{"id":93,"date":"2001-11-19T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-19T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2001-11-19T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2001-11-19T15:53:00","slug":"93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever have one of those days? I have fourteen large packages, filled with about forty pounds of books apiece, that need to be shipped back to the publisher to be rebound. Only, it’s anybody’s guess how I’m supposed to get these boxes to UPS, since the publisher wants them sent via ground delivery, but you can only arrange a pickup through UPS if you’re sending your packages by air. And even if I had<\/em> a car, I don’t think I could fit all of these boxes into it so I could drop them off myself. Apparently, if I leave the packages with their new shipping labels in the mailroom downstairs, whoever picks up our US Mail this afternoon will take them to UPS, but the emphasis here, I think, is on the apparently<\/em>. And the UPS website, where I would print these new labels, will only allow me to prepare shipments of five packages at a time. And all of this trouble (which is, of course, dumped on me, the new guy, who until this morning had never even had reason to see<\/em> the mailroom) is due to the publisher sending us soft instead of hardcover copies and writing “co-editors” instead of “editors” on the front cover. If only there weren’t so many<\/em> boxes, or if only we had a regular UPS pickup time when they would<\/em> come for packages going ground. Oh well. It will work itself out in the end. These things invariably do.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever have one of those days? I have fourteen large packages, filled with about forty pounds of books apiece, that need to be shipped back to the publisher to be rebound. Only, it’s anybody’s guess how I’m supposed to get these boxes to UPS, since the publisher wants them sent via ground delivery, but you … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}