Friday, April 18, 2008

Your Order Was Shipped!

To me, those words mean that the package in question has been put in physically custody of the postal service. To Amazon, it means "we sent the postal service an email and told them to come get this package and they will probably stop by in the next 3-5 days to pick it up."

I ordered a new mp3 player and they said it shipped on Tuesday and gave me a tracking number, but this is what I see on the usps website every day:

"Status: Electronic Shipping Info Received : The U.S. Postal Service was electronically notified by the shipper on April 15, 2008 to expect your package for mailing. This does not indicate receipt by the USPS or the actual mailing date. Delivery status information will be provided if / when available."

STOP TEASING ME!

3 comments:

gumball said...

which DMP did you get?

Nikki said...

After some research, I went with the Sansa View. I didn't want to be stuck with Itunes and I didn't like that the Zune can't be used as an external hard drive. I also don't like that the Zune and Ipod don't allow you to drag and drop music onto the player.

Add the Sansa's FM tuner and voice recorder and the fact that it's available with 16mb of flash memory (for the same price as the 8MB Nano and Zune) and I was sold.

Creative Zen has a player with all the same features as the Sansa, but I didn't like it's buttons - they're too clunky.

gumball said...

I'm guessing you meant 16 GB flash memory.

How do you like it now that you've had it a longer period of time. Have you ever owned an iPod? I haven't, but they sure are popular; I'd say half my college friends have an iPod.

I ordered 2 GB of RAM from a big seller on eBay (I was excited to play an old FPS with the maxed-out settings). The seller waited 6 days before sending me an email that said UPS ground was going to pick-up the package from his facility. The package sat there for two days; my expectations were very different, so I was wigging-out a bit. Luckily the shipping only took 2 days, so then I cooled down.