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UPS is delivering some very exciting new camera equipment today, signature required.
The tracking system only tells me it will be delivered sometime today.
It doesn't even narrow it down with a beginning or an ending time.
In the past I've called UPS to get a window, even fat sloppy window of 6 AM to 8 PM would be better than what amounts to a 24-hour window; to no avail.
Uhm, UPS, we have lives and can't be expected to wait in our homes all day and night especially if you already KNOW a more-narrow delivery window.
Well, you'll never guess what.
UPS saw a marketing opportunity.
Now, if you 'register' they can give you a time window.
I have no idea how narrow this window is since I FK-YOUD out of their sign up process sometime during the second screen of data collection.
They also require you to read and agree to a LENGTHY contract of legaleze mumbo jumbo that allows them to do heavens knows what ... but undoubtedly somehow make more money off the personal data they are collecting.
FRIGGING WHY?
With this new trick they just revealed that they DO know a time window.
So why not just tell anyone with the tracking number?
Why do they have to reach further into our wallets?
Where is this going? … Not revealing the delivery DAY without collecting a DNA sample?
This age of companies using technology to parlay people's personal information into profits really pisses me off almost as much as customers just rolling over and taking it.
The tracking system only tells me it will be delivered sometime today.
It doesn't even narrow it down with a beginning or an ending time.
In the past I've called UPS to get a window, even fat sloppy window of 6 AM to 8 PM would be better than what amounts to a 24-hour window; to no avail.
Uhm, UPS, we have lives and can't be expected to wait in our homes all day and night especially if you already KNOW a more-narrow delivery window.
Well, you'll never guess what.
UPS saw a marketing opportunity.
Now, if you 'register' they can give you a time window.
I have no idea how narrow this window is since I FK-YOUD out of their sign up process sometime during the second screen of data collection.
They also require you to read and agree to a LENGTHY contract of legaleze mumbo jumbo that allows them to do heavens knows what ... but undoubtedly somehow make more money off the personal data they are collecting.
FRIGGING WHY?

With this new trick they just revealed that they DO know a time window.
So why not just tell anyone with the tracking number?
Why do they have to reach further into our wallets?
Where is this going? … Not revealing the delivery DAY without collecting a DNA sample?



This age of companies using technology to parlay people's personal information into profits really pisses me off almost as much as customers just rolling over and taking it.