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Re: Boo Hiss MicroSoft

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From: Briand T Sanderson
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 19:29
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daveb@merlin.wpd.sgi.com (Dave Babcock) writes:

>Well my copy of Windows 3.1 didn't arrive on Monday by 10am as promised.

>I called Microsoft (to get the Air Bill) and then Federal Express.  FedEx
>told me it was shipped "ECONOMY" and in no way would it have gotten to me
>by Monday 10am.  It will be delivered by Wednesday 4:30pm.

This same thing happened to me, and I called FedEX and they also told me the
same thing you mentioned about the ECONOMY. HOWEVER, Microsoft then told me
that there is some confusion with FedEx as those "ECONOMY" packages were
supposedly shipped a week ago with the same DELAY to be delivered on Monday.
So, evidently someone screwed up somewhere, but it may not have been Microsofts
fault. 

One nice thing about FedEx though. They are far superior to UPS. FedEx will
track a package and tell you where it is and whether it will be delivered in
the morning or in the afternoon. They sometimes will even come back if you 
missed a package and call them up and ask them to try to drop it off again. 
UPS doesn't help at all when you are wondering why your package was not
received.

B. Sanderson
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From: btsg6965@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Briand T Sanderson)
Subject: Re: Boo Hiss MicroSoft
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