Speaking of UPS, I just had the VA send me some pain medicine for my current round with Sciatica. It was picked up by them on the 29th of Nov. The VA is in Durham and I live in Cary, NC... a distance of 24 miles. As of this moment it has not been delivered. I was told that is was going to be an overnight delivery due to the fact that a lot of pain was involved. So I stayed home, inside all day Thursday (no show). Thinking that maybe I misunderstood I repeated my confinement on Friday (nope). Stayed in on Saturday and Sunday as well, still nothing. Along comes Monday and I am in drastic need of some basics at the grocery store (including Advil), so I went out to the store. I was gone about 30 minutes and when I came back there was a UPS slip on my door saying how sorry they were that they missed me. OK, no harm, no foul... it was my fault and the note said they would deliver it the next day. I haven't mentioned yet that the particular meds. they were sending me were controlled medications, so I have to be here to sign for it. Anyway, I then was able to sign on to their Website for tracking. It showed that I wasn't there at the time and deliver was slated for the next day. Tuesday I stayed home all day, no delivery happened. Later I checked the site again and it stated that the deliver date was rescheduled for the next day. Once again I stayed home all day. Wanna guess what happened? Right, no delivery but this time I had to watch as a UPS truck passed right by my apartment.
It is rescheduled for today and in about an hour I have to make my way to Durham for a PT appointment. Anyone want to place a bet on when they are going to show up? Now at least I know what UPS stands for Unbelievably Poor Service! Sure glad I didn't need this medicine to keep my heart beating. Pain apparently isn't important to UPS.