Lake Neuron

A few weeks before my Africa trip, I ordered a few items from Amazon.com. Collectively, I guess they must have tipped the retail-value scales to where UPS needed a signature for delivery. I wasn’t home and so they left a notice on my apartment door. I wasn’t sure I would be home the next day either, so I ended up driving to the UPS office in Tullahoma — 20 miles away — to pick up my package.

When I ordered my new PDA this week, I decided to avoid this problem by having it delivered to me at work. I really didn’t expect to get it until the end of the week or even the first of next week, but in checking the UPS tracking site yesterday I was delighted to find that it had been shipped from Nashville (Palm must use a warehouse there or something) and that it had arrived in Tullahoma in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.

I waited expectantly for my parcel on Wednesday, right up until I had to meet some people to carpool to Nashville for a banquet. On my way home from the banquet, I stopped by the newspaper office, fully expecting the package to be on my desk. It wasn’t.

This morning, the UPS tracking site reports that they tried to deliver the package at 5:45 yesterday evening. (Our front office closes and te doors are locked at 5 p.m.) It was clearly a business address; why couldn’t they have delivered the package during the day?

The web site said that a notice had been left but did not specify whether or when they were going to reattempt delivery. I need to check up front and see if someone ever found the notice.

I want my PDA!!!