Fugato

I have just returned from a country where, apparently, potato chips can be marketed under the name Papas Lolita.

On June 30 I ordered some stuff on Amazon. All of the items were “Usually ships within 24 hours” except for one, which said 3 weeks. So I selected “ship items as they become available”, opting to possibly pay a little more so that one item wouldn’t delay everything.

They all shipped out on the same day. But [Bogosity 1] they shipped in two packages, three hours apart. So Amazon made me pay an extra $10.48, for no good reason. I was willing to pay extra to save three weeks, not three hours.

Okay, no big deal, just a bit silly.

But [Bogosity 2] the tracking information for these two packages was not available. For a full week, still not available. No reason given.

Then one package (the 3-week one) arrived, on July 7. Today, a week later, [Bogosity 3] its tracking information is still not available online, and Amazon’s delivery estimate for it is July 14 - July 25.

That’s rather silly.

The other package still hasn’t arrived, but when I request tracking information for it, that information is sometimes ([Bogosity 4] apparently randomly) available, and it looks like this:

That’s really silly. The location “US” is not only ridiculously vague, it is also [Bogosity 5] clearly untrue for the event “Arrived at destination country” and the event after that. Moreover, [Bogosity 6] the package is said to have arrived in my country a week ago, presumably in Reykjavik, within a dozen kilometres of me, and there’s still no sign of it.

With this level of quality, why do they bother to offer tracking information at all?