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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #105 on: October 22, 2007, 11:11:32 pm »
Awesome. I just ordered a handful of new books from Amazon based on your guys' suggestions, and now I'm not going to get them.

It's my own fault, really: I gave them my street address. I don't get mail at my street address. I do get mail at my PO Box, though.

I thought Amazon shipped standard orders through UPS, but they use USPS. Goddamn, I'm an idiot.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #106 on: October 23, 2007, 12:05:53 am »
Quote from: melack on October 22, 2007, 11:11:32 pm
Awesome. I just ordered a handful of new books from Amazon based on your guys' suggestions, and now I'm not going to get them.

It's my own fault, really: I gave them my street address. I don't get mail at my street address. I do get mail at my PO Box, though.

I thought Amazon shipped standard orders through UPS, but they use USPS. Goddamn, I'm an idiot.

??? I've never received anything from Amazon that wasn't UPS. Well, I got one package that was FedEx, but still.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #107 on: October 23, 2007, 12:10:49 am »
How can you not get mail at your street address?  That sounds downright un-American or something.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #108 on: October 23, 2007, 12:26:32 am »
I live on a funny street that the mailmen miss so often that it's not even worth it to keep a mailbox outside. It's strange, I don't live in the boonies or anything, but this goddamn street is like the Atlantis for mailmen. And yet... UPS and FedEx don't have any problem. Don't ask me how that works.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #109 on: October 23, 2007, 12:32:14 am »
You live in San Francisco right?  Where abouts (you don't have to tell me the street or anything)?

I only ask because I think I am moving there soon.  My friend lived right across from Jack Kerouac Alley in Downtown, right between China Town and Little Italy.  I think I would like to live as close as possible to Golden Gate Park on Haight or the Mission district somewhere.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #110 on: October 23, 2007, 01:00:18 am »
At the moment, I live south of San Francisco on the coast. I am looking at places in the city, though, so I should be living there soon. I'm looking in the same area -- something close to GG park. Probably not quite Mission, though. That neighborhood scares me a little.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #111 on: October 23, 2007, 06:03:07 am »
Quote from: melack on October 22, 2007, 11:11:32 pm
Awesome. I just ordered a handful of new books from Amazon based on your guys' suggestions, and now I'm not going to get them.

It's my own fault, really: I gave them my street address. I don't get mail at my street address. I do get mail at my PO Box, though.

I thought Amazon shipped standard orders through UPS, but they use USPS. Goddamn, I'm an idiot.

I'm sorry to say I still work for the USPS at the moment. You can get mail at your street address and your PO Box - I do all the time.

Also Amazon dropships at US Post Offices, and the drop shipper is UPS a lot of the time. UPS gets them to them to the PO and the PO delivers them to your house or PO Box. We get drop shipments from FedEx, UPS and DHL, with postage for us to complete the delivery. I think it's cheaper for them that way.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #112 on: October 23, 2007, 01:02:10 pm »
Quote from: AlohaDawg on October 23, 2007, 06:03:07 am
UPS gets them to them to the PO and the PO delivers them to your house or PO Box. We get drop shipments from FedEx, UPS and DHL, with postage for us to complete the delivery. I think it's cheaper for them that way.

Well now this is a piece of information that for some reason boggles my mind.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #113 on: October 23, 2007, 01:16:03 pm »
Quote from: wombat on October 23, 2007, 01:02:10 pm
Well now this is a piece of information that for some reason boggles my mind.

It goes the other way too. USPS sends a lot of international mail by FedEx and UPS. Because it's cheaper to pay another company to fly the mail overseas that it is for USPS to buy its own planes and fly/staff/maintain them.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #114 on: October 26, 2007, 01:05:04 am »
Quote from: AlohaDawg on October 23, 2007, 06:03:07 am
I'm sorry to say I still work for the USPS at the moment. You can get mail at your street address and your PO Box - I do all the time.

Also Amazon dropships at US Post Offices, and the drop shipper is UPS a lot of the time. UPS gets them to them to the PO and the PO delivers them to your house or PO Box. We get drop shipments from FedEx, UPS and DHL, with postage for us to complete the delivery. I think it's cheaper for them that way.

Well, shit. That would explain why Amazon told me it was shipping my wife's Harry Potter pre-order by UPS but it showed up in the mailbox.

Although I have to say, the thought of that is kinda like the Black Panthers hiring the Klan to bounce at their rave.
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