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

[Jim Lowman]

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