I got the strangest message today, a day after placing an order for a flash drive (this one, in case you care) on Amazon.com:
Hello from Amazon.com.
We are writing about the order you placed on October 30 2007
(Order# xxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx). The item(s) listed below will actually
ship sooner than we originally expected:
“SanDisk 4 GB Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive with U3 (SDCZ6-4096-
A10RB)” [Electronics]
Estimated arrival date: 11/02/2007
I’m not sure why they have notifications like this, unless perhaps they got complaints from geeks who were taking days off or working from home to wait for their packages. Early is good. Maybe they’re just bragging.

