The daytime soap opera continues. (no it’s not lost again). I received a call from the local UPS dispatch (I’d left my number with her last week). She was confirm that my device had reached town, and was being put on a truck today. But the interesting part is she claimed it was the original package.
I had my doubts, but didn’t say anything, only that I was expecting a replacement. So anyway, after I hung up I got on Apples website and compared invoices for both shipments listed. The device serial numbers match.
Somehow my phone fell off the tracking “radar”. Wound up back in Tennessee, only to be shipped back out again, as my replacement.
/shrug

oh well, what else would you expect from the life of a guy in a bear-suit.