Doorbell rings. Usually, on weekdays, that's UPS dropping off an item and the truck's gone by the time I get to the door. But...today's Sunday. And there's a smiling USPS (not UPS!) employee, having just dropped off Gray's Anatomy Season 10, which we ordered with free ("5-8 day shipping") and which shipped on Friday.
April Russo (FForever!),
Galadriel C.,
Christina Pikas,
MoTO Boychick Devil,
Brent Schaus,
WoH: Professor MOTHRA,
Lisa L. Seifert,
vicster.,
Corinne L,
Victor Ganata,
m9m, Crone of FriendFeed,
and
Kirsten loves you
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I look surprised, she says "Starting today. Only parcels." I knew the Postal Service was starting Sunday deliveries to do the work UPS and FedEx don't do well, and to do Amazon grocery delivery...but this was a USPS parcel, sent at minimum cost. Delivered Sunday. Did I mention delivered Sunday? At no extra cost?
- walt crawford
I wish to Gaia that Congress would stop trying so hard to put USPS out of business (USPS is actually profitable, except for $5 billion a year in forced long-term retirement costs that NO OTHER AGENCY IS REQUIRED TO PAY), since I regard it as the best delivery service out there.
- walt crawford
Yep, we've had Sunday delivery maybe a year now. Amazing. ETA: Oh, not even Amazon? Wow!
- Meg VMeg
I would also note that Amazon's learned how to "overpack" DVD sets--a plain air-padded envelope, not a lot bigger than the set itself. Nothing else, nothing inside, and I assume they paid $1.81 (media mail, up to 1lb., 5-digit presort) or less.
- walt crawford
"Air-padded" isn't the right word--it's one of those envelopes lined with bubble-wrap equivalent. Anyway, Amazon and USPS both get full credit.
- walt crawford
Yeah, Amazon struck a deal with USPS. (I get all the USPS gossip now that toddlerx's dad has a second job as a rural route driver.)
- laura x
Meg: No, it was Amazon. But it appears that it's for other parcels as well.
- walt crawford