I hate waiting

I’ve got a new toy en route and I can empathize with Steven’s occasional UPS blogging:

EDISON, NJ, US
01/03/2008 11:21 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
01/02/2008 07:57 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN

01/02/2008 05:59 P.M. BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED

Tracking results provided by UPS: 01/07/2008 2:14 P.M. ET

I ordered on Thursday, the package left New Jersey on Friday, but it still hasn’t had an arrival scan anywhere. sigh.

UPDATE: ok finally arrived in Wisconsin!

OAK CREEK, WI, US
01/07/2008 9:05 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
01/07/2008 2:11 P.M. ARRIVAL SCAN

looks like it finally made it from new Jersey to the distribution point in Milwaukee. It left seven hours later, probably for the regional center in nearby Wausau, and will be out on the truck for delivery by tomorrow morning. But good grief, it took five days to get from New jersey to Wisconsin?? Even taking into account that there was a two day weekend in between, that still seems absurdly long. Do the trucks make multiple stops en route?

UPDATE 2:

WAUSAU, WI, US
01/08/2008 6:43 A.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY
01/08/2008 4:30 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN

aaargh! I mean, yay!