Friday Five & Heads Will Roll

Friday, Nov. 09, 2007 - 12:32 a.m.

Yesterday, my medical supplies were 'delivered' by California Overnight.

They left my box of ostomy appliances outside of the security gate, where anybody walking down the street could have taken them .

Am. Not. Happy. Wrote letter telling them so:

Dear California Overnight Staff:

Please note the blatantly ficticious delivery details of the following tracking number:

[Tracking number withheld]

This item was NOT delivered to my "fdoor". It was left out in the front of my gated apartment building, in an unsecure and unenclosed area. It was not delivered to my front door as incorrectly stated in your tracking info, and the location where it was placed was accessible to anybody walking down the street.

I'm very lucky that the UPS delivery person arrived that same morning and told me about the box I had waiting for me, or else it might have been stolen.

Next time, if I don't answer my intercom, please don't leave that parcel in an unprotected area. That box came from Eagle Highland Pharmacy, and had my medical supplies in it.

Please teach your delivery personnel to hang on to the box until they can reach a human being to accept it, or at the very least, try and be a little more honest about where the box has been left. Perhaps you can develop a code indicating UNSECURE AREA - IF IT GETS STOLEN OH BOY ARE WE TOAST or something so we'll be able to address liability issues when something you delivered goes missing.

Thank you for allowing me to address this issue. Hopefully there will be no further problems.

Very truly yours (and fortunately for us all, a whole lot less upset than I was this morning),

Brin-Marie McLaughlin.

I'm feeling a little better now, having dropped them a line, along with the pharmacy, and the husband who works as an insurance claims consultant.

Heh. I'll let you know what result I get if any.

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Onto hopefully pleasanter things. Here's a Friday Five:

Name one place you volunteer (or would like to)? Why?

I used to enjoy working on science fiction conventions for nothing more than a free admission. Heh. Was I a sucker or what?

Name one book you'd like to see made into a movie? Why?

The Keeper Of The Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter, because it's full of potentially nice visuals.

Name one creature (living, extinct, or mythical) you'd like for a pet? Why?

I already have plenty of mythical pets in the form of stuffed bunny rabbits, but if we're talking a real living breathing pet, I'll wish for DC, the Siamese cat from the original movie version of That Darn Cat.

Or maybe, Fireball, that reindeer who made fun of Rudolph in the first Rankin Bass cartoon. I wanna neuter that little asshole so bad

Name one place on Earth you'd like to visit? Why?

Brisbane, QLD, Australia. I have at least one Diarylander to meet, and I think maybe even Ian Maurice might let me visit him, too.

Name one talent or skill you'd like to develop? Why?

I'm still lumbering along, trying to learn how to read music.

All rightie. Link to the left, etc.

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That transporter boat hole blessed our San Francisco Bay waters with a little over fifty thousand gallons of fuel oil.

Heads will roll.

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Okay, done now. Have a good Friday.

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