Rebecca Writes

• Candy is paying $3.75/gallon and she blames the Californians.
• See what Dorothy is paying this week in Crystal Lake, IL.

From threegirldad, who lives somewhere in the world in Kansas.

Well, prices here shot up almost 20 cents a couple of days ago, so it’s now between $3.50 and $3.55. And to think that I can remember my dad pulling into a full-service station, and paying 19 or 20 cents a gallon for someone else to pump the gas — as well as clean the windshield and check the oil. Wow…

I remember 19¢ gas, too. And penny candy.

• Elaine has posted a photo of the gas prices in her little corner of Northern Ireland. Remember, the price listed is in £, not $. (And it’s per litre, not gallon.)
• threegirldad came back to report that gas in his neck of the plains (Kansas) has gone up another 10¢ since Thursday, so now it’s $3.65 per gallon.
• Gas at my little neighbourhood station went up since Thursday, too, by two cents a litre. That means there’ll be a new photo this coming week.
  

• Ellen B paid $3.77 per gallon yesterday at Costco in Oxnard, California, but that’s 10¢ cheaper than it is at most other stations.
• Alan paid 1.39 per gallon, but you’ll have to read his comment to see how he finaggled that.
  

• And here’s what Dorothy paid for gas in Crystal Lake, IL.
  

• From Karen: I just paid $3.41 a gallon for regular this morning to fill up in Texarkana, Texas - prices range from $3.41 for regular up to $4.13 for plus.
  
• Mummymac in Northern Ireland tells us,

  I’ve just been for a fill and our prices are unbelievable at the moment - everyone is complaining especially as about 2/3 is tax.
  
  

  We run on Diesel (sorry to be so different). I’ve just done all the conversions litres to gallons and pounds to US Dollars and we’re working out at $8.84 per gallon for diesel. For unleaded it would be roughly $8.10 per gallon!!!!”

  Wow!
• Missmellifluous, our Australian lass, is waiting before she fills her tank.

  Fuel was $1.50/ litre here this week. I did not fill up. I wait for it to go down to $1.45 - usually on Tuesdays which seems to be the cheapest day to fill up - and get $20 worth. This is the most expensive it’s been in ages.

This is the last follow-up to this post. All future comments will go on the next Gas Up post.

• Jaunita is paying $1.239/litre for gas in Alberta.  
  
• Jenn gives us a report from middle Tennesee, including a link to a site that helps you locate the cheapest gas in your zipcode.
  
  

Grrrrrr!

The very nice Purolator delivery man delivering another parcel suggested that I call the delivery company with the local contract for Fed Ex deliveries. He even gave me the number. Unfortunately, I must have remembered the number wrong. And I don’t remember who it is who does the local deliveries, either, so I can’t look the number up for myself.

I tried calling Fed Ex’s 1-800 number three times. Each time, it cut me off while I was holding for the first available customer representative. I’ve wasted 40 minutes and achieved nothing but a tension headache, so I’m leaving it alone for a while.

Oh and get this: When calling that toll free Fed Ex number, it asks that I punch in my tracking number. When I punch in the tracking number given right there on the Fed Ex tracking form shown above, it says the parcel is not in its system. Yet there it is, updated daily on their own tracking form.

Grrrrrr again! 

Tension headache is gone; the parcel has arrived.

Before I could say anything, the delivery guy said, “I’ve been trying to deliver this to your neighbour for 4 days. Sorry about that!” When she was finally home to recieve the parcel she pointed out to him that the address was for us, not her.

I told him I’d been tracking the parcel in Whitehorse for 8 days. He laughed nervously, so I laughed, too, and left it at that.