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Posts: 16148 | Location: Ivorydale | Registered: January 21, 2005
Conversely, just a couple days ago I had a new Olympic weight bar delivered via UPS. Usually UPS just sets whatever it is on the porch and leaves. Sometimes they may knock. They rarely press the doorbell button.
This guy brought it up to the porch, rang the doorbell, and waited!
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
Originally posted by ensigmatic: They rarely press the doorbell button.
Before we got our shop we used to have our FFL at the house. Got deliveries dang near daily and pretty much all of them required signatures. Amazing to me how little pretty much all of the delivery services rang the door bell. Very light knocks, sometimes so light I’d be sitting on the couch and not even hear them.
You’d think the goal would be to empty the truck. I get they can’t spend 15 minutes hunting someone down at every stop, but I would try my best to get rid of the package. I feel like I would always ring the bell or if I heard people in the backyard in the pool I might give a holler… I don’t get the desire to deliver the same package over and over again… maybe they have a reason
Watching the video I was thinking that was a gutsy throw considering the person on the sidewalk. What if that person was the home owner? Oh shit, that person was the home owner!
On a side note, our delivery people don’t have to knock or ring the doorbell. Our early warning system lets us know they are there before the truck even comes to a stop. She’s a good dog.
Posts: 11980 | Location: SWFL | Registered: October 10, 2007
_________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902
Posts: 9384 | Location: Northern Virginia | Registered: November 04, 2005
Originally posted by BB61: It's an XBOX. I'll set it up tonight and check it out. The actual box inside looked OK I'm just concerned about internal issues with the HD.
Is it a Series S? I think those are SSD and should be fine.
Posts: 7461 | Location: CA | Registered: April 08, 2004
It has an SSD and appears to work just fine despite the air delivery. Big relief. The thought of having to make a claim and battle FedEx was depressing.
They don’t care. Showing my age here but when they delivered my 60” plasma tv the driver just pushed it off the truck and when one side came down you heard glass breaking. She didn’t even wait for me to help. She saw me walking up. I pushed it right back on the truck. Saw my other plasma and hopped in and carried it off the truck ignoring her rant that I wasn’t allowed on the truck.
