The pros and cons of online shopping would make for a too lengthy post but some of us adventurers encounter the occasional "delivered but never received" quandary. Happened to me a few days ago and it wasn't theft as I was having my pipe session on the front porch at the time. The website gives helpful pointers in such a situation. Did you check behind the holly tree in the backyard maybe? OK so then you check parts of your neighborhood and do some casual walks and some casual talking. Some light research of mine indicates it's not mostly theft but technical reasons. Maybe the driver accidentally butt-scanned something dunno. So now you contact Customer Service and as a rule they never want to help you. Maybe not a telephone call could be a live chat. It's obvious they don't want to do any actual work even though they have all the logistical information at their fingertips. "Our records indicate that your package was delivered on..." so now it's a kind of philosophical conundrum. You have it but you don't. It's quantum. Then maybe you file a claim with your carrier and they're looking into it. Mystery open.
Shopping is funny. Maybe you can find a chair already made but sometimes you have to put it together yourself. Happened to my brother.
Never had that problem - sounds awful.
ReplyDeleteIs Hegseth in charge with that outfit ?
Maybe Laura Loomer is looming.
ReplyDeleteIt gets worse. My sister lives in a large condo apartment building and she says a major carrier regularly leaves packages in the lobby instead of leaving them outside the respective apartments. She says they've been there a month now. Not only that they have other addresses on them that aren't even close by. Folks probably wondering what happened to their Amazon deliveries. Life in Yonkers.
ReplyDeleteI would have thought the Amazon drone could deliver right to the little landing strip in your back yard?
ReplyDeleteYeah remember that? Whatever happened to that? No FedEx no UPS.
ReplyDeleteYou get your Prince Albert online. If you lived in Yonkers not so sure.
Trying to upgrade my house. New couch cushions. Who knows where they went. New window blinds. Vinyl blinds this time not aluminum which break. Cordless safe for kids and pets. Simple jobs. Minor house projects.
ReplyDeleteWHERE IS MY STUFF???
Could it be 'porch pirates'? My Prince Albert comes from VA just west of DC. The give a tracking number, so I watch it sit in the warehouse for a couple days, get picked up by UPS and taken to Middleton PA, a big distribution place. Gets a plane ride to Spokane and driven down through N Idaho. Guy knocks and puts it on the porch. Never have a problem. Heard of some family that is gone from home quite a bit. So the gave the UPS guy a remote for the garage door opener. He opens up, puts it in and closes it. But as they say - buy local.
ReplyDeleteI already touched upon this. At the time of the posted delivery 4:55 PM I was either in the living room with the blinds open, front porch right outside and was also checking every 15 minutes or so as I was off that day and felt the package was due. Was in between pipe sessions and I only smoke on the porch. My conclusion: it wasn't theft unless a dwarf came on the porch real quick and I didn't see him.
ReplyDeleteNow in the neighboring town just to the north is a street the same name as mine with an almost identical zip. Has caused confusion in the past for contractors and postal people so am more leaning towards that theory for now. Got delivered to the wrong residence but maybe imo but everyone acts like they can't be wrong.
ReplyDeleteThe carrier couldn't provide a picture of proof of delivery. I think it went to the wrong house. I'm more upset with Customer Service at the website. They can't seem to move beyond our records indicate.
ReplyDeletePeople post on forums about UPS saying they delivered something but the customer's porch cam footage shows no UPS vehicle and of course no theft. I don't think Occam's Razor is a logical fallacy but there's a tendency to overuse it.
Anyway life in the big YO.
Maybe part postal service mistakes. Used to get stuff boxes etc for a guy that lives in a little town 40 miles east of here. Now there is a guy with the same address but on a different street one block north. Gets a lot of wood working stuff. Some big outfit bought the Model Train magazine company. Now I get Trains and Model Railroader in a cellophane wrapper that also contains the high fashion magazine Elle. Supposed to go to a lady in town. I called her and she said she never ordered. Not a high fashion guy (college sweatshir, khakis and tenny runners) I give them to my two grand daughters who drool and pester their folks for a $850 Parisian scarf. Occam's razor - like Hobson's Choice or a gold Trump watch?
ReplyDeleteHey, im not gone. Our vacation condo building has the ocean washing under it (will be the last time we stay there, very sad). It looks like the GOP is starting to turn on itself. We will see how that goes. Cop came to work today to do a fire drill. He made me spell my name and asked me what nationality it was. It made me a little nervous and I
ReplyDeleteswear I am going to start carrying my papers to prove who I am. Trump is admiring north Koreas electric fences and razor wire border walls. Also he wants to know why white people from Scandinavian countries dont want to move here. Could it be the universal healthcare, paid education, liberal work policies and not having to worry youll be randomly shot?
Trump is a political hemorrhoid. Let him move to N. Korea if he likes Kim so much. There's no advanced country in the world who would want to trade their health care system with us.
ReplyDeleteBB according to Google (Google ai these days) FedEx and Amazon Logistics are at the top of the list for most lost packages. Mine is UPS. The customer service at the shopping website never even offered to refund me for the couch cushions or just replace them. The workers probably young respond like automatons with obviously pre-made responses but are refunding me for the blinds probably because I'm not overly polite in my responses. Wasted time. Could've just gone to Lowe's. I'm not Diddy or Trump's cousin. I don't have money to throw around.
ReplyDeleteJust ordered a pair of shoes from Skechers. Supposed to come UPS.
ReplyDeleteProbably should have went downtown to the shoe store? Noem in hot water again - deported a purple heart vet to Korea and jailed some guy's wife from Ireland, been here 50 years. Mean dog-shooting lady.
Customer service you go in a circle. Most people aren't lying when they say they didn't get a package. Customer service seems incapable of making judgement calls and deviating from the script. Most customers should be compensated if they want them coming back.
ReplyDeleteHonor our vets ya know? I like the old bumper sticker Mean People Suck.
ReplyDeleteYou suppose Trump will take over St. Jude's? He seems to need more $$$ than dying kids. Geeeez would understand.
ReplyDeleteWell now that you mention it he's offering Trump savings accounts for kids. Probably not for kids of Dem parents though.
ReplyDeleteYour Skechers might wind up in Yonkers.
ReplyDeleteLooks like snow in your area this morning. Make a snowman? Put out heated mini yurts for the ferals? Call in frozen?
ReplyDeleteMy friend said we're getting February weather now. Haven't even reached the winter solstice yet.
ReplyDeleteHe bought me a PowerBall ticket last night. Up to one billion. He was excited. I'm not into something where the odds are so astronomically against you. The drawing: Not even close of course. Your odds of a Sasquatch coming into your kitchen and grabbing a cup of coffee are better. You may as well hammer a nail with your penis.
ReplyDeleteOur town and the one across the river heard a loud boom yesterday.
ReplyDeleteSome guy from S. Idaho had stopped with his U-Haul and was sleeping in the cab. Propane leak in the back and several cans of gasoline. Damaged several nearby businesses. Will they have a fire sale? The traveler was blown to bits along with his vehicle. Trump being sued for having his photo on the new National Parks Pass instead of the winner of the nature photo contest they have done for dozens of years. You got your Trump Gold Card, Trump Gold Watch, Trump Quilted Vest and Mara Lago T-Shirt? I'm gonna get the First Prez Snakeoil Salesman poster.
So when does Trump's divine image replace Andrew Jackson on the 20?
ReplyDeleteHow much did Joe Namath make in that ad wearing nylons?
ReplyDeleteI remember that. A classic. What was the point of the commercial again?
ReplyDeleteOld legend. Mikey died from eating Pop Rocks and soda.
16 Jewish people killed in Australia - Bondi Beach, where they were gathered, young and old. Bondi - like Pam Bondi, US Attorney General and inventor of the hunt and indict the innocent game. The Aussies, with already strict gun laws, are already making them tighter.
ReplyDeleteThe Illustrious Patrick M once addressed this issue many years ago to wit he basically said and I paraphrase you can't prevent these things from happening. There will always be nutbags walking around pass as many laws as you like.
ReplyDeleteI paraphrase.
I follow it but politics is not my hobby. Dealing with the non-political today. The ongoing online shopping issue. Apartment building next door bad gutters and big ice patch in my alley. Every year same problem landlord never fixes it. Other stuff. Who has time for politics?
ReplyDeleteI'll follow it for you -
ReplyDelete", “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS.
“He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. Rest in Peace, Rob and Michelle
Back on topic - did my skechers get delivered to a 13 year old girl for Christmas in Ogden, Utah?
I thought his drug addicted son was the primary suspect.
ReplyDeleteLook I get it that people are passionate about the way they're governed but there's a whole non-political world out there. Pharrell Williams has it about right. No matter what political side you're on by its very nature it's divisive and not unifying. Smoke your pipe and think political thoughts if you like. I got an icy alley to deal with. February weather in mid-December.
I figure a president should speak for the people he serves. As for your Winter - the Polar Vortex Shift. You can blame Biden, or as the MI blogger notes, Obama or Hillary. In those conditions, the feral cats
ReplyDeletemust need extra looking after?
Trump does. He speaks for the elites. Bankers and billionaires. Obama bailed out Wall Street. Every time the Dems release new Epstein photos Trump is in there somehow. Trump should be condemned across the political board but he isn't. Now he wants social media probes of all tourists. Here's the thing though. Liberals you included have always condemned right-wingers in general, conservatives and Republicans for YEARS so folk are gonna take what you and others say now about the current situation with a healthy grain of salt. Y'all said the same thing about W when you all could've saved it when it really counted. Paraphrasing Bill Maher.
ReplyDeleteHey! I used to have a bumper sticker that said 'I Like Ike'. Not a Maher fan- he talks potty talk. If you wanna blame liberals for Trump - see GeeeeZ. Bush 2 was a saint compared to Trump. How's the outdoors cats holding up?
DeleteI have 3 cat condos on the front porch with a nice throw over them for extra warmth. So far Code Enforcement hasn't said anything.
DeletePoint being liberals by over-complaining about everything right-wing in the past are like the boy who cried wolf. Trump REALLY is that bad but they complained about everybody else so......
DeleteBtw where did the global warming go? Could use a little right now.
ReplyDeleteCouple things. Patrick is on Facebook and we have found we hold a lot of the same causes near and dear. Im still Socialist, he's still Libertarian, but on a lot of LGBTQ+ issues we are right on the same page. Global warming, it was 13 this morning, and we are not in the Blue Ridge or Smokies either. But it's supposed to be 57 on Saturday. We had snow on Friday, about an inch, but it was gone by Sunday. I dont miss it, but an inch is kinda nice. Of course our roads here are untreated and unplowed when we do get snow. A few years ago we got 9 inches. I think they declared a state of emergency. I remember 36" and 22 below as a kid in Putnam County.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't mind living in the picturesque town of Carmel right there in Putnam County. Lake Gleneida. A statue dedicated to Sybil Ludington (I have to google). A stately courthouse. Nice churches and shops.
ReplyDeleteI remember Patrick M from his old blog. Could be vulgar and funny at the same time. Vulgar and not funny is just plain crude. Blogger now puts warnings up for the more sensitive viewers. Today he'd have so many flags up on his own posts he could run his own parade.