1 week and counting down

The loan is approved, the supplies are in hand, the rental car and hotel are reserved and TODAY our new motor home is due to come off the production line up in Manitoba.  Three days shipping down to Las Vegas, then we are supposed to pick it up next week at the dealer's.  We spent this morning moving 6 tons of gravel around the driveway making a new parking area for our guests because our old guest parking area is going to hold the motor home.  Here is the new guest parking-easier to access, too!

UPS-Unlocatable Parcel Schleppers

Ah, here we are, snug at home, after a fine dinner on Christmas Eve and all day I have been feeling sorry for the poor UPS driver who will be delivering a package to me sometime between 4-7 pm.  Or not. 

Once again, UPS has delivered my correctly addressed and labeled package somewhere else entirely.  I have no clue where.  I got the standard text message and email it was delivered at 4:53 pm. Really?  It is not here on the porch as the email says. Nobody came to our door since 1pm today.  We were both here all afternoon.  It is not at my neighbor's.  Or at 77 (we are at 17, and that 7 kinda sorta looks like a 1).  So, somebody else has my Christmas present.  Probably one of the eight other houses on the street, but it is hard to go snooping around on other people's porches in the dark on Christmas Eve, ya know?

Ken, our former UPS driver, knew our address.  But we have been here 20 years.  Ken learned it in the first month.  Ken retired about three years ago.  The new drivers are, uhm, not as quick on the uptake.  So, once again I will call UPS Thursday to ask what can be done.  Once again they will tell me they cannot flag my address to tell the driver 'Hey dude, do not leave except at the actual 17-seventeen-not 77 or 37 or any of the other something 7's on the west side of the street'.  This they will tell me despite the fact that they CAN flag my address to include my unlisted phone number, whether we own a snappy dog, and they do have my USPS box number flagged.  I am not going to take their excuse easily, but I will at least get an investigation opened.  And I will get their mailing address of the Albuquerque office so I can write a very nice letter to the Boss of the Route Drivers in Corrales.

I will again ask to speak to the route driver(s) or their boss and they will tell me it is not possible.  But I have a plan this time.....I know when the UPS driver comes up my street for the morning delivery.  I will be ready with an ambush at 10 am.  He will get a copy of said letter.  And I will continue to make a pest of myself until Every Single UPS driver that goes up this street will know the crazy lady at #17.  Every Single Driver.  At least that way they won't wonder where to deliver my packages in the future.

BTW if anybody knows the real job title of the Albuquerque 'boss of the route drivers' let me know.

Merry Christmas, and to all a good night.

Egads!

Does anyone even use Egads! anymore?  Or know what it means?  I decided to finally repost in the blog and perhaps awaken the sleeping giant.  Yes, we need to decide whether to combine this with FB postings, or leave it separate.  And since we hope to start motorhoming in the next year, it might help to keep everyone updated, but then again it is just another thing for everyone to check.  Decisions, decisions.  Let me know what you think.