Handling UPS/FEDEX/DHL/USPS Delivers

[Western]

Dan, sounds like you may need a Conex shipping container:laughing:
I'm fortunate that someone is usually around most days, on occasion I make a point to be here for certain items.
Weather is a bigger factor here, but the few delivery's I have received during a rain, that where left out, the delivery (UPS in most cases) wrapped the box in a thin plastic bag.

 

[dmccarty]

Dan, sounds like you may need a Conex shipping container:laughing:...

I do, I really do need a COUPLE of shipping containers! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Is it sad when one is driving down the highway and wishfully looking at the shipping containers on semis? Especially the longer and taller shipping containers?

Our delivery guys are almost always the same and if they have to drop off at the gate the wrap the packages in the plastic bags. We have not had a problem with rain or theft. Knock on wood.

Later,
Dan

 

[Stihlrunner]

We gave the gate code to our UPS and Fedex drivers, it's almost alway the same guys. On the rare occasion there is a sub driver and they don't get the code from HQ then they usually just hang it on the gate.

 

[edlegault]

We have two addresses: a physical rural address and an in-town address at a private mailbox company. The smaller items (all USPS, smaller FEDX, UPS, DHL, etc.) go to the private mail box company. The really big items from UPS, FEDX, DHL, etc., I have sent to the property. I know when I am expecting a package and use the tracking number to monitor its progress. When it gets to town for local delivery and it is coming to the property I have someone around to sign for it if possible.

 

[Jim Shooz]

I am a delivery guy (in another country) and we have the codes to 99% of the locked gates (15 or 20) on the run written on the back of a couple of old mail label stuffed in the ash tray of the mail van. Very high tech and secure . The list is in no particular order and if you didn't know which was Bert or Bill & Daisy's gate you wouldn't know which code to use. Most of the places have a covered 'out of the rain' area near a door. Having been on the run for over 12 years we know just about all of the 600+ customers.

 

[BrandonR]

I just have things delivered to work instead of the house.

 

[LJH]

No mail delivery here, just a PO box. Because of that, many of us never bothered to make up a 'street' address, seeing as how there aren't any streets either, but the UPS & FedEx guys know where we all are.

There's an old pallet nailed to the fence down by the first cattleguard. It's pretty central to those of us with 4WD kinds of driveways and the drivers just leave stuff there and either we'll notice it or a neighbor will & grab it for us on the way in & vice/versa. On those odd occasions when the county road washes out & delivery trucks can't make it to the pallet, they'll leave stuff at the first house off the pavement and it finds its way from there. Works like a charm given the right kind of community which, thank God, we have here.

 

[jveretto]

I have a friend that made a dog house with a hinged top. works well for deliveries of most sizes!

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[AlanB]

A lot of automotive shops use Job boxes or tuff boxes outside the door so that parts can be picked up and delivered when nobody is around.