Shipper Confirms Sunday 6 a.m. Delivery Window, Then Remembers the Building Is Closed on Sundays
The appointment came with a door number, a QR code and a late fee. The building came with a padlock and a sign that has said "Closed Sunday" since the invention of the calendar.
A shipper's appointment portal confirmed a Sunday 6:00 a.m. delivery window late Saturday night, complete with a door number, a QR code that expired if you looked at it too long, and a warning that late arrivals would be rescheduled for another Sunday.
The driver arrived at 5:47 a.m., which the portal counted as early, and found a padlock, a dark yard and a handwritten sign that said the building was closed Sundays and had been since the invention of the calendar.
A follow-up email, time-stamped 6:01 a.m., thanked the driver for checking in and assessed a missed-appointment fee. A second email, arriving while the driver was still in the empty lot, offered to waive the fee if the driver uploaded a photo of the locked gate, a copy of the original confirmation, and a short essay on what Sunday means to them.
Dispatch suggested the driver "just hang tight," then asked for an updated ETA to a building that would not open for 26 hours. The portal, still optimistic, displayed the original window in green and invited the driver to rate the experience.
When the guard shack lights finally came on Monday morning, receiving said it had no record of a Sunday appointment and asked why the trailer had been sitting there overnight. The driver pointed to the confirmation. Receiving pointed to the closed sign. Both documents remained, as ever, correct.