{"id":2740,"date":"2006-09-07T21:46:45","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T01:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/dhl-really-really-sucks\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T21:53:48","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T02:53:48","slug":"dhl-really-really-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/dhl-really-really-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"DHL really, really sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.ca\/\">Apple<\/a> sends me my <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/24\/kaboom\/\">replacement iBook battery<\/a>. First I hear is a yellow tag on the door. I call up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhl.ca\/\">DHL<\/a> website, and redirect (or so I thought) the package to my work address. That was Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, there&#8217;s no package at work, but there is another yellow tag stuck on our door. No matter, it&#8217;ll come tomorrow (being today).<\/p>\n<p>Nothing at work today either, and Catherine says that there&#8217;s a message from the DHL unclaimed parcels office in Markham. Having the old yellow bill with me, I head up to Markham to pick it up.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purolator.com\/\">Purolator<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/04\/aargh-couriers\/\">bad<\/a>, but DHL take teh cake. Not merely are they in the arse end of Markham, but I had to wait about half an hour to get my package, in a long queue of irate folks. Annoyance. And the thing is, DHL are right next door to Apple Canada, but the battery got shipped out of Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>The only tiny piece of amusement I got from all of this was that I used my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CueCat\">:CueCat<\/a> to scan the DHL &#8216;DNK&#8217; number, and it worked. I am easily amused, but it&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Apple sends me my replacement iBook battery. First I hear is a yellow tag on the door. I call up the DHL website, and redirect (or so I thought) the package to my work address. That was Tuesday. Wednesday, there&#8217;s no package at work, but there is another yellow tag stuck on our door. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[890,1170,172,62],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-battery","tag-cuecat","tag-ibook","tag-rant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Ic","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}