{"id":3413,"date":"2004-08-07T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-08T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2021-06-06T21:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T01:00:14","slug":"email-plus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/08\/07\/email-plus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Plus 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    I am going stir crazy!
    FedEx said I could expect my G5 on Monday. But it’s still<\/i> in China and has not moved in twenty-nine hours<\/i>!
    This is what my tracking page still says:
<\/center>
    That’s the way it’s been since yesterday morning<\/i>!
    I can’t take this any more.
    How much is a frigging plane ride to China? I’ll pick the damned thing up myself!   [3:34 PM]<\/b>
    Update<\/b>: at last a breakthrough! All day long I kept seeing the same damned report on my tracking page. I even saw the same when I got home; and I got so desperate I even tried checking the page on the Mac version of IE and of Netscape. Oddly, Netscape showed a different result! With Netscape I saw:

Aug 6, 2006<\/b><\/td>12:08 PM<\/td>     In transit     <\/b><\/td>ANCHORAGE, AK<\/td>Package available
for clearance<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/center>

    I checked Safari again to make sure, but it still repeated what I’d seen earlier and all day yesterday. However, minutes later, Safari changed as well — but reported something Netscape did not!

Aug 6, 2006<\/b><\/td>3:48 PM <\/td>Left FedEx
Sort Facility<\/b><\/td>		ANCHORAGE, AK<\/td>Departed location<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/center>

    So it looks like FedEx’s tracking page is as screwed up now as Apple’s Order Status page was last week.
    But at last my G5 is at least in my own country.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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