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Do you have a physical mailbox at your house for receiving mail?

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Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: unknownparticle on March 17, 2023, 07:52:32 pm ---
The downside to a letterbox is junk mail!  So I've started to return junk mail, with a twist!  I send one junk offenders mail to another in their post paid envelopes!  Just a bit of their own medicine.

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National Geographic and the like used to include a postage-paid envelope for you to send a cheque. Because postage paid was ambiguous, you could get a cardboard box, put a house brick in it and affix the postage-paid envelope to the box.

CatalinaWOW:

--- Quote from: mwb1100 on March 17, 2023, 07:32:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 16, 2023, 08:36:22 pm ---Almost always had pretty bad experiences with FedEx as well. DHL, meh. In my experience, UPS provides the best service overall. All UPS employees I've had to deal with were helpful and diligent.

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I have always had great experience with whoever is doing the "last mile" delivery to my home, but the overall service (from origin to my house) differs.  From worst to best is:

  - DHL:  always a crap shoot (except for the two times I've ordered from welectron.com, which went amazingly well)
  - FedEx Ground
  - UPS Ground
  - USPS

Pretty much any 1 or 2 day service has been great, with only the occasional hiccup (often weather related)

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Here in the US, in my area at least, the big shippers (DHL, FedEx, Amazon) have contracted with the USPS for last mile services.  UPS seems to still do all of their own, and next day deliveries are usually handled internally, but I get a huge percentage of my packages from USPS regardless of the carrier.

One interesting side effect of this-the USPS does not do Sunday delivery their own mail except on the very highest priced urgent delivery services.  But they do at least some of their contracted last mile services on Sunday.

themadhippy:

--- Quote ---So I've started to return junk mail, with a twist!  I send one junk offenders mail to another in their post paid envelopes!
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More fun to put in a business looking envelope with a nice printed address,not to the companys po box,but there real address,and forget to put a stamp on it.

HackedFridgeMagnet:
Yeah made it myself, with the help of a laser cutter.
My sister inlaw did the artwork, there is a bandicoot picture on the other side.
Unfortunately I only seem to get bills delivered in it.

m k:
I guess changing the picture to Ned Kelly is not going to help.

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