Great timing….

Sears called. The product I ordered is ready for pickup.

…joy.

Also, I got not one but two ‘return orders’ from UPS, with tracking numbers. Sears says I’m supposed to ignore them, but…yeah, it’s going to be a very bad week.

The short, incomplete version of why I don’t trust Sears OR UPS now.

So, I was supposed to get my replacement sound system yesterday, right? And by ‘yesterday’, I actually mean ‘on the 15th’. Or possibly even ‘on the 14th,’ but maybe not.

The point is, I was supposed to have it. And I didn’t. And I still don’t.
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It’s 17:21 — do YOU know where MY UPS is?

I sure as hell don’t. And neither, it seems, does UPS. Their tracking page and their insufferable phone-computer both think it’s ‘on its way to me’. The actual human I got says it was supposed to be delivered yesterday, and that it was also supposed to have been delivered earlier today. Or something.
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