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.

Well, the fun part with USPS always sticking the package in the wrong door was obnoxious upstairs neighbor instead of either putting the package in my door or leaving it in our common laundry room like a sensible person would always wedge it into the newspaper hooks underneath my mail box right way it was plainly visible to anyone passing by on the road.

The first time it happened I checked the tracking on USPS (which is usually pointless) on a whim and it said "Delivered". I knew I'd never recieved my package and I'd already gotten my mail earlier in the day. So I go out in the dark to hunt for my package and find it wedged there. I was furious, thinking the mail carrier had done it for some unknown reason. So I bent the prongs down so the mail carrier wouldn't be able to put packages there anymore. Next package, same thing happens. Since I can't imagine a mail carrier going through the effort bend the prongs back up to wedge a package in them in plain sight, I deduced what had actually happened. I was enduring a mail carrier/obnoxious neighbor stupidity team-up attack.

Now the obnoxious neighbor is gone. I imagine the next time I get package shipped USPS I'll have to spend several days checking the door for the upstairs apartment until my package arrives unless someone moves in before then.

With UPS, the first time they leave a note. I sign it, and leave the porch door unlocked with a note that says, "stick it on the porch and lock the door!"

And they do. Or they have so far. I have something being delivered today.

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

t pedant

You mean Deep Down?

You mean Deep Down?

Ah, Plei. My sister in pedantry. I was going to do it, but I figured I'd lay off him for...I don't know, I made up a reason.