Try crafting a letter inquiring about a lost package without complaining!

I’ve had to do that this morning.  Two packages which I shipped from  my neighborhood UPS office do not appear on the tracking page of the carrier.  A fairly major hiccup on shipping resulted in my having to make a return trip to the shipper to re-do the process. I caught the error only because I grew nervous that the clerk had not shown me the label as customarily occurs.  Sure enough, he had not gotten the proper address.  I discovered this only because I checked tracking later in the day.

Twenty-four hours later, the packages still do not appear in tracking even under the new numbers.  The outfit does not have Sunday hours, so I used the “e-mail store” feature to start the inquiry.  But mindful of this journey and using my very best non-violent communication, I wrote one of the longest, most cautious, and content-neutral queries in my personal history.

Shew!  This not-complaining stuff is hard!!!

It’s the sixteenth day of the thirty-fourth month of My Year Without Complaining.  Life continues.

My favorite meme-girl.