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I'd use Amazon more if my delivery options weren't a 50% chance of my package vanishing from the apartment entryway, or driving 20 minutes to the closest locker. And if Amazon wasn't more and more counterfeit crap to wade through every time you shop there.
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No thefts is one nice perk of living in a second story apartment.
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RandomPauI posted:No thefts is one nice perk of living in a second story apartment. One day our package was marked "left in office" which apparently means everyone's amazon packages were dumped in a big pile next to the mailboxes, visible from 75 yards away in every direction and next to the main road.
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Jan 20, 2019 06:32
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Slippery posted:That said, kids....don't go on Ebay drunk. Was it Google that would make you do math problem if you tried to send an email at 4am?
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Jan 20, 2019 07:26
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Another dumb thing that's making me reconsider renewing Prime is Amazon's Small and Light Fulfilled by Amazon program which a growing number of sellers are taking advantage of. Personally, I think it's kind of abusive of the Prime logo in searches, and why so many of my orders are now taking 4 to 6 business days to arrive. Per Amazon: "Products in the Small and Light program are eligible for Prime. Prime customers automatically qualify for free standard shipping (4 to 5 business days). Non-Prime customers continue to get free shipping (6 to 8 business days) without a minimum order requirement."
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Jan 20, 2019 07:29
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Oh, if you have prime you ought to be watching Mrs. Maisel.
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I personally want to have my cake and eat it too; I’d buy everything online if I could but I also want there to be physical stores
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Jan 20, 2019 09:31
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To be fair, the problem with Amazon delivery is 100% caused by shipping companies. UPS and FedEx were designed around the concept of inter-business shipping, with business-to-home being something of an afterthought - deliveries to homes need to happen 5pm - 10pm, when people are there, not 9am - 5pm like happens now. And Amazon has caused a huge spike in the number of deliveries, but both companies are still intent on running with '90s levels of staffing, leading to burnout and lovely service. Really, you should deliver by USPS as much as possible. They'll hold packages for you, will only deliver to mailboxes, and it's a federal crime to gently caress with those. Although if the post office gets overwhelmed and needs more staffing, it literally does take an act of Congress to make that happen.
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Jan 20, 2019 10:18
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The only thing I order from amazon that aren't books or CDs/Blu-Rays are electric razor foils because gently caress trying to find those at a store.
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Jan 20, 2019 11:58
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Beachcomber posted:Oh, if you have prime you ought to be watching Patriot. Fixed that for you
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Mercury Ballistic posted:Fixed that for you But not until you finish all your Mozart in the Jungle!
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In terms of delivery to apartment complexes, there really really needs to be a main office with nothing but lockers for each apartment, so boxes can be tossed in and locked, rather than left outside.
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Jan 21, 2019 00:01
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How does J. Random Amazon-Deliverer get the package in there?
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Cowslips Warren posted:In terms of delivery to apartment complexes, there really really needs to be a main office with nothing but lockers for each apartment, so boxes can be tossed in and locked, rather than left outside.  Some neighborhoods near me (like where my folks live) have the big stacked mailboxes versus each house having one, plus they have 2-3 larger locked boxes at the bottom for bigger packages, each with their own key. Would be great to have a stack of lockers like that at apartments near the regular mailboxes. Basically they drop a package in the larger box, grab the key from inside it & put it in your regular mailbox so only you can unlock it. BOOTY-ADE has a new favorite as of 00:40 on Jan 21, 2019 |
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Would be great to have a stack of lockers like that at apartments near the regular mailboxes. Basically they drop a package in the larger box, grab the key from inside it & put it in your regular mailbox so only you can unlock it. That's a really good idea and I'm surprised I haven't seen it in the wild.
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Seriously, and it'd probably easier to get landlords to do that than adding an extra room for delivery lockers.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:
You're describing a po box with parcel lockers. It exists at hundreds of post offices across america.
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Pick posted:Shopping online is a chore, shopping in a store is a good way to get out, and it's fun, and you can see the stuff, and sometimes your friends are there. Unless the store you want to shop at is a 3-hour drive from home and it's the only place where you can find most of the poo poo you want and need. At that point, online shopping becomes a godsend.
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Cowslips Warren posted:In terms of delivery to apartment complexes, there really really needs to be a main office with nothing but lockers for each apartment, so boxes can be tossed in and locked, rather than left outside. My apartment has that. It's pretty swell. It's basically an "Amazon Locker" that any delivery company can shove your poo poo in. You get a text and email when something is delivered. Subjunctive posted:How does J. Random Amazon-Deliverer get the package in there? They type in a code. https://www.parcelpending.com Atticus_1354 posted:You're describing a po box with parcel lockers. It exists at hundreds of post offices across america. You know what's even better than a PO box with parcel lockers at the post office? Having your mail delivered to your block. 
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MisterOblivious posted:My apartment has that. It's pretty swell. It's basically an "Amazon Locker" that any delivery company can shove your poo poo in. You get a text and email when something is delivered. These things are the purest indication of places where no one should ever live--lovely developments build alongside highways with zero infrastructure, no sidewalks and no community
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Slanderer posted:These things are the purest indication of places where no one should ever live--lovely developments build alongside highways with zero infrastructure, no sidewalks and no community What? They’re in every apartment complex.
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Zesty posted:What? They’re in every apartment complex. Yeah, exactly. What?
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My apartment complex has those, sidewalks, and tons of connected families whose children play together so I respectfully disagree with part of your assertion I am direclty adjacent to a major highway so that's fair
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Jan 21, 2019 04:08
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Much better than the areas I see with a single mailbox on an ancient post where there's no lock, the maildude just opens and tosses in, so anyone can come by and get your mail. Did something happen in Kroger recently, as in the last year or so? At my local one they stopped carrying a bunch of stuff and management all switched over and lots of regular cashiers disappeared.
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Slanderer posted:These things are the purest indication of places where no one should ever live--lovely developments build alongside highways with zero infrastructure, no sidewalks and no community You’re correct about the outdoor ones, like the one clearly in this picture. It’s just screaming “Waukesha, Wisconsin” to me (Former speaker Ryan’s blood-red home district outside Milwaukee)
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there wolf posted:Was it Google that would make you do math problem if you tried to send an email at 4am? Oh man I remember that but can't remember if it was a joke or google or a dating website or what
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:You’re correct about the outdoor ones, like the one clearly in this picture. It’s just screaming “Waukesha, Wisconsin” to me (Former speaker Ryan’s blood-red home district outside Milwaukee) I lived in a nice community with sidewalks and parks and all sorts of poo poo like that and we had those. It is a mystery I guess.
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Slippery posted:I lived in a nice community with sidewalks and parks and all sorts of poo poo like that and we had those. It is a mystery I guess. "Cluster mailboxes" have been a USPS requirement for new housing developments since 2012 or so. That's why some neighborhoods have them and others don't.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Did something happen in Kroger recently, as in the last year or so? At my local one they stopped carrying a bunch of stuff and management all switched over and lots of regular cashiers disappeared.
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lavaca posted:"Cluster mailboxes" have been a USPS requirement for new housing developments since 2012 or so. That's why some neighborhoods have them and others don't. Yeah that makes sense, I just meant that the mailboxes aren't necessarily indicative of a lovely bleak hellscape, is all.
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Picnic Princess posted:Oh dear I made Pick mad, what will I do? Give her an expired Rockstar and hide under a truck.
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Did someone say Blockbusters already? I'm pretty sure that company is pretty much done for.
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Balliver Shagnasty posted:Doesn't Whole Foods have this thing now where you can have your Amazon packages sent there instead of being dropped off on your front doorstep? I know Newegg can send your poo poo to a FedEx store or Walgreens for pickup if you're skittish about home delivery. They do, it's pretty much the exact same thing, the only reason I use the convenience store lockers is they are 24/7 and the parking is more convenient. I didn't know about the newegg thing, that is useful. UPS is doing deliveries to their store locations too but a lot of merchants still don't support it. Some people were talking about P.O. boxes earlier but my local post office just has small mailboxes; they will keep larger packages sent to it, it involves waiting in line during work hours to pick stuff up which is not great. Honestly though I don't even know what a medium quality store is anymore. Like obviously anything you buy at Walmart was made at bottom dollar but not everything bottom dollar is that bad these days. Rick has a new favorite as of 07:01 on Jan 21, 2019 |
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I think the Walgreens pickup is a FedEx partnership. I received an RMAd laptop from them since I didn't want rectangular marked computer package sitting on my porch for 3 hours. Amazon also does returns through a drop-off table in some Kohls locations.
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rndmnmbr posted:To be fair, the problem with Amazon delivery is 100% caused by shipping companies. UPS and FedEx were designed around the concept of inter-business shipping, with business-to-home being something of an afterthought - deliveries to homes need to happen 5pm - 10pm, when people are there, not 9am - 5pm like happens now. And Amazon has caused a huge spike in the number of deliveries, but both companies are still intent on running with '90s levels of staffing, leading to burnout and lovely service. Good news, Amazon does the majority of their shipping through USPS, an entity whose infrastructure is infinitely shittier than that of FedEx and UPS. UPS and FedEx will also hold packages for you, this isn’t some new frontier in the shipping industry. Even better news, Amazon now has their own contractor business model as well as using smaller, regional third party vendors who have little to no actual infrastructure of their own to build on. Amazon’s contractor model is incredibly predatory and the quality of driver the contractors are forced to hire because of Amazon’s pressure means that the customer service you’re getting from FedEx or UPS looks like white glove treatment in comparison.
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Vietnamwees posted:Did someone say Blockbusters already? I'm pretty sure that company is pretty much done for. You're one of those people that pluralize all store names aren't you 
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Slippery posted:That said, kids....don't go on Ebay drunk. Ambien usage doesn't lead to racist rants on Twitter, it leads to mysterious purchases from anywhere you have a saved credit card. I apparently bought a hand mixer and a rubber crafting stamp from eBay last week.
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queserasera posted:Ambien usage doesn't lead to racist rants on Twitter, it leads to mysterious purchases from anywhere you have a saved credit card. I apparently bought a hand mixer and a rubber crafting stamp from eBay last week. They changed my Xanax prescription last week, and now I have two GURPS 4e hardbacks on the way that I have no memory of buying.
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Vietnamwees posted:Did someone say Blockbusters already? I'm pretty sure that company is pretty much done for. Real talk: Netflix's days are numbered. Not like, immediately, and never underestimate the power of auto billing, but dropping all this money on original content people don't care about and the rights to Friends will not end well. Plus Disney and everyone else keeping streaming rights for themselves
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Shrapnig posted:Good news, Amazon does the majority of their shipping through USPS, an entity whose infrastructure is infinitely shittier than that of FedEx and UPS. UPS and FedEx will also hold packages for you, this isn’t some new frontier in the shipping industry. Ok, so you hate the post office, we get it. But they've been doing this kind of shipping for 200 years, there are post offices everywhere not just where UPS/FedEx thinks is profitable, and they're a valuable public institution deserving of your support.
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