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Edward R Cole

OT: shipper from H

hopefully topic will pass political correction police.

Recent order of a Yamaha CM500 from Amazon.com got "Lost in space".

Well actually their compooter substituted another city for mine and
sent it there, where all tracking failed. Fortunately I noticed it
was "delivery attempted" after a week of waiting delivery and I
complained to Amazon who refunded my purchase of $58.33. I checked
the order at amazon on-line and it properly listed Nikiski. But the
package was addressed to Kenai with the Nikiski zip code. This is
not the first time amazon screwed up.

I ordered again listing this time the physical address of my PO
(which I have permission to do). Not only USPS but UPS and FedEx
shipments can accepted (for me) by my local PO. This a nice cure for
"drop n scoot" delivery by later two shippers.

Even when I use "click-n-ship" for prepaid packages mailed thru the
USPS, the USPS Internet site changes my address town and zipcode to
Kenai 99611-5074 (???). Fortunately this is only the return
address. I can try to correct the address before printing my labels
but the USPS compooter just changes it back. So no win. Hopefully,
none of my shipments are returned (to the wrong city and zipcode).

Of course it knows more than the hooman that wrote it. I guess
another evil like "auto-fill" and "auto-correct"?

73, Ed - KL7UW
http://www.kl7uw.com
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Tox

Re: OT: shipper from H

FWIW, you can get USPS to correct their database. I don't have the link
handy, but your local postmaster should have a reference.

Scott

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Edward R Cole <[hidden email]> wrote:

> hopefully topic will pass political correction police.
>
> Recent order of a Yamaha CM500 from Amazon.com got "Lost in space".
>
> Well actually their compooter substituted another city for mine and sent
> it there, where all tracking failed. Fortunately I noticed it was
> "delivery attempted" after a week of waiting delivery and I complained to
> Amazon who refunded my purchase of $58.33. I checked the order at amazon
> on-line and it properly listed Nikiski. But the package was addressed to
> Kenai with the Nikiski zip code. This is not the first time amazon screwed
> up.
>
> I ordered again listing this time the physical address of my PO (which I
> have permission to do). Not only USPS but UPS and FedEx shipments can
> accepted (for me) by my local PO. This a nice cure for "drop n scoot"
> delivery by later two shippers.
>
> Even when I use "click-n-ship" for prepaid packages mailed thru the USPS,
> the USPS Internet site changes my address town and zipcode to Kenai
> 99611-5074 (???). Fortunately this is only the return address. I can try
> to correct the address before printing my labels but the USPS compooter
> just changes it back. So no win. Hopefully, none of my shipments are
> returned (to the wrong city and zipcode).
>
> Of course it knows more than the hooman that wrote it. I guess another
> evil like "auto-fill" and "auto-correct"?
>
> 73, Ed - KL7UW
> http://www.kl7uw.com
> Dubus-NA Business mail:
> [hidden email]
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Don Sanders

Re: OT: shipper from H

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Even when you move and give all the needed documentation for forwarding
the USPS screws up. I've had three items returned as undeliverable and
yesterday
was notified by Amazon that my item was delivered and held by the post
office for
7 days and to arrange for pickup.
Upon contacting the PO by phone They checked the tracking number and
informed
me they delivered it to the former address the previous day. My wife
checked our
mail box and, guess?, YUP it was in our PO box not the former address.
And the PO wants a price increase for their Obvious(?) great service.

Dr. Don W4BWS

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k6dgw

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Well ... not always. Moved from Auburn CA to Sparks NV in summer of
2015. Filed the forwarding notice with Auburn PO and all worked well
... except Verizon. Didn't get bills, they finally sent me a text, CS
agent tells me our address -- and it is wrong, maybe 2 miles from our
real address. CS agent corrects it, still no bills. Next month, CS
agent says our address is again that wrong one and corrects it.
Continue this pattern for about 6 months. After quite a bit of
sleuthing on my part and letters to Verizon [including CEO [:-) ], trips
to PO, it appears:

Pitney-Bowes, of postage meter fame, has a service [I forget name,
Veri<something>?] that will connect with your company database, reach
in, and "correct" addresses therein. Verizon is a subscriber to this
service, and once a month, this happens. P-B says they get their
address information from the USPS. Local postmaster knows nothing.
Actually, no one at USPS anywhere knows about such a database, and no
one is interested in asking P-B who they're downloading addresses from.
P-B does not disclose such data to individuals, apparently even if said
individual is the one whose address they're screwing up. Have never
gotten mail from Verizon, I pay the bill on-line now.

There's the core of a really great dystopian novel in this somewhere. [:-)

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 4/19/2018 12:45 PM, Tox wrote:
> FWIW, you can get USPS to correct their database. I don't have the link
> handy, but your local postmaster should have a reference.
>
> Scott
>
>

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ke9uw

Re: OT: shipper from H

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Seems odd that the computer auto correct should pick the name of a town to auto correct instead of relying on the zip code given.

Chuck KE9UW
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> On Apr 19, 2018, at 2:40 PM, Edward R Cole <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> hopefully topic will pass political correction police.
>
> Recent order of a Yamaha CM500 from Amazon.com got "Lost in space".
>
> Well actually their compooter substituted another city for mine and sent it there, where all tracking failed. Fortunately I noticed it was "delivery attempted" after a week of waiting delivery and I complained to Amazon who refunded my purchase of $58.33. I checked the order at amazon on-line and it properly listed Nikiski. But the package was addressed to Kenai with the Nikiski zip code. This is not the first time amazon screwed up.
>
> I ordered again listing this time the physical address of my PO (which I have permission to do). Not only USPS but UPS and FedEx shipments can accepted (for me) by my local PO. This a nice cure for "drop n scoot" delivery by later two shippers.
>
> Even when I use "click-n-ship" for prepaid packages mailed thru the USPS, the USPS Internet site changes my address town and zipcode to Kenai 99611-5074 (???). Fortunately this is only the return address. I can try to correct the address before printing my labels but the USPS compooter just changes it back. So no win. Hopefully, none of my shipments are returned (to the wrong city and zipcode).
>
> Of course it knows more than the hooman that wrote it. I guess another evil like "auto-fill" and "auto-correct"?
>
> 73, Ed - KL7UW
> http://www.kl7uw.com
> Dubus-NA Business mail:
> [hidden email]
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Chuck, KE9UW

Kevin Cozens-2

Re: OT: shipper from H

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On 2018-04-19 04:24 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
> There's the core of a really great dystopian novel in this somewhere. [:-)

This reminds me of an Infocom adventure game called Bureaucracy that was
created by Douglas Adams. The ultimate goal of the game was to get the bank
to acknowledge a change of address card.

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Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ

Re: OT: shipper from H

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Folks, this thread is getting out of control under its multiple subject lines -
way exceeding our OT posting number limit. Let's end all of the "shipper from
H", UPS, USPS and "Shipping Peanuts" threads at this time.

73,
Eric
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Looking forward to seeing many of you at Visalia International DX convention
this weekend!
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On 4/19/2018 1:27 PM, hawley, charles j jr wrote:
> Seems odd that the computer auto correct should pick the name of a town to auto correct instead of relying on the zip code given.
>

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