Return with us now to the thrilling days of early June, when a large package of cat food and litter we'd ordered online vanished into the aether of the delivery services, and we had to get a replacement, and even that didn't arrive until after the cat food ran out, so I had to use a retailer's website to find the kind we needed. (And, incidentally, I have been unable to remove myself from their mailing list. Also, all the ads I see online now are for cat food.)
So late this afternoon, we hear a soggy thud on our front porch. Sure enough, it's the missing package, bursting at the seams (it's 58 pounds) and wrapped madly up with package tape. On the address label is the shipping date, May 25. What has it been doing for the month and a half since then? Where has it been hiding out, Australia? No idea. I cut the box open on the porch, bring the items in one by one (everything's there), and then throw the empty box over the fence into the side yard to keep the enormous boxes from my cubical shelving company until it's worth the trouble to take them down to the city recycling center, since they won't fit in our bins.
And it will be a considerable time before we need to order these cat supplies again, idiot ad algorithm.
If your package came via UPS, the cat food has been at their warehouse. I have seen a couple of stories in the last few weeks about issues UPS had in Oakland, and they might apply to the whole Bay Area.
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