Two days later, the four year old down the street (whom they had delivered it to) brought it down to us.

That's one strong four-year-old.

I just checked the UPS tracking on my Angel DVD's and they should be delivered TODAY!!!!

Please let someone be home to accept the box, though our UPS guy tends to leave stuff regardless

Not too bad for the free shipping from Amazon.

Stupid UPS

Pretty much. They repeatedly tried to deliver a package addressed to me (in Toronto) to an address in Windsor, Ontario. This despite the fact that both the city and postal code were correct. And that the person in Windsor actually refused the first delivery attempt.

Don't even get me started on the stoned Airborne Express driver who mislaid some Firefly DVD's...

eta - people mislay DVD's, not objects

UPS GUY PLEASE LEAVE THE PACKAGE AGAINST MY DOOR if they'll do that.

Amazon did the same thing to me. And, sadly, they won't leave it unless you're there.

Mine does. He probably shouldn't, but he does.

See. I've never had a problem with UPS. Anything sent via UPS tends to get to me 2-3 days sooner than anything sent USPS. On top of that, the USPS guy used always leave a "sorry we missed you" note in my mailbox even though I was home when he was making his rounds. I'd come home for lunch, my mailbox would be empty. I'd check my mail again before going back to work and there'd be a note in there. I finally managed to run into the mail carrier one day and told him to just leave packages in my door. That lasted about 3 months before they started leaving my packages in the door for the upstairs apartment.

Unless something is "Signature Required" UPS leaves the package inside my door. They have never left a package in my neighbor's door.

back in the dark ages (late 80s) I worked for AT&T. Sold a certain company 200 96K modems. They were big suckers. All of them were to be shipped all over the country via UPS. To homes of the big wigs of the company. Almost every one of them were left on doorsteps. Almost every one of them was stolen.

I have been deeply suspicious of them ever since... except one day I was having Fed Ex deliver 13 boxes full of booklets (test materials). The woman who drives the truck is really nice. So nice that the UPS guy follows her around on big delivery days and hauls the stuff upstairs for her.

So I forgive UPS for a lot.

I know USPS leaves stuff on my porch, they hide it behind a piece of furniture. Which I don't always notice right away. But they mean well. UPS tends to deliver stuff so late I'm already home. Sometimes 8 pm.

Haven't bought the new Angel DVDs. Fiscal responsibility is winning the internal struggle. So far.

Speaking of Angel DVDs, we watched "Down Deep" the other night. I presume Joss and Tim had a hand in breaking the story, but dang DeKnight did a good job. "I'll take away your bucket" - ranks with the best of Angel perversity.

The woman who drives the truck is really nice. So nice that the UPS guy follows her around on big delivery days and hauls the stuff upstairs for her.

Sounds like an incident during our flood a couple of years back. Workers from two different companies were in the condo -- one woman (plumber) and a man -- I forget what he did, maybe a plumber with a different company.

He told me he hoped he'd get sent back to the condo so he could get to know her better.

Fiscal responsibility is winning the internal struggle. So far.

To relieve my conscience, I sold things to the store I go to back for credit. Of course, going in, I thought I would be getting the Clerks X discs, so I sold back my old Clerks dvd. Now, I have no Clerks. It was worth it, though.