My new work around
Mar. 7th, 2026 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisIf your order arrives at Timber Ridge on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, you can't get your paws on it until Monday and usually they have some stupid issue with delivery on Mondays so really Tuesday. It's a massive PIA that annoys the shit out of me. I've considered setting up at UPS or somewhere to receive packages there but it's amazingly expensive. Yesterday I placed an Amazon order that was to be delivered yesterday between 2 and 6. And then I remembered Amazon lockers!!
Way back when, before Amazon locked in with UPS, I used Amazon lockers to make returns. They were all over Seattle. I did not remember seeing any in Issaquah but I placed my order and selected the option and whoa! There are plenty in fairly convenient places... like Dollar Store! Which I need to go to anyway.
It arrived there yesterday but I decided to wait until today to pick it up. I have to do some measuring for my Dollar Store list. I'll go after elbow coffee. Still way more handy than waiting until Tuesday.
I got an email last night from Shokz - the swimming earphone people. We'll be sending you a new headphone - should arrive in 3-5 days. No need to return the broken one. Score!! Except now I really have no reason to upgrade. Oh well.
I got an email from the IRS telling me I had an update. So I log into my account. Turns out the update was the news that I had signed up for email alerts. The IRS just lives to fuck with me.
Also Google. My phone and watch got updates this week. There is new feature available. I can set my watch to tell me when I forgot my phone. YES!!! Except. The whole time I was playing volleyball this morning I kept getting an alert that I had left my phone behind. Because my watch was water locked, I could not reply. So it kept happening. Now... if this happens while I'm swimming laps, that new feachur is going to get turned right off.
Time now to get un naked, make a coffee and head out to the elbow.
Way back when, before Amazon locked in with UPS, I used Amazon lockers to make returns. They were all over Seattle. I did not remember seeing any in Issaquah but I placed my order and selected the option and whoa! There are plenty in fairly convenient places... like Dollar Store! Which I need to go to anyway.
It arrived there yesterday but I decided to wait until today to pick it up. I have to do some measuring for my Dollar Store list. I'll go after elbow coffee. Still way more handy than waiting until Tuesday.
I got an email last night from Shokz - the swimming earphone people. We'll be sending you a new headphone - should arrive in 3-5 days. No need to return the broken one. Score!! Except now I really have no reason to upgrade. Oh well.
I got an email from the IRS telling me I had an update. So I log into my account. Turns out the update was the news that I had signed up for email alerts. The IRS just lives to fuck with me.
Also Google. My phone and watch got updates this week. There is new feature available. I can set my watch to tell me when I forgot my phone. YES!!! Except. The whole time I was playing volleyball this morning I kept getting an alert that I had left my phone behind. Because my watch was water locked, I could not reply. So it kept happening. Now... if this happens while I'm swimming laps, that new feachur is going to get turned right off.
Time now to get un naked, make a coffee and head out to the elbow.
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Date: 2026-03-07 07:06 pm (UTC)LOL - I giggled at this, sorry :D
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Date: 2026-03-07 08:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-07 08:37 pm (UTC)My money says this.