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@sahqon @ocean I WISH they'd leave packages with a random neighbour here,because I'm disabled and traveling to the pick up point is almost an hour by bus and extremely taxing :(

I hate all courier services with a burning passion 😅

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sahqon

@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...

sahqon

@shi @ocean Also I think almost every delivery comes with 3 tries, so not delivering would have them deliver it again the next day - guess that extra annoyance makes them try and deliver it harder?

Corvid Crone

@shi @sahqon @ocean when I lived in NY, I tried to have a package delivered to my Harlem address and the sender sent it via FedEx.

"Missed delivery" - I was at home and no delivery attempt was made

"Missed delivery" - same story, this time, I'm sitting at the window overlooking the door. No FedEx person even came into the courtyard.

"Missed delivery final notice" - same story, this time, I'm sitting outside

I call FedEx, and ask them wtf. They tell me I can go pick up from the warehouse. Great, where's the warehouse? In the middle of a godforsaken island where no public transit goes because no one lives there and it's only warehouses. I tell them no, I will not be swimming or taking a taxi to this middle of nowhere warehouse. Long hold. "Well, we can try one more time". And I'm like, "you never tried the first time, no FedEx truck even came to the building". Long hold. "He's coming back". Bro peaks head into the courtyard, shakes head, and starts to leave. I'm running towards him, "you got my package, man??"

"Uhhhh..." Finally get my package. Took over a month

@shi @sahqon @ocean when I lived in NY, I tried to have a package delivered to my Harlem address and the sender sent it via FedEx.

"Missed delivery" - I was at home and no delivery attempt was made

"Missed delivery" - same story, this time, I'm sitting at the window overlooking the door. No FedEx person even came into the courtyard.

Andreas K

@shi @sahqon @ocean
I hate modern GIS systems with a passion.

I live in an apt complex with 1000s of flats in it. No apt no, no delivery.

30 years back, every one knew that the street name was a bit on the long side, and one abbreviated it.

Today, the IT knows all streets by their official name. Guess what gets cut off with a surprising regularity?

Which means, no matter how fast the delivery is supposed to be, the parcel stays a day longer with "address incomplete".

@shi @sahqon @ocean
I hate modern GIS systems with a passion.

I live in an apt complex with 1000s of flats in it. No apt no, no delivery.

30 years back, every one knew that the street name was a bit on the long side, and one abbreviated it.

Today, the IT knows all streets by their official name. Guess what gets cut off with a surprising regularity?

Andreas K

@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.

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