We all remember the shipping nonsense that happened over Christmas. In addition to KC’s difficulties, I had Facebook friends posting maps that showed the twisted paths their packages took to get the last few miles jetting off to Georgia on the day they were to be delivered.
I did have something that they sent to a center in the next state instead of the one 13 miles from my house, and I thought,”Well, my center must have been overloaded.”
And then I muttered, “Or, maybe they’re lying. Maybe it’s at my center but they can’t get to it for a day, and instead of saying ‘This will be delayed a day because your center can’t keep up,’ they thought it would be more palatable to say, “Whoops, we momentarily lost it.’”
I have been buying into that paranoia for a few weeks, and then I checked on My Orders in Amazon, because that’s the only pleasure I have in these plagued times, and saw that two packages would be delayed for a month.
My husband’s sweat pants: “On the way but running late”
My brother’s socks: “Expected February 8th.”
Remarkable, given that at that moment my husband was wearing those sweatpants and my brother had already thanked me for those socks.
So of course now I assume they are manipulating me to think, “Ha HA! I got those packages, I win to Amazon track the package game.”
Am I paranoid? Or is tracking being used to manipulate and lower our expectations?
3 responses to “Amazon Head Games”
KC – certainly if something unethical happened SOME disgruntled employee would have quit and told the world by now.
The world has been a bit busy, so I am not 100% sure that “Amazon Plays Head Games With Shipping, Tells You Things Are Going To Arrive Later Than They Are” would have gotten any traction recently, or even been adequately scandalous to get on the page on a slow-ish day. (I read The Library Book, which notes that the reason the author didn’t read about this event in the newspapers was because Chernobyl was pushing basically all other news mostly off the radar at that time.)
But maybe?
KC – I’m probably just trying to make sense out of chaos.