Wow! That Was Quick!

[jhall1]

This morning I learned that the final Terry Pratchett Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, had gone on sale today. I ordered it at around 9:30 this morning. I received the standard Amazon email acknowledging my order, including "We’ll let you know once your item(s) have dispatched", and quoting an estimated delivery date of September the 2nd to

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[loganberrybunny]

I imagine they'll let you know tomorrow that it's been dispatched. =:)

[jhall1]

Pretty much. :) Their email informing me of that was timed at 11:48 pm. Apparently the estimated delivery day is Saturday.

I assume that my order must have accidentally been put in the pile for delivery to those people who had selected the highest priority delivery option.

[jhall1]

I think I now know what happened. A second copy arrived today, so I think I must have pre-ordered a copy but then forgotten. That must have been the one that arrived yesterday (but that I never received a dispatched notification for), and the one that arrived today must have been the one that I ordered yesterday. I'm just about to check my orders on Amazon's website to confirm my hypothesis.

It's not a disaster, as Amazon's price was £10 per copy compared to a cover price of £20, and I have a friend who I'm sure will be glad to be given my spare copy.