HP’s not screwing around this time (unlike my encounter with them when it came time to order a new power supply for my laptop early this year) — right on schedule, a box arrived for me today containing a prepaid shipping label, two strips of shipping tape (heh!), and packaging materials for the laptop. The prepaid label was for FedEx Standard Overnight service, and I managed to get the beast wrapped up and turned in at a local FedEx drop off spot, so this thing will actually get there tomorrow. Of course it may sit there in their lab for a week or two before it comes back, but at least it’s in the system and out of my hands now.