United Parcel Service

Once again UPS has proceeded to rape me over the payment of anything better than 3-5 ultra budget ground shipping. Every single god damn time I pay for better than that, they let me down. So does FEDEX. Right now Ivette is doing her little victory dance ("I-told-you-sooooo").



This is how absurd this whole situation is:



1. The item ordered was OS X 10.5.1, retail price $129.



2. Amazon discounted the hell out of it, then almost brought it back to MSRP once UPS Next Day delivery was added to the order: $127.47



3. The item was shipped from Laurel, MD. That's north of DC.



4. The UPS driver for the first leg did fantastic time, he/she made it to Chantilly, VA (which is south of here) in exactly one hour. That's about 46 miles according to Google Maps. I guess the traffic was nonexistent at 1:30 AM.



5. The box was scanned for delivery at 6:13 AM.



6. The box entered the twilight zone until around 7:50 PM, when its status was magically changed to what it shows on the screen capture.



Fuckers.



The sad thing is that at $127.47, even if it takes two days, it is cheaper than paying $129, plus sales tax, plus gas to drive to the closest retailer that carries it, a 15-mile or so round trip.