My personal favorite was watching an item i bought from California. I live in Virginia, and was excited to see it was in Tennesee because (usually) that means it's going to arrive within 2 days. BUT instead of coming further east, it went back West to Oklahoma, then up North to Michigan, and finally found it's way here a week passed the expected due date.

At that point, I adopted Rezdog's approach. Life is less stressful, and the surprise packages are like miniature early Christmases. Win-win!