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Youʼll play pretend miniature golf tomorrow

Monday, November 7th, 2022 Alive 18,822 days

An unwelcome delivery update

“No Access to Delivery location” is Postal Service for “There was a big Astros World Series parade in the way, so the mailman went home.”

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Was it marked “Fragile?”

Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 Alive 18,288 days

A crushed USPS box, mangled by UPS

This is what happens when you recycle a Postal Service box to send something via UPS.

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Dent Arthur Dent

Friday, May 14th, 2021 Alive 18,280 days

A delivery notification for Zaphod Beeblebrox

Today I learned that delivery apps donʼt care what name you put in them. I think Iʼll be Ford Prefect tomorrow.

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Busted bars

Thursday, January 21st, 2021 Alive 18,167 days

DoorDashʼs web site asking the impossible

Sure wish I could order Dairy Queen through DoorDash, like the web site says I can.

But DoorDashʼs web site insists that I pick a size for a box of Buster Bars, which only come in one size.

I wonder how many other sales Dairy Queen has lost because of DoorDash.

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It wanted some frybread

Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 Alive 18,166 days

A package tracking status report

One of my wifeʼs inbound packages has made a stop at the Big Rez. Iʼve never seen that before.

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Friday, December 7th, 2018 Alive 17,391 days

A damaged package

Not to be outdone by the Amazon delivery guys who throw my packages over the gate, UPS appears to have actually run over my wifeʼs Christmas present before handing it over to the Postal Service for the last-mile delivery.

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Friday, July 6th, 2018 Alive 17,237 days

I ordered Planters cocktail peanuts from Amazon Fresh. It arrived in bubble wrap, instead of packing peanuts.

Seems like an opportunity missed.

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