Up until a few years ago, my street didn't exist on Google Maps, despite existing in reality for decades. It caused occasional problems, mostly for FedEx; UPS and USPS seemed to know about it.
USPS frequently delivers my mail to my neighbors, and vice versa, or to a house on another street that has the same address number as mine. I always imagined my mail carrier is like the one on the old Chevy Chase movie "Funny Farm." "by the time he gets all the way out to here he's pretty well liquored up" Allan Meade Dillon via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: > When I plug your address into the googs, it takes me to the wrong address. > I think the issue is the borg: they have the wrong location for your > address. That might be a good thing. > ------------- > Max > Charleston SC > > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 11:05 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> I "lost" a box of dog food a coupla weeks ago. Got a message saying the >> driver could not find the address. Talked to Fedex (and this is >> painful), we went back and forth, I finally called Chewy and they sent >> out another box for free and gave me a $25 credit too. ,Same thing with >> Fedex then a day or two later. I call Fedex again and was like WTF I >> get deliveries all the time my mailbox is plainly marked. So a Fedex >> guy shows up a little while later and is asking me what happened, says >> he will go try to find my package. he comes back a coupla hours later >> with my box, said the other driver had left it at a house down the road >> a bit. That made no sense, but whatever. I get the impression this >> other driver was either a complete idiot or was trying to steal the dog >> food. I ask this guy, who was really nice, where my other box was, did >> this dumbass leave it at that house too or where was it, he must have >> some record of it. The guy kinda hems and haws a bit, was vague on the >> matter, which reinforced that this guy probably stole it, and the guy I >> was talking too just didn't want to get into it. >> >> A few weeks back my buddy tells me he was helping his daughter move. >> She had a coupla weeks between apartments so she left her stuff at a >> storage bin and stayed with the parents until the new place was >> available. My buddy said they went to collect her stuff one morning >> early, at two of the nearby bins there were these skanky looking people >> and delivery vans loading and unloading packages into the bins. He said >> it looked like Fedex contractors and they were using these bins as sorta >> intermediate storage/sorting/distribution points. he thought that was >> really weird. With some many hands involved it is no wonder stuff goes >> missing, and it looks like these outfits are farming out a lot of their >> last mile deliveries to contractors. I think Amazon is doing that too, >> sometimes I get a plain white van that shows up with packages. >> >> It's pretty crazy these days how the delivery business is working, the >> explosion of online ordering the past year or so has really put the >> strain on them it seems. Contracting is a good way to expand without >> adding employees and trucks and facilities and infrastructure, but then >> you sorta lose control of the end points. >> >> --FT >> >> On 6/11/21 10:42 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >> > I ordered $2500 worth of injectors for my Duramax. They were shipped >> FedEx with direct signature required. After a couple of delays of when they >> were supposed to show up, a guy calls me saying he tried to deliver but >> nobody was home. Wanted to know if I could meet him in town. I had >> literally just left the house and the wife was there, nobody rang our >> doorbell. I said I was gone but the wife was home, and had been all >> morning. He says he will try to swing back by later. On the fedex tracking >> is says delivery exception customer not available, and was rescheduled for >> the next day. I told wife to make sure to be home next day to sign for it. >> She says they delivered a box and handed it to her but did not have her >> sign anything. It was the injectors. This has been several days ago and >> tracking still shows the same status. If I wanted to be a real ass I could >> claim I have not received the box and make fedex pay for it. >> > >> > Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
