UPS

Oh yes I know you're waiting to hear about the results of the reimbursement from the electric company. Did I get it? I'll have to write that next post. I just wanted to check in. Brook and I are settling in our house with little to no furniture. We bought a glorified card table from Target--whoohoo so at least now we're not sitting on the floor.

i bet you thought all the fun had ended in Africa though. I guess we thought so too. but we already have had a dose of fun with UPS. Already so excited when I was able to set up accounts and services via PHONE, Verizon said they were going to mail us the modem. When we get to our new home, UPS had already tried to deliver our modem twice. They informed us that the next day was the last time they would try and deliver on Thursday, which was fine because we were waiting on our airshipment anyway. I had to leave the house to pick up our computer from the shop but Brook stayed here. On the way back I saw a ton of UPS trucks around the neighborhood so I got excited. We waited and waited and waited. Brook goes out and forages for lunch while I wait here. I finally called at 3:30pm and asked UPS of the status. They gave me a window of delivery until 7pm. Ack. Finally at 6:40 I call again and UPS said that they had tried to deliver at 6:34 and we weren't home! I was livid. We were so at home and we hadn't even turned on the stereo lest we not hear the doorbell ring. So I call and tell the person that there was no attempted delivery. Upon which I had to talk to the station supervisor because Lady #1 said that we would have to go way out in the middle of MD and pick up our package. Luckily the supervisor understood our situation and said it would go out again for the following Monday. Wait, what about tomorrow, Friday? Oh no. That would be too easy. So I call to find out and it appears that delivery on Monday will be somewhere between (again) 9am and 7pm. Whooweee. That's good. i didn't want to do anything on Monday anyway.

Luckily the modem came at 3pm or something on Monday. I saw the UPS guy on the other side of the compound and I walked all the way over there and just stood there. He's like... you waiting on something? I told him I was waiting on the modem--he said he had remembered that package from before he went on vacation 5 days before. Evidently the person from last week was a temp worker. And the modem was handed directly over to me! Not quite the rigamarole that you get overseas but noteworthy all the same.