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Re: [TenTec] [TenTec_Eagle] Re: Why is Eagle #2 on order?

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] [TenTec_Eagle] Re: Why is Eagle #2 on order?
From: Jim Lowman <jmlowman@sbcglobal.net>
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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:35:48 -0700
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Lately we rarely see the same UPS driver when he delivers to the house, and I've ordered a lot of antennas, coax, books, etc. lately. Years ago, they used to have to know their routes. Now, with GPS, I guess the drivers are interchangeable.

Some of the deliveries of late have been rather late in the day. We had one as late as 9:06 PM. That's late, even for the holiday season.
Never had a problem with a package going astray, though.

USPS is similarly reliable. We've had the same carrier for a few years now, and he always waves if I'm in the yard or honks if he has a package. Lately he's been on and off again. Usually he has a sub one day of the week, or when he's on vacation, but lately it's been 2-3 days a week, and the sub always arrives much later.

I also have Amazon Prime, and they use UPS. USPS and OnTrac. The OnTrac drivers come out of Ontario, near the airport, and usually show up between 9-10 AM.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 8/4/2014 3:56 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
That's unusual among the UPS drivers I've dealt with over more than 30 years. All that I've encountered have been first rate. The driver who delivered to the hi-fi/pro audio shop where I worked almost 40 years ago had a key to the back door!

I can't say the same for USPS -- the last good one we had was back in Chicago, and he retired more than 20 years ago. I've had perfectly addressed, and perfectly legible, packages mis-delivered, on several occasions found months later. Like Bob's, good neighbors, lousy workers. I've had checks take two weeks to get from Chicago to Santa Cruz (my checks -- twice -- to a contractor who was working on our new home before we moved in).

The service that delivers for amazon prime out here is AWFUL -- I think they're called OnTrac. My neighbor has amazon prime and had packages with valuable stuff in them left on the ground by a big matrix of outdoor rural mailboxes almost two miles from his home. He told amazon to NEVER use them again, and why. They use unmarked white vans, and have been seen cruising isolated neighborhoods at night.

73, Jim K9YC

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