u/roostertree

I skip every second week because I only want biweekly deliveries. This week was my 14th box, b/c I love the service (I mean, as much as one can "love" a company). Monday was a holiday, meaning the production delays a day; my Tuesday delivery was shunted to Wednesday. That's fine... or so I thought.

FedEx, of course, is in rush-mode due to trying to get 5 days worth of work done in 4. I received an update email late Wednesday: "recipient unavailable" with a photo of my box on the truck (not a photo of my entry's landing). No "missed delivery" notice was left.

Key detail: My boxes are always left on my doorstep, requiring no interaction.

They didn't bother trying to deliver it, right? Because dropping it at my door, like always, should have been a no-brainer, right?

And so my delivery was made Thursday. At room temperature. Factor, thankfully, did the responsible thing and refunded the order, but what a waste.

Never again will I place an order to be delivered during the week after a Monday-holiday long weekend. Because the refund, while nearly ideal, is not an equalizer. I've also missed the deadline to un-skip next week, so I'm stuck first-world-probleming through grocery stores and less-disgusting fast food until my next order. *sadface*

Scene: Household, daytime, young girl (who is learning to read) answers the door. It's a UPS courier. Girl reads the uniform's badge, pronounces UPS like a word ("ups"). She announces something like "Ups is here!" A parent (dad?) says "You mean UPS?" and she replies "Yeah... ups!" It's a 'cute kid mistake' punchline moment.

My faulty memory keeps believing it's Drew Barrymore's line. I googled it as an ET quote, and the Goog disagreed. I tried a couple other film titles (original Parenthood, original Poltergeist), but whatever movie I search for, the Goog focuses on the given film's key quote.

I love the month-in-review emails Tidal issues, depicting users' top-five listened-to musical acts. So much so that I listened almost exclusively to one band's lengthy discography in order to be tickled by its expected massive domination on my April top-five. (And the 5th-place act would have showed up as a single-digit stat.)

I did check my spam folder. And since I haven't yet tired of Lemmy's decades-evolving voice, I'm hoping to finagle my "May in review" the same way... but what if June 1st comes and the email doesn't? I will be sad.

Did anyone else fail to receive their April email? Is there an app setting for it?

Motorola Edge (2022), fully updated AFAIK

I assume I have accidentally performed several thumb-touches and silenced a setting that I cannot figure out.

(The most notable previous mystery-screen-fingering was that I had unknowingly muted notifications from a close friend. It was very frustrating trying to make plans, until I went looking at the settings on their contact card).

For the past several weeks, when I dial out to anyone, my phone is completely silent until either the callee picks up, or the callee's voicemail engages. Is this a new standard for mobile communication, or have I unknowingly messed up a setting that can be re-enabled?