http://www.en-dash.com/blog/2005/10/25/but-if-you-think-im-paying-2-for-a-video-youre-wrong/ Time Makes Fools of Us All Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:04:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.en-dash.com/blog/2005/10/25/but-if-you-think-im-paying-2-for-a-video-youre-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-12186 Time Makes Fools of Us All Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:16:59 +0000 http://www.en-dash.com/blog/?p=75#comment-12186 [...] Anyway, my rant about big business in general put aside for the moment, I’ve got a pretty simple question specific to package delivery: why don’t these companies deliver on Saturdays? I don’t mean for an additional fee; I mean as a standard service for regular shipping. For the millions of people who work during the day on every weekday, the missed delivery experience is incredibly common and indescribably frustrating (although I’m trying). Even as a student with a relatively-flexible daily schedule, I’ve had many problems being home at the right time to receive packages, and over the summer when I was working a regular nine-to-five I ended up having to hoof it out to the FedEx Shipping Center after work just to get my package. Assuming that it’s not practical to simply add a day of delivery (although we know they have people working on Saturdays already, to deliver their Super Extra Priority Express packages), I propose that UPS simply adjust its schedule, bumping everything by one day: deliveries on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. No deliveries on Sunday or Monday. See what I just did there? [...] [...] Anyway, my rant about big business in general put aside for the moment, I’ve got a pretty simple question specific to package delivery: why don’t these companies deliver on Saturdays? I don’t mean for an additional fee; I mean as a standard service for regular shipping. For the millions of people who work during the day on every weekday, the missed delivery experience is incredibly common and indescribably frustrating (although I’m trying). Even as a student with a relatively-flexible daily schedule, I’ve had many problems being home at the right time to receive packages, and over the summer when I was working a regular nine-to-five I ended up having to hoof it out to the FedEx Shipping Center after work just to get my package. Assuming that it’s not practical to simply add a day of delivery (although we know they have people working on Saturdays already, to deliver their Super Extra Priority Express packages), I propose that UPS simply adjust its schedule, bumping everything by one day: deliveries on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. No deliveries on Sunday or Monday. See what I just did there? [...]

]]> http://www.en-dash.com/blog/2005/10/25/but-if-you-think-im-paying-2-for-a-video-youre-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Fletch Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:05:08 +0000 http://www.en-dash.com/blog/?p=75#comment-170 I really thought you were joking about that. In fact, please tell me that you just photoshopped all of this. please. I really thought you were joking about that. In fact, please tell me that you just photoshopped all of this. please.

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