Showing posts with label Post Office. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Post Office. Show all posts

Friday, April 3, 2009

Audible, Amazon, Ipod, and the US Postal Service

A few years back I had an account with audible.com. If you are not familiar with audible, it is a great thing. It is an online audio book store. Their prices are typically cheaper than traditional audio books. When used audible before, I would download the books to my Palm Pilot and would listen to them while I worked out at the gym.

Well, I no longer have a device that plays audible books (other than my computer). I no longer have a gym membership either. We have an elliptical trainer in our basement that I use three times a week. I usually watch TV while using it.

But this last week, I saw a great deal on Amazon: sign up for an audible.com membership and get $100 off of an Mp3 player. It was too good of a deal to pass up. Being the Mac fanboy that I am, I ordered my first Ipod. A Yellow Ipod Nano to be exact. Final cost $33. Not bad!

Yesterday, I went online to see when the package would be here. The tracking identified that the package started on March 30 in Kentucky. It then arrived at Forest Park, IL on April 1. As of last night it then arrived in Memphis, TN.

Ok, something doesn't make sense here. Now, I don't work for the post office, but that seems like an inefficient route to use to deliver the package considering Forest Park is maybe 40 miles or so from here if even that. Whereas Memphis, TN is hundreds of miles.
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