No Leopard Yet
Apple Canada used Purolator to ship out Leopard, and Purolator seems to be doing a bad job of it. I haven’t gotten mine yet, and there are various reports around the Web of people still waiting.
Apple promised delivery on Friday (release day), and so shipped my copy overnight on Thursday. It should have been delivered Friday, but it wasn’t. I called Purolator and the lady basically said I couldn’t expect overnight delivery from the US. (um, then why do you call it “Overnight”?).
They do deliver on Saturday, but even though they were late with this shipment, it wasn’t scheduled for Saturday delivery, so I’d have to wait until Monday.
Now it’s Monday. I check Purolator’s delivery status page and it says:
The last line worried me, so I called Purolator. What they told me is that basically it was on the wrong truck, and that they wouldn’t be able to deliver it today. They did offer to let me pick it up, so tonight I can pick it up from the depot unless it’s not there yet. They weren’t able to guarantee it would be at the depot before it closed.
I wish Apple would have used FedEx.
November 3rd, 2007 at 6:30 pm
God willing they just didn’t simply mix up the order with something else… :-D
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December 1st, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Purolator is just awful. I’ve had instances where they’ve just dropped off the Delivery Notice card in my mailbox without even ringing the doorbell (when I HAVE been home), forcing me to wait an additional 24 hours to go pick it up myself (either the driver couldn’t find the doorbell or is on a tight schedule…). Their online system is ridiculous. It usually doesn’t recognize a tracking number for the first 24 hours, and when it’s finally in the system all you can see are completely vague online status updates: e.g., “Shipment in transit”.
I never have problems when Apple ships via FedEx.