Random Rants OA - I Have 71 Problems, But This Thread Ain't One

[Cutlass]

I missed an Amazon delivery today because the building intercom isn't working. I had no idea they deliver on Sunday! I wasn't expecting it until Monday, at the earliest.

The good thing is that they're going to try again tomorrow... hopefully after the tech guy comes to fix the intercom.

For some reason Amazon decided to ship the bookmark separately from the book.

Does Canada Post deliver like US Post Office does? Amazon has a lot of different facilities. You can order multiple things in the same order, but they may be shipped from different warehouses. And so arrive at different times. Amazon has a shipping option "ship my order together" which sometimes takes longer, but there will be fewer times that they come to your place, cutting down the odds of missing you.

 

[Takhisis]

mazon has a shipping option "ship my order together" which sometimes takes longer

Does Amazon charge you extra for having to store the different parts of your order until they can send you the whole bundle?

 

[Cutlass]

Does Amazon charge you extra for having to store the different parts of your order until they can send you the whole bundle?

Not here.

 

[Cutlass]

I keep a huge knife on my desk. Why it that most of the times I want to use it, I can't find it?

 

[Takhisis]

Heheh. It's like that time when I went to open the front door, decided to look for my keys, and eventually found them in my hand!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Does Canada Post deliver like US Post Office does? Amazon has a lot of different facilities. You can order multiple things in the same order, but they may be shipped from different warehouses. And so arrive at different times. Amazon has a shipping option "ship my order together" which sometimes takes longer, but there will be fewer times that they come to your place, cutting down the odds of missing you.

The order ended up coming today anyway, since the delivery guy tried again. He phoned and I explained that I'd had the phone off the hook earlier due to telemarketers, but put it back on after getting the "we attempted delivery" email. He wasn't upset at that, and said he'd like to try again, so I explained that I'd have to meet him in the lobby since the intercom wasn't working.

So I got my item - a bookmark - in a HUGE envelope.


Some Amazon items are delivered by Canada Post, some come by UPS, sometimes via Purolator... the stuff I buy from the Marketplace sellers is delivered by Canada Post now, but a few years ago the UPS guy was kept busy delivering books as I'd ordered a lot and for awhile I was getting parcels nearly every day.

Does Amazon charge you extra for having to store the different parts of your order until they can send you the whole bundle?

There's an "extra charges may apply" note on the Canadian website. I thought this whole thing was silly, given that I'm a Prime member and so I should have been getting the book at the same time as the bookmark (both were sold through Amazon, not a 3rd party). Monday or Tuesday would have been fine, and they wouldn't have had to use such a ridiculously large envelope.

As it is, the book I'm ordering will be too large for my mailbox, so I'm expecting to find a key to the Canada Post parcel locker next time I check. Unless, of course, Amazon is going to deliver it themselves.

I'd really prefer Canada Post to do it, since I don't need to answer the phone or do anything with the intercom most times, just when the parcel is too big to fit into the locker and nobody is in the office to accept it for me.

 

[The_J]

Why did you order a bookmark?
(why are they even sold?)

I have a hangover from basically 3 drinks.
Oh man, what's wrong with me?

Age, me old china!

Yeah, thought first too that it might be the age.
Good news: It's probably not, and I'm actually more resistant.
Bad news: I'm down with gastritis, have only eaten a banana today.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Why did you order a bookmark?
(why are they even sold?)

I collect them. I've got lots of Star Trek-themed ones, D&D-themed ones, cats, Garfield, Shakespeare, penguins, music, Egyptian motifs, and I found some Sun/Moon/planetary ones on Amazon.

Some people just dog-ear their place in books; that's a habit I had many years ago and managed to break, at least for my paperback and hardcover books. I still dogear my comic digests, since they're not worth much.

Normally I'll grab the nearest clean piece of paper to mark my place in a book, but I like to collect fancier bookmarks, and have made umpteen dozen of them over the years when I used to sell needlepoint and cross-stitch items in local stores and craft fairs.

And some people do use the fancier bookmarks in their books. I used them for awhile, until one of the cats got hold of a couple and decided to chew on them. So from that point on I used regular bits of scrap paper to mark my place in books and saved the real bookmarks for collecting.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I bought a handmade bookmark a few years ago and I still use it constantly.

 

[Cutlass]

I have a bookmark made by Mercedes Lackey.

 

[JohannaK]

My brain is my bookmark. I have had a ton over the years and I've barely ever used any of them.

 

[Cutlass]

I almost always use just a random scrap of paper.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I almost always use just a random scrap of paper.

Me too.

 

[Ajidica]

Yep. Random scraps of paper or extra Magic: The Gathering cards for me.

 

[Takhisis]

extra Magic: The Gathering cards

HERETIC! IN THE NAME OF ELUNE, DIE!

 

[Ajidica]

HERETIC! IN THE NAME OF ELUNE, DIE!

On the contrary, being used as a bookmark is about as good as pieces of limited trash can hope for post-draft. At least they are used for something instead of being forgotten in the back of the closet.

 

[Arakhor]

I use the receipts I generate when buying the book in question.

 

[Ajidica]

@Arakhor When you have an abundance of Aunts and Uncles who are big on gift-giving but equally big on me just sending them the Amazon link, I never have to buy my own books!

 

[Zkribbler]

I keep a huge knife on my desk. Why it that most of the times I want to use it, I can't find it?

Look in your back.

 

[Takhisis]

It seems to be a fad with bookshops here but they always seem to give me at least as many bookmarks as books I've bought from them. Each time.

On the contrary, being used as a bookmark is about as good as pieces of limited trash can hope for post-draft. At least they are used for something instead of being forgotten in the back of the closet.

You desecrator of collectibles. In the name of the moon, scat!