Phew!
Amazon delivery drivers here are notorious for placing packages in the most visible spot possible. And it's about time for porch-pirate season.
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Phew!
I’ve had a FedEx Ground guy leave a package on a stump, basically in the middle of my driveway. God forbid he walk the extra twenty steps to leave it under cover on the front step. And of course it was from the Festool Recon site, so it was a big box 18 inches on a side with FESTOOL in big black letters on each side. Luckily I knew it was coming and was watching for it, but really, WTF?!?
A common problem. There are advanced psychological techniques for motivating such people.
Yes. Delivery vans from UPS etc have been an increasingly common sight here for years, but ordering on line really took off with Covid, for obvious reasons. I'm sure a lot of people were forced to try it and liked it. Apart from delivery to homes, there are also services which collect and delivery from local shops, which seem to be doing a roaring trade and have grown up over the past few years.Cubdriver wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 5:06 am
It’s funny as I think about it - when I was a kid in the late 70s, seeing the UPS guy in the neighborhood was almost an event - mail off an order form pulled from the Estes or Heathkit or Digi-Key catalog (hand written, with a check filled out by mom or my aunt),then wait what seemed like an eternity for Brown Santa to finally turn down the street. (And that delivery would likely be the only one on the street that week) These days, if you DON'T see UPS, FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, and now Amazon and maybe DHL every day it’s unusual. Crazy how times change…
Something similar happen to me yesterday and I'm still wondering if it was a simple mistake or intentional. Amazon, and others such as UPS, are generally real good about placing packages inside in our enclosed front porch which puts them out of view of the street. But yesterday Amazon put a package in front of the laundry room door (have photo) which is also an alternate entrance to the downstairs apartment. When I went to get the package it was gone. I figured maybe one of the kids who lives downstairs took it inside when they got home from school. So I knock on the door. Their Father answers door. I ask if they have my package. He returns 30 seconds later with my package. I say "thank you" but at the same time say to myself "don't you read the name on the package?". Clearly has my name on it. So I wonder. Were they gonna keep it? It wouldn't have fit his wife anyway. She's too freaking huge.
You are just so bloody lucky to be able to say that, around here there are no shops selling the items I'm interested in, there used to be plenty, but they all died away decades ago and left only Maplin and they have pulled the shutters down as well. Yes the shops where you are do require fuel, parking or transport fares of some sort or other, but mail order often carries a postal cost so that off sets the fuel costs etc to a degree, but more imortantly, often if I had the same shopping ability, I'd gladly pay the costs in order to get the item(s) that I required the same day so I could finish whatever I was working on.
In my home in USA, Amazon has to drop it in front of my door, if not the stupid GPS in the small amazon delivery device will not turn the delivery to done.
After Radio Shack went tits up there's absolutely nothing local with respect to parts, etc.Specmaster wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 12:45 pmYou are just so bloody lucky to be able to say that, around here there are no shops selling the items I'm interested in, there used to be plenty, but they all died away decades ago and left only Maplin and they have pulled the shutters down as well. Yes the shops where you are do require fuel, parking or transport fares of some sort or other, but mail order often carries a postal cost so that off sets the fuel costs etc to a degree, but more imortantly, often if I had the same shopping ability, I'd gladly pay the costs in order to get the item(s) that I required the same day so I could finish whatever I was working on.
OK, sometimes Amazon can deliver the same day if you're lucky, but that can mean at times waiting up to 10pm for the delivery![]()
Agreed, Radio Shack wasn't great but it was (barely) better than nothing. Fry's was mainly Western US and there weren't any close by.
Too bad it isn't a crime to shoot them.