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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