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Better than handing it off the USPS (US Postal Service).
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I get very courteous drivers and packages arrive in good shape here from all the couriers -- perhaps I am more fortunate than most?
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Over the last 20+ years of shopping online, I have had one parcel lost, 2-3 parcels delayed, and one damaged. In my experience, the international couriers (and their Israeli subcontractors) do a decent job.
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Agreed! I must have had hundreds of packages delivered over the past 20 years here in Florida, and I don't remember losing a single one. However, some were a day or so late. But I admit I cannot speak for the service in the UK.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I've been lucky this past months.
Now, if the shipping allow it, I will deliver packages at the post-office (2 minutes from home).
I know it's delivered, I know it won't get stolen.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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We've lived in a resort town way up in the high Rockies for 30 years, remote and isolated even though overrun with visitors. It can be a wild ride getting here from afar and we have been ordering things by necessity from remote places via all the usual carriers over that time I cannot say enough good things about them. We order for business and pleasure, on average 2 items to be shipped per day. I think maybe only one or two packages in that time frame ever went mia.
USPS, UPS, FedEx and (snicker) DHL all have come through.
When you live up here away from the usual city goodies, you appreciate what they do. I was walking my dog around our neighborhood and saw a FedEx driver walk off the porch of a neighbor's house and I said "Alright Fed-Ex" with a fist pump. She was like "O.....K dude, whatever" 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Or is it just me?
Its just you... UPS, Fedex and Amazon Prime Delivery all provide good service in my neck of the woods. Even the USPS isn't too bad around here.
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OriginalGriff wrote: But how can the big players get their logistics and computer tracking systems so badly wrong? Or is it just me?
In the case of UPS: they've outsourced their main logistic system (to India I think) and have gotten back a big pile of brown substance. Since then, they salvaged back their old developers and are trying to sort thing out.
In my previous company which is the size of the UPS the same happened (although they were smart/decent enough to keep us - the original developers). It took us more than 3 years just to smooth out the rough edges. It wasn't fun.
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USP managed to first lose, and then smash a UPS once for me. When I say smashed, I mean smashed. The metal case of the UPS was dented in hard.
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True story: In the late 1980's I shipped a microVAX and its 300MB hard drive from my home in Ohio to California. The computer arrived in good shape. The hard drive, which weighed 80 pounds and was in a large set of nested shipping boxes and packing, did not.
Based on the damage someone drove a forklift into the side of the box.
Software Zen: delete this;
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FedEx and UPS are merging.
They're going to call it FedUp
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Mike Hankey wrote: They're going to call it FedUp
Once they merge with Apple the new name will be iQuit.
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Question about where to put speech (2,6)
Treading on the toes of giants . . .
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Question QUESTION
about (anag)
where to put speech
IN QUOTES
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Well that didn't take long . . . YAUM
Treading on the toes of giants . . .
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The Toxic Avenger - 87,6%[^]
Spotify recommended this EP to me last week.
Hadn't heard of the Toxic Avenger, real name Simon Delacroix.
He's a French house artist and apparently he's reasonably successful having appeared in a Nissan Qashqai and a Yves Saint Laurent commercial.
Not much to say really, except great sound 
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At first I thought you were doing a "B movie" of the week.
The Toxic Avenger Trailer - YouTube[^]
A favourite from the 80s.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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What do you mean "B movie"? This looks like some straight A quality! 
On a side note, the music in the background, Night on a Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky, was featured in SOTW some years ago
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Not bad Rather catchy and finger tapping. Somewhat remenicsent of Vangelis though not his equal imho of which I have a brief somewhat odd story two in fact both re/ to musical artists and my knowledge of them. Was looking forward to your thoughts re/ my musical submission The Lounge[^] -Cheerios
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BernardIE5317 wrote: Was looking forward to your thoughts re/ my musical submission The Lounge[^]
Missed that one.
Love the build up, bass drum and the ominous atmosphere.
The ending is beautiful.
Looked her up on Spotify too 
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I'm just getting Terminator vibes 
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Now that you mention it I can feel it too
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I already didn't dislike accordions.
It's pretty amazing, but I still prefer the original 
David O'Neil wrote: Rare Moog Dancers (UK 1971)
The good stuff
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