YOU HAVE DISPLEASED GALADRIEL BARBIE

[cleolinda]

UPS.com: Report a Damaged Package

Describe Package Contents:

I just now received two packages from Amazon.com through UPS. One of them is fine. The other one was open--one of the longer flaps was either not taped down properly or had been pulled open. When you look at the box, the first item you see is a boxed doll, which I pulled out. The bottom of the doll's box was open, too--the flap completely pulled out. I don't know if the doll was supposed to have accessories, so I can't determine if anything was taken. The other item in the box seems to be fine. It looks as if someone actually opened the shipping box and started opening the doll, but put it back before getting any further (when you pull on the cardboard inside the doll packaging, it's still attached and doesn't slide out, which says to me that whoever opened it may have put the item back in the box rather than tamper with it any further).

(I am reporting this as not repairable because there's nothing to repair per se, not because something is broken beyond repair. As stated above, I don't think anything is missing from the doll, but I can't tell.)

Comments:

I'm reporting this more as an alert to UPS that someone may be tampering with or opening packages. Whoever opened mine--and the opened doll box makes me think it wasn't just a carton that came untaped--does not seem to have damaged the items inside, and so I don't actually need replacement or restitution of any kind.

Galadriel Barbie, on the other hand, wants to kick your delivery guy in the balls. I'm just saying.

It's been that kind of day, you know? I had my alarm set for eight, but apparently I hit "off" and rolled back over while still completely unconscious, because not only do I not remember turning the alarm off, I didn't wake up until 10 am, either. I have to leave for class at about 10:20, and I wanted to wash my hair and have breakfast and check my email, so... not so much with any of that today. Fnarr. I haven't had time for anything else to screw up yet, so cross your fingers for me.

Comments

[thyroyalmajesty.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that'd make me so angry. And, even though it's "only" a doll, I'd still feel slightly violated. No one likes it when strangers go through their stuff.

Perhaps the Amazon.com description would have a summary of any accessories, so you could figure out if anything was taken?

And the alarm clock thing -- I've done that so often I now set my alarm clock for (usually) 6 and then again at 6:15, with the second alarm turning on the radio, so even if I sleep through the buzzer, the music/talking of the radio usually wakes me up. A lot more gently, too, actually. And if I reeeally need to make sure I get up, I set the alarm clock on my cell phone as well.

I've slept in until five minute before I have to leave a few too many times...

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend and I have that double alarm thing, but it's REALLY poorly designed, because if you set it so that the second alarm is the later one, you end up disabling it if you push the "sound off" button when the first alarm goes off, so the second one never sounds! I'm like "how stupid", but he loves his old piece of crap alarm too much to switch to the one I owned when we moved in together. Unfortuneatly the radio station that comes on in the morning DOES NOT wake us gently.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure it didn't have any accessories, but yeah, I'm going back to Amazon to check. It just pisses me the fuck off that someone opened MY DOLL. Like, not just the carton and rooted around in my purchases, but opened MY DOLL. But you know how most dolls are packaged--it takes you half an hour to get all the cardboard and the twisty-ties undone, so it was pretty obvious that the doll hadn't been pulled out any further.

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

I have to have my alarm across the room where I have to get outta bed to turn it off. No chance of me snoozing. I can't do snooze alarms....

[duncanatrix.livejournal.com]

I hope nobody opens my sword-cane...

(Yes, I ordered a sword-cane for my brother for Christmas.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeee! That's awesome. Any particular theme to it?

[duncanatrix.livejournal.com]

It's got a cobra head handle!

[meghatron.livejournal.com]

Wanna be my sister this Yule? ;)

[meghatron.livejournal.com]

I should clarify... I have no idea what your actual gender is, and since I already have two sisters, I just thought you could stand in for one of them. But I suddenly realized that if you are, in fact, male, my comment might offend.

[duncanatrix.livejournal.com]

Nope, I'm of the female persuasion. Not offended in the least.

[p-tripp.livejournal.com]

Eek! Galadriel Barbie feels violated!

That is really rather creepy. I hope UPS sorts it all out for you. And compensates you. :D

[ulicqel-droma.livejournal.com]

If there's a Ken Haldir or Celeborn that goes with that Galadriel Barbie, some UPS guy is SO getting owned. Lothlorien-style.

[heyoka.livejournal.com]

Actually, they have her paired in the gift set with...wait for it...Ken as Legolas.

Not, you know, her husband. Or even one of her wardens. Just the slightly embarassing second cousin with that thing for dwarves that We Don't Talk About At Dinner. ;D Ah, well, more money for Mattel.

[edda.livejournal.com]

You do rage with such style.

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

*hugs and waps the bad people *

[yarha.livejournal.com]

I sense Bitch-Rays of Death! Which is what I always think of when I see Cleo's current icon.

Yarha, Sushi-Sushi Banzai!

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

Galadriel Barbie would be a good name for a band, but not as good as Violated by UPS...

[tanamaria.livejournal.com]

on the bottom (or side) of the dolls box there should be an area with "consumer information" that lists the contents of the box.

[butch-lebeau.livejournal.com]

Poor Galadriel Barbie! She should most definately kick the delivery guy in the nads. 'Specially if he opened her package. That's a total invasion of privacy!

[cordilleran2.livejournal.com]

*worries about the mass assortment books on Byzantium from Amazon.com*

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

It's probably not the delivery man; it's probably someone at the distribution center(s). I had a friend who worked at one who said that UPS people can do whatever they want with the packages, just about. They're not as liable as the post office is.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yikes. Well, that's why I didn't specifically accuse the delivery guy and I'm not responsible for any of Galadriel Barbie's accusations. I figured I'd tell them what happened and they would know where down the line it could have happened. I mean, seriously--how not slick would a delivery guy have to be to poke around in my box and then dump it on my doorstep?

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

"Poke around in my box"... too many jokes... ~dies~ Anywho- My roommate works for the Evil K (Fedex Kinkos) and is ALWAYS bagging on UPS, but two(?) weeks ago Fedex was supposed to deliever her computer power supply, and the traking thing says it was delivered, but the office doesn't have it, and they can't FIND the driver, to ask WHERE on earth he put the damn thing.

[dtwirler.livejournal.com]

My stereo turns on a CD in the morning, and it's to much work to reset the alarm. Getting up then becomes the only thing to do. I rather like waking up to 3 Doors Down every morning anyways. :)

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

honestly? the first thing that popped into my head was, "oh my god, now they're making a galadriel barbie?!" this is of course nothing against you. i'm just saying. (never been a big fan of barbie. after the britney spears barbie... meh.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

They also have a Legolas Ken and an Arwen & Aragorn coronation set. Yeah, they're pretty bad. But it's Galadriel, man. You know how I am...

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

I have someone wake me up, other wise i won't get up, because i hit snooze before i even hear it go off too.
I'm addicted...
First, I just was looking at Legolas Ken and Galadriel Barbie. Then amazon SUCKS ME IN, and now i am browsing tablets and drooling over photoshop CS. Online window shopping addict, that's me. *goes back to longing after a Wacom Intuos3 6x8 tablet in metallic grey*

[coconut-zebra.livejournal.com]

Jeez! Of all the dolls to violate...she'll go all Green Negative Fury Galadriel on his ass. Eowyn will probably help.

[starlights-1.livejournal.com]

Poor you! I would have been furious too. Good job on reporting it!

I was furious when Canadian Customs held my Elvis purse for 2 weeks, didn't open it, and charged me $8. I was going to contest it, but I just wanted my purse. Also, when I was 5 I didn't even get my Christmas Gifts from my Grandmother. I dreamed of that Barbie mobile, and they took it away. :*( I have a beef with Canada Post, lol.

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

!!!

It's KILLIN' TIME!

No one is allowed to root through your stuff! NO ONE!

[yarha.livejournal.com]

PS: Did you consider that the Galadriel doll might've fried the illicit rummager, thus leaving a small pile of ash by the package? Perhaps someone else came along, noticed the doll out of its box and put things back together, subsequently sweeping rummager-ash into the trash. Karma. Or something.

Makes ya think, eh? Or mebbe not. :p

Yarha, Toy Magic