OT: Mail delivery rant

I'm very very grumpy tonight.

I bought tulips by mail order a couple of months ago (and because I was an 'early bird' I got extra tulips and crocuses.) Well the options for delivery were Canada Post Expedited or courier. Did I want to sign for the delivery, or could it be left at the door? Well, I can't guarantee my neighbors are home during the day, and I wouldn't get paid to stay at home and wait for Canada Post to sashay in, so I checked the 'leave at door' option. I've never had a problem with things left on my doorstep, and frankly, they're tulips. Who's going to steal tulips?

You know where this is going, don't you?

Well, last week I received an e-mail from Canada Post informing me that my parcel had been sent, and providing me with a convenient little web page where I could track my tulip bulbs' progress across the country. They were in Calgary the next day, Wednesday. On Thursday they went out for delivery. On Friday they went back to the plant for verification of address. On Monday they went out on delivery again. On Tuesday they were still out for delivery. On Wednesday they went out for delivery again and according to the web page were successfully delivered to the receiver. NOT!!!

The thing about these little technological conveniences that have been developed in this very technological age of ours is that you get lots of information, but it is very difficult to actually talk to a person to do something about it if you see something going wrong.

No tulip bulbs waiting for me on the front step when I came home 8(( They were supposed to have been delivered at 1:40. I came home at 5:00. I've been running home at lunch all week to check and see if they were there, so I left home at 1 pm. My neighbor was out working in the yard and I told her about the delivery. I talked to her again this evening. She didn't see a delivery truck this afternoon.

I think they've been misdelivered or ditched. Parcels on that service have to be delivered within 3-7 days and I believe the shipper can make a claim against CP after that period of time. So this was the last day, if the day of shipment itself is counted.

Of course they could have been nicked in that 3 hour time span they were unsupervised if they were left on the step. But I don't get a lot of people wandering by my front door, and I find the whole set of circumstances suspicious.

There. I feel somewhat better now. But if I don't get my tulips I'll be grumpy again next spring as well. Dora No new pics, but there are pictures of my garden,

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bungadora
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Hang in there.

Just before Christmas, the neighbor came over, the online tracker said that her stuff had been delivered. It was a day when she had been home most of the day, so she was puzzled. No, it hadn't been delivered to me, either.

Eventually, someone from a couple blocks over brought it to her. It seems that as the boxes are loaded on the truck, they get house numbers written on the side (number only, not street name). Since this person was receiving several packages that day, the driver simply assumed that all the packages with that house number written on them were hers. And since she'd received several packages that day, she didn't look at them carefully till weekend.

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Karen C - California

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bungadora

"bungadora" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

I made the cheesecake again for my eldest daughters birthday, they all loved it. I am sure there are only about 100 calories per slice lol By the way, which magazine contained all the best recipes ? I might look for that on ebay.

In the meantime, I do hope the bulbs turn up safely

Sheena

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lucretia borgia

BTDT, yes, it does happen at times. When we were in NY, we received a rather large box that we hadn't been expecting (family notifies us that they are shipping things, and we hadn't ordered anything). Double checked the address....yep, same house number, but it was for a street

2 streets away from me. I'm not sure why, in the same division (we were in the bird division - all streets had bird names), they would repeat the house numbers....

LArisa, hoping you get your bulbs soon and getting ready to decide what I will be putting in this year

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lvann

Important things first, the cheesecake recipe is in Gourmet, September,

2001. It's the 60th anniversary issue. The cappuccino brownies on page 232 are good too.

The shipper, has to instigate the tracking. Hopefully that won't take very long, they'll put the delivery person under hot lights and he'll break down and confess he delivered to the wrong place. In any event, Botanus has offered to replace the bulbs if they don't turn up. My place is hard to find though, and I'm thinking of asking for some signage out on the street.

My > Nice Dora - keep on the track of Canada Post, you could always make

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bungadora

Well, I've heard the opinion that the surveyor was drunk when our area was laid out. It's all numbered streets and avenues that don't line up properly. I've been wondering whether the delivery person delivered it to the same numbered avenue and not the street when he/she couldn't find my address right away on the street.

Thanks for the good wishes. I hope all your gardening purchases are happy ones.

Dora

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bungadora

Hearing the mail delivery rants makes me reflect on our postman, who doesn't have an easy job on our street.

I live on a dead-end street, just a block long, and there are many weird things about this neighborhood. The two sides of the street are in different neighborhood associations, for one. Three of us, who all go to the same church and have kids about the same age, realized that our mothers *all* shared the same birthday! But that part has nothing to do with the mailman...

Our mailman delivers to five houses in a row along one side of the street whose residents all have a surname of one or two syllables starting in the letter "H". Until the death of one of my next-door neighbors about three years ago, the neighbors on both sides of me shared the same surname (no relation...one of the neighbors is from Canada). The house of my deceased neighbor sold last year to a new family, whose name, of course, begins with an "H"!

Not only that, but my house has a very similar address to one of my next-door neighbors - they're "18" and we're "18-1/2" (being the newest house on the block - a mere 50 years, compared to 100-150 years for the others). Our mail is constantly confused by substitute mail carriers, though when "our" guy is on, he keeps everyone and everything straight, amazingly.

And to top that off, there's a family on the other side of the street with the same surname as my next-door neighbor -- and the dads have the same first name *and* the same birthday (though different years), to boot! Not to mention yet two more "H" families on that side of the street, too.

Sometimes I think I live in a "Twilight Zone" episode.

sue

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Susan Hartman

I'd say the regular postman in your neighbourhood definitely deserves a nice Christmas gift! :)

Mavia

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Mavia Beaulieu

Those poor carriers

For quite a while, the lot next to us was vacant. One afternoon, people we know via school, Cub and Girl Scouts are out bike riding while I am raking. They looked at buy that lot (so had we at one time). Their last name

Isaac

Mine Isaak

Could you imagine the troubles??????

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Cheryl Isaak

Susan Hartman ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Be scared, very scared lol

I am just waiting to find out what price the seller is going to charge me to mail that copy of Gourmet Magazine Dora and I were talking about. I won the bid on the only copy listed, US$4.95 and have asked her to quote me on regular USPS since it is just a magazine. It should be reasonable, she is only in Virginia, but I have this bad sort of feeling about it. Not sure why, perhaps because of all the mail problems around here lol

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lucretia borgia

Their last name

Yes I can - there's another Linda Wright in town and her birthday is exactly one day off of mine - and she follows me to all my doctors, the hospital, the pharmacy. . . . I'm really careful to use my middle initial!

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lewmew

I know a woman whose maiden name was Uy. She married and became Mrs. Yu. She and new hubby moved across the street to a bigger apartment - number, of course tranposed the last two digits only. It took her about two years to straighten out her mail, credit cards, etc.

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lewmew

My address in Brooklyn was 1454 East 88th Street. My story--the people who lived at 1454 East 89th Street, around the corner from me, moved.

Guess who came home from work at 7:30 pm to find that her electricity had been turned off? Then see if you can figure out who who went ballistic when she called Con Edison to report that there had been some kind of mistake and was told in no uncertain terms that since I had moved, they had no intention of turning my electricity back on.

Guess who threatened them with all sorts of weird things and still had to wait three days to convince them that I didn't move and needed my electricity?

Lucille

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Lucille

Idiots surround us!

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Cheryl Isaak

"Lucille" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

It was the tiny woman with the big, deep, voice lol No mystery there lol

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lucretia borgia

Good luck Sheena. And be sure to make the brownies.

A slight improvement in my situation - apparently it has come out that the driver couldn't find the address and returned it to the plant for address verification, accidently scanning in a delivery notice instead. However, no one appears to know where it is.

And the address is correct. All it means is that he didn't move his fat ass out of the truck to check the house number of the buildings on the corner. Nor did he look at the 4x4 map posted at that part of the street. Nor did he ask directions. Obviously male.

Dora

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bungadora

"bungadora" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Obviously male lol I hope you have asked them to just keep it at the PO.

Mine with postage will be US$12.95. since the magazine was $4.95 I shall be VERY interested to see what the postage actually is for her to just slip it in an envelope and mail. Oh well, there is always feedback when it arrives

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lucretia borgia

I did but ... I guess the post office now has special services, like expedited (?) parcels such as my parcel, signed out to contractors. So they seem to have a barrier against moving it to regular service and they don't like changing instructions either. Plus if they deliver to the PO they still have to deliver a card and how are they going to deliver a card if they can't manage the parcel?

My bills seem to still find me though. Dora

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bungadora

The first time I went to the University Medical Group, I told them that I had never been there before, I just moved to town a couple months ago. Apparently they know better than me where I used to live...

They assigned me a medical records number, and when I arrived for my appointment, there was a file 6" thick. I don't think all the medical records in my entire life add up to that much, and I hadn't told them my prior doctors so they could get my old records, so I was puzzled.

Apparently, there is someone with the same first name, and nearly identical maiden name (hers has an S on the end), and the same birthdate, who spent a great deal of time as an inpatient there. The doctor had to go over me comparing scars to records before she finally believed me that I am not the same person. Even telling her that my SSN starts with a 0 (East Coast office) and not with a 5 (California office) didn't convince her that I am not that Karen.

To make matters more interesting, I have of late been receiving things addressed to Renee. I did some online research and determined that various "people finder" sites have my ex and Renee living with me at this address, or me living with them in an upscale suburb. And, mirabile dictu!, my ex seems to have found the fountain of youth, because some sites that give age/birth year indicate that the old goat is now 20 years younger than I am (as is Renee). So, there must be someone else running around with his name, too.

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Karen C - California

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