My name is Will DeFrees and this is a Sunday Scaries Podcast. You are here for the Sunday Blues.

Nothing cures you of a hangover quite like the indoor fin rush of online shopping.

From the moment you press place order on a site you can't afford,

you're worried slip away for a few fleeting moments.

Retail therapy normally acts as an immediate pick me up unless that retail therapy is online

rather than in-store. These are the five stages of waiting for a package.

The first is denial, the 24 to 48 hours before your package ships.

What's taking them so long you wonder? You click your confirmation email just hoping

that they update the information, but of course they don't. You look at the items that you bought

just wondering if they'll fit or live up to your expectations. You wonder if it's going to get

here by the weekend or if you're going to have to wait until Monday because they're not delivering.

You also talk yourself and them being out of stock because it hasn't shipped yet.

You wonder if it's backordered. What is taking so long? You tell yourself they're going to cancel

my order and then you just google how long it takes to ship things from point A to point B.

The next stage is anger. When you start clicking the shipping confirmation and all it says is

label created. I mean yeah it finally shipped and you've reached the promised land.

But wait, oh no, it just says label created the most deflating thing you can possibly see.

What does it mean? Is it going update later that day? Has it been packed up even? Why is there no

anticipated arrival date? I just want to know when this thing's going to get here. Why would they

send a shipping confirmation when the item hasn't truly been shipped yet? Can't they have some type

of system where it doesn't say label created and they don't just send anything until it actually

says when it's going to arrive? For the next four hours you refresh UPS's website hoping for

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