UPS and Downs

It is holiday season. The stores are not as busy as previous years because people are buying more online. This past week I ordered three gifts. One was arriving Fed Ex, one UPS and one USPS. As it turns out, one UPS gift was transferred over to USPS for final delivery. I do not understand why the package went from Tennessee to Uniondale and then had to switch carriers. Makes no sense to me since the final destination, my house, is a mile from Uniondale. Bureaucracy. Fed Ex delivered my package but I am still waiting for UPS and USPS. This makes me a bit insecure. Those two carriers like to "drop and run". They toss the package on my front porch and flee like a thief. They scan in that the delivery was made, but no one really knows if it was. For three days I have been on the outlook for my packages. USPS does not have a tracking number and the store I purchased the UPS package from is closed on the weekend and has not yet answered my email requesting verification of shipping. I feel like a truck stalker. I have been reduced to peeking out of my den window for any truck that passes my house. If I do not get the packages by Monday afternoon, I am putting a stop on my credit card. That seems to make everyone move quicker to resolve my dilemma.