Good news. The second SIM card, scheduled for delivery on June 5th, arrived on time, without fail and worked. I’ve been talking away ever since.
Without thinking about it, I left the first SIM card’s tracking RSS feed in my RSS aggregator and went on with life. After the horror of a SIM card lost in transit slipped from my mind completely, I find a few new RSS items for my consideration.
The tracer, issued on 5/31/2006 for a package sent 5/25/2006 with a scheduled arrival date of 5/30/2005, found something. On 6/13/2006 at 10 a.m., UPS realized “An Incorrect Routing At A UPS Facility Caused This Delay;the Package Was Missorted At The Hub. It Has Been Rerouted To The Correct Destination Site”. That hub appears to be Houston, TX. At 7 p.m., a location scan was made citing the package to be in Houston.
A couple of hours ago the package left Houston in route to San Antonio, and from there, I assume on to Austin.

Well, I am still without a cell phone.
I ordered an unlocked phone from Amazon.com, that arrived in Wichita Falls on Thursday, May 25th. I had planned on picking up a SIM card at any of the million Cingular stores in Texas between Austin, Houston and Wichita Falls.
I arrive at a store in Houston and discover that the SIM card I need, a special one due to my account type, is not in stock in stores.
I call Cingular and they ship one to Austin, to arrive on Tuesday, May 30th due to the holiday.
On May 30th, no SIM card. I call Cingular and we all conference with UPS. They lost it. No idea where it is.
Cingular orders another one for me to try to get me up sooner rather than later. It is backordered.
It finally shipped and now is expected to reach Austin on Monday, June 5th.
To aid everyone who is completely struck in wonder about the location of my SIM card, i.e. my phone, i.e. my communitive life- let’s track it together with help from Google Reader and iSnoop.
Update: Okay, the Google Reader/iSnoop little thing is serving up really slow and so instead, you can click this link to find out where it is at…