Don't hate the player, hate the bad delivery system
6 years ago by fashash · 916 Likes · 10 comments · Popular
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guest_
· 6 years ago
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It’s an option- at least with the postal service to do that. You can also as an option require a package that is delivered be signed for, they will try to deliver it a few times and if no one signs they’ll leave a notice for you to either call and schedule a final delivery, or come get it. But when you are sent a package, the sender usually chooses the service and how it’s delivered. So you may not have the option to choose pick up. Mostly it’s this way in America because we don’t want to go get packages. If we had to go get it somewhere, a lot of the time you could just go to the store and get it. It defeats the purpose of delivery which is convenience and not having to leave your home. The drop off system relies on common decency and rule of law. Is generally works but some people behave like animals and they break the system. Mostly though there aren’t problems with it, and people who do have problems are the exception and not the rule, so they can take steps like ordering...
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guest_
· 6 years ago
... packages to be picked up, or getting a P.O. box (in America a P.O. box is a special mail box. The box is at the actual post office. You pay a monthly fee and can have mail sent there instead of your home, and pick up mail at the post office. It is very secure and it also means you don’t have to give out your home address when you need to receive mail- you simply give the P.O. box and it is sent there instead. It also allows that if you keep getting junk mail because someone sold your address that you can cancel that P.O. box and get another new address and not forward old mail so people with the old number can’t reach you.) But in short- Americans don’t want to go get stuff. We have apps to deliver fast food so we can get it at home without driving to a drive through window, we can get groceries from the nearby market delivered- lots of services designed so we don’t have to do anything except hit a button and wait.
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guest
· 6 years ago
I'm guessing that the videos that we've seen online of packages being stolen are the exception rather than the rule? I imagine (and hope) that few people have anything stolen.
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guest_
· 6 years ago
I don’t know about “few,” but statistically it isn’t a large percentage of packages that get stolen. Those numbers of course vary by where you live (the US is pretty big and diverse- close to the combined European continent) so just as some crimes are more likely in a neighborhood in Paris or a country side in Belgium, so to is package theft. Generally speaking it is not common enough to pose an issue for most. I’ve never had a package stollen, and I only know one other person who has, and I’ve lived in very nice and very not nice areas. Generally speaking your packages are safe, and with most packages the average person receives being goods ordered from a merchant, if they are stolen they can usually be replaced without a charge or with just a second shipping charge. If package theft was statistically relevant merchants wouldn’t offer those protections or would require you to deliver via secure methods because they’d loose too much money.
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guest
· 6 years ago
Lol. I read pancakes and imagined going to the post office with my ID to get them.
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jd1984
· 6 years ago
We're fat and lazy and expect everything to be handed to us.
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itsamemaria
· 6 years ago
Plus it os safe for the most part. Now the streaming has been increased.
guest
· 6 years ago
when packages get left outside here, they stay there until the receiver takes it inside... no one would take it away... its called being civilized...
guest
· 6 years ago
I didn't realize this was a philosophical question
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celticrose
· 5 years ago
Because carriers like FedEx and UPS don't give a shit so they don't offer to take it to the Post Office, if the office would even hold non government post. Most packages that are left out are done so by crappy third party delivery services that have no affiliation with the post office so the post office has no obligation to hold packages sent through them, if those carriers even bothered to take them to the office in the first place. And fuck that shit, yes, hare the assholes who steal other people's shit. Hate them very damn much.
