I use a mail drop, like the UPS Store. That way when I travel, I can
ship me the stuff I don't want to haul around, it's secure and doesn't
pile up in a mailbox or porch. I collect it when I get back or a couple
times a week when I go to town anyway. Simple works.
It's worth the annual expense.
Rick NHC
On 4/27/2017 9:09 AM, Michael Goins wrote:
Rural here too and the biggest issue for a long time was that the UPS guy
would just throw boxes over the fence even though he could easily drive in.
Not too hard on the books I order, but tough on radio stuff and other
electronics. Fedex always knocks on the door.
Took a few calls but there's a new route driver for UPS and all seems okay
now, though the UPS stuff does occasionally go to the PO to deliver and
with the satellite mailbox setup here, that means a trip into town if the
box is too big to fit in the small satellite box container.
Mike, k5wmg
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Mel Farrer via Elecraft <
[email protected]> wrote:
Two things I will add also,
After having the wild ones run over my mail box at the bottom of the hill,
we went to a satellite mail box a short distance away, problem solved, well
sort of. Along comes SUREpost or equivalent. The seller says it will go
ground, so I give them the street address, then they ship it, YEP drop off
at the PO who can't deliver it.
So we started to put both the street address and the PO Box number on the
info, problem solved, well sort of, YEP you guessed it the leave off the PO
Box info, Can't win.
Final tally, about 75% of the deliveries get it right, 25% get lost,
delayed or returned to shipper.
Mel, K6KBE
From: "Dauer, Edward" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 8:38 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] USPS, UPS, FedEx and related woes
One anecdote before this O.T. thread is terminated . . .
My “shack” is in a second home in the Colorado mountains, where none of
these services work. Street addresses exist but they are useless; a driver
unfamiliar with the local area would have to use either county plat maps or
GPS coordinates, which of course no shipper would provide. The dirt road
leading to the house isn’t wide enough for a large truck, and climbing up
our hill requires a good four-wheeler during much of the year. When we
first built the place the US Post Office would not deliver mail to
addresses in our area, so for a while I rented one of the few boxes
available at the local Post Office. After a year or two they unilaterally
cancelled the rental, telling me that I didn’t get enough mail to justify
having a box there. I solved the problem by having everything sent to my
Denver address, but I found it ironic. In Denver I am flooded with junk
mail every day, often more than can be smushed into the outside box on our
house. In the country (an unincorporated area called Florissant) I don’t
get enough mail to deserve a box at the P.O.
Ted, KN1CBR
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