Rant on shipping

[PILOON]

But it too could get scuffed up, dirty, scratched and who knows what being shipped naked.
Should be bubble wrapped in a cardboard box inside a wooden crate at least.

But then once installed they would get scuffed up, dirty, scratched anyway.
Hey, that's that happens to tires.
So you'd prefer to pay another few $$'s to get a clean one?
Or do you simply think the seller should absorb those extra costs.

Re boxing rims, that I concur.
LOL, you want to make your own nicks.

 

[Alan W.]

Ordered a printer from Walmart.com on Dec 30. Said it would be delivered on Jan 4.
Got a text on the 2nd that it had been delivered. That was quick for us considering the holiday. Got home from church and found the printer setting on the back patio in the rain not on the covered porch. FedEx has a bunch of ****** contractors working for them.
Luckily it was ok. But had we been gone for the day it would have been a mess.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Wow. Kaiser HMO here. Their emphasis is preventive medical care to reduce the need for treatment, and they're pretty good at it.

None of those pharmacy hassles. Walk downstairs from clinic to pharmacy and they are already preparing your order, your name appears on a message board in a few minutes. Pay $5~$10 deductible sometimes, and walk out. It's rare to be asked to pay retail for a prescription and their generic Iboprufin, allergy medicine, etc that is non prescription is inexpensive. Mailorder similar. Everything (in our experience) gets mailed out by their regional pharmacy by next day. What you pay to subscribe, covers all the BS so you never see an invoice.

Health care treatment likewise, usually a $10 fee as you check in for anything then never an invoice or discussion of cost.

Going into Kaiser can feel like the DMV but that's just the screening counter, the medical professionals are excellent.

I hope it isn't too political to say Kaiser has been looked at as a model for lower cost health care.

I have a friend who is crippled by long Covid. He had to dump Kaiser to get treatment, because Kaiser refuses to admit that long Covid even exists.

 

[Oaktree]

Ordered a printer from Walmart.com on Dec 30. Said it would be delivered on Jan 4.
Got a text on the 2nd that it had been delivered. That was quick for us considering the holiday. Got home from church and found the printer setting on the back patio in the rain not on the covered porch. FedEx has a bunch of ****** contractors working for them.
Luckily it was ok. But had we been gone for the day it would have been a mess.

Is there a secure place they could have put it? All 3 carriers will put a package on the (enclosed) porch if no one's home here.

 

[PILOON]

Is there a secure place they could have put it? All 3 carriers will put a package on the (enclosed) porch if no one's home here.

That might have taken 2=3 more steps and time is money!

 

[California]

I have a friend who is crippled by long Covid. He had to dump Kaiser to get treatment, because Kaiser refuses to admit that long Covid even exists.

Oh great. I hadn't heard that before.

We got our shots as soon as they were available. Thousands of people were immunized per day. Kaiser rented a huge exhibit hall plus more space for the immunization campaign.

 

[Alan W.]

That might have taken 2=3 more steps and time is money!

From where they stop their truck it is exactly the same distance to the front covered porch as it is to the back patio.
House cant be seen from the road so theft is not an issue.
FedEx has some really dumb drivers. My drive is a circle and is easily navigated by even large trucks. Half the time they will turn around to leave instead of driving around.
Mostly younger drivers.

 

[goeduck]

I had a Fedex signature required delivery scheduled by a vendor for Monday (without coordinating). Since I was not going to be home on Monday, I went on line to fedex and scheduled a one day hold. Tuesday fedex sent me a text that it was out for delivery. Same thing today (Wednesday) and no delivery. No panic yet by any means, but it shows that once something gets bumped somehow, it really messes things up.

 

[California]

FedEx has some really dumb drivers. My drive is a circle and is easily navigated by even large trucks. Half the time they will turn around to leave instead of driving around.

Oh man that brought back memories. I posted here (photos even!) in 2008 about a delivery that got stuck and I had a heck of a time pulling him out.

Bozo delivered a 300 lb water tank using a 14k equipment trailer. The trailer was so long he couldn't turn it around without sinking his truck in the mud, so I lifted it and backed it down into the orchard. Then I discovered that trailer was so heavy I couldn't pull it uphill.

The backhoe bucket curl was the only thing with enough force to drag that trailer uphill. A foot at a time. In the rain.

I suspect there were air brakes partly locked. It had an air line but the new-hire driver had no answer to my questions.

Later I found tracks where he had bounced that trailer across a ditch, from not turning wide enough where the easement joined the county road. I don't think that driver had ever towed a trailer before in his life.

 

[Torvy]

Is there a secure place they could have put it? All 3 carriers will put a package on the (enclosed) porch if no one's home here.

YMMV. In some areas the same people deliver repeatedly and know the route well. One of the many problems with modern society is people think their experience is how everyone has it. Another huge reason why national policies are rarely a good option.

Here in the city, I can tell when our 'regular' letter carriers or garbage collectors are off work.

 

[Dftodd]

YMMV. In some areas the same people deliver repeatedly and know the route well. One of the many problems with modern society is people think their experience is how everyone has it. Another huge reason why national policies are rarely a good option.

Here in the city, I can tell when our 'regular' letter carriers or garbage collectors are off work.

Yup, I can tell as well, by the time they come by and the mess they leave, and if the cans are in the street or neatly set just off the edge of the street.

They have a truck with an articulated arm that grabs the can and dumps it in truck. Then sets the can back down.

Seems if the pick it up from the edge of the road, the could place it back on the edge.

I've called and complained about the guys grabbing the recycling. If it's not recyclable, or what they will accept, they toss it on the ground so it can blow away or get washed down the storm drain and into the retention pond. seems like it would be just as easy to place it back in the can.

Seems like on recycling day, I spend about 20 minutes picking stuff up, and placing it in random trash cans along the street as I walk.

 

[3Ts]

YMMV. In some areas the same people deliver repeatedly and know the route well. One of the many problems with modern society is people think their experience is how everyone has it. Another huge reason why national policies are rarely a good option.

Here in the city, I can tell when our 'regular' letter carriers or garbage collectors are off work.

I agree and to expand that a little - I've had the opportunity to travel overseas some and have noticed that Americans generally impose their attitudes upon other countries cultures which the other countries find objectionable. What's the saying "Don't judge a man until you've walked in his shoes?"

 

[goeduck]

I have noticed more than normal packages without any packing slip in them. Just the product in a bag or box. Not an issue to me, but seems odd.

 

[newbury]

Seems like on recycling day, I spend about 20 minutes picking stuff up, and placing it in random trash cans along the street as I walk.

And do they really recycle it?
For a while our trash trucks were picking up both and just letting it mix together, there was no market for the recycle.

 

[California]

And do they really recycle it?
For a while our trash trucks were picking up both and just letting it mix together, there was no market for the recycle.

Good question. The web page describing recycle here, basically says anything with the triangle, paper, and refundable beverage containers.

I've been also putting in scrap metal, any kind their magnet would pick up. I have no idea if this is acceptable. Most recently, badly rusted American Flyer S toy train track.

Also aluminum scrap material.

Anybody know if miscellaneous metal goes to the smelter, or to the landfill?

 

[California]

Also, related, I've read that only type 1 and 2 plastic is actually recycled now that China won't accept plastic scrap.

 

[Dftodd]

And do they really recycle it?
For a while our trash trucks were picking up both and just letting it mix together, there was no market for the recycle.

They only except certain things for recycling. #1 and #2 plastic (clean). Styrofoam if placed in a clear bag. Same thing with packing peanuts. Cardboard boxes and cereal boxes if it's broken down flat and tape removed. Plastic water bottles and aluminum cans (cleaned and stripped of paper).

 

[goeduck]

They only except certain things for recycling. #1 and #2 plastic (clean). Styrofoam if placed in a clear bag. Same thing with packing peanuts. Cardboard boxes and cereal boxes if it's broken down flat and tape removed. Plastic water bottles and aluminum cans (cleaned and stripped of paper).

Maybe they actually do recycle? That would be refreshing!

 

[Dftodd]

Maybe they actually do recycle? That would be refreshing!

The cardboard gets shipped to a paper mill about 20 miles west of us that makes boxes, and shipping containers.

Not sure about the rest.

 

[LFP57]

Few days before Christmas, FedEx truck stopped on the side of our house, dropped off a package and then decided to drive across our front yard. Wife was washing dishes and looking out the window, seen the truck drive off, didn't realize that they drove across the yard. I noticed it the next morning, called the police, couldn't do anything without proof (video) that it was FedEx. Guess they couldn't wait and drive the extra distance to the corner and then turn.