ll deliver it then, and it’s pretty unlikely I’ll be able to get to it. Probably I should have just told them when I spoke to their rep to leave it at the local FedEx store, but it kinda galls me to do the delivery job of a delivery company, just because they don’t wanna.
But if and when I and my box of mystery are ever united, like lost souls in the fog, I PROMISE I will do an update and post pictures. And if it’s a pallet of Martian watches, I’ll figure out which ones still sorta work and send a few out to you, the intrepid people behind Team #WhatsInTheBox.
@brainmist Since it’s seeming like this delivery is never going to happen, can you ask them to hold it and just arrange a time to pick it up at a FedEx location?
@eggsterminate Yup. Seems likely that’s what I’ll need to do. I was kind of waiting to see whether, with an IRK also due today (which I know isn’t going to be too big or heavy to carry the maybe 80 feet needed), they’d make an effort. But no.
Today they claimed “weather” again. It’s been clear and sunny, and fairly warm, all day. I spent a lot of it outdoors with a sweatshirt on. But sure, “weather”.
@brainmist I love it - Team #WhatsInTheBox! We could get T-shirts. We’d probably have them before you get your box. Which might actually be cool. Everyone wear them when you reveal What’s In The Box while wearing your #WhatsInTheBox T-shirt.
@cbilyak Oh, the one we’ve been waiting for is literally just across the river from me. And has allegedly been on a truck in my neighborhood 9-10 times since the 15th.
The difficulty seems to be in getting them to take it off the truck, and either walk it 80’ to my door, or leave it at the curb.
Which is why I’m really wondering if, instead of 38x18x21", it’s actually a pallet.
@brainmist OK, here’s the link. I picked a couple styles and added a design with just the hashtag. Can’t believe I did this (but it was fun!) I think I need to go to bed…
@brainmist Weeelllll, Cafe Press decided to take my designs down because of some violation of their Content Use Policy. I mean what could the violation possibly be? I did a Google search for the phrase and did come across the meme from Se7en, but that was like 137 years ago, so that can’t be it. I did see a kids game with that name, but really?
So I inquired and just got word that they reviewed and reinstated my designs. Yay!
@brainmist Hey - looks like CafePress finally got things back on track and if you forget my “shop” and just search for whatsinthbox, you should get 3 designs. The first one is broken, but the other two work and you can select whatever shirt that you want, men’s or women’s. AAANND, they are all on sale! I’m getting mine!
Could it finally happen? Will we know if it’s a pallet of obsolete notifier watches? Will they drop it in my neighbor’s driveway out of spite, or possibly just lob it into a train ravine?
I’ll be watching, as always. The snow is due to start in about 10 minutes.
Patience is supposed to be a virtue, so I guess we’re all earning virtue points, or something like that.
But, seriously FedEx, torture is not a good way to teach patience. I’m more curious about when it will be delivered than what it contains. Deliver the box, deliver the box, deliver the box!
@blaineg No, the only possible explanation is @Star2236 called up FedEx and told them to keep delaying the package. I don’t know why she’d do such a thing, unless she knows whats actually in it. Maybe she’s trying to protect @brainmist from his city’s equivalent of the Austin bomber.
Ah, day…12? Of the neverending saga! 6+ inches of snow, roads are still mostly covered, and it’s sunny but blowing. I think we can safely say this won’t happen today.
And YES, I do have a dramatic reveal… But unfortunately I have to get some work done first (and I spent way too much time trying to set up some humorous stuff).
So tune in THIS EVENING for the THRILLING CONCLUSION OF…
WHAT’S! IN! THE! BOX!!!
(Folks at Meh, I love it! This was definitely a hilarious and yet very thoughtful gift. Thank you!)
Convenient handles made this much easier to haul, which is good, because it didn’t occur to me to unload it until just now. Shut up, it’s been a hard apocalypse and I did have a knife/sword/gunfight like, 10 minutes before.
Hilarious outtake: I spent a ridiculous amount of time (and ink) creating different faces, only to discover it’s too cold for double sided tape to stick. Which is why I didn’t get everything posted this afternoon…I ended up realizing that in this case, computer graphics was going to be better than my special effects attempt.
I even had cranberry sauce blood all ready to go. Ah well.
OF COURSE. That seems really fitting! Lucky you! And it turned out even funnier than Meh intended it to be, didn’t it? Congratulations! This was a lot of fun. How ironic though that it arrived on the day with the worst weather!
@Kyeh generally call her Middy Mephitidae, because she’s naughty A LOT and needs the extra names. And also Stinky. And Middy Spoon, because she likes sleeping between me and the other dog, and will aggressively snuggle her way whether we like it or not, then get too warm and kick the covers off of all of us.
@Kidsandliz it was all around a really fun experience. The interminable wait was made so much better by the participation of Team #WhatsInTheBox. Thank you, everyone!
@RiotDemon I just went out to my sunporch to look, but couldn’t find a logo. It’s really nice, though. I think they may have even just bought it for this purpose: it looks new, minus a scuff or two that may have happened in shipping.
My cheapy Coleman looks so rinky- dink next to it! When I can do camping festivals again, imma give people cooler envy!
Also, looked up the dropped pasta post, and the fine, fine folks at Meh put together this magnificent drop-proof pasta drop for dropped pasta THE SAME DAY.
Oh, WOW! I missed the reveal yesterday because work and life were crazy at the time. And I really never thought it would be delivered with a half-foot of snow if it wasn’t delivered on all the good days. Noods!! Lots and lots of noods, probably “dropped” numerous times on their journey to your snow-filled alley, judging by the condition of the box. FedEx should have added some band-aids instead of tape. And you got a cool cooler!
Love the soap opera and pics and appreciate the time and trouble it took for you, @brainmist, to set up a fun reveal for Team #WhatsInTheBox. Kudos to the team at Meh for doing this. Bet they never expected to generate so much talk and excited anticipation among so many mehmbers. To all - thanks for adding some joy to these please-make-it-end days.
Oh, and I guess, thanks to FedEx. If the box had been delivered in a couple of days, like normal, there wouldn’t have been as much fun for everyone. Lemons to lemonade, as it were.
@caramelarrow It was definitely fun lemonade. I’m feeling a bit bad for FedEx’s delivery drivers, because after the second “not home” I did harangue them a bit… But I don’t understand why they didn’t leave a note or knock on the door to say “hey, the box is not going to survive hauling, do you want to come look at it and figure out what to do?” I mean, why say things that clearly weren’t a problem? That was the irritating part.
I am quite mystified about the snowblower, though. The city doesn’t do much for alleys (it barely does my street, and not well), and the only other person who lives as far down it as I do… Doesn’t have a car. The other two of us just shovel ourselves a runway to the alley and drive over the snow from the.
Did meh send a snowblower? Did FedEx? Is there a mysterious third party involved? IT’S A MYSTERY!
@brainmist A new mystery?? We shall all need to place our defective hats, umm, I mean Detective hats on our heads to figure this out. My guess… someone nearby got a snowblower for Christmas and this was the first opportunity to really try it out. I’ve seen this before up close, snowblowing all over the place and having fun with a new “toy.” Or a maybe it was a snow gremlin.
@caramelarrow I took a closer look, and they did blow a path to the front porch of a neighbor’s house (the one with no car, but he’s occasionally visited by people with cars, BUT usually they park on the street, and the snowblown path isn’t quite car width, BUT maybe they ran out of gas?)
It’s weird because I haven’t seen that neighbor out since winter started, the closer path for walking would have been the sidewalk in front of that house, and usually he just shovels that himself.
I think it has to have been unrelated to the Case of the FedEx Fiasco, because why would they do the neighbor’s walk? But if it was for the neighbor’s visitors, why didn’t they do a car-width path?
@brainmist It seems to be a virus spreading though all carriers.
We ordered 3 books (same day) to be sent media mail and because we had changed our contact address but not the shipping address on PayPal, they were sent to the old house. Thankfully we had great neighbors who volunteered to pick them up.
Package 1: delivered to the old house, friends picked it up, we went for a much welcome visit, all is great!
Package 2: delivered to the new house (must have gotten forwarded…hmmmm). Oh well, all good.
Package 3: got a notice on the door of the new house - can’t deliver b/c postage due. Huh? Apparently they also forwarded it and b/c it was media mail (like they all were), forwarding is not included (never asked them to do so) so we had to pay an extra $5 to pick it up at the post office.
Can anyone figure out how to deliver a package reliably?
@ybmuG If you have a mail forward from the old to the new house, package #3 was done right. #1 missed the address change completely and #2 missed the postage due unless it was sent first class instead of media.
No, I don’t think anyone will get their act together anytime soon. It is hard to get good help around here.
@speediedelivery Interesting. I went to the USPS website and I do now see that media mail (all 3 were) would be forwarded with postage due. I’d swear we got a notice that packages are not forwarded. Either way I found it fascinating that each package was handled differently by the same 2 post offices.
knives
@sammydog01 Are there ever enough? I’d be pretty psyched to get some more fiskars, those have been fantastic.
@brainmist There’s no usps today- who’s delivering it?
@brainmist @sammydog01 I JUST got a USPS delivery! Shocked I was.
@sammydog01 IN theory, FedEx…but they keep claiming weather makes it undeliverable.
USPS would have gotten it here, no problem. We haven’t had weather, but my street is poorly plowed.
Maybe it IS a pallet…
@sammydog01 Shoot. Checked the weight…one pound is too light for my dreamed-of pallet.
@brainmist @sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 Yeah UPS showed up here today. I let them in the building when I was going out.
@brainmist
It could be a pallet of aerogel…
I don’t think the post office delivers pallets of anything
A 40 lb. box of pasta.
@rockblossom I’m going to need a storage tote.
@rockblossom This was amazingly prescient on both counts.
Speaker docks with the old style apple ipod connections.
@f00l Fortunately, I still have some old iPods.
I really need to declutter my tech.
@brainmist
Old ipods are excellent. I still have one of those with the 160g hd. And I love it and still use it. (got a bunch of fav audiobooks I ripped from cd stored there).
I loved the click wheel style of ipod because you could operate it without looking at it.
If you wanna offload your old ipods, I could make a hope for the in TX. : )
@f00l I’ll keep that in mind…maybe when their respective speaker docks finally die!
An order from a really long time ago that you forgot about. Those little hockey puck lights that kept getting delayed and I told them to keep my order.
I want meh to send me a random box of stuff.
@Star2236 wouldn’t a random box be an Irk?
/giphy laughter
@Star2236 I think that must be what it is. I looked back about 3 months at orders, but maybe I deleted the e-mail. Or something.
Or it’s a human head.
@narfcake I’d have to send it back…my house piranha would dismantle it until it stopped squeaking.
@narfcake Well, I really hope it’s not a kitten, because it’s apparently going back to the warehouse for the fourth time.
@brainmist @narfcake
here is the ‘before the box was opened’ clip
Tape measures?
Candy corn bricks??
@tinamarie1974 Finally, I can build a little cottage and invite some kids to dinner!
@brainmist
1/3 of an elephant
@capnjb I really, really hope not. Unless it’s just the bones…
@brainmist What if it’s everything but the bones and some other lucky SOB got those?
@capnjb Then I hope the cold weather holds long enough for me to find a taxidermist and persuade one of the local butcher shops to have a go.
A toothbrush
WHAT’S IN THE BOX?
Well let’s not lose our heads thinking there really is a box. It could just be an e-mail that is arriving way after your order did.
/giphy se7en
@yakkoTDI Can’t be. It’s from FedEx, telling me they’re going to deliver it. And then not going to deliver it.
Update: This is the 4th attempt to deliver since Friday (which means 3 times, the driver looked at my hill of death, decided ‘Nah’, and claimed there was bad weather or I wasn’t home. In a pandemic. At 9 am on a Sunday.)
This seemed absurd for a 1 pound box, and then I hunted up the dimensions:
DIMENSIONS
37x21x18 in.
Um. That’s…rather largish.
I’ve checked through past orders for about 2 years and they’re all delivered. Also discovered it’s been something like 18 months since my last IRK, even though I’m VMP. So…have they decided to randomly bestow something upon me? Maybe they wanted to rub it in and it’s just a big exciting box with an empty IRK bag?
MAYBE IT’S A BUNCH OF BULLY STICKS SO I CAN FEED MY DOGS A BIG BAG OF DICKS?
The suspense is killing me, which is a nice change from the suspense of wondering if I’ve got COVID-19 or if our government is just going to completely self-immolate.
@brainmist Now I’m wondering how much a 3x 1.75x 1.5 foot box of Martian watches would weigh…
@brainmist are you going to call FedEx and ask what the heck bad weather they are having that’s local to the truck?
@brainmist @RiotDemon I would it you know there is no reason for them to skip your house.
@RiotDemon @tinamarie1974 I would if I could find their complaint number. Their online customer service…isn’t. It’s just a bot that keeps repeating the same completely useless FAQs.
And I think we can write off delivery yet again. 2 days to get it from Texas to the local FedEx.
5+ days to get it to me.
@brainmist @tinamarie1974 just call 1800GoFedEx. Put in your tracking number and then say “representative” it should eventually get you to a human.
@brainmist what @RiotDemon says!
It is a stick they want you to hit yourself with.
Or maybe it is a broom!
/giphy wicked witch
@yakkoTDI I’m wondering if someone sent me a more sticklike item…
@RiotDemon @tinamarie1974 I ended up connecting via email to their social media customer service.
Because they’re always on top of anything public.
Apparently they’re short staffed because COVID-19… But then why put it on a truck?
@brainmist @RiotDemon @tinamarie1974
Because their warehouse is full?
Are you it hasn’t actually been sent PB?
@brainmist @RiotDemon and their network has been stressed to the limit since April or May and they are heavily involved in operation warp speed. But that does not answer why a package already on a truck is not being delivered
@tinamarie1974 I had FedEx not deliver a laptop on a truck 3 days in a row last fall. Sometimes the driver marked it as business closed in the middle of the day. They were less than helpful about why that would be other than that they were very busy and sometimes the driver did not have time to make all the deliveries. When I asked them if they were indeed a logistics company and if they had any idea of how to estimate how many packages their driver could deliver in a day they had no answer.
I read Google reviews of that particular FedEx facility and they seemed to be less than efficient for lots of customers in that region. I try to ship UPS to that facility now.
@djslack @tinamarie1974 This isn’t the first time I’ve had FedEx claim I wasn’t home… Sometimes I’ve even spotted their truck going past my house without stopping. I think they realize there’ll be a 100’ walk to get there and just nope on out.
And yeah, I’ve seen some very similar experiences in their reviews.
I generally ship USPS.
@brainmist @djslack part of the issue is that their drivers are contractors, not employees
@djslack @tinamarie1974 I can see that. Although less so after I watched a contacted delivery service haul a boxed dishwasher the same distance.
Those guys got all the good reviews. But I think they were prepared for tougher deliveries.
I think you know what’s in the box.
What’s In the Box?
@txag96
Ok, but somebody definitely overestimated size.
/giphy “Texas Air”
@f00l There would not be texas air in meh boxes - unless you are talking about the unbagged kind that is in there before it escapes when the box (finally) crosses the TX border.
Suspense! Where’s the box?!
@ongware On a truck! Out for delivery! (The exciting squirrel of the sequel of the sequel of the sequel).
Why don’t you see if you can pick the box up yourself?
@Star2236 Because it’s about a 15-25 minute drive each way, depending on traffic, usually with a lengthy wait time.
@brainmist @Star2236 I NEED YOU TO GO PICK UP THAT BOX TODAY. YOU OWE US.
@sammydog01 probably shakes all the Christmas gifts trying to figure out what’s under the tree.
@ruouttaurmind Mom hid them in the attic. It was scary up there.
@sammydog01 @Star2236 Can’t.
It’s on the truck.
@brainmist Don’t look now, but you may actually be living in a Kafka novel. If so, the box will always be on the truck, except when it is at the distribution point, which is closed.
@rockblossom I had begun to wonder why I was also a cockroach.
Which, come to think of it, may explain the driver’s reluctance to get out of the vehicle.
@brainmist @sammydog01
You can have them leave it at the post office
/image Al Capone’s vault
Schrodinger’s box. It exists simultaneously in the truck and not in the truck. Only with delivery will you know.
@caramelarrow Don’t open the box. There’s no way to know what’s in it!
Honestly, I think it’d be less irritating if they’d just say “I don’t want to” instead of blatantly lying.
This is 18 minutes ago. My house is lit up. They just didn’t even try.
@brainmist I could have my mother call them for you. The site manager would deliver it himself after that.
@sammydog01 LOL, thanks, but I already called.
It’s stuck in Zeno’s Dichotomy paradox…
@Kyeh OK, if it’s a pallet of Martian watches, you are definitely getting one. Is it a prize? A curse? We’ll never know, because they’d have to get here first.
Geraldine.
A FedEx driver in my neighborhood had a bad habit of pre-scanning all the packages on the route as delivered. I get a text my package is on my porch, nope. No package on the porch. Thirty minutes later and going through just as many fedex reps on the phone saying it’s not their problem. They delivered it. I hear a THUD outside. Package delivered and halfway between my sidewalk and my house. WTF???
@ironcheftoni They should have GPS on where it was actually located when marked as delivered. That is how I found out a package of mine was delivered at the apartment building down the street instead of mine. Had to make a stink though to get them to look that up. They do not volunteer that information. I found out that info by googling.
@Kidsandliz Wow, that’s pretty bad.
I bet you’re getting those light saber things, the 2 pack! Light weight and long, that’s GOT to be it!! A long lost secret Santa gift! SURPRISE!!
@Lynnerizer That did seem like a possibility. Or the extended dust mop.
I’m rooting for the light sabers.
So did you get the box?
@AuntMean67 hahahaha NO. They’re going to open an investigation on why. Should take 24-48 hours.
@brainmist Wow! That really sucks! But it’s fun forum conversation, that’s for sure!
@AuntMean67 LOL, I meant it to be a fun reveal (and I’m REALLY curious at this point!) but FedEx just isn’t being cooperative!
Maybe if I leave a trail of candy to the house…
Piece of Candy!
@AuntMean67 @brainmist can you ask them to deliver it to a Walgreens or whatever you have local that holds packages?
@AuntMean67 @RiotDemon Maybe? Honestly, with FedEx, I kinda just ignore that they suck because I’m rarely in a hurry, and it usually gets here eventually. But when I don’t know what’s in the box, suddenly there’s suspense.
Of course, one more “attempted delivery, no one home” claim, and I think they can hold it at their distribution center. They’ve done that before. For a service, they’re incredibly unserving.
@AuntMean67 Update on the ‘investigation’ into my complaint that the driver has claimed an exception (that I wasn’t home) that a) isn’t true and b) doesn’t matter because no signature is required:
I was left a message that the driver says I wasn’t home.
@brainmist OMG!!!
@AuntMean67 @brainmist
How many blonds does it take to work at the postal service? Lol
@AuntMean67 @Star2236 This seems less dumb and more lazy/over tasked. Although maybe they’re trying the empty house around the corner?
Well, it’s not a steam mop - they’re
“13.50 x 8.00 x 49.60 Inches.”
@Kyeh Maybe it’s a broken one.
Yoga mat? Yukele? Nah light sabers are more fun, I hope you get those. Let us know what you got
I’ve gotten a tad punchy at this point…
@brainmist Yeah but it doesn’t say on the truck out for delivery. It could be in transit to the moon or something. Keep your expectations low low low. I had that message on a package several times over a period of nearly 2 weeks. God only knows where it really was. Shades of PB.
/giphy cold water on hopes
@Kidsandliz Apparently they didn’t appreciate my snark, because now its delivery date is tomorrow.
Their distribution center did call to let me know there person today had described my house as unreachable and… do you think it occurred to them at all that I must be reaching it some way? Anyway, I pointed out the short, level side alley that leads straight to my door and is clearly the most direct route on any map app. So we’ll see. But probably I’ll have to go pick it up.
@brainmist Put signs with arrows every few feet?
@brainmist @callow oh maybe a few balloons too, that would be festive!!!
@brainmist Well that’s a PITA. Put a big sign in your front yard. HEY FED EX turn into the alley. FOLLOW ARROWS (as others suggested).
@Kidsandliz @callow @tinamarie1974 Another friend suggested I get a sign printed, and of course if I do I have to spook it up a bit. “FedEx deliveries: take alley to side door.
Mortuary deliveries to boneyard”
@brainmist If you have a FedEx account you can specify delivery instructions for all packages.
@callow I have. In as specific a detail as the space allows.
@brainmist @callow Dear Fedex: DELIVER MY FUCKING PACKAGE SOMEWHERE NEAR MY HOUSE.
@sammydog01 LOL, THANK YOU for the laugh, I so needed that!
@callow @sammydog01
We got that note because the box was labeled that it took two to lift and deliver… Could be that?
@trailtroll Seems unlikely…yes, it’s 3’ long, but only 1 pound. Maybe the weight’s completely off? And the drivers don’t have dollies? But the problem wasn’t going to get resolved by pretending I just wasn’t home.
I only ever have issues with FedEx. Heck, Walmart sent some poor schlub out in an ice storm because they decided to deliver something early. I even called them and said “Don’t try it, this weather’s awful, I can pick it up later”. And still he came…
@trailtroll could be. Seems Meh puts a placeholder weight of 1lb on their outbound packages. Even the Pasta Drop boxes, eight boxes would show up and I knew there was 1 box @ 1 lb
@trailtroll What the heck was in a meh box that big and heavy?
@Kidsandliz @trailtroll We may never know…
(We’re gonna know. If it’s not here tomorrow, I’ll have them send it to a closer FedEx store and pick it up.)
@Kidsandliz it was woot and a rollup mattress
@trailtroll So was the mattress any good?
@Kidsandliz Yes!!! After letting it “fluff up” for 72 hours its incredible.
Darn it! I need to know what is in the box!
@yakkoTDI Saturday at the latest*. If I can get the awful Que video glasses to work, I’ll shoot some video. Or take pictures. Or something.
*Barring further Fedexery. Also by now they’ve probably pissed on it.
@yakkoTDI AHAHAHA you get your wish, apparently it WILL last.
WILL TODAY BE THE DAY???
(I need to be able to add a poll.)
@brainmist
Outlook good
/8ball WILL TODAY BE THE DAY???
@callow OoooOOOooo I wanna try it!
Outlook good
/8ball WILL TODAY BE THE DAY?
@brainmist @callow
Reply hazy try again
/8ball WILL TODAY BE THE DAY?
@brainmist @callow
Ask again later
/8ball WILL TODAY BE THE DAY?
@brainmist @callow Hmmm I’m not having much luck… The 8 ball is a fickle bedfellow.
@callow @Kidsandliz Well, we are approaching sundown, at which point they probably won’t even try.
So what is today’s excuse for non delivery?
Not home?
Weather?
Aliens took it?
@RiotDemon It’s okay, tomorrow is Saturday and they said Saturday at the latest. And Fedex never lies.
@RiotDemon @sammydog01 LOL, no, I said if they couldn’t figure out the alley (which every other delivery person, including the daily USPS, uses), they could leave it at a FedEx store and, despite the whole pandemic and laying low thing, I’d schlep over to get it.
Looks like that will be the case; if they find my alley intimidating during the daytime, no way they’ll try it after dark.
Ah, the exciting sequel of the sequel (of the sequel)^5 (i.e. day 8 of promised delivery and then no delivery):
Let’s see what today’s reschedule date is!
BUT WAIT!!!
New dimensions? A new reference? One that follows Meh’s typical order confirmation format? (and I just realized the other doesn’t…so maybe it really IS a pallet of Martian watches!!! But likely NOT something I ordered!)
UH-OH!
It’s…it’s my IRK. My precious, hard earned IRK.
Shipping early.
Almost certainly NOT 6x4x1 inches (unless they’re just sending the bag and a note that says “HA-HA!”)
Dear lort.
My friends…my compatriots in this misadventure…
NOW THERE ARE TWO SHIPMENTS.
WE. ARE. DOOOOOOOMMMMMEEEDDDD.
/giphy doom
@brainmist I BET YOUR IRK WILL MAKE IT FIRST!
@RiotDemon I think you’re right. Especially of those dimensions are accurate.
(1 inch IRK? That’s got to be a record)
@brainmist 6x4x1? It is a dildo so you can get screwed by two packages.
@brainmist that is just the holding size and weight.
Sigh.
@brainmist manage delivery! Those jerks.
@brainmist @RiotDemon
“Manage Delivery - our way of telling you it’s your fault if your package doesn’t arrive because YOU were supposed to be managing it.”
@brainmist @RiotDemon @ybmuG
IS IT OUT FOR DELIVERY YET?
@RiotDemon @sammydog01 @ybmuG I don’t know. I’m trying a new theory, that a watched package never arrives.
@sammydog01 Ope, I looked. Should not have looked.
@sammydog01 My current theory is that they’re stalling until spring.
@brainmist @sammydog01 I hope it’s not a whole bunch of stroopwafels!
@brainmist @Kyeh It’s on the truck for delivery in 2 days? Does it have a flat tire?
@Kyeh @sammydog01 Maybe it’s something REALLY heavy and the warehouse people have gotten tired with loading and unloading it every single day.
And I would kinda enjoy a gazillion pounds of stroopwafels…for about a week.
I do hope, if this is an actual mystery package the folks at Meh decided to just wing my way (as opposed to something ordered and forgotten, or ordered by someone else) that the delivery drama doesn’t discourage you. I just figure if FedEx is going to deny me the fun of my mystery box, they can at least entertain us.
I wish I could see the route log for the truck. I honestly don’t think they’ve even been hitting my block. I can generally hear those trucks pretty well (and so can the dogs), and the one route they can take goes past the window I sit at to work. But I’ve yet to spot the illusive beast.
/image illusive
/define illusive
‘define’ slash command doesn’t work anymore?
@compunaut nope.
/google illusive definition
Illusive | Definition of Illusive by Merriam-Webster
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/illusive
/google elusive vs illusive
elusive vs. illusive : Choose Your Words : Vocabulary.com
https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/elusive-illusive/
@compunaut @RiotDemon Oh, interesting - is this a package
that’s hard to get, or one that never really existed at all!? 
@compunaut @Kyeh @RiotDemon It’s Schrödinger’s box. It neither exists nor doesn’t exist until it’s delivered.
H/t to @caramelarrow
@brainmist Hey there! I think, not positive, but I think, this is my first shout out on meh. Thanks! And I’m anxiously waiting to find out 1) WHEN you get the box, 2) How it finally gets to you, and 3) What the heck is IN the box. Thanks for letting us all play along.
@brainmist @caramelarrow
@compunaut
@caramelarrow It was a very astute observation. Responses have been quite delightful, which makes up for FedEx being less than.
Welcome to Team #WhatsInTheBox!
/giphy We’re all in this together!
This sounds SO MUCH MORE like Pitney Bowes than FedEx!
@Dakini I think a lot depends on where you are. And whether your house is clearly an unapproachable murder house whose neighbors just don’t ask questions if they see the owner digging at 3 am.
That said, I get deliveries from everyone else, including restaurant deliveries by people who likely don’t do this full time, with no issues. It’s only FedEx having problems.
Hey, remember at the beginning of this long saga when FedEx declined to try delivering because of “weather”?
That was maybe 1/2 of light fluff.
Monday (theoretically the next delivery date), we’re expecting a blizzard. 12 inches of snow expected. REAL weather.
So I’m pretty certain Monday is out.
@brainmist If you were making this up, you wouldn’t have thought of it all!
And now you have a bunch of us addicted to this thread. There better be a real box at the end of this…
@ybmuG I’m grateful for the moral support in these tumultuous times.
If this box doesn’t show… I’m trying not to be vindictive because times are hard for everyone, but right now I’m really tempted to just start ordering everything ridiculously big I can think of. When it’s finally too much to store, they can just bring me the entire truckload.
@brainmist @ybmuG This has become truly epic.
/giphy epic
Also:
Folks, I don’t know how to tell you, but
And with the weather we have rolling in, there’s zero chance they’ll deliver it then, and it’s pretty unlikely I’ll be able to get to it. Probably I should have just told them when I spoke to their rep to leave it at the local FedEx store, but it kinda galls me to do the delivery job of a delivery company, just because they don’t wanna.
But if and when I and my box of mystery are ever united, like lost souls in the fog, I PROMISE I will do an update and post pictures. And if it’s a pallet of Martian watches, I’ll figure out which ones still sorta work and send a few out to you, the intrepid people behind Team #WhatsInTheBox.
By USPS, of course.
@brainmist Since it’s seeming like this delivery is never going to happen, can you ask them to hold it and just arrange a time to pick it up at a FedEx location?
@eggsterminate Yup. Seems likely that’s what I’ll need to do. I was kind of waiting to see whether, with an IRK also due today (which I know isn’t going to be too big or heavy to carry the maybe 80 feet needed), they’d make an effort. But no.
Today they claimed “weather” again. It’s been clear and sunny, and fairly warm, all day. I spent a lot of it outdoors with a sweatshirt on. But sure, “weather”.
@brainmist I love it - Team #WhatsInTheBox! We could get T-shirts. We’d probably have them before you get your box. Which might actually be cool. Everyone wear them when you reveal What’s In The Box while wearing your #WhatsInTheBox T-shirt.
@ybmuG LOL! Don’t tempt me.
@brainmist I am just over the border in NW Indiana…have it delivered here and i can have to you the same day. You’ll get it faster that way, LOL!
@cbilyak Oh, the one we’ve been waiting for is literally just across the river from me. And has allegedly been on a truck in my neighborhood 9-10 times since the 15th.
The difficulty seems to be in getting them to take it off the truck, and either walk it 80’ to my door, or leave it at the curb.
Which is why I’m really wondering if, instead of 38x18x21", it’s actually a pallet.
@brainmist
Well, I threw up a quick design on Cafe Press 'cause I couldn’t resist. May take a day to show up; I’ll let you know.
@brainmist OK, here’s the link. I picked a couple styles and added a design with just the hashtag. Can’t believe I did this (but it was fun!) I think I need to go to bed…
https://www.cafepress.com/ybmug
@ybmuG omg. It’s… It’s beautiful! Sniff
I have one request:
Can you see how it’d work in Futura Bold (FedEx’s primary font)? Just to get a bit of parody on…
Logo fonts
@brainmist ok, I’ll give it a go.
@ybmuG If not, no worries. It is a thing of beauty. And yes, I’m planning to get one!
@brainmist @ybmuG
I know this guy!
@Kyeh @ybmuG Really? That’s cool!
@brainmist @ybmuG That is really cool but I’d be afraid of people singing me the answer!
@brainmist @ybmuG Yeah, not well, but he’s a letterpress printing enthusiast, so I met him through that.
@brainmist @callow @ybmuG
Too true!
@callow @ybmuG Probably they would have anyway.
@brainmist OK, I had to get the font, but I was able to update the designs.
@brainmist Weeelllll, Cafe Press decided to take my designs down because of some violation of their Content Use Policy. I mean what could the violation possibly be? I did a Google search for the phrase and did come across the meme from Se7en, but that was like 137 years ago, so that can’t be it. I did see a kids game with that name, but really?
So I inquired and just got word that they reviewed and reinstated my designs. Yay!
@brainmist Hey - looks like CafePress finally got things back on track and if you forget my “shop” and just search for whatsinthbox, you should get 3 designs. The first one is broken, but the other two work and you can select whatever shirt that you want, men’s or women’s. AAANND, they are all on sale! I’m getting mine!
I really shouldn’t get everyone’s hopes up…but…
They’ve updated the delivery date TO TODAY.
Could it finally happen? Will we know if it’s a pallet of obsolete notifier watches? Will they drop it in my neighbor’s driveway out of spite, or possibly just lob it into a train ravine?
I’ll be watching, as always. The snow is due to start in about 10 minutes.
@brainmist
Now, now. A quality soap opera continues for decades.
: )
@f00l OK, but it has felt like decades.
But I hear you. Even if this episode finally concludes…I have some thoughts.
The suspense…
@cbooboo2 Snowmageddon has begun, so we’re probably looking at Thursday before I have time and clear enough roads to just pick whatever up.
Patience is supposed to be a virtue, so I guess we’re all earning virtue points, or something like that.
But, seriously FedEx, torture is not a good way to teach patience. I’m more curious about when it will be delivered than what it contains. Deliver the box, deliver the box, deliver the box!
A possible explanation?
@blaineg No, the only possible explanation is @Star2236 called up FedEx and told them to keep delaying the package. I don’t know why she’d do such a thing, unless she knows whats actually in it. Maybe she’s trying to protect @brainmist from his city’s equivalent of the Austin bomber.
/blame /unblame; could go either way.
@blaineg @Star2236 @Weboh This seems highly probable. Damn/thank you, @star2236!!
@blaineg Lol, at least the duck tried! FedEx… Seems not to have tried.
I can’t blame them today because snowmageddon. But if yesterday was weather related as they claimed, they’re clearly vampires.
@blaineg @brainmist @Weboh
I know all my fault!!!
So? Updates?
IT IS DELIVERED???
HAVE YOU SHOVELED THE ALLEY?
@sammydog01 Somebody took a snowblower to the alley, and it wasn’t anyone I recognized, so that was mysterious.
@brainmist @sammydog01 Maybe a Meh lurker that lives in the area…
Ah, day…12? Of the neverending saga! 6+ inches of snow, roads are still mostly covered, and it’s sunny but blowing. I think we can safely say this won’t happen today.
Wait, WHAT??? They delivered through snowmageddon??
Oh wait, probably the IRK.
OMG HOLY SHIT FOLKS!!!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!! It’s here, it’s FINALLY, finally here!
And the IRK is here too!
@brainmist
/giphy “big smile”
And YES, I do have a dramatic reveal… But unfortunately I have to get some work done first (and I spent way too much time trying to set up some humorous stuff).
So tune in THIS EVENING for the THRILLING CONCLUSION OF…
WHAT’S! IN! THE! BOX!!!
(Folks at Meh, I love it! This was definitely a hilarious and yet very thoughtful gift. Thank you!)
@brainmist aghhghhhhhh! I’m so excited!
@brainmist Such a tease after all this time?!?!
@brainmist
/giphy excited
@brainmist The anticipation is palpable!! Can’t wait for the conclusion of this thrilling saga!
@raccoon81 Hopefully worth it…
@brainmist That’s really mean!
@callow I’m sorry! Trying to balance work and soap opera authorship.
This is crazy. Lord love a duck
AND NOW THE CONCLUSION!!!
Can it be? Is it here??
Holy cow! OK, maybe I can see FedEx’s point. (Although maybe just say “the box won’t survive transport”)
Also, who the heck took a snowblower to my alley?
That box has seen some things.
Me too, box. Me too.
BUT WAIT!!!
IT’S ALIVE!!!?!
AND EVIL!!!
AN EVIL IMPOSTER! FROM AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE!
AND IT’S GOT MY IRK!! MY PRECIOUS, HARD WON IRK!!!
AND A KNIFE!!!
(I am so tempted to cliff hang right here folks. SOOOO TEMPTED.)
@brainmist NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Fighting the urge! With chicken nuggets! (not pictured)
NUGS NOT DRUGS!!!
@brainmist
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
it’s been 3 minutes…
Where were we…oh yes, it’s got a knife…
I forgot to warn everyone, the next scenes involve graphic violence.
NOT TODAY, FUCKER!!!
(oh, and expletives. There are expletives.)
HAVE AT YOU!
Whew, that was close!
FIRST BLOOD!
@brainmist I’ve refreshed every few seconds for the last 5 minutes,
/giphy I cant take it!
Time to finish this…
You won’t hurt an IRK ever again…
(Guess we can definitely call this its ‘delivery’ date.)
Don’t worry, little IRK. You’re safe now. Everything is all right.
The end(?)
And for all you intrepid bastards who followed along through this whole crazy adventure, FINALLY, WHAT’S IN THE BOX???
So I initially figured I wouldn’t be able to move it, and started opening it on the spot.
Then I realized it was lighter than it looked. Not light, mind you, but movable.
But moving it tore the box, annnnd
WUT
HOLY SHIT
(For those wondering, the dog’s name is Mephitidae, pronounced Meh-FIT-i-day.
Which seems appropriate, because I was also excited to get her, and she is also completely awful and I love her.)
@brainmist what is it??? And cute pup!!
Convenient handles made this much easier to haul, which is good, because it didn’t occur to me to unload it until just now. Shut up, it’s been a hard apocalypse and I did have a knife/sword/gunfight like, 10 minutes before.
Anyway, this was what was inside!
Congratulations, @Rockblossom, you actually deduced it!
And the lovely note:
Thank you, fine folks at Meh, this completely made my day.
@brainmist @rockblossom so pasta and a sweet cooler, lucky dog! That is awesome
HIKING! VIKINGS! STRIKE KING [BRAND FISHING LURES]! AWESOME!
And now I have to figure out which friends to drop some pasta on!
Everyone loves unsolicited noods, right?
@brainmist @rockblossom That was AWE-SOME (misspelled to avoid the bot
), and you definitely made it worth following!
Hilarious outtake: I spent a ridiculous amount of time (and ink) creating different faces, only to discover it’s too cold for double sided tape to stick. Which is why I didn’t get everything posted this afternoon…I ended up realizing that in this case, computer graphics was going to be better than my special effects attempt.
I even had cranberry sauce blood all ready to go. Ah well.
@brainmist OMG that is so awesome!
POPSOCKETS! SPA KITS! POLLY POCKETS! AWESOME!
@brainmist an A for effort
@brainmist @tinamarie1974
@brainmist @ybmuG OMG …I
that scene!!
@brainmist About the unsolicitated noods… Please give it to a food bank, seriously .
@OldCatLady l have a few friends with big families who are feeling the pinch too, so would be happy for the surprise. Noods for their broods.
@brainmist
Is that the biggest cooler ever or is it just the way you shot the photo?
@Star2236 It’s a ginormous cooler, along the lines of a truckbed accessory.
I could definitely fit a body in it, but for now? It’s full of noods and cheez.
/giphy pasta
OF COURSE. That seems really fitting! Lucky you! And it turned out even funnier than Meh intended it to be, didn’t it? Congratulations! This was a lot of fun. How ironic though that it arrived on the day with the worst weather!
(You named your dog “skunk”?)
🦨
@Kyeh She has a white stripe down her neck. And she’s a stinker. I was going to go with Stinky McStinkbutt, but that seemed inelegant.
@brainmist Do you call her Meh for short?
@Kyeh generally call her Middy Mephitidae, because she’s naughty A LOT and needs the extra names. And also Stinky. And Middy Spoon, because she likes sleeping between me and the other dog, and will aggressively snuggle her way whether we like it or not, then get too warm and kick the covers off of all of us.
@brainmist Ah, so her name’s not a tribute to your favorite daily deal shopping site, then…
@Kyeh More a happy coincidence. Possibly a subconscious recognition of the equal parts delight and frustration.
I hope meh has enjoyed your reveal!
That looks like a really nice cooler with thick sides. That in and of itself is a win. Never mind a billion pounds of noodles (grin).
@Kidsandliz it was all around a really fun experience. The interminable wait was made so much better by the participation of Team #WhatsInTheBox. Thank you, everyone!
Crap, I completely forgot I was setting up a hilarious pun:
“It’s an IM-PASTA-ER!”
What brand of cooler did you get?
@RiotDemon I just went out to my sunporch to look, but couldn’t find a logo. It’s really nice, though. I think they may have even just bought it for this purpose: it looks new, minus a scuff or two that may have happened in shipping.
My cheapy Coleman looks so rinky- dink next to it! When I can do camping festivals again, imma give people cooler envy!
@brainmist @RiotDemon its a Palm cooler
@brainmist @Koolhandjoe @RiotDemon damn, congrats @brainmist!
@Koolhandjoe @RiotDemon Thanks! And please tell your team, thanks so much to everyone who made this happen. I love it.
@brainmist @Koolhandjoe @RiotDemon Someone (everyone?) needs to send brainmist the pad for it.
@blaineg @Koolhandjoe @RiotDemon Pad?
@blaineg @brainmist @Koolhandjoe @RiotDemon I actually thought about that if I hadn’t already gotten rid of mine. Might still have the tie-downs for it as well.
@blaineg @brainmist @Koolhandjoe @raccoon81
/image palm cooler mat morningsave
@brainmist @Koolhandjoe @raccoon81 @RiotDemon Yep, that pad.
Lots of people got the Palm seat pad & tiedowns in IRKs. But never the cooler.
@blaineg @Koolhandjoe @raccoon81 @RiotDemon Ooooo, fancy! I’ll have to keep my eye out.
Next Mehrican exchange, I’ll sign up and drop hints. 'Cause you know some of these items are in someone’s re-gifting bin.
Also, looked up the dropped pasta post, and the fine, fine folks at Meh put together this magnificent drop-proof pasta drop for dropped pasta THE SAME DAY.
I’m feeling pretty special, y’all. Thank you!
@brainmist And our faith in humanity (or at least a few humans) is refreshed!
Oh, WOW! I missed the reveal yesterday because work and life were crazy at the time. And I really never thought it would be delivered with a half-foot of snow if it wasn’t delivered on all the good days. Noods!! Lots and lots of noods, probably “dropped” numerous times on their journey to your snow-filled alley, judging by the condition of the box. FedEx should have added some band-aids instead of tape. And you got a cool cooler!
Love the soap opera and pics and appreciate the time and trouble it took for you, @brainmist, to set up a fun reveal for Team #WhatsInTheBox. Kudos to the team at Meh for doing this. Bet they never expected to generate so much talk and excited anticipation among so many mehmbers. To all - thanks for adding some joy to these please-make-it-end days.
Oh, and I guess, thanks to FedEx. If the box had been delivered in a couple of days, like normal, there wouldn’t have been as much fun for everyone. Lemons to lemonade, as it were.
@caramelarrow It was definitely fun lemonade. I’m feeling a bit bad for FedEx’s delivery drivers, because after the second “not home” I did harangue them a bit… But I don’t understand why they didn’t leave a note or knock on the door to say “hey, the box is not going to survive hauling, do you want to come look at it and figure out what to do?” I mean, why say things that clearly weren’t a problem? That was the irritating part.
I am quite mystified about the snowblower, though. The city doesn’t do much for alleys (it barely does my street, and not well), and the only other person who lives as far down it as I do… Doesn’t have a car. The other two of us just shovel ourselves a runway to the alley and drive over the snow from the.
Did meh send a snowblower? Did FedEx? Is there a mysterious third party involved? IT’S A MYSTERY!
@brainmist A new mystery?? We shall all need to place our defective hats, umm, I mean Detective hats on our heads to figure this out. My guess… someone nearby got a snowblower for Christmas and this was the first opportunity to really try it out. I’ve seen this before up close, snowblowing all over the place and having fun with a new “toy.” Or a maybe it was a snow gremlin.
@caramelarrow I took a closer look, and they did blow a path to the front porch of a neighbor’s house (the one with no car, but he’s occasionally visited by people with cars, BUT usually they park on the street, and the snowblown path isn’t quite car width, BUT maybe they ran out of gas?)
It’s weird because I haven’t seen that neighbor out since winter started, the closer path for walking would have been the sidewalk in front of that house, and usually he just shovels that himself.
I think it has to have been unrelated to the Case of the FedEx Fiasco, because why would they do the neighbor’s walk? But if it was for the neighbor’s visitors, why didn’t they do a car-width path?
Glad you enjoyed the ride.
@ChadP And a wild, wild ride it was…
@ChadP I think we all did.
PS:
FedEx has been sitting on a smallish package for 10 days.
Apparently there’s an address issue.
They sent a message regarding this issue…to the address in question.
YEAH
@brainmist did you piss off a FedEx driver at some point?
@brainmist It seems to be a virus spreading though all carriers.
We ordered 3 books (same day) to be sent media mail and because we had changed our contact address but not the shipping address on PayPal, they were sent to the old house. Thankfully we had great neighbors who volunteered to pick them up.
Package 1: delivered to the old house, friends picked it up, we went for a much welcome visit, all is great!
Package 2: delivered to the new house (must have gotten forwarded…hmmmm). Oh well, all good.
Package 3: got a notice on the door of the new house - can’t deliver b/c postage due. Huh? Apparently they also forwarded it and b/c it was media mail (like they all were), forwarding is not included (never asked them to do so) so we had to pay an extra $5 to pick it up at the post office.
Can anyone figure out how to deliver a package reliably?
@ybmuG If you have a mail forward from the old to the new house, package #3 was done right. #1 missed the address change completely and #2 missed the postage due unless it was sent first class instead of media.
No, I don’t think anyone will get their act together anytime soon. It is hard to get good help around here.
@speediedelivery Interesting. I went to the USPS website and I do now see that media mail (all 3 were) would be forwarded with postage due. I’d swear we got a notice that packages are not forwarded. Either way I found it fascinating that each package was handled differently by the same 2 post offices.