[Elecraft] USPS, UPS, FedEx and related woes

[Dauer, Edward]

So maybe Elecraft could develop a drone service that flies to its customers’ GPS locations from some regional distribution hub and gently deposits the goodies on our porch . . .

Ted, KN1CBR


From: Mel Farrer <farrerfolks at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Mel Farrer <farrerfolks at yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 9:53 AM
To: "Dauer, Edward" <edauer at law.du.edu>, "elecraft at mailman.qth.net" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USPS, UPS, FedEx and related woes

Two things I will add also,

After having the wild ones run over my mail box at the bottom of the hill, we went to a satellite mail box a short distance away, problem solved, well sort of.  Along comes SUREpost or equivalent.  The seller says it will go ground, so I give them the street address, then they ship it, YEP drop off at the PO who can't deliver it.

So we started to put both the street address and the PO Box number on the info, problem solved, well sort of, YEP you guessed it the leave off the PO Box info,  Can't win.

Final tally, about 75% of the deliveries get it right, 25% get lost, delayed or returned to shipper.

Mel, K6KBE

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From: "Dauer, Edward" <edauer at law.du.edu>
To: "elecraft at mailman.qth.net" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 8:38 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] USPS, UPS, FedEx and related woes

One anecdote before this O.T. thread is terminated . . .

My “shack” is in a second home in the Colorado mountains, where none of these services work.  Street addresses exist but they are useless; a driver unfamiliar with the local area would have to use either county plat maps or GPS coordinates, which of course no shipper would provide.  The dirt road leading to the house isn’t wide enough for a large truck, and climbing up our hill requires a good four-wheeler during much of the year.  When we first built the place the US Post Office would not deliver mail to addresses in our area, so for a while I rented one of the few boxes available at the local Post Office. After a year or two they unilaterally cancelled the rental, telling me that I didn’t get enough mail to justify having a box there.  I solved the problem by having everything sent to my Denver address, but I found it ironic.  In Denver I am flooded with junk mail every day, often more than can be smushed into the outside box on our house.  In the country (an unincorporated area called Florissant) I don’t get enough mail to deserve a box at the P.O.

Ted, KN1CBR

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