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16 Nov, 7 tweets, 3 min read
24h update. They don't know what is going on. On the upside, I have learned the fascinating details of @FedEx corporate structure, that the people at @FedExHelp are helpless if you are trying to deliver to a home. Obviously it is my job to route the problem to the right person.
Since for them to do it is quite challenging. Probably requires computers and stuff, and who would expect them to be good at that?
Their customer service rep wrote: I have advised the management team on the Express side that is responsible for the pick up and the Home Delivery side that is responsible for transporting and delivering the package of the issue so it can be handled as quickly as possible.
So good, I'm glad that sometime in the next month or so this overnight delivery problem will be resolved, once all the checks and balances of @fedex bureaucracy are worked through, because medication (and winter coat and some legal docs) can wait while @fedexhelp figures routing.
Latest: "The station responsible for the pick up of the drop box opens at 9 am tomorrow. You may call in to 1-800-463-3339 say representative and ask to to speak to the Express station. As this was dropped in the drop box on Friday tracking should update Monday, Tuesday latest."
This for a package with guaranteed Saturday delivery. But of course they wouldn't update their records of having it until Monday, Tuesday latest.
I think I just got the service of @fedex Total Landscaping. I suddenly have sympathy with @RudyGiuliani . Sometimes things ain't what they seem.

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I think @realDonaldTrump and @SWAtlasHoover were committed to a policy with no scientific basis and would have dragged the country there regardless. But GBD provided a veneer of respectability for this deliberate subversion of public health
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This thread by @AlexBerenson distorts my work in a way that can only be willful, given that others have made the same arguments in the past on twitter and I have clearly refuted them. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1318176…
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