re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So I watched the UPS van on their map… and it came back to my neighborhood, the van supposedly was across the street from the driveway up to my place… and now it’s gone away again.

It’s like their algorithm didn’t notice the van just had to go a couple of hundred yards farther… and now it’s over half a mile away, again.

It isn’t just about distance, they will also factor in number of left turns, and traffic, and lord knows what else. They are very good at plotting the route that is most effecient for them, unfortunately, that is not always most efficient for you. And sometimes drivers just screw up and miss a delivery. One day I had multiple packages scheduled that were on the truck for delivery, the driver missed one of the 3 and it didn’t come back til the next day because they can’t just turn around when they realize they made a mistake.