kymom99
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None of them ever ring our bell eitherMy delivery guys are always leaving packages on my porch without ringing my doorbell. I’m home! Just ring the bell so I don’t have to worry about theft.
None of them ever ring our bell eitherMy delivery guys are always leaving packages on my porch without ringing my doorbell. I’m home! Just ring the bell so I don’t have to worry about theft.
Anyway, according to (I think) Jeopardy!, Amazon ended its use of FedEx last year some time.
Yes he or she told them it wouldn’t be available. It’s The 6 wives of Henry VIII.
I'm going to disagree with that meme. USPS delivered a package to me around 9 PM Christmas Eve.One of my favorite memes
Considering that it spent a day in Illinois and now another day literally 3 miles from our house and hadn’t made any more progress, I still agree with the meme.I'm going to disagree with that meme. USPS delivered a package to me around 9 PM Christmas Eve.
My son needs a book for school. The campus book store decided they couldn’t get it. So the prof told them to get it off amazon. Well it’s coming from the Book Depository and the date range they gave was feb. 11-19! He ordered it over a week ago. It says it shipped and I finally got a tracking number from USPS. But it just says label created, not yet in system. Maybe he will get it in time for final exams.
It finally arrived this eveningThat sounds like it's an issue with the Book Depository and not the USPS. There are probably 2 things going on. The Depository maybe be a 3rd party that uses Amazon to sell their stuff and when that happens you will see shipping estimates like that. The second things the Depository probably prints out their own labels via their USPS account and in doing so the tracking picks up on it as label created. They then either have to schedule a pick up or they bring them to the USPS and they then get scanned in. Depending on the volume they are doing orders might not get picked up/dropped off everyday creating the delay .
That is why I have given up on home delivery and have everything delivered to my office address.
Alternatively check libraries to see if it's available there. If no annotation is needed that's another way to go for the future. You never specified but is it the one by David Starkey?--that's the one my local library has a copy of.My son needs a book for school. The campus book store decided they couldn’t get it. So the prof told them to get it off amazon. Well it’s coming from the Book Depository and the date range they gave was feb. 11-19! He ordered it over a week ago. It says it shipped and I finally got a tracking number from USPS. But it just says label created, not yet in system. Maybe he will get it in time for final exams.
Glad to hear it arrived.It finally arrived this evening
It’s by David loades. He usually rents his books either from the campus book store or the book store off campus, whichever is cheaper.Alternatively check libraries to see if it's available there. If no annotation is needed that's another way to go for the future. You never specified but is it the one by David Starkey?--that's the one my local library has a copy of.
For my alma mater lot of people got their books for Western Civ from Half-Price Books.
But also if the campus book store decided they couldn't get it I'd take that as a sign maybe there's an issue getting the book in the first place as it sounds like a fairly standard book probably used many times over.
Glad to hear it arrived.
Had a Fed Ex delivery of some DGCards today while we were gone and I about had a melt down. I looked at my Gmail and it said they had been delivered to my house, left on my front porch, about two hours prior. So I get home, look around and they are no where to be found. We live on 30 acres of land so porch pirates are not an issue. So I go and look all around our yard, no where. Finally I went back down to my mailbox which is like 1,000 feet from our house and there they were.
No problem putting them there if you state that is where you put them. Don't lie about it. Uggggghhhh.
Probably difficult to impossible what with the union and all. But do people report him?He should have been fired years ago.
Probably difficult to impossible what with the union and all. But do people report him?
That’s a little harsh. My good friends husband just retired after 30 years delivering mail. However, new hires aren’t give benefits anymore from what I hear. The postal service is a shell of its former self.I have and I know a few other neighbors have as well over the years...nothing ever changes though. You're right about the union, and I'll add that it's also nearly impossible to get rid of any bad employees if they work for the government. I used to laugh when politicians would boast that their dad was a mail carrier. I'd say in my inner monologue, "Oh, so your dad was a lazy POS" lol
It's not harsh at all if you've had to deal with what weve been dealing with for years with this guy. He's lazy and doesn't care that he does a crappy job. He should have been fired years ago. I've seen him walk halfway up the neighbors driveway and frisbee toss their package up on to the porch, watching the box roll over a couple times before banging into the chair on the porch. He's not anywhere near a new hire. This guy has been around for decades. There are plenty of hard working people that would do the job, and do it well. I don't support keeping people in jobs that they are terrible at doing.That’s a little harsh. My good friends husband just retired after 30 years delivering mail. However, new hires aren’t give benefits anymore from what I hear. The postal service is a shell of its former self.
My delivery guys are always leaving packages on my porch without ringing my doorbell. I’m home! Just ring the bell so I don’t have to worry about theft.