After waiting and watching for several days, my last-ever cell phone (probably) reached Troutdale, about 10 miles from my house. I came home from work expecting to see it on the porch - instead it had traveled 150 miles to a processing facility.

I swear you can't make stuff like this up. If it went by road it may have passed within 1/4 mile of my home on its way out of state. And my protest note received a simple form letter, stating that all is on schedule. Nobody at fedex can actually look at a map and see how stupid and wasteful this process has become? Corporate knows best. Idiots.

I swear you can't make stuff like this up. If it went by road it may have passed within 1/4 mile of my home on its way out of state. And my protest note received a simple form letter, stating that all is on schedule. Nobody at fedex can actually look at a map and see how stupid and wasteful this process has become? Corporate knows best. Idiots.