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UPS and Barnes & Noble are both insane…

How insane is this: Product shipped from Barnes & Noble (NJ > Richmond). Arrived in Richmond today, 26 hours after leaving the B&N warehouse. It will not be delivered until the 4th, will sit in a UPS facility for four days. UPS is not able to hand over the package to me at the depot (5 minutes from my house) claiming that B&N has to place an “interrupt” request as the shipper. The receiving party (me) can not submit this request. B&N says they can not because of a “legal contract” with UPS, the only ones that can override that is UPS.

So, my package will sit for four days, five minutes from my home. Stupid.

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12/30
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Take a look and let it sink in some

Brief and to the point.  Lots of talk over the weekend about pending action in the U.S. Senate regarding health care reform.  Hand wring and posturing, rhetoric and press releases are flying. Fillibusters, deals, non-deal and back channels are in full effect.  Has anyone really stopped to see what the public thinks of all this?

We are 322 days until the next national election when 435 members of the House and scores of senators will stand before the voters.  Many on the hill seem viscerally determined to pass this bill (House or Senate version) and keep a campaign pledge they are missing the forest.  Look at the whole view.  Continue down the path you are on. Ignore the warning signs. Stick your head in the sand and see what the voters think three hundred days from now.

Take a look and let it sink in some.

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