Re: Emergency Water Turn-Off?

["AZ Woody" <Reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FedEx (and UPS) have a method to "file a signature" with them, so they'll
leave the package if no one is home...

Also, if I know I'm due a package, I'll leave a note at the door, and give
instructions where to hide or deliver  the box if no one is home.  It's
worked for years with me.

Worst case I ever had was when I'd gotten a "could not deliver" slip, and
when I went to the "main desk" to pick it up, they couldn't, because it was
on a truck for "re-delivery".  You guessed it, when I got home there was
another "we tried to deliver.." message, and it's timestamp was during the
time I was at the "main desk".....  That's when I started leaving the
note....


"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "BruceR" <brNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Robert,  How about just using something like the DoorbellFon product to
> > ring all the phones in the house when the doorbell is pressed?
>
> That was the fatal flaw in my last attempt to solve this problem.  I
assumed
> they would *all* press the doorbell.  Not so.  I'm beginning to think that
> some of them are "Ghost Dogs" and are able to slip past PIRs like Ninja
> assassins.  As I become more and more dependent on delivery services, it
> would be nice to have as much advance "prep" time as I can  when someone's
> coming.  After a lost "indirect" delivery I'm also trying to keep
unattended
> package exposure to a minimum without having to resort to a drop-box.
>
> > Then you can pick up any phone in the house and tell the
> > driver you're home and on the way to the door.  Another
> > thing you can do is sign a form that the FedEx and UPS
> > drivers have that authorize them to leave packages in
> > a predetermined place if you're not home.
>
> Well, FedEx virtually forced a release on me after the indirect delivery.
> In investigating why it was apparently better business for them to give my
> package to strangers I found an incredible series of scandals with FedEx
and
> their attempt to sell their routes off to drives as independent
contractors.
> They reinvented the company store in one feld swoop.
>
> The drivers were allegedly given so many packages to deliver in a day,
they
> couldn't stop more than 20 seconds at each hop.  Many drivers were barely
> hanging on: they had to buy the trucks, paint them, fuel them, maintain
> them, take whatever route and load FedEx wanted them to take with penalty
> clauses that caused many to throw in the towel.  To try to get an edge,
the
> drivers doubled up deliveries, to the point that if your lights were out
or
> they somehow didn't think you were home, or they thought they could get
away
> with it, they wouldn't even MAKE the stop and just give your package to
the
> next stop on their route.  It makes sense from their point of view and the
> way the structure was set up.  Just Google FedEx Ground and independent
> contractor lawsuit for the details.
>
> Anyway, I wandered.  I need some pretty good AI to tell me when a package
is
> about to be delivered and that a package is sitting on the porch, or
between
> my front and screen door.  We're having a local crime wave. <sigh>  That's
> in addition to stuff that arrives when I am not expecting it (backorders
are
> real problem that way, and I had to drop one vendor who sent them without
> any email notification).
>
> > Some high value items still need a signature but everything
> > else will be left without a signature. I put in a package drop
> > door for them to leave stuf and that's been working great for
> > me over the last few years. I also have a sensor on the package
> > door that causes a chime to sound in the house and the
> > Stargate to call my cellphone.
>
> That's a good idea.  Do the drivers use it religiously?  Do you have much
> turnover in drivers?   How do you get it to pass spouse approval.  I was
not
> warmly received the last time it was suggested.
>
> --
> Bobby G.
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