[Elecraft] USPS, UPS, FedEx and related woes

[Rick WA6NHC]

I use a mail drop, like the UPS Store.  That way when I travel, I can 
ship me the stuff I don't want to haul around, it's secure and doesn't 
pile up in a mailbox or porch.  I collect it when I get back or a couple 
times a week when I go to town anyway.  Simple works.

It's worth the annual expense.

Rick NHC


On 4/27/2017 9:09 AM, Michael Goins wrote:
> Rural here too and the biggest issue for a long time was that the UPS guy
> would just throw boxes over the fence even though he could easily drive in.
> Not too hard on the books I order, but tough on radio stuff and other
> electronics. Fedex always knocks on the door.
>
> Took a few calls but there's a new route driver for UPS and all seems okay
> now, though the UPS stuff does occasionally go to the  PO to deliver and
> with the satellite mailbox setup here, that means a trip into town if the
> box is too big to fit in the small satellite box container.
>
> Mike, k5wmg
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Mel Farrer via Elecraft <
> elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>        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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