noozguru, I'm glad you eventually got your book. BTW, I think Mercury is somewhat afflicted these days so that's another possible explanation (-:
On Saturday, April 12, 2014 4:04 PM, Bhairitu <[email protected]> wrote: In this economic depression there are a lot of desperate people who will risk all kinds of criminal penalties in order to survive. We see videos around here from home security systems seeing people ripping off packages left at the doorstep by the UPSP or Fedex or UPS. Even when I moved here in 2000 the neighbors recommended NOT leaving outgoing mail hanging out the mail slot as miscreants would take them and try to cash the check if it was a bill pay. As it is postal delivery is bad enough. I ordered a book about a month ago off Amazon. It was from a vendor who promptly shipped it the next day. It was the lowest price for the "used" edition of the book available and I figured though a programming book I didn't need it right away so could wait a week for the book to come from the east coast. Then the tracking said it would be delivered .... in three weeks! The tracking never showed any progress. And on Monday when the book was too arrive it didn't. I gave it an extra day and by evening it still hadn't arrived so I contact the vendor. They told me that their tracking said "lost in transit" and issued a refund. Guess what? At around 5 PM yesterday I heard a thump and the book was delivered by the mail carrier. However the label had my address circled in crayon which looked like it had gone to the wrong address and that person returned it to the post office (there was also a pasted over tracking label). One problem might be the "13 ounce rule" where if you get a package like this you can't just drop in in a mail bin (the book weighed 4 pounds). I think some people just don't bother getting it back to the post office. Then there are the "last mile" delivery services like Newquist which has bad ratings online and how the book was shipped. These may be putting an extra burden on the USPS where Fedex or UPS might have delivered it to your door. When I was at the PO last Weds someone was complaining that they had not received their package even though tracking said it was left. The clerk couldn't find it and another clerk grumbled that there was a bunch of packages in some other bins that were yet to be delivered apparently late. On 04/12/2014 12:54 PM, Share Long wrote: >noozguru, just the other day I read a yahoo news story that fake tax returns >are the big thing with identity thieves. I think even Eric Holder was the >victim of such. Made me feel less stupid about my own identity theft a couple >of years ago. Now the IRS simply assigns me an extra ID number to put on my >return. > > > >On Saturday, April 12, 2014 1:50 PM, Bhairitu <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Actually most passwords go over the Internet as complex checksums not the >password itself. I'm not for capital punishment but I think if we had >vigilante squads knock off a few hackers then there would be less identity >theft except that much of it nowadays is done by organized crime particularly >out of Russia. > >On 04/12/2014 09:57 AM, Share Long wrote: > > >>noozguru, I think I've gotten better with passwords though it's taken me a >>while. My early passwords could probably be hacked by a kid in grade school! >>And if the movies and novels can be believed, they haf vays of making the >>password reveal itself! >> >>On Saturday, April 12, 2014 11:10 AM, Bhairitu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>That's why I kidded Willy the other day about updating OpenSSL on his server. >> However it's hard to say if the exploit has ever even been used since as I >>understand it can only return 64k of data and the hacker would be lucky if it >>returned anything useful. >> >>Always good to change passwords but at some point that might not even work. >> >>On 04/12/2014 07:31 AM, Share Long wrote: >> >> >>>Probably some of you already know about the Heartbleed Bug but just in case >>>you don't: >>>The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Ch... >>>Heartbleed: A look at which companies have issued a security patch to fix >>>the Heartbleed bug. >>> >>>View on mashable.com Preview by Yahoo >>> >>> >> >> >> > > >
