{"id":6454,"date":"2010-09-04T17:01:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T22:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6454"},"modified":"2010-09-04T17:01:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T22:01:39","slug":"mailing-it-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6454","title":{"rendered":"Mailing It In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered something online, and expected it to be delivered at the end of this past week.  I thought that it was going to ship via the postal service, but then got a tracking number from FedEx.  Here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2010\/09\/smartpost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2010\/09\/smartpost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"474\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6455\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/09\/smartpost.jpg 432w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/09\/smartpost-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right.  (Pardon my use of the vernacular, but) FedEx got the package and then fucking mailed it.  Apparently this is a new &#8220;service&#8221; called SmartPost, and if you Google on that term, you will find complaints all over the place.  The skinny is that the SmartPost service waits until they have a critical mass of deliveries, and then they turn them over to the Post office, so &#8220;at the Postal Facility&#8221; might not be the truth.  If it is, then they&#8217;ve been hanging on to my package for 4 days, not the 1 or 2 advertised.  And based on the complaints I&#8217;ve read, if it actually gets delivered on Tuesday, I will be getting off easy.  There are horror stories of deliveries taking weeks and packages just disappearing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered something online, and expected it to be delivered at the end of this past week. I thought that it was going to ship via the postal service, but then got a tracking number from FedEx. Here&#8217;s why. That&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6454\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}