Bad weather and extra last minute Online Shopping br to blame. On its website ups said the volume of air packages in our system exceeded the capacity of our network. Some angry customers complained on the ups Facebook Page while others took to twitter with the hash tag ups fail. But many took the delays in stride. In boston gary expressed symphony for deliver drivers working late on christmas eve. I saw ups and Federal Express Truck Drivers out there at 10 00, 11 00 at night doing the best they could. Reporter some online retailers including am son. Com are offering gift cards and refunds for shipping fees for items that didnt make it on time. Ups officials told Bloomberg Business week the Company Expected to ship more than 132 million items the week before christmas. Late packages were the least of peoples problems up north. Hundreds of thousands of people from the upper midwest to new england and canada remained without power after last weekends huge ice storm. Tree limbs snapped pow
A few words from the New Zealand Prime Minister on Anzac Day 2020.
Over the years veterans have widely shared stories of homophobia,sexual assault and discrimination within the armed forces. Pervasive culture issues involving prejudice against the rainbow community remain today: the
don’t ask, don’t tell policy All of that paints a picture of a place that’s dark and grim for queer people. But as author and historian Brent Coutts has found, for Aotearoa’s queer veterans military service also provided a safety net for some men to explore their sexualities. “The intense intimacy led to profound friendships, even among straight men,” Coutts says. “There were mate-ship bonds between men on an interpersonal and platonic level, but those bonds could provide cover for sexual intimacy.”