[Elecraft] OT: shipper from H

[Edward R Cole]

hopefully topic will pass political correction police.

Recent order of a Yamaha CM500 from Amazon.com got "Lost in space".

Well actually their compooter substituted another city for mine and 
sent it there, where all tracking failed.  Fortunately I noticed it 
was "delivery attempted" after a week of waiting delivery and I 
complained to Amazon who refunded my purchase of $58.33.  I checked 
the order at amazon on-line and it properly listed Nikiski.  But the 
package was addressed to Kenai with the Nikiski zip code.  This is 
not the first time amazon screwed up.

I ordered again listing this time the physical address of my PO 
(which I have permission to do).  Not only USPS but UPS and FedEx 
shipments can accepted (for me) by my local PO.  This a nice cure for 
"drop n scoot" delivery by later two shippers.

Even when I use "click-n-ship" for prepaid packages mailed thru the 
USPS,  the USPS Internet site changes my address town and zipcode to 
Kenai 99611-5074 (???).  Fortunately this is only the return 
address.  I can try to correct the address before printing my labels 
but the USPS compooter just changes it back.  So no win.  Hopefully, 
none of my shipments are returned (to the wrong city and zipcode).

Of course it knows more than the hooman that wrote it.  I guess 
another evil like "auto-fill" and "auto-correct"?

73, Ed - KL7UW
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