It's my experience that a FedEx driver is more likely to find a Walmart than find my house. You can read, so you're miles ahead of the drivers in my area.
A few years ago I was on the phone with FedEx trying to track down a misdelivered package (the guy passed right by my house and left it at a house a block away!). When I asked the kind lady if reading was a requirement for the drivers, she said it was worse than that. She had seen packages delivered to the right address in the WRONG CITY. I guess reading really is fundamental.
I shudder any time I see a package coming by FedEx. Give me UPS or USPS any day.
We're against net neutrality when it hurts our bottom line and we're for it when it helps our bottom line. They don't care about customers; they care about profit.
You're unique, I assure you. If you lived almost anywhere else, you'd be receiving packages by USPS. There are thousands of complaints about USPS deliveries on Amazon forums.
Out of 66 packages from Amazon this year, 60 of them have been delivered by USPS from start to finish, no SmartPost or SurePost. Nearly all of them were sold by Amazon and fulfilled by Amazon. It's a rare event when I receive a package from Amazon by UPS or FedEx.
I'm luckier than most because I have a very good post office in my city. The packages that are too big for the mailbox are left in my car (so they'll be out of sight). Plus, USPS here delivers on Sunday before lunch!
Local stores would be crazy to go the cashless route. If I'm going to have to use plastic and if I don't need the item right this minute, I may as well buy it online.
Right now Amazon collects 8% sales tax on all purchases from my home state. If I buy locally the rate is 10%, so I'm saving a little bit just by buying from Amazon anyway. And there are many places I buy from online that don't charge sales tax at all - some even offer free shipping over a certain amount.
What about those stores that have a minimum purchase to use plastic? Then you'd have to buy something you don't want just to be able to buy something you do want.
My cash says it is legal tender. Don't want to sell me something in exchange for it? Bye, bye, Mr. Retailer!
Amen! This is why I don't own any device - Amazon, Google, or whoever - that can listen to what I'm saying. If privacy protection ever evolves into what it should be, I may reconsider, but I'm not holding my breath.
I will continue to buy stuff from Amazon. Since I buy for myself and a lot of other people, Amazon has never really understood exactly what I'm personally interested in.
I've been wondering the same thing. It seems to me that the US and Russia should be natural allies. They have much more in common than they do differences. Maybe the globalists want to make sure the two most nationalistic countries never figure out that they could be friends.
Better yet, my bank offers a loadable debit card. Just put what you're going to spend on it and then after you spend that amount the balance drops to zero. Loading the card can be done from your phone and it's instantly available. I've loaded mine right before checking out at a store. Your phone notifies you immediately when money is put on the card or removed from it.
If somebody does steal the card, there's no money to steal and the card can't be used to empty your checking account.
The only winning move is not to play. Seriously, I've never had a Facebook account and I pity those millions who do.
If one insists on being a Facebook minion, just use a different browser and dedicate it only to Facebook. Call it a "throwaway" browser. Then never use it for anything else but Facebook.
I'm surprised your doctor didn't try a "fecal transplant" from a healthy person. It's one of the new things being researched nowadays, but it sounds kinda yucky.
The gut is a mystery. We haven't even identified all the various bacteria that live there and have no clue what all of them actually do for or against us.
No, Google should just BUY Canada. Give each Canadian a million dollars and take over the whole country. Google has the money. Let 'em keep the name and the maple leaf, but let Google run the country.
I just checked Home Depot's website and in the product overview for a framing 2x4 it gives the following information:
Common: 2 in. x 4 in. x 8 ft.; Actual: 1.5 in. x 3.5 in. x 96 in.
Lowes, Menard's, and all the other stores of this type say the same thing. Nobody is lying about what they're selling. This lawsuit is the epitome of frivolous lawsuits and should be thrown out the first day.
Apple users just can't handle more than one button. Hell, even an Apple mouse has only one button. Two buttons would leave Apple users curled up on the floor crying their eyes out. "Decisions! Decisions! I just can't deal with decisions right now!"
I'd buy something like that. I miss my old ST. I used a desktop publishing program on it called Pagestream and designed a lot of forms, including one my company still uses today. ST + Pagestream = awesome.
Nope. We don't need any more gun laws. We have plenty. We just need to enforce the ones we have.
Did you notice today that the only way a bad man with a gun was stopped was by a good man with a gun? Yes, it was a cop with a gun, but cops can't be standing by everyone's side. You people will never understand why citizens need guns. When seconds count the police are minutes away.
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It's my experience that a FedEx driver is more likely to find a Walmart than find my house. You can read, so you're miles ahead of the drivers in my area.
A few years ago I was on the phone with FedEx trying to track down a misdelivered package (the guy passed right by my house and left it at a house a block away!). When I asked the kind lady if reading was a requirement for the drivers, she said it was worse than that. She had seen packages delivered to the right address in the WRONG CITY. I guess reading really is fundamental.
I shudder any time I see a package coming by FedEx. Give me UPS or USPS any day.
We're against net neutrality when it hurts our bottom line and we're for it when it helps our bottom line. They don't care about customers; they care about profit.
It's so common there's even a name for it - Arkancide!
Don't confuse slashdotters with facts. This place leans so far left it's about to fall over.
You're unique, I assure you. If you lived almost anywhere else, you'd be receiving packages by USPS. There are thousands of complaints about USPS deliveries on Amazon forums.
Out of 66 packages from Amazon this year, 60 of them have been delivered by USPS from start to finish, no SmartPost or SurePost. Nearly all of them were sold by Amazon and fulfilled by Amazon. It's a rare event when I receive a package from Amazon by UPS or FedEx.
I'm luckier than most because I have a very good post office in my city. The packages that are too big for the mailbox are left in my car (so they'll be out of sight). Plus, USPS here delivers on Sunday before lunch!
Local stores would be crazy to go the cashless route. If I'm going to have to use plastic and if I don't need the item right this minute, I may as well buy it online.
Right now Amazon collects 8% sales tax on all purchases from my home state. If I buy locally the rate is 10%, so I'm saving a little bit just by buying from Amazon anyway. And there are many places I buy from online that don't charge sales tax at all - some even offer free shipping over a certain amount.
What about those stores that have a minimum purchase to use plastic? Then you'd have to buy something you don't want just to be able to buy something you do want.
My cash says it is legal tender. Don't want to sell me something in exchange for it? Bye, bye, Mr. Retailer!
Amen! This is why I don't own any device - Amazon, Google, or whoever - that can listen to what I'm saying. If privacy protection ever evolves into what it should be, I may reconsider, but I'm not holding my breath.
I will continue to buy stuff from Amazon. Since I buy for myself and a lot of other people, Amazon has never really understood exactly what I'm personally interested in.
I've been wondering the same thing. It seems to me that the US and Russia should be natural allies. They have much more in common than they do differences. Maybe the globalists want to make sure the two most nationalistic countries never figure out that they could be friends.
Better yet, my bank offers a loadable debit card. Just put what you're going to spend on it and then after you spend that amount the balance drops to zero. Loading the card can be done from your phone and it's instantly available. I've loaded mine right before checking out at a store. Your phone notifies you immediately when money is put on the card or removed from it.
If somebody does steal the card, there's no money to steal and the card can't be used to empty your checking account.
And ampland.com doesn't sell amplifiers!!
I hear they are merging with porzo.com . . . . . I just can't remember where I heard it.
There are several instances of subject-verb errors, but I suspect that's because it was written by a Brit (or an uneducated American).
The only winning move is not to play. Seriously, I've never had a Facebook account and I pity those millions who do.
If one insists on being a Facebook minion, just use a different browser and dedicate it only to Facebook. Call it a "throwaway" browser. Then never use it for anything else but Facebook.
I'm surprised your doctor didn't try a "fecal transplant" from a healthy person. It's one of the new things being researched nowadays, but it sounds kinda yucky.
The gut is a mystery. We haven't even identified all the various bacteria that live there and have no clue what all of them actually do for or against us.
No, Google should just BUY Canada. Give each Canadian a million dollars and take over the whole country. Google has the money. Let 'em keep the name and the maple leaf, but let Google run the country.
Why not just go with concrete? It lasts much longer than asphalt and is lighter colored anyway.
And we are pretty sure they were built by undocumented Hispanic immigrants.
A Hollywood celebrity full of shit - what else is new?
A rarer beast would be a celebrity who is not full of shit.
I just checked Home Depot's website and in the product overview for a framing 2x4 it gives the following information:
Common: 2 in. x 4 in. x 8 ft.; Actual: 1.5 in. x 3.5 in. x 96 in.
Lowes, Menard's, and all the other stores of this type say the same thing. Nobody is lying about what they're selling. This lawsuit is the epitome of frivolous lawsuits and should be thrown out the first day.
I want to be honest with my tag - FT LONG.
Well, maybe I exaggerate a couple of inches, but you'll never get the chance to find out.
Apple users just can't handle more than one button. Hell, even an Apple mouse has only one button. Two buttons would leave Apple users curled up on the floor crying their eyes out. "Decisions! Decisions! I just can't deal with decisions right now!"
What we desperately need is wisdom. There's very little of it in the world, and I doubt a machine will ever be wise.
Actually, when you think about it, the whole Earth is bipolar! :)
I'd buy something like that. I miss my old ST. I used a desktop publishing program on it called Pagestream and designed a lot of forms, including one my company still uses today. ST + Pagestream = awesome.
This was a case of a modern machine beating an antique machine. Big deal.
Nope. We don't need any more gun laws. We have plenty. We just need to enforce the ones we have.
Did you notice today that the only way a bad man with a gun was stopped was by a good man with a gun? Yes, it was a cop with a gun, but cops can't be standing by everyone's side. You people will never understand why citizens need guns. When seconds count the police are minutes away.