HBP

[cubfanbudwoman]

Dudemom:

> I ordered OoP from Amazon last time and also thought UPS was going 
> to deliver it that Saturday and kept looking for the big brown van 
> but what came (in the afternoon I might add!) was a white minivan 
> that I thought was some sort of Express delivery. I can't remember 
> what was on it but I didn't see UPS anywhere. The van was full of 
> books and the guy acted like a grumpy santa stopping long enough 
to 
> give me my book and take off again. He looked like he had a long 
way 
> to go yet and was not happy about it - there were an awful lot of 
> books in there! 
> I was already nearly half way through the book by the time that 
one 
> got delivered because Hubby had been kind enough to go out and 
look 
> for a book for me at midnight - of all things a grocery store 
chain 
> had them in and NO WAITING - it was first come, first serve after 
> midnight and Hubby even got me the box the books came in! I am not 
> sure I will try the same thing this time, possibly I will just 
wait 
> until the afternoon delivery - or maybe not!


SSSusan:
I got one of those boxes last time, too!!  There is an RR Donnelley 
plant in my home town, and they're one of the two companies which 
prints the HPs in North America.  A co-worker's husband is a CSR 
there, and she gave me one. :-)

I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get a copy at midnight -- or early 
in the a.m. of the 16th -- at our local Kroger (grocery chain) or 
Wal-Mart (which I've heard might stay open for the midnight 
release), because I live in a town of only 17K.  Just not the 
competition for snagging copies that there is in a big metropolis, 
you know?

But I'd like to have two copies anyway, since my daughter will want 
one of her own, too.

Siriusly Snapey Susan