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 @shi @sahqon @ocean Did I mention how much fun it is to try to spell out to a voice recognition system a 12-15 character long parcel ID on the phone? Because there seems literally no chance to reach a human operator before identifying yourself with your business transaction. And the parcel number alone was not enough to change the delivery address online, ... One of the moments when one realizes, this is it, why we had to read Kafka in school, to prepare us for these existential phone calls. |
@shi @ocean Ours are normally very good. No official porch delivery, most stuff comes with pin codes now, so you need the code to pick it up. Which can be turned into porch delivery if you can talk the driver into it: you say the code and they drop it wherever you want (since they got the confirmation of delivery by code), otherwise they won't. Most routes have set drivers so if you order a lot of stuff, you'll know them all (we have personal phone numbers for a few of them). They often offer to take larger items inside though that's not in their job description. One always comes in to pet the dog. But then every once in a while they get a new guy and shit can go either hilariously or annoyingly south.
@shi @ocean Ours are normally very good. No official porch delivery, most stuff comes with pin codes now, so you need the code to pick it up. Which can be turned into porch delivery if you can talk the driver into it: you say the code and they drop it wherever you want (since they got the confirmation of delivery by code), otherwise they won't. Most routes have set drivers so if you order a lot of stuff, you'll know them all (we have personal phone numbers for a few of them). They often offer to...