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| ogden:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 18, 2018, 09:06:18 pm --- --- Quote from: ogden on December 18, 2018, 07:17:08 pm ---Is there any other country besides US where your iPad can be dropped by courier *on* the doorstep without confirmation/signature? --- End quote --- Leaving on the porch has been common practice for a long time --- End quote --- So you confirm that this kind of parcel delivery is specific to US only? Fun fact (Dec 2017): --- Quote ---Over 25 million Americans have been the victims of a holiday package robbery, an increase from 23.5 million porch thefts reported in 2015, according to a new report from Insurance Quotes. --- End quote --- https://www.countryliving.com/life/news/a46014/porch-pirates-stealing-packages/ |
| David Hess:
--- Quote from: ogden on December 18, 2018, 09:46:01 pm ---So you confirm that this kind of parcel delivery is specific to US only? Fun fact (Dec 2017): --- End quote --- It has been common for at least 40+ years in the US for single family homes. If you live in an apartment building, the package could be left with the management. My solution has been to have things shipped to me at work but that is not feasible for everybody. |
| texaspyro:
--- Quote from: David Hess link=topic=158206.msg2050591#msg2050591 --- That was probably methyl mercaptan aka methanethiol or the odorizer they put in natural and propane gas. --- End quote --- Nope, those are Chanel No 5 compared to these charmers: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2012/05/15/things_i_wont_work_with_selenophenol https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2005/03/03/things_i_wont_work_with_carbon_diselenide https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2009/06/11/things_i_wont_work_with_thioacetone Gawd, I love Derek's writing... |
| Jr460:
--- Quote from: David Hess on December 18, 2018, 10:36:11 pm --- It has been common for at least 40+ years in the US for single family homes. If you live in an apartment building, the package could be left with the management. My solution has been to have things shipped to me at work but that is not feasible for everybody. --- End quote --- I tried that shipping to work years ago at the suggestion of a vendor. Little did I know how UPS works internally. That said they may have changed as the shipping to home market has heated up. Without going into the whole story. They ship to an address, not a person. If it requires a signature, anyone is fine. Package didn't come to the address because the local UPS guy on his own took it the plant dock in a building 1/2 mile away. Internal dock people said, "Well we can't have them walking around the plant being the mail department." No one said they had to deliver it to a desk, just to the front door at the address, not make up a different address. If you need to change the address after it ships, you have to wait until they try at least once to deliver it the first address. It is only then it pops up in the system and they get a new label to put on it. FedEx was good, if you missed, it they had it at the local office, just stop by and get it. They changed that with FedEx Home. The end delivery are bunch of independent contractors. |
| coppercone2:
:popcorn: careful spraying people with chemicals because they can freak out about cancer and poisons |
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