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In the US, when the package delivery company {{w|UPS}} (or other package delivery companies) knocks on your door or rings your doorbell and cannot reach you, they leave a delivery attempt notification stuck to your door. These may be for packages that require a signature, such as expensive electronics. An example is shown in the first panel.  
 
In the US, when the package delivery company {{w|UPS}} (or other package delivery companies) knocks on your door or rings your doorbell and cannot reach you, they leave a delivery attempt notification stuck to your door. These may be for packages that require a signature, such as expensive electronics. An example is shown in the first panel.  
  
This comic hints that the threshold for the UPS delivery person to leave such a notice is unreasonably low. The delivery personnel made only a token effort to deliver the package (which, incidentally, is their only actual job) before posting the yellow delivery notification and unconcernedly driving away to their next delivery (or, more likely, their next yellow-delivery-notification-posting).
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This comic hints that the threshold for the UPS delivery person to leave such a notice is unreasonably low. The delivery personnel made only a token effort to deliver the package (which, incidentally, is their only actual job) before posting the yellow delivery notification and unconcernedly driving away to their next delivery.
  
 
After missing the delivery, [[Cueball]] (who is directly referencing ''{{w|The Lord of the Rings}}'') asks the Elves to reforge his sword in order to go on a quest to retrieve his new laptop. In ''The Lord of the Rings'', {{w|Aragorn}} (accepting his role as the heir to the king of the West) had the sword of {{w|Elendil}}, called {{w|Narsil}}, reforged (which symbolizes the reuniting of the race of man under one leader). Cueball obviously views the UPS building as a dangerous and impenetrable fortress, and possession of such a sword is the only way to guarantee success in his quest.
 
After missing the delivery, [[Cueball]] (who is directly referencing ''{{w|The Lord of the Rings}}'') asks the Elves to reforge his sword in order to go on a quest to retrieve his new laptop. In ''The Lord of the Rings'', {{w|Aragorn}} (accepting his role as the heir to the king of the West) had the sword of {{w|Elendil}}, called {{w|Narsil}}, reforged (which symbolizes the reuniting of the race of man under one leader). Cueball obviously views the UPS building as a dangerous and impenetrable fortress, and possession of such a sword is the only way to guarantee success in his quest.

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