I'm rating this transaction 4 out of five anxieties.

:aaah::aaah::aaah::aaah::)

Well, seller reports it has been shipped via USPS without a tracking number. I don't have a problem with USPS, but not having a tracking number for such an expensive product does not engender confidence.
 
Can there be insurance without a tracking number?
Yes, and vice versa. However, I have a hard time believing Amazon doesn't require tracking, particularly for expensive items. On the other hand, Amazon has a contract with the USPS and I bet they have access to internal tracking information that mere mortals do not, so it's likely that it is tracked, at least in the loose sense of USPS lazy tracking. For instance we do get USPS packages from amazon occasionally that aren't "tracked" and yet amazon still texts me the day of or the day after delivery to say delivery is complete. I expect there's a small amount of tracking, even if the interface isn't exposed to me.
 

Dave

Staff member
All the cash and, if she doesn't have one already, a AAA year membership if she drives. One of the best graduation gifts I received. But I'm boring.
That is extremely boring...unless you break down and need it. Then it's a life saver.
 

fade

Staff member
I think I got my most down voted comment on Reddit. Some CSR types were talking about how silly it is for people to threaten their company because it doesn't affect them at all. So I said i didn't threaten the company, I just went out and fed false technical information to old people.
 
And then they build up their teams, and start to battle each other, and eventually their friendship is shattered when someone insists that abusing evasion moves is a perfectly legitimate strategy.
Double team one more fucking time and see what happens...
 
We just had an earthquake. One of those "things falling off shelves" earthquakes. Though it might have been exacerbated by the fact that I'm on the 14th floor of a building right now.

You guys heard it here first from me!
 
We just had an earthquake. One of those "things falling off shelves" earthquakes. Though it might have been exacerbated by the fact that I'm on the 14th floor of a building right now.

You guys heard it here first from me!
Thank you. When you check in with this information, it lets me know how much I should be worried about the rest our family. (And you too, of course.)
 
Yeah, I didn't update you guys for the second one though, because if I posted every time we got an earthquake, Halforums would run out of storage space pretty quickly.
 
I really thought these would've become boring by now. Been subscribed for something like 3 years, and new ones still manage to make me chuckle.

Slightly NSFW.
 
Yeah, I didn't update you guys for the second one though, because if I posted every time we got an earthquake, Halforums would run out of storage space pretty quickly.
I saw your post about the first one last night, but USGS didn't have the info yet (I was heading to bed anyway), so I looked this morning to see how bad it was, and saw the second and the time stamps on them.
 

Dave

Staff member
The most American headline of the day:

Rancher spots first wolverine in North Dakota in 150 years — so he kills it
 
I really wish this sort of thing didn't happen so often, but it does.

--Patrick
I find it abominable, but I also don't blame him. If the government had found out, his ranch would have been turned into protected land and he wouldn't have even gotten market rate for it. It LITERALLY would have thrown him out onto the streets.
 
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