When an Amazon driver makes a delivery at my house, they always take a picture of the package on my porch and I can see it in the tracking info on Amazon. Did the loser today take a picture of the package draped on your mailbox??
When I lived in Texas, Amazon deliveries were iffy. Although they arrived via UPS, as they do here, the UPS drivers in the Rio Grande Valley seemed to just drop them off anywhere in the neighborhood, so they would often be delivered to me by neighbors who found them at their door, and sometimes they didn't arrive at all, or, more likely, they were delivered to neighbors who didn't bring them to me. Other than very slow shipping on the part of Amazon, I haven't had many delivery problems here in Maine, though.
We do not actually have Amazon delivery drivers here, so our stuff might go part of the way with an amazon delivery, but the final delivery to our house is always either USPS or UPS, and neither of them take any pictures. It might be the same way for John Brunner, especially since he lives so far away from a town. When we get grocery delivery from walmart, they do take pictures, but it is usually a picture of the bags of groceries in Bobby’s hands, or still in the back seat of the delivery vehicle. Sometimes, they just take a picture of our house or yard through the car window, so the photos are seldom actually representative of where the groceries were delivered to, like the picture of the Amazon package on your porch, @Beth Gallagher . When I ordered the packet of hops pellets, they spent all week being shuffled (or amazon saying they were being shuffled, not sure which) back and forth from a town in Tennessee about an hour or so away from Huntsville, and sent to someplace in New Jersey, and then back again, only to to the same thing the very next day. Finally, on the day before they were scheduled to arrive, they were sent to Huntsville from Tennessee, like they should have been done in the first place.
I complained via Amazon's Chat. They need to know or they can't fix it. The guy on the other end sounded concerned and said he wrote up an Incident Report. I've never had that happen before. Laying out on the mailbox with no houses around is an invitation to steal.
It's only been the past 6 months or so that I've had Amazon drivers. My stuff most often comes via the big carriers (UPS, FedEx, USPS.) This is the first irresponsible driver I've had. I have all 3 showing up tomorrow: -Amazon driver delivering chicory and a couple of small items, unless he leaves it at the mailbox -FedEx delivering my Teeccino order -UPS delivering my script from the compounding pharmacy
Where the heck did we even get that clock? And….I looked in the black book and it doesn’t say anything about stuff that doesn’t work right belonging to the husband. It may sit on my dresser but as a couple and in our bedroom, we both have to assume responsibility for it.
Mostly, I get my packages. But sometimes they put it IN my garage. ??? We recycle boxes. It is hard enough to find things we KNOW are in the garage. But putting another box in there makes it like trying to find Waldo.
It absolutely DOES say that broken things automatically belong to the husband, which is why the husband has the name designation of “Mr. Fix-It”, and the wife is called “BabyDoll”. Besides, you are the only one in this family who can reach burned out light bulbs, open stuck jars, get stuff off of the top shelf, and is able to crawl around on the floor when necessary to fix something. Having a Mr. Fix-It is indispensable, so clocks that want to change time on their own schedule , totally fall into your realm of expertise, @Bobby Cole .
For years the drivers would lean the boxes against the roll-up doors of my detached garage, but at some point they began walking up to the house and putting the boxes on the covered porch. I guess someone must have complained. Personally, it didn't bother me, unless there was inclement weather. I kinda feel for the drivers in these rural areas. They derive a benefit from not having to fight suburban traffic, but homes here are spread so far out, and they make nearly a 1 mile round trip slowly navigating my narrow gravel driveway just to deliver one package. I have no idea how the differing metrics are determined. Regarding boxes: I take my boxes and my plastic grocery bags to my friend's greenhouse, where he uses them for customer purchases. Reuse is way better than recycle.
My only rant for today and yesterday is regarding my laptop, it is almost fully back to functioning normally, but couple more things to tend to....
If it were me, my only rant would be if my trusty 22 oz Estwing framing hammer wasn’t in the immediate vicinity for reinforcement purposes. If Siri (or whomever) can tell ya what the temperature is outside your door, she can dern well tell when there’s a high tech hammer waiting to help fix the lap top.
Last night was supposed to be beer and pizza night. Instead, I got some stomach bug, couldn’t eat anything. Felt miserable. It seems mostly gone now so maybe tonight.