I live in a house in which multiple rooms are rented out independently of each other. I wasn't certain if a Kristie had perhaps moved in recently and for some reason had decided to retain my package for safe keeping in her room instead of in the mantle in the front room. At least before I went about complaining I needed to find out if in fact I lived with a Kristie. After asking a number of my room mates and someone at the coffee shop that shares the plot of land on which this house is built I discovered that there was indeed a new female resident of the house but no one knew her name. Eventually the matter was solved by calling the land lord who informed me that the only woman living here went by the name of Angela (we shall ignore for the moment the fact that Yu-ling has been living here for longer than I have and she is definitely female).
Satisfied that there was no Kristie in the house the question became what address had my package really been delivered to? A little information could be gleaned from the tracking page.
| SALT LAKE CITY, UT, US | 03/03/2010 | 3:00 P.M. | DELIVERY |
| | 03/03/2010 | 1:51 P.M. | A CORRECT STREET NUMBER IS NEEDED FOR DELIVERY. UPS IS ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN THIS INFORMATION |
| SALT LAKE CITY, UT, US | 03/02/2010 | 9:16 P.M. | DESTINATION SCAN |
| | 03/02/2010 | 2:51 P.M. | A CORRECT STREET NUMBER IS NEEDED FOR DELIVERY. UPS IS ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN THIS INFORMATION |
| | 03/02/2010 | 6:59 A.M. | OUT FOR DELIVERY |
| | 03/02/2010 | 4:01 A.M. | ARRIVAL SCAN |
| SPARKS, NV, US | 03/01/2010 | 7:04 P.M. | DEPARTURE SCAN |
| | 03/01/2010 | 12:59 P.M. | ORIGIN SCAN |
| US | 03/01/2010 | 2:19 A.M. | BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED |
A correct street number is needed for delivery? What on earth did that mean? How did UPS manage to lose my address? I decided to go look and see what was on the adjacent streets at 1031 E and I found that in fact there was a house at 1031 one street over and in the other direction there was a hospital. There was no response when I knocked at the 1031 house and I assumed that delivery to the hospital was essentially impossible. Checking online showed that the address of the hospital was 1050 E giving it no commonality with my own.
As I was walking back from the 1031 abode however I saw the UPS carrier making his rounds and hurried to talk to him. I asked if any packages had perhaps given him some trouble on Wednesday and he responded that none had. I told him that I had been expecting a package and that it had been delivered and signed for by a Kristie but that I had no idea who that was. Very fortunately for me he knew who this Kristie was and told me that my package must have gotten delivered to a Doctor Hinson. Why this could possibly have happened neither he nor I had the slightest Idea though he assured me that the package was addressed 1050 E 100 S and to doctor Hinson.
I got online and found out that Doctor Hinson was an OB/GYN though I failed to find the location of her office. I let the matter sit until Monday. On monday my package arrived battered and bruised with a ups label that had apparently gone over the top of a label with my correct name and address partially ripped off. The box had been opened and retaped though the book inside was no worse for wear.
Checking the tracking page now there are two delivery lines one right after the other.
| SALT LAKE CITY, UT, US | 03/08/2010 | 3:42 P.M. | DELIVERY |
| SALT LAKE CITY, UT, US | 03/03/2010 | 3:00 P.M. | DELIVERY |
| SALT LAKE CITY, UT, US | 03/10/2010 | 8:25 P.M. | A CORRECT STREET NUMBER IS NEEDED FOR DELIVERY. UPS IS ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN THIS INFORMATION / THE RECEIVER PICKED UP THE PACKAGE THAT WAS BEING HELD FOR THEM |
I still have no idea what really happened in this whole mess but I thought the oddity was sufficient to merit sharing. This at the very least justifies me in a long time habit of half jokingly (now somewhat less than half jokingly) pronouncing ups as oops.
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