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To: Twotone

Amazon delivers all of my stuff to my local post office, which then adds on two or three more days to the delivery time while it sits in some bin in a dark corner. Heck, once they didn’t even bother trying to deliver it. They just sent it back to Amazon for who knows what reason!


8 posted on 11/28/2023 9:06:00 AM PST by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: Dr. Zzyzx

About a year ago we replaced our old and small mailbox.

A relative, whose business is 100% on order and delivered to you, recommended getting the larger mailbox.

So we got the big one and had it installed.

We get in the mailbox deliveries from UPS and other delivery services via the postal system.


11 posted on 11/28/2023 9:16:42 AM PST by Grampa Dave ( Any one, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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To: Dr. Zzyzx

Our PO in North Idaho has a contract with FedEx (or maybe “had”). I would see PO trucks delivering on SUNDAY or late in the evening and you knew it was a FedEx delivery. Heaven forbid the USPO would work on Sunday.

It was always weird seeing the government regs and unions blocking Sunday deliveries but the same equipment and people can do deliveries under a private contract.

You must really live in the boonies if you have to drive to your local PO to get your Amazon stuff.

I lived in a tiny mountain hamlet in Arizona in the mid 70s for one winter. We had General Post Office service which meant I had to go pick up my mail at the PO — no delivery service in that town at all. I couldn’t get there during the week because of my work hours and one-hour commute each way to the plant and the PO was closed on Sundays, so I was able to get mail once a week. It was nice in those days looking forward to nice letters from family and friends. I miss that.


12 posted on 11/28/2023 9:19:04 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Dr. Zzyzx
 
 
The further away you are from an Amazon shipping hub, the longer the delivery time and the more likely it will be sent by regular commercial carriers. Right now I'm sandwiched by two large hubs, one north one south, with what appears to be a third massive huge one being built at nearly point blank range to me. Right now with some orders I can get next day service. That big one opens up, it's liable to be same day service.
 
 

23 posted on 11/28/2023 2:43:00 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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