PSA: The fastest route to Colorado from Texas is to tour NJ and PA

[00tec]

I frequently use a friend's address to ship packages to because my work schedule does not line up with the apartment office (and shipping companies always leave it at the office). Twice in the last week or so, UPS has rolled up to his house after 9pm, dropped the package on his porch and hauled ass. No knock or anything. Not the best idea considering the weather lately.

[Skully]

UPDATE:

Shows it arrived in Broomfield today. Wonder what tales the package could tell me.

[KS63]

^^^^ Wouldn't be surprised if the box is all jacked up.

[jerrymrc]

^^^^ Wouldn't be surprised if the box is all jacked up.

My last one was clearly labeled and no other reason for it to get to the sorting station here before taking off again back east. Box was in suprisingly good shape.

[james_bond_007]

I frequently use a friend's address to ship packages to because my work schedule does not line up with the apartment office (and shipping companies always leave it at the office). Twice in the last week or so, UPS has rolled up to his house after 9pm, dropped the package on his porch and hauled ass. No knock or anything. Not the best idea considering the weather lately.

Not the best, I agree. Only takes a few seconds more to knock or push the doorbell.

I'm usually at my computer or have my phone with me.
I always get a text or email shortly after they scan it and leave it (same with Fedex....USPS sends one too, but it seems like it arrives delayed later in the day/evening).

I've heard that they are required to deliver everything on their truck before they end their day (except signature required items) and that they are monitored via GPS. (true or not, that's just what I heard).
I'd 'guess' a large majority of recipients are not home anyway. (If UPS knocks on a tree in a forest to deliver a package, and no one is there to hear it, does the knock make a sound ?)

Personally, I'm "OK" with no doorbell or knock, as long as I get the text/email.
If I got 'nothing' to say it had been delivered, I'd have an issue then.
...but that is just me.

[james_bond_007]

My last one was clearly labeled and no other reason for it to get to the sorting station here before taking off again back east. Box was in suprisingly good shape.

JERRYMRC:

Let's not forget about the package you tried to send me a while ago.
You took it to the post office with a prepaid Priority mail label and left it on the counter.
The next day it arrived at YOUR house.
You called me to see why I 'refused' it and sent it back.
After we did some 'investigation', we found that they just delivered back to you and it never left your town.

It was one of those 'Boy I'm Mad !!!' / 'Ya Just Gotta Laugh' moments.