Re: [Elecraft] OT: shipper from H

2018-04-19 Thread Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft
Folks, this thread is getting out of control under its multiple subject lines - way exceeding our OT posting number limit. Let's end all of the "shipper from H", UPS, USPS and "Shipping Peanuts" threads at this time. 73, Eric /elecraft.com Looking forward to seeing many of you at Visalia Intern

Re: [Elecraft] OT: shipper from H

2018-04-19 Thread Kevin Cozens
On 2018-04-19 04:24 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: There's the core of a really great dystopian novel in this somewhere. [:-) This reminds me of an Infocom adventure game called Bureaucracy that was created by Douglas Adams. The ultimate goal of the game was to get the bank to acknowledge a change of

Re: [Elecraft] OT: shipper from H

2018-04-19 Thread hawley, charles j jr
Seems odd that the computer auto correct should pick the name of a town to auto correct instead of relying on the zip code given. Chuck KE9UW c-haw...@illinois.edu Sent from my iPad > On Apr 19, 2018, at 2:40 PM, Edward R Cole wrote: > > hopefully topic will pass political correction police.

Re: [Elecraft] OT: shipper from H

2018-04-19 Thread Fred Jensen
Well ... not always.  Moved from Auburn CA to Sparks NV in summer of 2015.  Filed the forwarding notice with Auburn PO and all worked well ... except Verizon.  Didn't get bills, they finally sent me a text, CS agent tells me our address -- and it is wrong, maybe 2 miles from our real address. 

Re: [Elecraft] OT: shipper from H

2018-04-19 Thread Don Sanders
Even when you move and give all the needed documentation for forwarding the USPS screws up. I've had three items returned as undeliverable and yesterday was notified by Amazon that my item was delivered and held by the post office for 7 days and to arrange for pickup. Upon contacting the PO by phon

Re: [Elecraft] OT: shipper from H

2018-04-19 Thread Tox
FWIW, you can get USPS to correct their database. I don't have the link handy, but your local postmaster should have a reference. Scott On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Edward R Cole wrote: > hopefully topic will pass political correction police. > > Recent order of a Yamaha CM500 from Amazon.

[Elecraft] OT: shipper from H

2018-04-19 Thread Edward R Cole
hopefully topic will pass political correction police. Recent order of a Yamaha CM500 from Amazon.com got "Lost in space". Well actually their compooter substituted another city for mine and sent it there, where all tracking failed. Fortunately I noticed it was "delivery attempted" after a we