The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Happy cascading multiples of 3 day!

My CDs got shipped from Discmakers last night. I guess they must be really close to San Francisco because the 'origin' and 'destination' scans are a minute apart, and it's scheduled for delivery today! Of course, they're being shipped UPS so I will probably not actually get them today (unless they try buzzing other apartments to be let in or something). I wonder if I can pick them up from UPS tomorrow. If not I'd need it delivered to work on Monday or something, and that's annoying (I mean it's "only" 100 CDs but that's still a pretty big box).

qotd: How much of a pain is it for you to receive packages from the Internet?

QotD: Pretty simple for me. I have everything shipped to my parents house, my father is usually home when the deliveries take place.

I thought they were called "packets" on the Internet.

But man, it is a pain in the butt. Although the last time I got a package, it was marked as signature required and they just left it anyway. But that was good, since it was still there when I got home that night, and I didn't have to wrangle with UPS's annoying package rules. Actually receiving CDs is the worst with those damn rules, so good luck.
-bill

QotD: depends on the delivery company. DHL (pretty much the delivery company in Germany) has automated package stations in convenient locations. You just have things delivered to a special address and they drop the package in one of those stations where you can pick them up any time.
Other deliverers are a bit more annoying. Works fine if I happen to be here to accept the delivery, otherwise it's pretty sucky.

Hm! UPS claims it was delivered. But they also claimed I signed for it, but UPS is never very good at reporting who actually signs for things. I hope it's not just a case of the driver leaving it at the front door and wandering off (my neighborhood is not even close to suitable for that!).

Fluf, maybe one of your neighbors signed for it and is holding it for you.

QotD: I order games/dvds from amazon all the time and I've never had trouble. They usually just leave the boxes by the doorstep. One of my parents find it when they check the mail and leave it in the computer room. *shrugs* pretty sweet deal I guess.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Fluf, maybe one of your neighbors signed for it and is holding it for you.

Well, yeah, that's what I'm hoping. I'm just not terribly impressed with how UPS does things, especially in urban areas. Usually I just get stuff shipped to work.

It must have been that a neighbor signed for it, since sitting in the hallway was a nice big box of CDs! And they look pretty good, for short-runs anyway. They do look like they were printed with an inkjet printer (although a pretty good one) and they do have that flimsy feel to them, and the color is a little bit off (the yellows look slightly greenish, which is odd since yellow is basically the easiest thing for a printer to print) but all in all it's very satisfying to finally have this CD really, truly done.

Of course, for the next run there are two characters I need to fix on the tray card and I need to change the UPC code, but otherwise this is ready for sale. So, I'll be sending 5 off to CDBaby soon, and then I guess a copy to Pandora and maybe a couple of review copies to various publications, and we'll see what happens from there.

Friday was riiiidiculous. Up at 7am for lab, had a midterm at 2pm, had a flight to Newark at 5pm, the flight didn't leave till 7pm, had a connection to Nashville at 820pm, ran/shuttled through Newark airport(dear god it is a long way from terminals C to A), got on flight by about 815pm, sat on the runway for an hour, then finally got home to Nashville at midnightish. Blah! But I got to see my kitten and family and sleep in a ridiculously comfortable bed. And I read all of Watchmen in my travels. Spring break at home with the parents; I'm so wild and collegey! Ha. Not. I'm going to catch up on sleep all spring break.

Qotd: It's a huge fucking pain for me to get packages. I live in dorms at a very ridiculous college that only has two residence halls and is not at all good with working with on-campus students. So I have to see it get delivered on ups.com/whatever, wait a day or two, get an e-mail from the mail room, print out the e-mail, go down to the mail room(in the skeeeetchiest basement ever), show my ID, show my e-mail, wait 20 minutes while they find it, sign for it, write down all my student ID details, and then go back up 7 flights of stairs back to my room.

Yay packages!

Yeah, in general if a package is delivered to my apartment, we can't get our hands on it until the following Saturday, because they usually get delivered to our leasing office, which has hours that correspond to my working hours on weekdays and is closed on Sundays.

The same goes with laundry, too. Instead of our laundry machines taking regular old money, we need to use refillable cards, and the only machine we can use to refill those cards is in that same leasing office (and it only takes crisp new bills; it's very picky).

I can't wait to move.