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August 23rd, 2007 at 6:00 am (Business)

I ordered a pack of $1.19 3×5 index cards from Staples on 8/10/07, expected delivery on 8/14/07. A calculator I ordered at the same time was delivered by UPS on 8/14/07 separately packaged. No such luck on the index cards, I didn’t realize I ordered the Flat Stanley brand. Current UPS estimate is 8/22 after taking an interesting route:

Update: It did arrive on 8/22. Statistics from packagemapping.com

Distance : 3319.54 miles

(Actual distance from Dallas to COS 746 mi)

Time : 284 hrs 42 mins 0 secs

Avg Speed : 11.66 mph

08/22/2007      6:23 P.M.       DELIVERY
08/22/2007      5:39 A.M.       OUT FOR DELIVERY
08/22/2007      12:25 A.M.      ARRIVAL SCAN
08/20/2007      3:02 P.M.     COLORADO SPRINGS IN TRANSIT TO
08/20/2007      4:01 P.M.       HODGKINS,IL    DEPARTURE SCAN
08/18/2007      2:45 PM         HODGKINS IL    ARRIVAL SCAN

08/17/2007      2:25 AM         HODGKINS IL    IN TRANSIT TO
08/16/2007      11:48 PM        SHREWSBURY MA  LOCATION SCAN
08/16/2007      10:19 PM        CHELMSFORD MA  LOCATION SCAN

08/11/2007      3:23 AM         MESQUITE TX    LOCATION SCAN

08/10/2007      10:59 PM        DALLAS TX      LOCATION SCAN

08/11/2007      12:48 AM        US             BILLING INFORMATION

1 Comment

  1. Jane Hame said,

    August 18, 2007 at 12:02 am

    That’s totally insane, even for a hamehead! How much did it cost to ship that dollar set of index cards that many places?!!! It makes me want to find an even better (or would it be worse?) example of REAL hameheadedness in the business world…….hmmmm…..let me see…….

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