Have you tried having your Amazon packages sent to a pick-up locker? It's very handy. These lockers sit in front of, or inside, grocery stores and other places we go all the time, and Amazon will ship your air fryer, Alka-Seltzer or after shave to the locker instead of your house, "where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal" (that's from the book of Matthew. Even in Biblical times, people stole stuff from the front porches of others. The penitent thief, Dismas, ripped off a whole shipment of manna and got in trouble for it).
So it's a great deal. You are notified when your goods have been stowed in the locker, and you can open the door either with a six-digit code or a bar code that's in the message you receive. And no one is knocking on your door or prowling/pirating on your porch.
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| Each locker cabinet has a unique name. Hello, Locksmith. |
The other day, I ordered something that, for whatever reason, Amazon would not drop off at a locker. They said it would come via FedEx on Wednesday, which is the day when I got the message that it had been delivered Tuesday, and signed for by someone named AMIKE.
Here's where it gets interesting, before you run off to work your Sudoku. I emailed the company that shipped the item; they said FedEx delivered it. I wrote right back and said that was not the case. Within two minutes, the company wrote back and said they had contacted the driver and he said he dropped the package at the wrong house, and they will now ship a replacement.
Do I believe that within two minutes they
- contacted FedEx
- FedEx found out who the driver was
- FedEx contacted the driver
- the driver raced through his memory and
- deduced that he had dropped it off at the Shufflebottom residence and
- FedEx replied to the original company and
- they replied to me and said they will sent a replacement right out.
We'll see how long it takes for the replacement to arrive. But do yourself a good turn and try the lockers!
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