I am so fucking pissed off right now. After it happened, I was literally furious and screaming at the top of my lungs. I've calmed down since, but I'm still pretty pissed.

Okay...let me rehash the story. On Friday, I ordered a 2gig stick of RAM for my computer from Newegg. I'm a little bit on the impatient side, so I paid the extra six bucks for 3-day shipping.

On Monday, I check the tracking number online and discovered that to my chagrin, the Newegg warehouse where the memory was coming from was literally fifteen minutes away from where I sit right this very second.

Not only that, but I discovered that UPS had a problem delivering to my address here on campus. I have a PO Box (first off, I completely forgot that UPS doesn't deliver to PO Boxes), but my address isn't "PO Box 123XYZ, Piscataway NJ". Instead, it's: "123XYZ LPO Way, Piscataway NJ". Basically, it looks like a legitimate address on paper and not a PO box. However, LPO way is not a real street. Here lies the problem.

UPS tried to deliver it, couldn't find LPO Way and sent me an email about it. I called UPS' central 1800 number and they told me that they contacted the Postal Service to figure out the discrepancy, and the USPS gave them some address on Route One in New Brunswick. An educated guess says that it's the REAL receiving address for mail sent to Rutgers student addresses, and then they funnel it to the various campuses and what not. They received the correction and planned to deliver again on Tuesday. I requested, instead, that the package be left at the UPS Distribution Center and that I'll pick it up. The student post offices aren't open everyday for package pickup and Monday is the only day that I can get in there and get it because of work, so I'd be left waiting until Monday to pick it up.

The guy arranged it for me and told me that I could pick it up from the UPS Distribution Center in Edison, NJ and gave me the address and told me that it was likely coming off the truck very soon and that I should expect a call in an hour or so saying that my package was ready to be picked up. He stated that all I was going to need was my ID.

I got a call in an hour or so saying that my package was NOT ready to be picked up.

Basically, the guy on the phone had the package sent to Edison, which is the center that services New Brunswick (because of that New Brunswick address correction from the first delivery attempt) as opposed to the Bound Brook one, which services Piscataway (the town I'm currently living in, and where the package was originally supposed to go). So the truck with the package that made the delivery attempt at LPO Way in Piscataway was at the Bound Brook center. The lady who called said that it would be at the Edison one by the next day (Tuesday) and that I would receive a call when it was ready to be picked up.

I checked online on Tuesday morning, and the package did indeed say it was in Edison, but I decided to wait for the phone call rather than show up asking for it when it was still...like on the truck or something. I never got called.

Now today, I decided to drive up there anyway and pick it up. It's only like...a 15-20 minute drive. I went between Chaucer and my psychiatrist appointment. I drove all the way there, and it wasn't until I was walking into the building that I realized I forgot my wallet. No wallet = no driver's license = no package. So I laugh, cause shit happens, yanno? I come back to campus and go to my appointment and to class and go back later to pick it up.

I had my ID this time. I show up, and the lady asks for the destination street. I tell her "LPO Way". She can't find that in the system. I tell her the story of the address correction and suggest the Route One address that they were going to deliver to on Tuesday. She can't find it. She tries to look through zip code, but can't because the package was intended to go to Piscataway, which the Edison distribution center doesn't serve because that kind of limitation is totally sensible for a company that advertises itself with the phrase "We <3 Logistics". So she says that she'll try and look for it through the New Brunswick zip code because of the address correction (because again, this is the center that services NB). She asks me the New Brunswick zip code. "I don't know." "What do you mean, you don't know?" "I don't live there. You deliver packages to there, and you don't know?" "No." Apparently, looking up a package through name of sender and recipient is too logical to be able to be done.

She then asks me if I had the tracking number. I didn't have the 30-digit tracking number written down because I was told on the phone that all I need was my ID. She gives me a condescending, "Well you should know that you needed the tracking number even if you were told you didn't" look and says that there's nothing she can do.

So I have to drive up there AGAIN TOMORROW FOR THE THIRD TIME and maybe I'll get lucky and get the package I was supposed to get on Monday.

I was literally screaming at the top of my lungs while driving home just now. I was cursing so loud that my throat is sore now.

EDIT - From the Newegg warehouse to the UPS distribution center