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oshy

POV: You made the mistake of trying to track a package in 2024

It's the UPS website and it's absolutely littered with popups and junk and other filth, so much so that you can't even seen the content of the page for all the cookie notices and tracking requests and chat help boxes
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m0xEE
@ocean
"www.ups.com wants to know your location" — on a parcel tracking page? WHAT THE FUCK FOR?!!! :marseyfacepalm:
collappsar
@ocean All that and they deliver to the wrong location.
Moskitokönig Kevin

@ocean "We and our 1795 partners value your privacy" 🤡

Woolfhound

@ocean it often occurs to me that online services seemed much more helpful when I was sitting in front of an original iMac in 1999 connected via my amazing new DSL line.

Comrade elronxenu

@ocean It's no wonder they can't deliver, they need to know your location.

Tormod Halvorsen

@ocean

If I'm tracking a parcel, I sure hope UPS already know my location :)

will talk for elePHPants!

@ocean just to tell you that the parcel has been dropped at your preferred place (front door).

Guess who never set a preffered place. Also guess where no parcel can be found. Must have been someone elses front door... 🙈

Joshua Barretto

@ocean Help us improve UPS

Because we sure as heck don't know how

SamuelJohnson

@ocean It's the lying "We attempted delivery" that gets me. UPS batting score 100% on this one (every delivery; last was two days running).

I was at home. Have CCTV on the drive and a video doorbell. My post code is location specific.

If they were fined for every lie they would stop doing it. I don't mind a delay. I do mind being lied to. Repeatedly.

mbeddedDev

@ocean Could be any random blog article, too..

Chris

@ocean That's awful. I only tend to send by Royal Mail and the tracking experience is quite nice once you pass the strange "odd one out" captures.

This is an item I posted recently with relevant details removed

A nice clean site with no popups or nags.

I would actually refuse to use a company that forced that kind of pushy website on me

Royal Mail postal tracking website showing an item delivered with a nice clean interface with no nags or popups
Royal Mail postal tracking website showing an item delivered with a nice clean interface with no nags or popups
a murmuration of goomy

@ocean POV you try to read an article in 2024

Screenshot of a mobile page with an article that is covered by different ads and pop ups, leaving only 3 lines legible in the whole screen
hazelnot :yell:

@ocean ...I finally understand the "wants to know your location" thing. Firefox uses different wording for that message so it never clicked with me 💀

Rejin

@ocean Asking for your location is pretty redundant 🤦🏽‍♀️

MrC

@ocean My favorite is they all say "This site knows everything we know! Don't you dare ask a human for help!"

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