Fuck You UPS, Part 2

More anti-UPS aggravation, courtesy of the good old United States Postal Service.

Here's how it goes:

1. On 3/18 I ordered two items thru Amazon: One copy of OS X 10.5.1, One 1TB external USB drive.

2. I was charged for next day UPS.

3. OS X was sold directly by Amazon. It took two god damn days for it to arrive. This is a small cardboard box with one DVD and a small booklet that is about 1/4 inch thick.

4. The USB drive was shipped yesterday, through USPS, not UPS. This is a box that weights maybe 2 pounds 4 pounds.

5. USPS delivered the USB drive, plus my daily mail, before 3 PM today.

It took UPS two fucking days to move a half-pound envelope from Laurel, Maryland to Reston, Virginia (less than 2 hours drive). They charged me for next day delivery.

It took the USPS one day to move my box from NYC, and all they were paid for was for priority mail rate.

Fuck you, UPS.

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.