A small chuckle to distract from the 'Usual Suspects'.

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

I have a parcel due...

For reasons I cannot yet grok, it has turned 'Schrodinger'.

Amazon claim is out for delivery TODAY.
Yodel, the courier, claims is still at depot, not yet 'travelling'.

Yes it is, no it isn't.
Yes it is, no it isn't.
Yes it is, no it isn't.
Iterate unto breathless...

And Yodel web-site is *remarkably* reluctant to accept tracking ID: It sorta gets stuck...

Ah, well, wasn't as if I had to go shopping today...

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

The wave function of this super-imposition collapsed at midnight.

The sparkling pumpkin carriage reverted to lemon.

Amazon and Yodel systems now agree that delivery will NOT be Monday 24th...
--
Tangential, talking of Missing Matter / Dark Matter, astronomers have just discovered a gas-cloud in 'bar' of Milky Way, ~200 light-years across and estimated to contain 160k solar masses of cold, dark gas...
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-astronome ... milky.html

[Belushi TD]

What I think is happening when this sort of Schrodinger's package happens is that the box is either damaged or opened, and then gets stolen by someone in the system. I have no proof of this, of course.

Another option is that they sold more than they had of that particular item, and give you the runaround before telling you that its not being delivered.

Belushi TD

[Micael]

I have a parcel due...

For reasons I cannot yet grok, it has turned 'Schrodinger'.

Amazon claim is out for delivery TODAY.
Yodel, the courier, claims is still at depot, not yet 'travelling'.

Yes it is, no it isn't.
Yes it is, no it isn't.
Yes it is, no it isn't.
Iterate unto breathless...

And Yodel web-site is *remarkably* reluctant to accept tracking ID: It sorta gets stuck...

Ah, well, wasn't as if I had to go shopping today...

The world of parcel delivery can bring with it many perplexing events. Many years ago I sent a parcel to the US from Sweden, it arrived in New York where someone apparently decided that the ”sender” adress was where it was going, so it went back across the Atlantic and appeared in Copenhagen, where (after having talked to the postal service) I learned that it took three days of them communicating back and forth with the USPS to convince the fellows over there that it was, in fact, a parcel going to the US and not being sent from it, allowing for a second try and eventual delivery to the intended recipient.

[kdahm]

I had a box sent to me from New York to Houston about 25 years ago. It traveled by UPS.

The box took more than a month to get to me, dropped off of the UPS tracker twice for week each, made two different trips to Frankfurt (the one near Mainz, not the one in any of 15 states), and otherwise became an wandering package. And the UPS sorting center in Kentucky four times, I believe.

The contents were only somewhat damaged, and a quick trip (by UPS) to the Meade factory in California fixed it right up. I never heard whether the seller or UPS paid for it. I wish I had saved a screenshot of the tracking log, but it is lost.

[rtoldman]

I confess,, I am the driver... and your neighbor. I stole the package . After realizing that your doorcam took a picture of me in drag I decided to complicate the issue in hopes of keeping your underwear order for myself.

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

Well, I don't know whose parcel you took, but mine held 3-tiered quarter-round plate stand...
Have fun adding a chastity lock to that.

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

Carrier has now informed me that parcel will should arrive Friday 28th.
Rather than Monday 24th...
Where's that emoji for 'Rolls Eyes' ??
Ahaa !

[Belushi TD]

A few years back, in 2022, I mailed my christmas cards ON TIME for once.....

My cousin in Oregon never got hers. I figured it got dropped, damaged, destroyed, something like that, and promptly forgot about it.

In late January of 2024, we got it returned as No Such Address. The original postmark was, in fact, early December 2022, so it kicked around in the postal system for OVER A YEAR before being returned.

Nothing like the letter that was lost behind a table or something in the Royal Mail for something close to 100 years, but over a year is more than enough for me to get a good story out of it.

Belushi TD

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

After promising arrival tomorrow, Friday, parcel arrived today without a ;heads-up' e-mail alert...