Incessant Clickers

[fotoman]

Just was curious if everyone was as nuts as I

[relaxman]

AHAHHAHA I love it. Great post. I love looking to see where it is. Its like playing russian roulette!

Mg

[jeff g]

Although tracking is good (Incase of delivery problems)

Personally I NEVER check on the tracking.

5 Days, six, ten...relax.

It is always so nice when it arrives.

[relaxman]

Liar

[Steve G]

I just checked my tracking for the 100th time today, before I came over here to vote on how often I check the tracking.

They will be here tomorrow...oh joy.

Should I go to work or wait for the mail guy first? Can we poll that?

[relaxman]

Should I go to work or wait for the mail guy first? Can we poll that?

I had a package show today with out warning while I was at work so I didn't have the luxury of deciding . Got the dreaded pink slip on the door DRATS. Another sleepless night.

[Steve G]

I had a package show today with out warning while I was at work so I didn't have the luxury of deciding . Got the dreaded pink slip on the door DRATS. Another sleepless night.

God I hate the pink slip...such a tease

[mkuhl2000]

I just checked my tracking for the 100th time today, before I came over here to vote on how often I check the tracking.

They will be here tomorrow...oh joy.

Should I go to work or wait for the mail guy first? Can we poll that?

I'd stay home...call in with the "Panerai Flu"...chances are they won't know what it is anyways.

I actually have mine delivered to where I work so no theiving neighbor snatches them!

[Steve G]

I'd stay home...call in with the "Panerai Flu"...chances are they won't know what it is anyways.

I actually have mine delivered to where I work so no theiving neighbor snatches them!

Unfortunatley I can't send them to work (too many eyes and BS in our mail system). I live less than 30 minutes from work, so usually a quick dash home around noon works. I too woory about a "mis-delivery" to a neightbors address, the pink slip I mean. With the pink slip anyone can retreive them.

Ok I'm paranoid and this hobby has gotten the better of my good judgement.

[pwygant]

I'd stay home...call in with the "Panerai Flu"...chances are they won't know what it is anyways.

I actually have mine delivered to where I work so no theiving neighbor snatches them!

After the item clears international and enters the slightly "more reliable" USPS tracking system, I check as often as ten times a day:

Inbound Out of Customs, August 28, 2006, 2:46 pm

Inbound Into Customs

Inbound International Arrival, August 27, 2006, 8:35 am, Chicago (O'Hare) AMC

Foreign International Dispatch, August 24, 2006, 10:07 pm, SHANGHAI, CHINA PEOPLES REP

Foreign Acceptance, August 24, 2006, 3:25 pm, CHINA PEOPLES REP

When it clears customs, we're not far away!

//Cheers

P.S My wife thinks I am crazy but I have been known to stand by the blinds/windows at the front of my house for hours waiting for a delivery and I know the sound... Wait... what was that... the mail van?

Edited August 29, 2006 by pwygant

[relaxman]

I could pick the sound of my mail truck out of 1000 i guarantee it. My wife knows i'm nuts! She always says " Got another package I see" as I scurry of the the den to see my new toy.

[archibald]

I honestly never check tracking-- because I'm waaayyy too superstitious. I'm afraid that excessive tracking can jinx a package in various horrible ways, and then I'll see it got nabbed in customs or, worse, lost between the airport and my house, which would of course make me entirely non-functional the rest of the day if not week. So far, so good...one customs issue on a repair return (which the dealer informed me of) but a new one was sent pronto and made it through.

[ubiquitous]

I have chron jobs set up to autmoatically check and update tracking every 2.2 minutes and update to my email.

[linkukbora]

I really don't bother tracking the shipment as I know very well it'll arrive sooner or later Of cos that depend on who you dealing with

[Pugwash]

Does this count as clicking?

$ crontab -l

# 0,15,30,45 * * * * /home/`whoami`/bin/ems.sh

$ cat bin/ems.sh

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

source .bashrc

curl -sc /tmp/cookies.txt http://www.ems.com.cn/english-main.jsp | \

tr ">" "\n" | \

grep \<input | \

grep ch | \

sed 's/^.*value="\([0-9]*\)".*$/curl -sb \/tmp\/cookies.txt -d "reqCode=browseBASEE\&checknum=\1\&mailNum=EA739785105CN" http:\/\/www.ems.com.cn\/qcgzOutQueryAction.do/' | \

sh | \

sed 's/<head>/<head><base href="http:\/\/www.ems.com.cn\/">/' > \

/home/`whoami`/sites/pugwash.cat5.org/ems/0-ems.html

cp /home/`whoami`/sites/pugwash.cat5.org/ems/0-ems.html /home/`whoami`/sites/pugwash.cat5.org/ems/ems-`date "+%m%d%y-%H%M"`.html

For the non-geeks, that connects to EMS every 15 minutes, gets a session cookie, posts the cookie and my EMS number, outputs the resulting page and archives a copy with the date and time.

Clicking is for lus3rz. Shell Fr0 Teh W1n!

I have chron jobs set up to autmoatically check and update tracking every 2.2 minutes and update to my email.

Oh, damn, you're joking. Yeah, mine is also a joke, honest.

[ubiquitous]

Oh, damn, you're joking. Yeah, mine is also a joke, honest.

I don't even know what a chron job is? :cc_confused:

Okay... Maybe I do. But I wouldn't know how to write one

[SportsPg]

I've been waiting for 5 days for a new order from Ruby now...this topic is very a propos....the waiting is driving me crazy

I'm moving to the IP blocking range of this poll quickly...damned watch fetish

[Pugwash]

I don't even know what a chron job is? :cc_confused:

I can tell. It's spelled 'cron'.

Here's what mine generated:

http://pugwash.cat5.org/ems/

(this was actually for a comedy tracking post over on RWI that was ruined by Silix delivering in 7 days flat)

[fotoman]

Does this count as clicking?

$ crontab -l

# 0,15,30,45 * * * * /home/`whoami`/bin/ems.sh

$ cat bin/ems.sh

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

source .bashrc

curl -sc /tmp/cookies.txt http://www.ems.com.cn/english-main.jsp | \

tr ">" "\n" | \

grep \<input | \

grep ch | \

sed 's/^.*value="\([0-9]*\)".*$/curl -sb \/tmp\/cookies.txt -d "reqCode=browseBASEE\&checknum=\1\&mailNum=EA739785105CN" http:\/\/www.ems.com.cn\/qcgzOutQueryAction.do/' | \

sh | \

sed 's/<head>/<head><base href="http:\/\/www.ems.com.cn\/">/' > \

/home/`whoami`/sites/pugwash.cat5.org/ems/0-ems.html

cp /home/`whoami`/sites/pugwash.cat5.org/ems/0-ems.html /home/`whoami`/sites/pugwash.cat5.org/ems/ems-`date "+%m%d%y-%H%M"`.html

For the non-geeks, that connects to EMS every 15 minutes, gets a session cookie, posts the cookie and my EMS number, outputs the resulting page and archives a copy with the date and time.

Clicking is for lus3rz. Shell Fr0 Teh W1n!

Oh, damn, you're joking. Yeah, mine is also a joke, honest.

although i hadn't even thought of goign there i won't be impressed till you output the results to an rss feed.

[Pugwash]

although i hadn't even thought of goign there i won't be impressed till you output the results to an rss feed.

Seriously, that's all it takes?

I'll knock you up an RSS generator tonight if it'll honestly impress you. In shell-script.

[Edge]

You have far too much time on your hands mate lol.

[Pugwash]

You have far too much time on your hands mate lol.

It's either that or sitting at home twiddling my thumbs waiting for Mrs Pugwash to get back.

[fotoman]

It's either that or sitting at home twiddling my thumbs waiting for Mrs Pugwash to get back.

yeah i'm sitting at home to, waiting for the tropical storm to blow over.

i know that its not hard to write the xml. But i think that would be the finishing touch on the system.

So - is it possible for you to create a small prog that we can use - put in our various tracking and have it either email or go to an rss feed?

that would be cool. Obviously we would have to input our tracking, tracking service, pop server.

oooh how fun

[Pugwash]

that would be cool. Obviously we would have to input our tracking, tracking service, pop server.

POP server? No need, you could put in an email address and tracking number. The problem is that EMS would blacklist the IP address.