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A month later, the first box was finally found. It had been tucked under an overgrown mesquite at the northern most corner of the property, where the fence along the road ends (the fence along the northern side of the property hasn't yet been built). The only thing back there are a couple of horse stalls nearby (about three car lengths from the fence; the space in between the eastern most stall is raw desert and obviously unused). There's no driveway there, and the 10 acres north of the property is vacant land. The empty lot is a couple feet higher than the road, after years and years of grading. Even a 4-wheel drive truck would have a challenge getting up onto that embankment. What on earth would make someone think raw desert land was a driveway? Because the fence simply ends there? It was a good two acres from the the actual driveway. The house is set only about four car lengths back from the road, and is impossible to miss seeing. | |||||
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Ah yes, good old fashioned malicious compliance. | |||||
That would so explain all the Fed Ex packages that end up on my (or my near neighbors) door steps - all just Tossed on the ground so hard the packaging rips (they never come back for them either, even after multiple calls to them about the wrongly received packages) The local post man is actually a nice guy who lets people know where their packages actually end up being - provided we remember to tell him. I have met more of my neighbors in the last 2 months cause of this one disgruntled Fed Ex driver, than in the 5 years I have lived here. | |||||
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2... Portch Pirates... the Inspectors find them sooner or later.. its better to have the CIA fater you then the Postal Inspectors. There are alot of things we can do, that they can't 3.. The customer is lying to get free stuff..this happens..ALOT. we have seen pictures of delivery folks of all uniforms tossign packages, leaving them in the rain, Hiding them. My daughter had many packages come to her house years ago..becaus she had address 1005..compared to 1105. here is the Best thing to do with damaged packages.. take Pics.. send the to you Post office 0r other carrier , and the place you bought it . make sure you write down tracking Numbers, because those are you packages fingerprints. there habve been times , when the barcode is screwed up and we have to punch all those numbers in..or.. a supervisor has to do some actual work, and do through the smudged or torn code to figure out what number is missing. after saying all of that... Carriers will, indeed..NOT deliver if your dog is out..( 'he won't hurt you" is Bull crap of the highest order).. You have to have your access to your porch or where ever, cleared...and if you are a 'karen' it better be spotless... One guy, who was ripping off his friends by chipping in and getting cheap cigarettes, and telling them it didn't come in... I happened to deliver one and told my PM" its here and on his porch..." he got busted..and paid a heft fine, and has to pick all his packages up in person at the post office. so? are the jerk carriers? You bet, Just like lawyers, doctors and cashiers... don't think they are all like that | |||||
Good advice and I agree Some people can be jerks, but some make up for them. Our postal guy tends to go above and beyond for those like me who are disabled and house bound. I like him. Some need more CS training (or training to be actually Human in some cases ...) but most carriers I have met in recent times at least are polite if nothing else, and I have not had any complaints about Those ones. (Though this thread exist so we can vent about Those few who annoy the rest of us, as well as everything else that annoys us.) | |||||
i was busted going up there.. and he wanted to right me up... i pointed to the path up the stairs i made during the week..." yes 90 years old..i have her meds..ther's a trail..i'm dping my job" he said " You made that traiL" I asked him, 'where in the contract does it say it can't be mine" I delivered the mail, like i wanted it to be delivered for my Mom and dad when they were alive... but ocne people truned to the dark side and became management.. all they looked for was 'bonus bucks' | |||||
I have a funny story regarding mis-delivery, though it was UPS, not USPS. A couple of days before Fathers' Day a decade or so ago, I got a package from 'Hello Fresh!' on my porch. I assumed it was from my kids and I gladly opened it and went through the items and made one of the meals. (It is the sort of thing I would enjoy.) Anyway, it wasn't until two days later when I was going to throw out the box that I saw it was addressed to my neighbor. I called both my neighbor and the Hello Fresh! company apologetically. They had already replaced it and the company told me to enjoy it as a free sample. I ended up being a customer for several years, so it definitely paid off for them. Also, I never did get a Fathers' Day present that year. | |||||
I really don't want to create a (ero-themed) game just for the purpose of getting the concept to settle back into the back of my head, where she belongs. I have much the same issue with packages, only my front door opens onto the street. And given my neighborhood, if I don't get them shortly after arrival...then someone else will. I gave up on Walmart because they just drop and leave, no notification of any kind that it's there. | |||||
rant over, have a nice day. This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 19:24, Sun 08 May 2022. | |||||
People say they want things and complain about not getting them, until you give them what they ask for. trigger warning | |||||
But he didn't leave the package at the very obvious garage door, he went past that, he passed both the residence doors, and climbed over and around garbage and recycling containers and moved things to put it at the back door of the garage! And Google Maps has a VERY old picture, showing the front of the house (sort of, there are trees in the way), with the driveway leading to the front of the garage. | |||||
This probably doesn't help, but there's a good bit in the novel High Fidelity, where the narrator describes how when he & his friends were early teenagers, they had no place to hang out but a playground. So, to make it "not a kid's game", they would start (essentially) playing with the playground equipment in a way that could cause real injury. Mind you, it was still playing with, say, a seesaw or a carousel, but now it was hardcore. I often think about this. In this case, it's not people just playing pretend, it's making a tactical simulation. Like, they think that if they make it 'realistic', they get credit for that, or in any way experienced the real thing. (It's related to the thing where gamers who've been at it for a while sometimes want to be treated like they're somehow veterans or have seniority. Dudes, you've just been doing organized make-believe for longer.) This message was last edited by the user at 16:57, Tue 10 May 2022. | |||||
That really sounds like he was snooping around rather than delivering a package. | |||||
I came to this House... no mail Box..no door slot. I even went up on the porch to see if the storm door's bar hid the slot ( they do! alot!).. I went aroudn back, ebcause, at my first offcie, some peope had thier Mail Boxes ( and Big doggies) back there. Nope? I couldn't find one....Then..as i walked back to the street, the next door neighboor had a beer and was sitting down to read the paper..." You Lost Son? " "yeah..where the heck is her Mail Box.." " around back..under the Boxes" sure enough, Just like nesting dools there were 3 Boxes, with the Mailbox under it.... the sidebar to this? The next sday the lay was out scrubbing her porch, i asked her.". Why don't you have your mail box out front like everyone else? " " because... everyone wil see when i get amil and they might see it!" I shrugged and said, " Then you shoudl ahve it out, because they will see anyone trying to steal it...back there, people can take the whole thing, and no one will know?" two weeks later she had the mailbox out front. the women who was her regular carrier gave me a hug, because i saved her 20 yards worth of walking! | |||||
Maybe. But if he was snooping, he must have been disappointed. That back door has a decent lock, aside from a car that he'd have had trouble getting out even if he got into the garage, there really wasn't anything in there to steal, so all he found was the garbage cans! | |||||
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I know interest in hobbies come and go...I'm hoping that a break will help renew my interest when it's time to pick it back up again.... | |||||
I've found it helps to watch a movie in the same genre or read such a book. Get that, 'I would have done it like ..." going. | |||||
Real life also has a lot to do with it bringing you down and sometimes we just have to let writing go if you aren’t in the right frame of mind. But please realise we all get this way. Sometimes you need to step away for a day or two. Or more or even less. There is absolutely nothing wring with that. Go spend time with friends, family, or even alone. I find going for walks or drives in the countryside or park help a lot too. Take time always for you that is the most important thing is your own wellbeing. | |||||
I should be happy to play one of the many solo games but I just can't engage. Having that feedback is just too critical. I can even trick myself with virtual NPCs in something like Minecraft for a while but, not too long. Even a bad relationship is better than none. :( | |||||
One of my oldest and closest online friends passed away in the small hours of this (August 10 2022) morning. She hasn't used this site in years but some of you may have played with or been in a game run by Cindy1. I actually found this site through her after she got frustrated with Y!groups being ridiculous and suggested we move our game here. Cindy was one of my oldest online friends, that game she created on Y!groups/Egroups way back in 2003 we had kept alive in some form for over 18 years, even starting a second generation with the descendants of the characters in the original game. We had become close friends over the years. A while back she got sick, not going to go into her medical history, but she let me know she'd give my contact info with her room mate in case anything happened. Cindy and I have been messaging each other back and forth on Gchat for years so when she got quiet and not responding a few weeks ago I got worried and actually googled for her obituary and was semi relieved to not find anything, her room mate messaged me a few days later to let me know that Cindy was in the hospital and in bad shape. Cindy was able to message me back herself and we were able to chat for a couple weeks- though she wasn't online much, but last Wednesday was my last message from her... and this evening I got another message from her room mate letting me know she had died. We had never met in person, I realized that I had never even heard her voice (we're both kind of old school clinging to the ancient days of the internet before everyone had a webcam and mic) but in a lot of ways I was closer to her than a lot of people I know in real life. A dozen times today I've wanted to message her; "Lindsey Stirling and Amy Lee collaborated and it's amazing", "Look at this scene from this book, it reminded me when in our game when I had my character puke in front of everyone", "My cat has ignored me for weeks because it's been so damned hot but today he's all over my desk cuddling with me", "I think I lost my best friend and don't know who I can talk to now". | |||||
Sorry for your grief, LazyWinde. I was in a TTRPG group that fell apart when one of the guys died. Just couldn't continue the game without him. I have a tribute I do for him on here with my characters. Online friendships can be just as real and just as close as real world friendships, despite the distance and the lack of face-to-face conversation. |
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