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   LittleYipScream said, 12 days ago

   You know, up here in Canada, I don’t think the UPS guy
   is brave enough to wear shorts.
   Not in the winter time anyway.

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   Doctor Toon said, 12 days ago

   If you’re going to get your brown shorts in a bunch, I’ll just call FedEx next time.

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   Macushlalondra said, 12 days ago

   I suspect Adam is lying to Clayton and it really was Mom.

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   jmd4lsu said, 12 days ago

   The UPS guys here leave your package on your doorstep. In plain view. With or without a signature.

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   Joe Allen Doty said, 12 days ago

   The UPS drivers will leave packages with the manager in the retirement complex office during her business hours or they will leave them with whichever after-hours and weekend assistant who is on duty.

   But, the regular FedEX guy will take the package(s) to the apartment number on the address first no matter what time of day it is.

   Someone needs to tell Clayton that the uniform shorts that the UPS drivers wear ARE pants, too.

   When I lived at the regular apartment complex, there were no hallways. The UPS person would leave a note if there was no one at home. And, the package was NOT left in the office.

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   Yukoneric said, 12 days ago

   At home, you need a signature?

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   cleokaya said, 12 days ago

   My wife has been giving our UPS driver a real workout lately, having ordered a number of heavy pieces of furniture online. Our driveways is to difficult a maneuver for the truck, so he has to carry every item up the hill. Poor guy.

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   jmd4lsu said, 12 days ago

   At home, you need a signature?
   Yep.

   I have items delivered to my office. It solves any “not at home” issues.

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   Susan001 said, 12 days ago

   I’ve never heard of UPS phoning a customer at all, especially to upbraid the customer for his absence at delivery. Matter of fact, customers never know just when UPS will deliver, so why should they put their own lives on hold just in case UPS just “might” show up?
   If Adam wasn’t such a wimp, he’d have said just that. In fact, he should have said just that even if it was Mom calling.

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    benbrilling said, 12 days ago

    Wow! He’s really in with the UPS guy if he gets personal phone calls! Just fantasy I’m afraid.

    However, in regards to other comments here: There is a lot of variability with UPS in different locations. They have a certain degree of freedom to adjust their own policies. If you don’t like what they are doing, just talk to your delivery guy and you might be surprised at what they will do to adjust to your preferences (as long as it doesn’t go against any company or local policies).

    However, I don’t think they are allowed to tell you ahead of time when to expect them (other than a general estimate), and if there is a driver other than your regular one, he may not know your preferences (although they sometimes communicate such details with each other).

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    tsandl said, 12 days ago

    I can’t get my UPS guy to leave so much as thumbtack on my doorstep when I’m gone. I nearly always wind up having to drive down to the hub to pick up my packages.

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    WyattMute said, 12 days ago

    Holy CRAP! Adam’s working! Or at least in front of the computer again…..it’s been a while! I was starting to wonder if Adam actually did any work at home anymore.

    Not that it was a BAD thing….

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 12 days ago

    When I have signed for a UPS or FedEx delivered package, I have to sign my name in the window of the electronic box thing they use.

    Adam either called the local UPS warehouse or he called the UPS guy’s cell phone.

    One time I had a substitute USPS carrier put a card in my mail box at the cluster of mail boxes and he claimed that I was not at home on the card.

    But, I was at home and I would have heard him knock, too, since I was not very far from the door when he claimed he tried to deliver it.

    The next day, I talked to the lady who was the regular carrier and she gave me the number of the supervisor at the local branch post office. She told me not to tell anyone where I got it.

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    cleokaya said, 12 days ago

    The only time I have to sign for a UPS delivery is when I get my biannual shipment of wine from a state winery.

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    Dry said, 12 days ago

    Back to the strip, this is the first time in a LONG while any reference was made regarding UPS. That used to be a running gag on Adam @ Home.

    And at work, I have to sign for UPS, at home, I NEVER have! They just leave it. They don’t even check first to see if I’m home! ANd you ALWAYS have to sign for FedEx.

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    Rmom said, 12 days ago

    For UPS, it usually depends on the value of your shipment, whether or not they need a signature. Of course, there are certain items required to have a signature for delivery. Many times, when you buy on-line, you can get a tracking number & go to the UPS website and watch the package’s progress across the country. Then we know which day to expect delivery. We have had trouble with an occasional driver who doesn’t want to work to figure out where we are located. (Mapquest works for us, so it isn’t THAT difficult.) We used to have great service from UPS when we had the same driver for years. He got reassigned to a different route, and it seems like I rarely see the same one twice anymore.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 12 days ago

    When I have ordered things from certain companies online and it was a large order, either in size or quantity, I was also sent an tracking number from the company in a email and was also given the link to the service which they used.

    With the tracking number system, neither UPS nor FedEx folks had problems finding me.

    One UPS man had no problems in making a delivery where i used to live. But the street addresses for the building sections were somewhat complicated in the sense that while street addresses were numbered from 1325 to 1357, the apartment numbers didn’t follow that order. The complex had 60 apartments.

    When I lived in Apartment 34, the street address was 1355; but, when I moved across to the opposite end of the breezeway, the apartment number was 31 and the street address number was 1357.

    I think that originally since there were mailboxes in the walls on each side of the breeze way, the apartments in each section were numbered differently and the owners decided to renumber the whole complex.

    Since there was only one entrance to the complex from the street, the complex should have only had one street number and the apartments numbered 1 - 60.