Rant on shipping

[JethroB]

Back in the early 90's I requested Same Day high priority delivery (by midnight) from Purolator for a 200 mile distance. (Anyone remember them?).
Computer techs waiting for a copy of our system's backup tapes at our home office. Purolator dropped the ball and treated it as next day. Bad enough but then they hounded me for years to pay same day rate of several hundred dollars. A lot of bucks back then.

 

[Jstpssng]

20 years ago I was working away, coming home about once per month. I placed an order for supplies I needed, paying extra so that I could pick it up during the short time that I'd be home. Of course it didn't show up on time, so I put a waterproof Rubbermaid box on my doorstep, with a sign saying "Please leave package in box". When I got home 3 weeks later my package was setting right on top of the sign I had left. And just as others have stated, of course I didn't get a refund on the extra I paid for shipping. It's a good thing we don't have "porch pirates", it was out in plain sight on good old State Highway #6.

 

[Oaktree]

Very true, but once very expensive. VOIP systems are the rage, which meant new CAT5 cable to every phone set, and new phone sets plus the system itself. I couldn't imagine what a hospital system would cost.

I guess it would depend on the infrastructure of the building. I helped a client install a VOIP phone system a couple years ago, and we just used existing CAT5 runs to office computers. The system we installed (forget the brand) just looped the ethernet thru the phone and into wherever it went before.

 

[Popgadget]

This is where FedEx left this box. It is probably 200 feet from the house.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Maybe someone tried to steal it, got spooked and ran off.

As for VOIP. Can't think of how many telemarketers call me and I can't understand them forlack of call quality and tell them to call me back when they get a real phone line . . . click.

 

[Peter 315]

This is where FedEx left this box. It is probably 200 feet from the house.
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Maybe the wind..

 

[Popgadget]

It was pretty windy, but the box was shelving and pretty heavy.
My lane is a quarter mile long, there is no visibility from the road so if someone was taking it, there’s no where for them to go. That area is in a camera’s view, I’ll have to look now.

 

[kenmbz]

This is where FedEx left this box. It is probably 200 feet from the house.

I think we have the same Fedex guy! Find Fedex boxes in various unexpected places all the time. Once in the drainage ditch by the road(not near it, in it).
Found behind my garbage cans, by my garage. in the snow by my neighbors a few thousand feet away from my place (found a week later).
It's like a scavenger hunt.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Maybe dropped off by drones flying in a strong wind. .

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Maybe we need to start a pillow thread?

To have a pillow fight?