Since my last post regarding the epidemic of shipping foibles currently, I had an especially good screwup…
In last Thursday’s meeting (The 14th of May), one of the project managers let me know that a project needed an Android tablet capable of running Android 16. So I sourced one at Amazon (Samsung Galaxy Tab A11+), and Amazon said they could deliver it to my home that evening.
Excellent! I’ll get it Thursday evening, put it into inventory, and it goes into test Friday morning – happy client.
The tablet went through Amazon’s system and got to the ‘out for delivery’ portion – and vanished. The only thing Amazon had to say was ‘sorry – your delivery is delayed’.
Friday rolled around – and no tablet. Saturday Amazon let me cancel it for a refund and try again – same tablet, same day delivery by 6-10pm, same thing happened: through the system, out for delivery, poof…
At this point I pull up my local Microcenter to see if I can just drive over and pick up one – but all Microcenter has in stock is a two-generation old Acer for $50 more…
Sunday I’m given the opportunity to cancel Saturday’s order and given my options, I decide to make a third attempt: Order placed, out for delivery, and at 9pm – success!
I get the tablet into inventory and it goes into test Monday morning.
And at this point I assume the saga is over.
Yesterday morning at about 5am, the tablet I ordered last Thursday appears at my back door… So I check and, yes, Amazon decided to cancel my cancel and deliver the tablet anyway – almost a week late.
This meant I had to drive over to the ‘local’ Whole Foods on Hampden to return the thing – which was my first time inside of a Whole Foods…
It’s an interesting store… Exactly what you would expect a store owned by Amazon would be like. It’s also apparently the local gathering spot for all of the California imports as I think I was the only car in the lot with Colorado plates
Anyway, just another example of the weird ‘can’t actually deliver things’ epidemic going on… I have three more things for the car arriving via fedex / ups today and tomorrow for installation over the long weekend – it’s a dice roll as to whether or not that actually happens though.
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