{"id":2680,"date":"2016-02-24T22:48:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T13:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2016-02-24\/2680"},"modified":"2016-02-24T22:48:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T13:48:45","slug":"the-frustrating-fallacy-of-next-day-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2016-02-24\/2680","title":{"rendered":"The Frustrating Fallacy of “Next Day Air”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

Ordering something online from a US<\/span> retailer last Friday, for domestic\ndelivery. I was given<\/span> the option to pay $20 for “<\/span>Next Day Air”<\/span>. When I\nselected<\/span> that option, the expected delivery date was updated to.... Tuesday,\nfour<\/i> days hence.<\/p>\n\n

Folks in America know nothing other than this shady date math... an order placed on Friday doesn't get processed or shipped\nuntil Monday, so “<\/span>next day”<\/span> isn't until Tuesday, but it drives me crazy. In Japan, when you order something for the next day, it arrives\nThe Next Day.<\/p>\n\n

For example, in Japan, “<\/span>Amazon Prime”<\/span> is “<\/span>free next-day<\/b> delivery”<\/span>. If you order<\/span> something on Saturday night, you'll get it on Sunday. Sometimes\nyou get things the same day... I've ordered something Sunday morning and had\nit delivered that evening. This is what I'm used to, so the American-style\nfake “<\/span>next day”<\/span> stuff is difficult to stomach. First World Problems, I guess.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Of course, my product didn't arrive yesterday as promised.<\/p>\n\n

I got an email early on Monday from the shipper (Karma\nMobility<\/a>) that my package had shipped, but tracking didn't actually show\nup on the UPS site until 8pm that night, when it was “<\/span>Order Processed; Ready for UPS”<\/span>.\nThat, I assume,<\/span> was too late to make that evening's flight from California out east,\nwhich I further<\/span> assume was why early on Tuesday morning UPS updated the\nstatus with the deliciously-vague “<\/span>Due to operating conditions, your package may be delayed.<\/i>”<\/span>\nThe next 17 hours went by without an update, until yesterday evening the package did\nmake the flight out east, a day<\/span> late, and so now they're suggesting that I'll\nget it today.<\/p>\n\n

It seems apparent that it's the shipper's fault for missing the promised\ndelivery date, so I sent<\/span> them a note<\/span> last night asking them to refund my $20.\nWe'll see. Sigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ordering something online from a US retailer last Friday, for domestic delivery. I was given the option to pay $20 for \"Next Day Air\". When I selected that option, the expected delivery date was updated to.... Tuesday, four days hence.<\/p>

Folks in America know nothing other than this shady date math... an order placed on Friday doesn't get processed or shipped until Monday, so \"next day\" isn't until Tuesday, but it drives me crazy. In Japan, when you order something for the next day, it arrives The Next Day.<\/p>

For example, in Japan, \"Amazon Prime\" is \"free next-day<\/b> delivery\". If [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}