Ikea delivery hell continues even after they’ve delivered the merchandise!

Pittsburgh

I just can’t wait to see one of my neighbors slaughtering a goat on their front lawn. Just can’t wait.

Stephanie Hacke, “Baldwin Borough considers ordinance over publicly slaughtering animals,” TribLive, January 23, 2020, https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/baldwin-borough-leaders-consider-slaughtering-ordinance/


Impeachment

So you already know that I think Donald Trump should have been impeached for something important, like concentration camps on the U.S.-Mexico border,[1] not simply to protect the neoliberals’ preferred candidate.[2] Now here’s Marjorie Cohn confirming what else Trump could have been impeached for, specifically “violation of the emoluments clause, corruption and war crimes, as you said, most recently killing Soleimani in violation of the U.N. Charter, in violation of the War Powers Resolution.”[3]

I gotta tell ya, the more stuff I see that Trump could have been impeached for, and wasn’t, versus the one thing the neoliberal party did impeach him for, the more I think it was to protect Joe Biden. The omissions are just too important and too glaring. And Nancy Pelosi’s focus is just too suspect.

Democracy Now, “Law Professor: Trump Could Also Have Been Impeached for War Crimes, Assassinations and Corruption,” January 24, 2020, https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/24/donald_trump_senate_impeachment_trial


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Fig. 1. These are the bookshelves that I’d previously gone through hell getting delivered.

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Fig. 2. These are the bookshelves I have most recently received after, again, going through delivery hell.[4] My books are gradually getting better organized.

So I’ve previously mentioned that Ikea’s delivery service sucks rocks in Pittsburgh but I had managed to receive my second set of bookshelves and get them assembled.[5]

I’m feeling the need to reiterate that now because it turns out that Ikea’s delivery service, XPO Logistics, has ignored my email responses indicating that I have received these bookshelves and is, allegedly, attempting the delivery again tomorrow.

I don’t even have room in this rather small apartment for another set of shelves, even if I had books to put on it. I certainly don’t want to be held responsible for them.

So I took off work an hour early and busted my ass down to Ikea to try and get this sorted. The unhelpful customer service person gave her manager an incomplete description of my situation. He told her to tell me to ignore it.

My mind is not at ease.

As you can see (figures 1 and 2), the bookshelves are tall enough and spacious enough to accommodate my collection. There aren’t a lot of bookshelves out there meeting that requirement. Which is why I went to Ikea in the first place and, to tell you the truth, it’s not at all a bad store—I’m glad to know it’s there and to know what all they have.

I am just sincerely hoping that anything else I need from Ikea in the future will be small enough that I can get it home on my own.


  1. [1]David Benfell, “The whiteness of impeachment,” Not Housebroken, December 15, 2019, https://disunitedstates.org/2019/12/15/the-whiteness-of-impeachment/
  2. [2]David Benfell, “It’s still a smoke-filled room,” Not Housebroken, December 6, 2019, https://disunitedstates.org/2019/12/06/its-still-a-smoke-filled-room/
  3. [3]Marjorie Cohn, quoted in Democracy Now, “Law Professor: Trump Could Also Have Been Impeached for War Crimes, Assassinations and Corruption,” January 24, 2020, https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/24/donald_trump_senate_impeachment_trial
  4. [4]David Benfell, “Your job sucks. Thank neoliberals,” Irregular Bullshit, January 22, 2020, https://disunitedstates.com/2020/01/22/your-job-sucks-thank-neoliberals/
  5. [5]David Benfell, “Your job sucks. Thank neoliberals,” Irregular Bullshit, January 22, 2020, https://disunitedstates.com/2020/01/22/your-job-sucks-thank-neoliberals/