Harry Potter and the Phantom Delivery

Kottke:

Here’s what I think happened. I think UPS’s network was overwhelmed by Amazon’s Potter-volume in some parts of the country and they had no way to deliver all those packages. […] So, UPS just marked all of those packages they had no intention of delivering as “oops, we missed you, you must have been out”.

★ Monday, 23 July 2007