soon there'll be more Rivers of London for me

[ratcreature]

My copy of Broken Homes, the fourth in the Rivers of London series, is in the mail, even though I thought it was only coming out in a few days (also, some of Amazon's distribution warehouses in Germany are striking, so I wasn't sure whether my order would be affected). So I will have it earlier than I thought. Well, if the package is delivered properly.

I used to just have them deliver my packages to one of the automated machines, because the delivery people always hate coming up five flights of stairs and thus pretend I'm not home, even if I am, and my packages end up somewhere misplaced in the wild among half a dozen stores, the post office or neighbors I then can't reach. With the machine I'd have to fetch the package, but at least it was a sure thing. However they "improved" their service in that they made it more secure by demanding that you don't just receive an email and then authenticate yourself for the machine with a delivery card and PIN, but get a unique code on a cell phone via SMS. They won't send those via email, so if you don't own a cell phone you can't use that service anymore. So I'm back at the mercy of delivery people.

But, new Rivers of London!

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[ratcreature]

Yeah. Anything that used regular PINs or passwords in the past now seems to want to add a layer of individual one-off security that need a cell phone to generate. Like banks using that kind of thing instead of sending you a list of TANs.