Cool, but doh

This evening a postman dropped off a package (while we were trying to take a nap; nice timing, thank you very much) and it was O who went down to get it. I was wondering what it might be because I have a few online orders floating around out there. It turned out to be a package from Land's End that I did not expect to get here for a very long time and its early arrival kinda ruined the surprise for O's xmas present. I say kinda because he still doesn't know exactly what he's getting, but now he can narrow it down a lot.

So yeah, I ordered it with the cheapest shipping I could get from the US, which was $10 for surface mail. The estimated delivery time was 8-12 weeks. That places it sometime after O's birthday next month. Which was ok, I was just going to say his xmas present was coming, but I needed to be cheap and not pay twice as much for the priority shipping that would get it here by xmas. So how long did my $10 surface mail take? One week. Actually, a bit less. I made my order one week ago, but it didn't ship until the 3rd, which was last Saturday.

I think they just made a mistake, they still billed me for $10 shipping, but on the address label it says Intl Priority Mail. That still is supposed to take 1-2 weeks. I love though how every company online is like "buy now or it won't get to you before xmas!!" and I get my package from the US in less than a week. It's all a scam.

In other news, I'm making my Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. Yes, I'm a bit late, but I need my turkey (or in our case, chicken) and stuffing and sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce... Yum. No pumpkin pie though, O doesn't like it and I'm not so keen on it to make one for myself. I think we'll have enough without pie anyway.