Last week, we took a look at a few different ways that you can stay entertained. For this week’s edition of What’s Up Wednesdays, we take a quick and random tour of the blogosphere to get a more eclectic mix of blog posts.
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Raul Pacheco starts us off with some local fare. Generally speaking, Vancouver is a relatively green city. We recycle. We drink out of reusable mugs. We’re also considering a dedicated bike lane on the Burrard Bridge. This would take away one of the traffic lanes used for cars and other vehicles, so what is the city trying to accomplish with this? I don’t think a dedicated lane will really encourage people to bike rather than drive their way into the downtown core.
Tyler Ingram likes to enjoy the great outdoors, especially when he has the opportunity to get just a little outside of the city. Most recently, he went up to Whistler to hike the High Note Trail. Whistler is located about an hour and a half outside of Vancouver, so you don’t have to go far to reconnect with nature. The trail provided for some great photo opportunities and Tyler even made friends with a whistling marmot along the way.
Jeff Cutler appears to be having some unfortunate luck with couriers these days. Just as I experienced with Purolator, Jeff isn’t all that pleased with UPS. Heading on over to the local store, he suffered through a massive customer service fail, because that particular store chooses not to stock waybills. That’s right. The UPS Store does not carry waybills…. how are you supposed to ship anything?
Charnita Fance has discovered a very valuable tool for all the social media enthusiasts in the audience. You can search through Twitter using its built-in search engine, but what about the pictures that people share through Twitter? That’s where TwiPho Image Search comes into play, doing exactly what you think it does. It even shows the source of the image, whether it be TwitPic, Tweetie, or any variety of other options.
InvestorBlogger has come to the end of era along with the rest of us. He also received that unfortunate email message informing him that Geocities is closing for good. What used to be a hugely popular online service has quickly fallen out of favor. It still uses guestbooks for crying out loud. I’m also sad to see it go, but it’s time we all move on to greener pastures and brighter beginnings.
It seems like Geocities is becoming more popular now due to its imminent death than it has been in years!
UPS is messed up sometimes. They have a local customer service center, where you have to enter all the info on your shipment into their computers, print a label and take it to the clerk. But, you can’t save time by logging into the UPS website at your own office, entering all the info there, printing the label and then take it to the customer service center. No, if you print it out yourself, then you have to take it to The UPS Store or have it picked up, both of which cost more.
UPS has never been user friendly. I prefer FedEx or the Post Office.
I preferred DHL or the Post Office, but DHL is pretty much history.
I prefer UPS over FedEx. My “day job” is in the printing business and FedEx is essentially a competitor for printing services, so we’re not too keen on doing business with a competitor. UPS competes in printing too, but not to the extent of FedEx, so UPS is preferable in that regard.
Huh this is confusing..
What is confusing?
Too many items in one post?
Too many acronyms, USP, USPS, DHL, FedEx?
Makes sense to me, but I read it at night while everyone was asleep… 🙂
How are you going to ship a package if the UPS Store doesn’t carry waybills?
You pay them money to ship your package! UPS doesn’t pay them. The person who wants to ship a package has to pay them.
If someone wants the convenience of using a UPS Account Number, why should the UPS Store owner lose on the deal?
Because they got the franchise and put up the UPS logo. Don’t want to have waybills then don’t try to get the benefits of the worldwide goodwill of the UPS logo and name. It’s franchises like that that give companies a bad name.
Sometimes you have to take a loss to make more in the long run.