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Why do companies use DHL or USPS?
CheffoJeffo:
It's funny ... I dig DHL ... except for the odd surprise bill 60 days after the fact ...
The question that I have for the OP is WHERE THE HECK ARE YOU that the USPS doesn't deliver to and you expect anybody else to ?
Leve42 -- can't you sign a waiver with DHL to leave at the door ? (you can here in Zakkistan and, IIRC, they will also try again the next day).
RayB:
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;)
predator314:
It's not that they won't deliver to us. It's the fact that you have to give a completely different address to the post office which is not our physical address. UPS, Fed Ex, etc use our physical address and won't accept anything else. USPS has to be different for some reason which I've never gotten a good answer for. So when it's shipped DHL, they have to have the physical address, but then they pass it off to USPS for some odd reason and USPS just sends it back to the sender's address because it has a "bad address".
SavannahLion:
Please don't knock
--- Quote from: predator314 on September 15, 2008, 04:49:21 pm ---And people want our government handling our health care? They can't even deliver a simple package...much less a baby.
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Just to clarify, the USPS isn't exactly a government agency per se. The USPS enjoys a unique quasi-government position. They enjoy all (or most of, it's kind of confusing) of the protections a government agency enjoys and then some. The proof is in the pudding, AFAIK, the USPS is the only agency I've encountered that uses .com instead of .gov though both are valid URLs.
But I digress, USPS will practically deliver to just about any valid location within the U.S. (and a few outside). Some of the addresses I've seen them deliver to is just downright bizarre. In some instances, I've seen them deliver to nothing more than an intersection and a street divided up into 15+ sections which are parallel to each other. In Nevada there are postal boxes which are in the middle of ---smurfing--- nowhere with no house within sight for miles. Those are the ones I've had direct encounters with. I'm sure there are many other valid addresses out there.
In any case, delivering mail has two hurdles. If it validates as a proper address at the usps website, you're halfway there. The next hurdle is convincing the postal carrier to deliver to that address. That is a bigger hurdle in some cases. It's a nightmare sometimes.
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on September 15, 2008, 11:46:11 pm ---The next hurdle is convincing the postal carrier to deliver to that address. That is a bigger hurdle in some cases. It's a nightmare sometimes.
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Anyone else reminded of the mailman from the movie Funny Farm? He's pissed off because he has to travel so far out of the way to get to their house.
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