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We live in a world that often seems to be taken over by technology. Everyone has a cell phone attached to them at all times. We live in a world of GPS. You can click a button and know exactly where you are and exactly what is around you and how long it will take you to get from Point A to, well, any point anywhere.
But still. I receive an e-mail. It says my package has been shipped. Lucky me; there is a tracking number. I click and guess what it tells me...
No, not the remarkably awesome details one might expect. I do not learn that my package is in the back right corner of Truck 528 that is currently traveling from Random City in Nebraska to Other Random City 200 miles away. The link does not tell me where the package has been every 3 hours for the past day.
Instead I learn that my package was PICKED UP four days ago.
What kind of tracking is that?
What has happened in the past FOUR days? Has the package remained in the same hands that retrieved it from the warehouse?
Shouldn't the tracking link provide SOME kind of information...think of the things we should be able to learn!!
But no. Instead I shall have to wait until 30 minutes after my package has arrived. Then if I get the time to click on the link again, it will probably have updated to DELIVERED.
Hopefully I'll have already figured that out myself...
September 20, 2010
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2 comments:
lol. That is first priority mail for you - I guess that is why you pay the extra for first class or maybe it is the other way around. What is in this mystery package? Anything good? Are you coming to visit me this weekend? We can go to the RS thing togethetr
The mystery package is actually my new computer for work. I've received the monitor but am waiting for the rest so I can get it all set up!!
I'll definitely think about coming up. :) This might be a better weekend for me than most. ... Yea, we'll talk. :)
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