Posted on 12/25/2015 9:58:28 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative
If people waited until the last minute to order their gifts, they only have themselves to blame.
Poor planning on your part, parents, does not constitute an emergency on my part!
In cases like this, I always go back to the seller with the tracking number provided and hound them to get a resolution. I had this happen last month on a Harbor Freight shipment. It turns out Fed Ex just lost the damned thing and chucked it in with the rest of unresolved.....I got mine quicker afterwards because I tracked it and complained to the shipper.
I agree.
If these slugs had actually place their order a few days earlier this wouldn’t have been an issue. Or in the alternative you can have 95% of your Christmas shopping done in October like my wife does. We don’t shop in december, because we don’t need to.
And also would be more resilient with patience... the point isn’t to idolize the day, it is to renew awareness of the gift of Christ. He isn’t reticent to show blessings even through the material world (He was a babe laid in a manger) but sometimes the encounters that result aren’t immediate (it took a while for the magi to get there).
Shipping has been all over the place for us among USPS, UPS, and FedEx this year. We’ve had two day shipping be delivered anywhere from 1-4 days from being shipped. A first class small package expected to arrive on a Monday showed up on the Thursday after. A FedEx ground shipped package expected to arrive on a Thursday showed up on the Tuesday before. Obviously, the key is ordering earlier enough, but I don’t think I’ve seen packages come at such scattered times like this year.
Here’s a trick I learned long ago. I ALWAYS buy three gift cards (AMEX or Visa) for my grand daughters and have my daughter hang them on the tree. That way, if the real present isn’t there in time, momma can say “Santa Left you a raincheck!”
Maybe God is teaching the “slugs” to (wait for it...) SLOW DOWN!
It’s looking at me!
When they reported days ago they were having to rent trucks, people should have known to expect delays. And more so with the bad weather.
No worries about deliveries here since I gave homemade jelly and such that was canned in a timely manner two months ago.
To be fair, this is talking about unmet promises by the delivery facilities.
This doesn’t have to equate to hauling them over the coals; sometimes there are factors that are not, or mostly not, human fault.
I love that picture. I’m going to print it out and put it under the Christmas Tree.
Wanna bet most of the whiners are a bunch of liberals. We know those people are procrastinators and disorganized. Can’t wait for the typical rants at corporate America and for some idiot lefty politician to take a swipe at the evil “rich” at Fed Ex.
Well even though folks are grumbling, it’s like the situation of the diner that was so crowded that nobody went there.
People don’t know how to roll with the punches any more, and this is pretty mild punches compared with the cornucopia of stuff that is still available.
I’d be like, chill out. If I were FedEx I might apologize with coupons to ship a free package or something like that. I’d still be in fat city.
"we'll be one gift short of my spawn's first Christmas" listen you stooopid cow you, if it's it's first Christmas, IT WILL NEVER KNOW!!!
Even procrastination and disorganization is less bad than lack of appreciation. Here we are in a materialist’s pot of jam and we’re whining about the berries in the jam and the printing on the lid.
Sometimes people can whip themselves into silly hastes.
You read my mind.
Why can’t parents explain to young children that Santa got held up a little, so they’ll be receiving some of their presents a day or two late and they can have more happy days?
To their older children they can explain that UPS got a little held up, that their gifts are on the way, that it’s wrong to expect perfection from mere mortals like delivery men, that only God is infallible, and that they should learn the lesson that they should always order on-line gifts early.
Noel, noel.
Oh yeah... we should just slow down, chill out, and appreciate. We’re addicted to haste and meaningless bulk, and we’ve rushed past countless blessings.
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