I belong to a group called Paperback Swap.  Basically, it's a place to list the books I have read or do not want anymore using the ISBN number to do so.  Then, other members may select one of my books.  When they do, I get an email, print the address and mail the book to them.  If I see a book on the site, I simply make a request and the person who owns it sends it to me.  Usually this is a seamless operation.
Not this week.

I shipped two different books last week.  Since I pay shipping on the books I send, I paid for two books that day.  One of those books arrived with no shipping on it (I suspect the mailing label was lost).  Now I have to pay again.  good grief.

It's also been a bad day shipping wise for something I ordered online from Target.  On August 16th I ordered a CD rack (we were finally going to get all the cds put away).  Today it's finally been determined that the piece is officially lost by UPS.  So much for tracking.  Ugh!

Well, back to the drawing board.