I miss when packages took like a week to arrive and there was no overnight postage nonsense (unless you paid a lot for it). Now it is industry standard and I need to be ready to get my package the next day, like...I need at least few buffer days to prepare emotionally.
Also the tracking system is not great and telling me it can come between 8-16 is NOT HELPFUL.
I an up at 8 only in case it arrives now.
Madness, I tell ya.
I've mentioned before they make up their own estimated #delivery#dates, which are more #optimistic than the carriers themselves estimate. They do this to drive #sales; #buyers are less likely to buy if it'll take a long time to get to them.
Today: buyer in #Australia ordered, delivery by surface #mail. #Canada Post estimates 24-84 business days by surface. That's up to 17 weeks, plus extra because of holidays in there.
#Etsy gave the #buyer an estimated delivery date of 5 January.
Despite the #holiday rush, when #packages are always slower, despite the #holidays when Canada Post and others are closed, they provided him an estimate right at the bottom end of that "official" #estimate.
And then, the buyer will probably (rightly) be angry when it takes until February, because Etsy promised it on 5 January.
And they don't provide a way to override the estimate they display.
In theory offering more than just one is "trivial" in the sense that for OS/1337 the idea is to have statical binaries (and maybe the few necessary configs) as "#packages" so it's just a download as an archive (#bzip2 because it's available in #toybox) and just pull that and place them in the system.
OFC absolute hardcore folks will literally do #eMail just with #curl, #cat, #sed & #awk I guess, but ideally offering a convenient alternative like #neomutt is better.
I've placed half a dozen orders in the last month and a bit, and it seems that every single one hasn't even #shipped for 2 or 3 days after I place the order. Everything I've ordered was in #stock (and not marginally; "27,563 in stock" type of thing).
Learn about the distinction between (binary) packages and (source) ports. Installed a few extra console applications courtesy of the pkg package manager. Apparently you are not supposed to mix using packages and ports on the same system? I'll dig into that a bit deeper when the issue arises where I want to compile something from the ports tree. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/
Me: waiting all day for important papers
Fedex: “its coming today!”
Me: cool stays home
Me: waits all fucking day
Me: “yo where is it?”
Fedex: “sorry we missed you!”
Me: “fuck you mean im sitting right here?”
Fedex: “the guy tapped his nuts on your door so you missed the delivery”
Me: “WHAT ABOUT KNOCKING? Eh?”
Fedex: “the nut tap is our policy”