All podded out

I got my iPod. I’d take a picture of it to prove this, but I also got my work Blackberry this week and last night I was reintroduced to the joys of being on call, so I really can’t be bothered to put in extra effort. I’m only awake now because I’m waiting for my hair to dry (too tired to hold up a hairdryer).

In the end I never managed to intercept the package from UPS at all. The tracking webpage had said on Saturday that the thing was at the Richmond location and would be delivered on Monday. But when I called on Monday at 8 am the guy on the phone said that it wasn’t there yet and wouldn’t be delivered until Tuesday, so call back tomorrow. Then on Monday afternoon I refreshed the webpage just for kicks and it said it had been delivered and signed for by a neighbour. Luckily I recognized the last name and had the neighbour’s phone number from my previous life, so I called her and got it all sorted. The iPod then went from her to my old building manager to my dad, who was nice enough to mail it (via Canada Post) on Tuesday for me to receive on Wednesday. Phew.

Despite what a random troll on my last blog post thought, I was never blaming UPS for delivering the package to the destination for which it was told: good job on that, eh. It’s strange, though, that there’s such a disconnect of information between what the people at the 1-800 number said and what was on the tracking page: both times the operators gave me later delivery dates than what the page displayed at the same time. It seems to me, as well, that UPS should either have a policy against, or a proper ability to, intercept packages, rather than the “well maybe if you call just at the right time…” story I was given. Of course, the latter would require them to integrate their computer systems.

But I’m happy and relieved to get my new iPod so that I may listen to music all day at work and not have the battery die (the current problem with my old 30GB classic, which maybe lasts 3 hours of non-video usage before performing seppuku). The nano is also my first portable music player in over a decade that contains an FM radio (so retro!), which is quite useful as Kelowna has so many radio stations, you trip over them. No, seriously, I think I pass three on the walk to Safeway.