What fucking confirmation email? Ya think those are standard?
I never request that my package requires my signature. I have no control over where the shipper requires that or not.
But both Fedex and UPS allows* the drivers* to require a signature, based upon the drivers opinion.
http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resources/sri/need-signature.html
- In some instances UPS drivers may require a signature for deliveries on their route. *
and here’s really the reason why Fedex and UPS makes it difficult to get your paid for packages: (bolding mine)
http://www.fedex.com/us/tracking/en/deliveryoptions.html
"Schedule your delivery
Select this option if you want to choose a date or time for FedEx to deliver your package. You can choose to have your package delivered:
In the evening on the expected delivery day.
On a specific operating day within 5 calendar days of expected delivery day (original delivery time applies).
During a specific 2-hour window on a specific operating day within 5 calendar days of the expected delivery day. Note: For FedEx Express shipments, you can enter a 2-hour delivery window. For FedEx Home Delivery shipments, you can enter a preferred time of day (Morning, Mid-day, Afternoon, or Late Afternoon) along with your phone number and FedEx will contact you to set a 2 hour delivery window.
**A fee is required for this service **and can be paid by credit or debit card. If registered for FedEx Delivery Manager, you can save your credit card to your profile.
This option applies to eligible US domestic shipments only. Deliver to another address
Select this option to have your package delivered somewhere other than the initial residential destination. Enter the new address and then select an alternate delivery day. Note: The recipient’s name must remain the same.
**A fee is required for this service **and can be paid by credit or debit card. If registered for FedEx Delivery Manager, you can save your credit card to your profile."
I can’t remember the last time I didn’t get one. :shrug:
Maybe my local UPS driver is just better than my local FedEx driver, then. UPS almost never requires a sig, and only when the merchant has said it will happen. FedEx sometimes does.
UPS has better tracking and delivers faster than USPS, but I prefer either to FedEx, which might make me pick up the package at their depot.
Right, the recipient doesn’t have control over that, but I was responding to the assertion that it is a default for FedEx that the shipper has to opt out of. I routinely ship packages through them, and that’s not the case – it’s an option that I can add to the shipment.
It’s entirely up to the driver, it’s what he feels about your house, you, your neighborhood. Live in a 'ethnic" area with a racist driver? "SIG REQUIRED, I dont trust those XXXXXXX. "
I have raced packages and USPS is faster. Usually they are about the same but when you figure in having to get a package from Fedex or UPS after a notice is delivered instead of what I paid for, they lose.
This, so much this. When I used to get all of my packages at home, the USPS contract carrier would leave a note on the door and put my package in an unlocked shed. If it looked like rain, the UPS driver would put my package in a plastic bag and leave it on the bench by the back door. The FedX driver would pitch packages that required signatures over the fence in random places.
I got really bitchy over a laptop once. Pitched over the fence in the rain. The laptop was packaged so well that it wasn’t damaged, so I called FedX to complain that I hadn’t received it. They told me that it had been signed for and I threatened to do a charge back with Amazon because I had NOT signed for it and had no idea where it was. Oddly enough, after that, the driver started doing deliveries properly. For a while.
You should have asked to see the signature.
A few years back one of the deliveries we sent out never made it to the house. I called UPS they ‘verified’ it had arrived. It hadn’t. I even went the extra mile and called the neighbors to make sure it wasn’t there. I called UPS again, again they said it arrived and had been signed for. When I asked how they ‘verified’ it and asked to see the signature they back tracked and simply said it was left on the porch. Again, I knew that wasn’t true because A)the people were home all day and B)it was in a gated community and the driver would have had to been buzzed in to even make it to the porch.
They finally pulled the driver’s GPS records and called me back to tell me the package was probably not delivered (duh) and then I got to deal with their insurance.
So, to make a long story short, if they say you signed for it, ask to see the signature. My guess is that it just says ‘Left by front door’ to which you could just say that it wasn’t. But they should be called on their BS when they tell you that you signed for something…I think, OTOH, their system might just say ‘signed for’ and they might have to click to another screen to find out that the “signature” is just a note from the driver.
Why? What racial characteristic is it that is being made fun of? It isn’t skin color, or height, or hairstyle, or any facial feature. It’s language. Do you imagine that languages are genetically heritable?
Someone made the same joke about the Irish. Racist? I’m the same race as the Irish.
It isn’t “racist” because it doesn’t address “race” in any way. It addresses languages and accents. Henry Kissinger had a strong accent, and it was sometimes difficult to understand him. Is that a “racist” thing to say? If I’m German also? What if a Nigerian says it: that makes it racist suddenly?
I consistently get packages faster with UPS, perhaps I am close to one of their sorting facilities or something. Also, my local UPS driver is good. He usually leaves things on the front stoop, but if the weather is bad he puts them in the garage. As a result, whenever I have a choice, I pick UPS. For cheap stuff, my second choice is USPS. For extensive stuff I prefer FedEx, because their tracking is better.
Speaking of UPS, both of the drivers I have at work have given us their personal cell phone numbers. That’s super helpful. If we have a late pickup that didn’t get into our system on time we can just call them personally instead of having to call their dispatchers (who don’t like getting calls) or the 800 number and hoping they can get them to swing back to us.
And we didn’t ask, they just offered them up.
I’m not sure if that’s typical (of them) or if it’s because we treat the people that service us very well. Mailman, UPS driver, our delivery guys for our distributors. We’ll nearly always offer them coffee or water or a soda or even a sandwich when they come in. Treat them well and they’ll treat you well. We do it for the local cops as well, but they very rarely take us up on the offer of free stuff (I’m sure they need to be concerned that it looks like they’re taking bribes).
But when they’re working, say, an accident scene on a really hot day we’ll bring them a bunch of bottles of water.
Good will goes a really, really long way.
ETA, making fun of their accents, not so much.
That’s the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in the Pit…
Our UPS driver specifically said that was against UPS regs.:rolleyes::dubious:
But see, you’re also a sender, right? They give rimjobs to senders, they *fuck *receivers. :mad:
But yeah, it does help to treat them right and even tip come Boxing day.
Yes, we have a Daily Pick Up. Actually, we switched over to Smart Pick Up a few years ago since there’s a huge savings with it.
Either way, rim jobs, big perk, totally worth the a couple of cans of soda.
:dubious: Oh, isn’t it? See my point above, about the OP conflating three separate sets of people whose only commonality is brown skin.
That’s leaving aside the ridiculous assertion that it’s only racism if it’s about “race” sensu strictu. Of course Irish jokes can be racist, even if told by another White ethnicity. Depends on the joke, of course, but like I already said, “racist” is also used to mean “ethnicist”, a word we don’t have.
This thread reminds me of the time I called the witch doctor and - I swear - he said “Oo ee oo ah ah ting tang wallawalla bingbang, oo ee oo ah ah ting tang wallawalla bingbang.”
And then he shrunk my head.
This. For whatever reason, the only times I’ve had to either be there, or drive somewhere to pick up the package, it’s been FedEx. (The stupidest instance of this was when I had to drive 25 miles to their Bowie depot to pick up a $20 flip phone. Grrr. Argh.) UPS has sometimes required a sig, but they stick a form on my door, I sign it, and the next day I’ve got my package.
The OP had me recalling Bored of the Rings, with imitation Elvish like:
Dago, Dago, Lassi Lima rintintin
Yanqui unicycle ramar rotoroot
Telstar aloha saarinen cloret
Stassen camaro impala desoto?
Gardol oleo tebephon lumumba!
Ghappaqua havatampa muriel
U canleada horsta wata, bwana,
Butyu canna makit drinque!
Or the narcs saying things like:
“Mukluk pushkin, boggie-grag babushka lefrak!”
or:
*
“Slushfund tietack kierkegaard!”*
But I’m weird like that. 
Amen. I’m routinely frustrated/amazed by how many customer service / tech support jobs are done by people with a rudimentary grasp of English. I mean, if I go to a restaurant, and the order-taker barely understands English, the chances of messed up orders go way, way up. It’s not that other person’s fault, but rather the fault of whatever bone-headed management type who either isn’t paying attention, doesn’t care, or is too cheap to hire a native speaker to work those positions.
Oddly, this is the reason I no longer go to Fatburger, and choose In& Out. They never, EVER got my order right at Fatburger. They always get it right @ In& Out.
Now, I am sure there are some Fatburger places other than the two I frequented that dont have that problem. But still.
We also use to have a taco-Truck near work, that many workers liked and said was authentic. Again- They never, EVER got my order right. Even when I repeated it in Spanish.