Are you sure you want to do that, Fedex?

[miss_philomena]

On Friday I ordered a whole mass of beads from Fire Mountain Gems for the purses I knit. I've since been following the tracking, and I'm hoping there's just a mistake. Because it makes sense that my beads would go to Newark, since that's only an hour north of me. But to go from Newark to Tennessee?

Date/Time		Activity	Location
Dec 14, 2008	8:57 AM	Arrived at FedEx location	MEMPHIS, TN
Dec 13, 2008	7:35 PM	Arrived at FedEx location	NEWARK, NJ
	4:47 PM	Departed FedEx location	INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Dec 12, 2008	6:12 PM	Left FedEx origin facility	MEDFORD, OR
	5:24 PM	Package data transmitted to FedEx
	3:06 PM	Picked up	MEDFORD, OR

In other purse news, I finished knitting Midnight Diamonds, and I'll take pictures at some point in the near future, before I sew up the sides. I've also got two more I started knitting, but I'm not really far enough into either of them to take pictures. One is a modified shell pattern with clear coated beads on variagated yellow thread. The other is completely different- it's knit in the round from the bottom up with a spiral pattern, with dark pink beads on white thread.

Comments

[jehanni.livejournal.com]

It could be accurate: Memphis is the center of the FedEx universe, and almost all packages go through the Big Sort there. But it seems odd it would choose to transit back West after making the leap from Medford to Newark, on it's way to you.

[miss-philomena.livejournal.com]

Well, they showed up just fine on Monday morning, so the side trip to Memphis was only a digital one.