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Whats your prefered shipping company?

  • UPS

  • Fed Ex

  • DHL

  • USPS

  • Dont care

  • Dont ship things

  • Would someone please ship OB out of here?

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Lanny said:
I have mucho problems with UPS. I've had UPS leave my insulin at my front door which we seldom use (the front door) on a hot summer day without either knocking on my door or even ringing my doorbell. They NEVER knock or ring the doorbell which the mailman does when he delivers packages of any sort. I've complained several times where they said they would talk to the delivery man but nothing changes. Sometimes my insulin would sit in the not sun for more than a day before we would accidentally discover it. Got so bad that the VA changed their delivery process now requiring UPS to get our signature before delivering any VA package. The other packages we don't worry about because no one in our neighborhood has ever stolen one of our packages.
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If it’s that important you should track it. I know if I was dependent on a medication and was at home all day I’d be looking out the window and checking quite a bit instead of letting it get ruined in the sun.

But I dunno that’s just me
 
SlyPokerCat said:
I don't want them ringing my doorbell. It makes my dogs go crazy and my kid wakes up if they are taking a nap.

Get a Ring doorbell. I know whenever someone drops off a package because I get a notification on my phone. Way better than someone ringing the doorbell.
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Wait, the cat has dogs!
 
Probably had the best experience with UPS

Never had a bad experience with FedEx. Sorry for your troubles @Orion Bailey.

My wife and I pay attention to a tracker on phone so we know exactly when packages hit our door.

I have missed packages because of no knocking.
 
ABM said:
I wonder if that would work with coffee table books? I couldn't tell.
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People that ship on ebay do it all the time with all books. They just aren't supposed to with comic books or advertisement books. The worst that happens is whoever you ship it to has to pay extra shipping at their post office to pick it up from what I have heard.

I don't know what their rules really are. Just seems like in practice, people ship books all the time through media mail.
 
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SlyPokerCat said:
People that ship on ebay do it all the time with all books. They just aren't supposed to with comic books or advertisement books. The worst that happens is whoever you ship it to has to pay extra shipping at their post office to pick it up from what I have heard.

I don't know what their rules really are. Just seems like in practice, people ship books all the time through media mail.
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Media Mail shipping is a cost-effective way to send educational materials. This service has restrictions on the type of media that can be shipped. Media Mail rates are limited to the items listed below:

  • Books (at least 8 pages).
  • Sound recordings and video recordings, such as CDs and DVDs.
  • Play scripts and manuscripts for books, periodicals, and music.
  • Printed music.
  • Computer-readable media containing prerecorded information and guides or scripts prepared solely for use with such media.
  • Sixteen millimeter or narrower width films.
  • Printed objective test materials and their accessories.
  • Printed educational reference charts.
  • Loose-leaf pages and their binders consisting of medical information for distribution to doctors, hospitals, medical schools, and medical students.
Media Mail packages may not contain advertising. Comic books do not meet this standard. Books may contain incidental announcements of other books and sound recordings may contain incidental announcements of other sound recordings. In accordance with standards in the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM), Section 170, Media Mail packages must have a delivery address and the sender’s return address and are subject to inspection by the Postal Service™. Upon such inspection, matter not eligible for the Media Mail rate may be assessed at the proper price and sent to the recipient postage due, or the sender may be contacted for additional postage.

barfo
 
barfo said:
Media Mail shipping is a cost-effective way to send educational materials. This service has restrictions on the type of media that can be shipped. Media Mail rates are limited to the items listed below:

  • Books (at least 8 pages).
  • Sound recordings and video recordings, such as CDs and DVDs.
  • Play scripts and manuscripts for books, periodicals, and music.
  • Printed music.
  • Computer-readable media containing prerecorded information and guides or scripts prepared solely for use with such media.
  • Sixteen millimeter or narrower width films.
  • Printed objective test materials and their accessories.
  • Printed educational reference charts.
  • Loose-leaf pages and their binders consisting of medical information for distribution to doctors, hospitals, medical schools, and medical students.
Media Mail packages may not contain advertising. Comic books do not meet this standard. Books may contain incidental announcements of other books and sound recordings may contain incidental announcements of other sound recordings. In accordance with standards in the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM), Section 170, Media Mail packages must have a delivery address and the sender’s return address and are subject to inspection by the Postal Service™. Upon such inspection, matter not eligible for the Media Mail rate may be assessed at the proper price and sent to the recipient postage due, or the sender may be contacted for additional postage.

barfo
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I know that, i posted the link. I don't know what their interpretation is. Seems like it is a contested subject amongst resellers. But, i think someone is fine sending a book media mail unless it is a comic book or has advertising.
 
SlyPokerCat said:
I know that, i posted the link. I don't know what their interpretation is. Seems like it is a contested subject amongst resellers. But, i think someone is fine sending a book media mail unless it is a comic book or has advertising.
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Knew you knew that, but didn't see that you posted the link. My bad.

barfo
 
SlyPokerCat said:
People that ship on ebay do it all the time with all books. They just aren't supposed to with comic books or advertisement books. The worst that happens is whoever you ship it to has to pay extra shipping at their post office to pick it up from what I have heard.

I don't know what their rules really are. Just seems like in practice, people ship books all the time through media mail.
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You stay savvy, you.
 
Last thing I had shipped was in 2020 my Martin guitar from Pennsylvania.....Fed Ex dropped it on my porch which has a covered roof.....no problem...The tracking was accurate....I didn't sign for it and it's an expensive instrument but it came when I was on a hike and I saw the truck drive up the hill while hiking.....My wife and son use Amazon all the time without issues ....I don't shop much online myself.
 
riverman said:
Last thing I had shipped was in 2020 my Martin guitar from Pennsylvania.....Fed Ex dropped it on my porch which has a covered roof.....no problem...The tracking was accurate....I didn't sign for it and it's an expensive instrument but it came when I was on a hike and I saw the truck drive up the hill while hiking.....My wife and son use Amazon all the time without issues ....I don't shop much online myself.
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Wish I knew how to play guitar. I'm pretty good on piano (albeit, by ear), but envy the portability and sound of the guitar.
 
ABM said:
Wish I knew how to play guitar. I'm pretty good on piano (albeit, by ear), but envy the portability and sound of the guitar.
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Get an accordian or a concertina aka squeeze box. I travel and camp with a uke....very good place to start if you like portability and very, very easy to learn basic chords on. An autoharp is cool too...Emmy Lou Harris plays one as does Dolly Parton....just push buttons and strum.
 
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riverman said:
Get an accordian or a concetina aka squeeze box. I travel and camp with a uke....very good place to start if you like portability and very, very easy to learn basic chords on. An autoharp is cool too...Emmy Lou Harris plays one as does Dolly Parton....just push buttons and strum.
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Just saw these guys at Franklin Theater (Tennessee). SO good! (Riders In The Sky)

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ABM said:
Just saw these guys at Franklin Theater (Tennessee). SO good! (Riders In The Sky)

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My father's uncles played in the Opry back in the day.banjo and mandolin..first instrument I discovered as a toddler was one of their mandolins in a closet...
 
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Orion Bailey said:
From what i know, unless a sig is required, none of the companies will knock or ring the doorbell. The company shipping should be able to put special instructions on where to deliver on the package or on your account. Ive found ups is good with following them overall. Way better than amazon, fed ex or usps.

Lanny, im pretty sure you can provide ups instructions on where to leave a package. We have three doors and never use our front either. I have instructions applied to my address for anything delivered goes to the side door with covered patio and cement steps.
We also have this request with Amazon. However, whenever it isn't a ups driver, package isn't delivered correctly.
Many times ive come home to find a package at our backdoor that has no cover even they they drive by two doors, both with covers.
I mean who the hell leaves a package at the ONE door without a cover in this nw weather?

You must have a driver on your route.

Hey @MickZagger whats your route again? LakeO? LOL!
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No, company policy is for the driver to either knock on the door or ring the door bell.
They have to leave packages at our front door because the alternative is to leave a package in the driveway right in front of the garage door.
We need either a door bell ring or a hearty knock on the front door so we can come to the door to accept the package right away. In the rare instance that we are not home they always attempt to deliver it the next day and in the even rarer instance we are not home at the time the driver arrives we accept responsibility and pick it up at the designated UPS office.
 
MickZagger said:
I’m in SW. But what Lanny needs to do is go on UPS My Choice and he can set instructions on where to leave the package and the driver will be notified when they scan into the stop. I think you can even get texts when it’s delivered if it’s important that you know.

Your typical Amazon package with a toothbrush or toilet paper or whatever I’m not going to ring the doorbell. If it’s something valuable or I need a signature I will. I’ve been yelled at by too many angry moms with sleeping babies and graveyard workers, along with dogs that go ape shit for me to ring the bell on every delivery.

And yes, we’re much better than Amazon and fed ex and get told by customers pretty much daily. Especially fed ex. Order coming from them might never come from what I hear
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Nice to hear but could you please instruct our driver?
 
Lanny said:
No, company policy is for the driver to either knock on the door or ring the door bell.
They have to leave packages at our front door because the alternative is to leave a package in the driveway right in front of the garage door.
We need either a door bell ring or a hearty knock on the front door so we can come to the door to accept the package right away. In the rare instance that we are not home they always attempt to deliver it the next day and in the even rarer instance we are not home at the time the driver arrives we accept responsibility and pick it up at the designated UPS office.
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Lanny said:
Nice to hear but could you please instruct our driver?
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I think Mick is saying you can submit this request online and it will be on your address account to ring bell when delivering, etc.
 
Orion Bailey said:
I think Mick is saying you can submit this request online and it will be on your address account to ring bell when delivering, etc.
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We've asked the supervisor several times to either knock on the door or ring the doorbell. This worked one time and never again.
 
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