Monday, December 8, 2008

The Grinch Who Crashed the Postal Service Server

Two things you can count each Holiday season: One is an airing of the animated Dr. Seuss classic starring the Grinch himself and the other is the crashing of the United States Postal Service server that provides real-time shipping quotes at checkout. Coincidence? I don't think so!

Only someone with a heart two sizes too small would allow such a thing to happen on one of our busiest shopping days of the year.

But the Grinch didn't stop Christmas sales "from coming! They came! Somehow or other" ...perhaps it was the $2 discount we gave on UPS shipping... "they came just the same!"

1 comments:

Jim Kirk said...

USPS quotes and options back up and running as of this morning. So it looks like it took less than 24 hours for the Grinch to see that not only did he not stop Christmastime orders from coming but that he also realized that ordering from us "perhaps means a little bit more."

The good news is that I expect no more problems with the postal service server... at least that is until this same time next year.