Good news about your order!
(Note the exclamation
mark. It’s what makes good news great news.)
Your order has been shipped and
it will be with you soon!
(Another exclamation
mark, just to leave you in no doubt that this really is great news.)
Look: I order something online, I pay for it by credit card,
they send it to me. That’s all that’s going on here. If you went into your
local grocery store and asked for a Hovis thick sliced loaf and a bottle of
milk, and the guy behind the counter proudly presented them intoning ‘Great
news, Mr Customer! Your bread and milk is herewith produced! Haven’t I done
well?’ you’d think he had a screw loose, wouldn’t you?
And that’s one of the things I find disturbing about online
shopping. It does so encourage mindless hyperbole.
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