where the P112 kits are

Feedle I were under the impression that the P112 kits from that last bit we didn't know existed were sent out in January. An email from someone wondering where his kit was the first hint that something was wrong. Here is the email I got from Feedle regarding this problem: ===begin quote=== I'll ship him a kit on Thursday. I don't have the spreadsheet handy: send me his address directly and I'll generate a label today for tomorrow's mail run. We may have a problem, however. So, I handed the kits to the "[Person] Friday/Executive Assistant" at the executive office suite I have my office at back in January. About a month ago, I noted that there is a new person at that desk. I didn't think much of it, but I remember overhearing a water cooler conversation about how the previous one was fired. I sent an E-Mail message yesterday to the EA role account asking if she could look in the USPS account to see when they were shipped and what the tracking numbers were. "Oh, you didn't hear?" is never a good thing when starting this sort of conversation. Apparently, the previous EA was fired in early February, precisely because she was so bad at her job that .. well, she wasn't doing it. So, the short of it is, there's no tracking numbers for the packages sent, if they were even sent at all. The only evidence that they have that the packages I gave them even existed is the fact that when I dropped them off she put them in the log for billing purposes (it's worth noting that my internal account was charged for the flat-rate postage). There is no record in either the Click N Ship account they use, nor in the paper logs they keep for packages that are hand-handled and metered with the conventional postage meter. Where the packages actually are is, at the moment, an exercise left to the reader. I'm now really worried: because according to my notes, that makes two out of the eight (?) people who ordered kits from you who haven't received them. In looking at the notes: I _DID_ ship Steve Hirsch a kit in that January shipment. I'm obviously not happy about this from the "services I'm paying for as a tenant in a fairly pricey executive office center" perspective. The Management has already assured me that they will compensate me somehow for the lost materials... but I stressed upon them that the worst part is the "one-of-a-kind" nature of the kits: that this was the tail end of a production run, and I don't have enough parts to just make more. Plus, there's the lost goodwill: you personally depended upon me to get those kits shipped out, and I probably let you down. Anyway, I'm going to meet with the office manager in a couple of hours to have a more in-depth conversation about what can be done about this. I'll keep you posted. ===end quote=== Since the email was sent, I had a phone conversation with Feedle about this. The kits were found stashed in a cupboard along with some seventy other packages this now ex office assistant never posted. So, you WILL get your kits. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?