Apartments and Packages
If there's one thing that drives me up a wall about living in apartments, it's receiving packages.
See, in my previous places of living, I was technically under the poverty line. As such, I didn't spend money online nor did I have an actual credit card. When I did order things online, I had them sent to my parents house as that's where I sent all my mail. I was still moving around often enough to warrant just keeping them as my mailing address.
But once I moved downtown, I changed my address. I also became employed at a job that resembled something I went to school for. As such, I had money (and a new credit card) to buy things. This meant using NewEgg to build myself a much-deserved new rig. I also became a fiend on this police auction website, snagging any watches that caught my eye.
It was while living downtown that I realized there is no standard way to deliver a package. The USPS differs from FedEx which differs from UPS which differs from DHL. Not only that, but it differs on the driver and the complex, as I'm finding out. Sometimes I'd have packages waiting in front of my apartment door, occasionally I'd have a note stuck on either the lobby door or my mail door saying they delivered the package at the apartment office. What the worst was, however, just delivering it to the office.
When they deliver to the office, they don't tell you. They just update the order, mark it as delivered and head off. This wouldn't be so bad except the office doesn't tell me they've received a package for me. They'd receive it and just let it sit there until I'd come and pick it up. Think about this: how hard is it to look up a residents file and place a simple 40 second phone call letting them know a package has arrived? It's not! You're already signing for the damn thing so that means you've already interrupted whatever you were doing, so you might as well follow it through.
Now the burden falls on you to actually get the package. Which if you have a "normal" office job that means you won't be home when they're open. So you either have to take time during lunch or leave early-early one day just to get your package. Fucking frustrating.
What brought this on? Well I took the second half of Tuesday off to get FIOS installed, which it is. Showed up on time, had to rig a few things, but now it works. I was also scheduled to receive a new computer desk as I gave away my old one before I moved out of Detroit. I sat around waiting for it. I checked the Staples order status site a few times but still no update. It was not until I got home today at 6:30p that I checked the site and see it had been delivered at 4pm the previous day to (hopefully) someone in the office. What the fuck. So not only did I not receive it Tuesday but because this leasing office carries short hours (10a - 6p) I don't have it tonight either.
Guess the smooth wheel has to get squeaky to get some service..
See, in my previous places of living, I was technically under the poverty line. As such, I didn't spend money online nor did I have an actual credit card. When I did order things online, I had them sent to my parents house as that's where I sent all my mail. I was still moving around often enough to warrant just keeping them as my mailing address.
But once I moved downtown, I changed my address. I also became employed at a job that resembled something I went to school for. As such, I had money (and a new credit card) to buy things. This meant using NewEgg to build myself a much-deserved new rig. I also became a fiend on this police auction website, snagging any watches that caught my eye.
It was while living downtown that I realized there is no standard way to deliver a package. The USPS differs from FedEx which differs from UPS which differs from DHL. Not only that, but it differs on the driver and the complex, as I'm finding out. Sometimes I'd have packages waiting in front of my apartment door, occasionally I'd have a note stuck on either the lobby door or my mail door saying they delivered the package at the apartment office. What the worst was, however, just delivering it to the office.
When they deliver to the office, they don't tell you. They just update the order, mark it as delivered and head off. This wouldn't be so bad except the office doesn't tell me they've received a package for me. They'd receive it and just let it sit there until I'd come and pick it up. Think about this: how hard is it to look up a residents file and place a simple 40 second phone call letting them know a package has arrived? It's not! You're already signing for the damn thing so that means you've already interrupted whatever you were doing, so you might as well follow it through.
Now the burden falls on you to actually get the package. Which if you have a "normal" office job that means you won't be home when they're open. So you either have to take time during lunch or leave early-early one day just to get your package. Fucking frustrating.
What brought this on? Well I took the second half of Tuesday off to get FIOS installed, which it is. Showed up on time, had to rig a few things, but now it works. I was also scheduled to receive a new computer desk as I gave away my old one before I moved out of Detroit. I sat around waiting for it. I checked the Staples order status site a few times but still no update. It was not until I got home today at 6:30p that I checked the site and see it had been delivered at 4pm the previous day to (hopefully) someone in the office. What the fuck. So not only did I not receive it Tuesday but because this leasing office carries short hours (10a - 6p) I don't have it tonight either.
Guess the smooth wheel has to get squeaky to get some service..