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"OK, I really don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to pick on one specific carrier when I&amp;amp;#8217;m sure the others are just as incompetent at times, but I can&amp;amp;#8217;t help it. On Tuesday I shipped my blood overnight priority to Oregon (for my once-monthly cancer test) and last night I found out that it was sitting in freakin&amp;amp;#8217; Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville! The problem: The blood has to arrive within 24 hours of being drawn in order to be valid. You can bet those cold packs gave out long before the blood left Louisville&amp;amp;#8212;if it&amp;amp;#8217;s even left yet. The explanation from UPS is that bad weather caused the delay. Bad weather? Fly around it! Or leave before it hits. This is the second time this has happened with UPS and it&amp;amp;#8217;s a serious pain. Now I have to wait for another kit to be shipped to me, then schlep back up to Sloan Kettering and have my veins poked again, then go back to the UPS store (where, did I tell you, they charged me $1.09 for a piece of tape to seal the box?!). And none of this can get done until next week, which means the results will be off schedule&amp;amp;#8212;not a good thing. As if I wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t nervous enough about this test. Ugh! &amp;amp;#8212;Erin"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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