So you got a day off work. Yippee!! Jack
--- On Fri, 3/20/09, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > From: William Robb <[email protected]> > Subject: Friggin amazing > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 10:44 AM > So, I took a day off work to wait for a shipment from > B&H Photo. A beauty dish and a couple of grids for my > studio lights. > Promised delivery was today, hence my taking a day from > work. > So, the parcels missed the Fed/Ex truck this morning, and > so my equipment is sitting at their local facitiy, about a > 10 minute drive from my house. > I called Fed/Ex to see if I could just pick the stuff up > myself, thereby saving them the trouble of delivery, and to > let me get on with my day. > It turns out they can't do that. > They have to have a failed delivery attempt prior to being > able to allow a customer pick-up, but they won't be > attempting a delivery now until Monday. > They did give me the option of calling the shipper to see > if they would change the delivery method to allow me to pick > up the gear. > B&H, unfortunately, has no way (at least so they say) > of changing the delivery option, since they have no > authority over how Fed/Ex does business. > > I think I'll dig out my copy of Catch-22 and give it a > read. > > It could be worse, I could have chosen UPS. > > So it goes. > > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
