Fedex says NO LAPTOP FOR YOU--no wait, It's HERE!

[annathepiper]

They're taunting me, I tell you. The tracking page still says "On FedEx vehicle for delivery", which is what it's said since 9:55am this morning. There are about 33 miles between Kent and Kenmore. I have been twitching all day wondering what the hell the driver is doing, stopping every fifty feet to drop something off? Aigh! AIGH, I say!

My boss seems to think I might get it tomorrow morning, but spazzkat says FedEx doesn't deliver on weekends, so it's starting to look like I'm not going to see the box until Monday. I'm thinkin', this is clear evidence that it should be named Winnowill, on the grounds that it will get here when it damn well pleases, and probably screw with any PCs it passes on the way. ;)

ETA 8:09pm: It's HERE! It got here the instant I was sitting down to dinner! Dude apologized for being late and said that apparently the actual scheduled driver's wife got sick, so he had to take over. I told him that was totally okay, signed for the box, and now I get to play with the computer! Hurray!

Comments

[kent.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't give up hope. They're probably delivering later than normal because of the volume of stuff to get out there. (I've noticed that the postman sometimes rings twice, so to speak, in mid-to-late December.)

I was wondering when you posted less than an hour after it went out for delivery that you expected it within the hour. In my experience, a package is out of delivery all day until it finally arrives sometime in the afternoon just after you've given up on it arriving that day. Does FedEx promise two-hour windows or something?

[annathepiper]

Nah, that post was entirely me optimistically operating under the assumption that if it left Kent at 9:55am, it was actively on its way up to Kenmore at that very moment. I should have realized at the time, well, duh, the truck's probably got zillions of other things to deliver too. ;)

But good point re: the time of the year. We'll see if it shows up tomorrow.

[annathepiper]

Or, it could show up TONIGHT! Surprise! It got here just as we were starting dinner!