I'm so frustrated about this entire situation. I should have known better and just bought it straight from my FLGS. I know they are a small company and had a lot of shipments to deal with, but they were able to get the books to Alliance early enough that my FLGS had it before any pre-orders. Why couldn't they have started shipping them to customers at the same time? I think its funny that I buy it straight from the company and pay full price, which means they get the entire $90. If I had bought it from my FLGS, I would have supported where I played, gotten it sooner, and Evil Hat would have gotten less out of it. It doesn't make since.
So not only am I confused and frustrated by that, but then UPS messes it up more. Watching the tracking it sat in the middle of nowhere for 24 hours. Then it only takes about 3 days to get to St. Louis, decent try. But apparently I'm at the end of the UPS route and they come by after 6 when I can't be home and after my apartments leasing office closes. Because of the holiday weekend I can't get my packages until the middle of next week now.