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I've been saving up to buy a new E-Reader, ordered it from Amazon.com along with expedited service so I would know when it was delivered and not worry about it sitting on my porch for hours tempting others to acquire it. The day comes and delivery is 'guaranteed' that day before 8pm and I sit by the door all day.

 

It doesn't arrive. Checked the Tracking # with UPS and I get an error message. No such number in their system. I want to cry. Amazon.com immediately refunds my shipping cost since they didn't meet their guarantee, but I need to wait another day to make sure we aren't dealing with a lazy driver. If nothing arrives I have to cancel the order and re-order fresh. My credit card may not like that since there may be a time delay for refunds and purchases at the same time. Amazon.com says to request 1-day shipping and notify them when I do and they will remove the charge.

 

Good customer service but the delays and frustration on not getting my early (and only) Christmas present is driving me to drink.

 

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(((((((Canned Nerd)))))))

 

Step away from the bottle! I wonder if something was up with the mail/UPS/FedEx yesterday. I watch a site where mail is delivered and the recipients are shown opening it 6 days a week. Yesterday was the first time in over a year that there was no delivery. Everyone thought it was very odd. So, hopefully yours will arrive today. Just to let you know that if you are buying a Kindle, you don't have to get it from Amazon or order it on line. My son bought mine from Best Buy. Now I tell ya, huh.

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In this case the release date for the new Kindle was Nov 5th so it was not available anywhere else and I did not want to buy one of the older models since it may be the last such purchase in my lifetime. The screwy thing on this order is the Tracking # assigned has not shown acceptance by UPS or been updated for almost 2 days, indicating it has been lost/removed/stolen somehow during that transition moment between warehouse and transport. I just hope it hasn't ended up in someone's pocket, but that's Amazon's worry now.

 

The only recourse now it seems is to get a full refund on the order and then put in a new order and hope it gets here before the weekend. I'm going to have an interesting credit card statement.

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The weirdness now starts. The Amazon.com website suddenly shows a 'out for delivery' message as of 8:04 this morning, which is the first and only update, but the UPS website and a different tracking page on Amazon.com still come up empty, so the update is not coming from UPS but from Amazon. I'm anticipating they may have found the missing package since my initial inquiry and have put it out (again) for shipping, but UPS hasn't logged it in yet. <sigh>

 

Unfortunately I may have to wait until tonight to know for sure since I live less than a mile from the UPS terminal so I'm one of the last deliveries the drivers make as they head for home. I've had a lot of deliveries over the years and it is always the same. Maybe they will give me the mini-van treatment with special delivery.

 

Why me.

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Package suddenly delivered just before Noon, a day late, and with no update on the UPS tracking webpage and no text notification of status changes/delivery even several hours later. Totally weird. Only hint I got that the package was alive was on the Amazon.com website less than 15 minutes before it arrived at my door. The delivery guy didn't act very happy.

 

At least I have my new e-reader and I'm enjoying it some as it charges up.

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:lol: Already been doing that with download to Kindle-PC. Now I just need to learn how to get them moved from my PC to the Kindle.
Waiting right now for the toy to fully charge. Waiting is hard.

 

BTW, this is the very new Kindle Paper White 3G + WiFi. Just in reading the welcome instructions I find it very easy to read. Much different from my old Sony. Looking forward to getting some of my books loaded into it. It will definitely make dealing with the SHTF much more bearable.

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