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@Polygeekery said in Nope:
@Vault_Dweller said in Nope:
Does none of you have addresses at your workplace?
Of course we do. In fact, @boomzilla, myself and others have the same address for both locations! Efficiency!!
I do have an office. I just rarely went there even before COVID (it's only a couple of miles away so it's not super inconvenient in that way). But it would have been a massive inconvenience to picking the package up off of my porch.
I sit next to a couple of windows where I can see anyone walking up to our front door, which is technically not in the front of the house. We're in an end unit of townhomes and there's a grass walkway between my house and the neighbors. I like to have the blinds open for the natural light so I pretty much know when there's a delivery because the guy walks right by me.
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@Luhmann no, it's a common area, owned and maintained by the HOA.
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@boomzilla
details are often ato
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@Polygeekery said in Nope:
You don't have pack-o-mats in US?
I don't know what that is. Let me look it up.
They are like you described, delivery boxes. Not individual on every porch, but they are pretty numerous - closest to me is like 2mins on foot.
You choose pack-o-mat as delivery destination, you get text and email when the package arrives. You can pick the package up anytime you want, box doors open with a text code, qr code or mobile proximity check. Payment on pickup is also integrated. Oh, you also can send packages with it, avoiding postal service altogether.
They look like this, more or less:
Amazon's version is call Amazon Locker. We have them in 7-11s, grocery stores, and drug stores.
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@Vault_Dweller said in Nope:
Does none of you have addresses at your workplace? Our employer has a special counter at reception especially for employee deliveries. Solves all problems.
At my workplace, it is not allowed, unless it is to be used for work.
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@Vault_Dweller said in Nope:
@Polygeekery So how are you missing deliveries?
Our USPS is lazy and lies (the other carriers too but USPS the
mostworst and most egregious).Someone is always home but we still get "delivery attempted".
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@Vault_Dweller said in Nope:
Does none of you have addresses at your workplace? Our employer has a special counter at reception especially for employee deliveries. Solves all problems.
I've never seen a business that had a counter especially for employee deliveries, but I did work for a company that explicitly and unconditionally prohibited any employee deliveries. Any package that didn't have a company PO or RA number on the box was refused and returned to the sender. It's been years, and I don't remember which company it was, but it was probably when I worked for a very large company with thousands of employees at that one site, and they didn't want the receiving department spending more time handling non-business packages than doing their actual job.
As for delivery lockers, my old apartment complex had Amazon lockers installed. I'm not sure if they ever got them working. For months, the display said "Available soon!!!!!!" Also, they were Amazon lockers; if you had the audacity to buy something from anyone else, tough
; you had the opportunity to send one of the "Has anyone seen a package addressed to $name at $address $apt? Tracking says it was delivered at $time," emails that were almost the only communication between residents of the complex. (The other form of communication between residents was "Whoever parked in $space, move your +@$#2&#$@$ car; that's my spot!!!!11!1", but that was mostly pointless. Chances are, it was a visitor who would never see the email. Stupid complex had ZERO guest parking spots. But that's a different rant.) Lots of packages went missing. Some theft, probably, but lots misdelivered because of the confusing way the apartments are numbered. (The complex is big, with >20 buildings, numbered 1–N, each with its own individual street number. The apartments are numbered 1–M in each building, where M is 8, 12 or maybe 16, depending on the number of apartments in that building. The mailing/delivery address is $number $street Apt $y, but if you're walking around the complex trying to deliver a package, you'll see apartment $xyy, where x is the building number (not included as part of the address) and yy is the 2-digit, zero-filled apartment number, and there's no obvious explanation of this, nor is the mapping between street number and building number obvious. A lot of packages went missing.) The delivery lockers would have been quite useful, if they'd worked, and if they'd worked for anyone besides Amazon.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Nope:
lockers. Or self-service delivery lockers.
There are, but they exist in the range that for average Merkin is further than a fridge (t.i., too far to go on foot), but not far enough to unpark ol' 5.8L V8 F-150, therefore they might as well not existNope, the nearest Amazon locker is an 8 hour walk or ¾-hour drive. I work at a small business so just get my Amazon deliveries there.
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@Polygeekery said in Nope:
You don't have pack-o-mats in US?
I don't know what that is. Let me look it up.
They are like you described, delivery boxes. Not individual on every porch, but they are pretty numerous - closest to me is like 2mins on foot.
You choose pack-o-mat as delivery destination, you get text and email when the package arrives. You can pick the package up anytime you want, box doors open with a text code, qr code or mobile proximity check. Payment on pickup is also integrated. Oh, you also can send packages with it, avoiding postal service altogether.
They look like this, more or less:
I think my old apartment building got something like that in the mail room just about the time I moved out. Other than that, I don't think I've ever seen them around. We do have community mailboxes serviced by Canada Post, most (all?) of which have package boxes included:
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@Polygeekery said in Nope:
@boomzilla said in Nope:
Yes, we have those in various places. Several stores near me have them that I'm aware of (probably more). We never bother with them because we're always home and have never had a problem with theft.
This, and I shop online so the shit can be delivered to my home and I don't have to fuck with things like that. If I wanted to go to a local store and pick stuff up then most of the reason for shopping online is removed, so those things always seemed really stupid to me.
It depends on what kind of stuff you get online. Even gimped Canadian Amazon has stuff available that you can't find in retail stores, and picking it up from the post office isn't that bad
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@boomzilla said in Nope:
They are like you described, delivery boxes. Not individual on every porch, but they are pretty numerous - closest to me is like 2mins on foot.
Yes, we have those in various places. Several stores near me have them that I'm aware of (probably more). We never bother with them because we're always home and have never had a problem with theft.
Amazon Lockers. My local Safeway has those. I've used that for high-value things when I'm not at home. It's actually pretty convenient.
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@boomzilla said in Nope:
if my neighborhood had a big problem with porch pirates
We do. I see video/etc posted in NextDoor almost every day.
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@Vault_Dweller said in Nope:
Does none of you have addresses at your workplace? Our employer has a special counter at reception especially for employee deliveries. Solves all problems.
Well, yes. But by the time it gets thru the shipping dept, it'll be about a week later...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Nope:
lockers. Or self-service delivery lockers.
There are, but they exist in the range that for average Merkin is further than a fridge (t.i., too far to go on foot), but not far enough to unpark ol' 5.8L V8 F-150, therefore they might as well not existNope, the nearest Amazon locker is an 8 hour walk or ¾-hour drive. I work at a small business so just get my Amazon deliveries there.
A few years back, I wanted to get something delivered to the office because
. I don't remember exactly why; probably because I would need to sign for it and this was before I had a wife who'd be home when the delivery guy came by. Anyway, I told Amazon to deliver it to my work... and then when it came, a few days later, it was on the day everyone was gone at an all-day all-staff SAFe meeting elsewhere!
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@boomzilla said in Nope:
if my neighborhood had a big problem with porch pirates
We do. I see video/etc posted in NextDoor almost every day.
I'm in a relatively less affluent neighborhood, so I'm assuming it's not a super target rich environment.
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@boomzilla said in Nope:
@boomzilla said in Nope:
if my neighborhood had a big problem with porch pirates
We do. I see video/etc posted in NextDoor almost every day.
I'm in a relatively less affluent neighborhood, so I'm assuming it's not a super target rich environment.
I'm not in a particularly affluent area. Just a very high concentration of homes! There are very few big open areas between San Francisco and San Jose!
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@boomzilla said in Nope:
@boomzilla said in Nope:
if my neighborhood had a big problem with porch pirates
We do. I see video/etc posted in NextDoor almost every day.
I'm in a relatively less affluent neighborhood, so I'm assuming it's not a super target rich environment.
I'm not in a particularly affluent area. Just a very high concentration of homes! There are very few big open areas between San Francisco and San Jose!
I live in a high concentration of homes (townhomes) but not that many people order a lot. It's a rare day that we don't have at least one thing delivered, but that's a lot for around here.
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@Polygeekery said in Nope:
One thing I absolutely would consider, assuming it isn't too large or ugly, would be a delivery box we would affix to our porch. Their drivers could drop off packages in it and it would lock behind them.
You know, I've been thinking about this problem, and just realized: you only need a box, it doesn't even have to lock. If the box is always there, people can't tell if there's a package inside, thus they can't efficiently steal shit anymore. They'd have to go check every house.
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@anonymous234 said in Nope:
They'd have to go check every house.
And they would (
up until they are satisfied with anything they've found).
What you need is a chute (with a door on the inside to stop burglars from entering the house that way).
Sure, a lot of malicious idiots would fill it with garbage, but you can already get garbage in regular-sized mailboxes, so /shrug.
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@anonymous234 said in Nope:
They'd have to go check every house.
Around here, they just follow the UPS/Fedex trucks.
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@topspin Ah, the perfect thing to put up your ass...
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@Tsaukpaetra I mean, you do you.
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@Vault_Dweller said in Nope:
Does none of you have addresses at your workplace? Our employer has a special counter at reception especially for employee deliveries. Solves all problems.
At my workplace, it is not allowed, unless it is to be used for work.
It was allowed at mine but got stopped early in lockdown (when none of us were in the office anyway).
I suspect it'll not be allowed again seeing as the majority of the deliveries to the office were for personal deliveries.
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@Benjamin-Hall "Please select which of these images show cupcakes"
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@topspin took me a few replays until I understood what's going on.
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@PleegWat it ate the rat king last week.
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@HardwareGeek Someone was either short of chocolade or
replacing the sockets with it.
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Knuckles voice is heard, "Oh no!"
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/681557009866162234/742392304178036876/763d6a9.jpg
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I do love charging my phone... and my phone definitely likes being charged...
https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/ia8apy/thanks_i_hate_charging_my_phone/
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The most un-sexy gloryhole ever...
https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/ia2vni/thanks_i_hate_hand_game/
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@boomzilla I hear that's Kamala's preferred meat substitute.
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@boomzilla these bidet accoutrements are getting ridiculous!
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Not sure if Evil Idea or Good Idea...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Nope:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/535580879385395213/749810836112932925/unknown.png
Not sure if Evil Idea or Good Idea...
I can't decide either.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Nope:
Not sure if Evil Idea or Good Idea...
I'm diabetic. Evil. *mumblemumblemumble*
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I'm diabetic evil
I'm not familiar enough with DnD aligments to know what this implies about your character.