[TenTec] Why is Eagle #2 on order?

[Jim Lowman]

I don't know if Ten-Tec requires a signature for delivery. Hopefully, 
such a high-value item is insured.

At any rate, for UPS anyway, it's in my profile that the driver is 
authorized to leave any packages on the front porch.
I don't know if this release covers items where the shipper requires a 
signature, though.

The only time that there was ever a problem was years ago.
I had ordered an IBM printer.  It was a dot-matrix printer, so that 
tells you how long ago it was.
The driver had left it on the front porch.  When I got home from the 
office, it was raining.
Fortunately, the printer didn't get wet.  I called the local UPS office 
to question this practice, and was told that our neighborhood was 
considered to be safe, and that UPS authorizes the drivers to leave 
packages under those circumstances.  This was also before the time that 
I could release the driver to leave packages.

After that experience, and before I retired, I had items shipped to my 
office where someone could sign for them, if necessary.
Generally, one of the clerks or secretaries who had taken delivery would 
call or send me an e-mail to let me know a package had arrived.
Some of them were even nice enough to bring it to me, or at least leave 
it in my office.

Four years later I'm retired, and have ordered quite a number of things, 
including an Eagle, a K3 and a KX3.
I watch the UPS/FedEx/USPS tracking so that I'll know when to expect 
delivery.  Most of the time one or both of us is at home, but when we 
aren't the packages were still waiting safely on the front porch.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 8/1/2014 6:17 AM, Kim Elmore wrote:
> Sorry to learn this, Bob. Was a signature required for delivery? If so they must get something from some before they throw it off the truck at the door. If you have the S/N, publicize it. I hope thy make good on this, or that you get it back, quickly.
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> Kim N5OP
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