USPS, Rural Deliveries ! UPS the BEST !

[5030]

I like Amazon deliveries by their own vehicles. They notify you when they are about 10 stops away with a map of their current location. The map continues to be updated until your delivery is made.

Cannot wait for my first drone delivery. Where I live the drone will be shot down before it gets here......

 

[5030]

Nevada...

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One thing fir certain, that ain't a Harley Davidson Sportster road....:laughing:

 

[lilranch2001]

I live in NC which some would consider the east coast.

Spent numerous years in Alaska, Utah, Montana and Idaho, sometimes driving around with a gas can on the vehicle when I wasn't certain when I'd hit the next gas station (know what it's like to be "no where").

Looks like you're from Indiana. Although Indiana isn't on the "East coast", exactly what is the longest distance between two points in Indiana before you hit a gas station?

1. Yes technically NC is on the coast, but a good portion of those people are down home individuals, and understand what living a lifestyle, of seeing some countryside, cow, horses, woodland critters is probably almost a daily thing. I know I painted with a broad brush, but I was more pointing the finger towards NYers. Bostonians, Phily, DC......

2. I absolutely have no idea the furthest gas stations are apart, nor have any idea what that has to do with the price of rice in N Korea, USPS, UPS, or Fed X

3. If you notice I mentioned 100 miles off the coast, so I would think mid north west in the state of NC would rule you out in anycase.

Sorry if I got your panties bunched

 

[Sigarms]

1. Yes technically NC is on the coast, but a good portion of those people are down home individuals, and understand what living a lifestyle, of seeing some countryside, cow, horses, woodland critters is probably almost a daily thing. I know I painted with a broad brush, but I was more pointing the finger towards NYers. Bostonians, Phily, DC......

2. I absolutely have no idea the furthest gas stations are apart, nor have any idea what that has to do with the price of rice in N Korea, USPS, UPS, or Fed X

3. If you notice I mentioned 100 miles off the coast, so I would think mid north west in the state of NC would rule you out in anycase.

Sorry if I got your panties bunched

I go commando, no worries. My point was you seemed to be busting a guy because he lives around the communist state of New York city for not knowing what "rural" is, yet no where in Indiana is it close to being in BFE compared to some places out in the western states and Alaska.

 

[oosik]

Nothing like living by yourself in AK. Spent a year in a small log cabin on the south side of the Brooks range. Nearest town, south, was Fairbanks - 450 mile to the SE. Or over the Brooks range to Nome - some 215 miles to the N. You know you are in trouble when your pile of firewood starts talking back - cabin fever. Any supplies were brought in by float/ski plane. It was a six mile hike to the lake.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Living on Long Island, you don't have a clue as to how things are in more sparsely populated areas of the country.

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania and still go back there yearly to visit. In that part of Pennsylvania, every farm, every house, no matter how rural, has its own mailbox and the postman delivers to that mailbox.

Here in Nevada it is completely different. If you live outside city limits but in a semi-rural area still close to town, the Post Office will NOT deliver to individual addresses. Instead there are "banks" of mailboxes located every few miles and you pick your mail up there - or you can pay for a Post Office box and drive miles to town and pick it up there. I'm lucky in that I live within a half mile of a mailbox bank (which has about 50 mailboxes). Others of my neighbors have to drive at least a couple miles. Problem is, these mailboxes are really just slots about 2" high so no packages can be delivered into them. You'll get a card telling you that you have a package at the Post Office and you need to drive to town (only 11 miles for me) to pick it up. And by the way, whereas in Pennsylvania there was a town every few miles - in Nevada towns are 60 - 100 miles apart.

Those who live on ranches or farms 20+ miles from town have only one option. Get a box at the Post Office and pick up your mail there whenever you are in town.

This is RURAL America! If I leave my driveway and drive due south it will be 102.5 miles before I get to a paved road.
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:thumbsup: Same here in NM. Don t you just LOVE rural living.... I sure do !

 

[lilranch2001]

I go commando, no worries. My point was you seemed to be busting a guy because he lives around the communist state of New York city for not knowing what "rural" is, yet no where in Indiana is it close to being in BFE compared to some places out in the western states and Alaska.

Honestly, your personal hygiene issues aside.....
I was busting them for not knowing what good old down to earth USA (fly over country) living was, but yes, your discrimination of NY does fit my thought process of many of those living there.

You do seem to be somewhat confused in your opinions sometimes in your posts.

 

[Sigarms]

you do seem to be somewhat confused in your opinions sometimes in your posts.

How so?

My opinions I've always thought are pretty straight forward (for better or worse).

That said, I do sometimes forget that if you can't walk a mile in someone elses shoes, keep your mouth shut.

 

[Oaktree]

Nevada...

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Pretty country to be sure, though as a (mostly) life-long New Englander I'd prefer a little more water and trees.

I like Amazon deliveries by their own vehicles. They notify you when they are about 10 stops away with a map of their current location. The map continues to be updated until your delivery is made.

How does that work? Some sort of cellphone thing (assuming you have one and are willing to give them your info) maybe? A little overkill (or at least gimmicky) IMHO. Can't think of anything I'd order online that I needed to know delivery time that exact.
Not that I'm likely to ever need to worry about it...not sure where their nearest fulfillment center is, but I'm guessing it's far enough that any delivery is going to be one of the usual suspects, not by Amazon themselves.

Actually I think there are a lot of east coasters who has no clue what it is like living off the coast, they live in their own little cocoon.....

Lots of people from every region who live in their own little cocoon and neither know nor care how things are done elsewhere. East coasters are no worse (or better) than anyone else.

Nothing like living by yourself in AK. Spent a year in a small log cabin on the south side of the Brooks range. Nearest town, south, was Fairbanks - 450 mile to the SE. Or over the Brooks range to Nome - some 215 miles to the N. You know you are in trouble when your pile of firewood starts talking back - cabin fever. Any supplies were brought in by float/ski plane. It was a six mile hike to the lake.

OK, honest question here, not trying to be snarky or anything, but why would you want to live in such isolation? I need my space as much, if not more than anyone else but I also need human contact too, even if it's just exchanging pleasantries with the checkout clerk at the grocery store.

 

[Sigarms]

Suprised, my package showed up today in the mail box.

I was opening the box up in the kitchen and I told my wife "you know I have a problem, right?".

She looked at me and said "well, the box is too small, guess it must be a flashlight":laughing: