Maybe UPS lost her package and denied her claim

 'Tis the holiday season.  NY AG Letitia James files suit against UPS.  It is what it is.

Merry Christmas. 

Alfie - 1/2 feral 1/2 house

 

Wary of strangers he has bonded with me.  Will still catch the occasional squirrel.  An expert ratter helps keeps the rodents at bay.  Saves me from a pest control bill.  You'll notice three large cat carriers in the background as I have four other felines.  Alfie goes for his yearly vet visit in early March.  Also some scratching posts to the left of the carriers.  Then you'll see part of a litter box.  No real issues there but I do have the Bissell Pet Stain Eraser just in case.  Such is the feline living room.  Menu still mostly Fancy Feast.  Some days pulled chicken and roast beef.  Have to watch the seafood as I have another cat I think is allergic to fish.  Easy living.

SHEIN now accepting donations and UPS not taking claims seriously

 To round out a previous post.  Shopping at the online retailer SHEIN is a Jekyll and Hyde experience.  The products that I have bought all have good quality and were delivered either very fast or in a timely manner.  That's the Jekyll side.  The Hyde side is Customer Service.  That's really only if you have a problem or issue and pray you don't.   First you encounter the ai bot of course but even when you decide to engage with an actual human agent they talk like bots too.  Pre-fab cut and paste generic responses.  In two cases they sent me the message my orders were delivered only I haven't found them to this day.  It's hard to find a SHEIN phone number from the site or app so you wind up messaging them.  You go in a circle with different agents.  They can't seem to progress beyond "our records indicate" and make no serious attempt to resolve the issue.  Many people across the web have posted about never receiving their packages from SHEIN despite SHEIN insisting the carrier delivered them.  SHEIN then does not offer refunds or replacements even when the customers request this.  In my book if an online retailer accepts your money and you never receive the product that's a donation not a business transaction.  Which leads me to UPS.

Filed a claim with UPS for my lost items.  Received a confirmation e-mail stating that an investigation has begun and that I need to do nothing in the meantime and they'll contact me in 8 business days.  I replied to this that I could not retrieve the image the driver supposedly took as proof of delivery.  A few days passed and today they sent me a final e-mail saying they closed my claim because they were unable to contact me to assist in the investigation this despite them having said as I just noted that I don't need to do anything while they look into the case.  Also there was no box in the original claim application for my phone number.  At any rate they still obviously had my Gmail address so what's wrong with that?  UPS messed up and won't do right.  They used to be a top-notch carrier.

The moral of the story is that it's better to go to an actual physical store and buy things.  The other thing is in this Era of Trump nobody is wrong.  I think maybe Bill Clinton started that.

An important change to my homeowners policy

I was informed today by mail in addition to my new Declarations Page that there has been a reduction in coverage in my homeowners insurance to wit not covered bodily injury ot property damage caused by illegal animals or pets.  Wild by birth or nature, a bird of prey, venomous or poisonous snakes and reptiles, chimps etc.  What do they think I'm running a zoo here?  BB can have my Great Horned Owl and Copperhead.  When I was growing up I was bitten by a feral kid.  Would he be illegal to own today?  How are the cats doing?

Excuse me while I go feed my Sasquatch. 

Maybe Sasquatch took your package into a portal

 The pros and cons of online shopping would make for a too lengthy post but some of us adventurers encounter the occasional "delivered but never received" quandary.  Happened to me a few days ago and it wasn't theft as I was having my pipe session on the front porch at the time.  The website gives helpful pointers in such a situation.  Did you check behind the holly tree in the backyard maybe?  OK so then you check parts of your neighborhood and do some casual walks and some casual talking.  Some light research of mine indicates it's not mostly theft but technical reasons.  Maybe the driver accidentally butt-scanned something dunno.  So now you contact Customer Service and as a rule they never want to help you.  Maybe not a telephone call could be a live chat.  It's obvious they don't want to do any actual work even though they have all the logistical information at their fingertips.  "Our records indicate that your package was delivered on..." so now it's a kind of philosophical conundrum.  You have it but you don't.  It's quantum.  Then maybe you file a claim with your carrier and they're looking into it.  Mystery open.

Shopping is funny.  Maybe you can find a chair already made but sometimes you have to put it together yourself.  Happened to my brother.

The Restoration of the Republic - how long?

 In just the span of a few short weeks my rock-ribbed all-American conservative friend has gone from anyone who is anti-Trump is drinking the Kool-Aid to Trump's a weird guy.  MAGA not so much a base anymore but a remnant.  The tariffs - unless it's my imagination the cost of my online shopping has shot up overnight.  Venezuela - not a source of major drug traffic like Colombia and Mexico more a grab for oil.  Trump's Birthday - maybe a national holiday?  The ICE shitshow continues to rampage across the land.  Putin/Zelensky- Trump the Great Appeaser.  Foreign policy - Israel First.  The MRI - what's that all about?  Whimsical pardons.  The SCOTUS poised to expand his kingly powers.  Who's the court jester in this Administration?

The Trump 2nd Term - a boil on the ass of History;)

For Anti-Semite of the Year I nominate my sister's parrot

 Some woman with a sketchy background runs some site called StopAnti-Semitism.com.  Every year they hand out awards for Jew-hater of the year.  Last year Candace Owens got the top honor.  This year Tucker Carlson is in the running of course along with Cenk and Ana from the Young Turks, Ms. Rachel, actresses Marcia Cross and Cynthia Nixon and a few others.  Basically it's all about calling out Bibi and the genocide in Gaza.  This is weak.  Criticizing a foreign government is not the same thing as hating that country's people.  If you have a problem say with the Argentinian government it doesn't mean you hate Argentinians.

My sister owns an African Grey Parrot.  In addition to saying my sister has a fat ass and generally talking smack he has said some things about Jews behind closed doors.  Nick Fuentes has asked why he's not on the list.  Can we nominate the bird?