Who would open their door in the dark at 10pm ?

They don’t knock or ring the doorbell here. The parcel usually just gets tossed on the steps or walked up and set to the side. Even some items which require a signature don’t have anyone come to the door. I get a text message as soon as something has been left at the door, so I’d open it then, not for a knock.

I’m just guessing that the failure to knock is a game they’re playing. They can see the Photo doorbell and manage to come up at an angle that doesn’t activate it.
 

Murrmurr said:
I dated a gal who kept a rock in a sock under her pillow.

I was staying at her place one night when I woke up and saw her standing next to the bed looking like a naked ninja; her squinting eyes fixed on the bedroom door, leaned back on her right leg, her left arm out in front and her right hand swinging that sock over her head like a freaking copter blade at full torque.

I swear I could almost hear it whhirrr.

"'the f*** are you doing?"

She glanced at me for a moment and hissed, "Shh!" and her eyes shot back to the door with that steely gaze. "I heard a noise!"

whhirrr...whhirrr...whhirrr!

It was the fiercest (yet sexiest) sight I'd ever seen in my life, and I could have just turned and tucked myself back in. I mean, she had this thing handled, man. Whoever was out there was a dead man walking.

But I told copter-girl to just lower the sock and I went and cleared the house.

If some dude was out there, but he heard us and left...that was his lucky night.
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You once date my crazy sister!?

Back in the '60's when we lived in the projects, she used to run around them on those metal skates with the leather straps to tie them to your feet. Anyone messed with her, she's whip them off her feet and get them swinging around her head like that in about two seconds flat. If the idiot was too stupid to run, idiot in the next second got metal skates up side his head.

Man, but she was great protection! There was this bully we little kids lived in dread of because he got his kicks beating little kids up. About my sister's age but tall, about six feet already. We called him the Jolly Green Giant but jolly he wasn't.

Anyway he cornered me in the playground one day. Thinking because it was he and my sister who had the bad reps in the neighborhood, it wouldn't work on him like it did on everyone else (not many blondes there so they took me at my word that she was) I closed my eyes and braced to be hit but yelled out my basic defense none the less, Candy's my sister! Candy's my sister.

Braced for punch never came. After a while I got brave and peeped my eyes open and Jolly Green Giant was gone. Wow, my little eight year old self said in awe of my 13yo sister. She was committed to a mental hospital shortly after that but the Jolly Green Giant still didn't take any chances and left me alone.
 
Only if I know it's coming and likewise, leave it and leave. I can't really get to brick and mortar so I buy a lot from Amazon and a couple of other stores. It's a pet peeve of mine that they deliver up to 10pm here. Jut deliver the danged thing already by a decent hour - seven at the latest - I want to get comfortable. But, yes, I'll keep an eye on the updates and check for van and uniform through window first but if they deliver that late, I'm opening the door, grabbing my package and getting it in before a porch priate gets it.
 

Murrmurr said:
If I had to choose between bringing my delivery in or leaving it to chance, rain, sleet, or snow, I'd open the door. I can't stand the thought of buying stuff for thieves.

Funny thing; 3 pairs of cargo sweat pants I ordered didn't arrive so I notified Amazon. They said wait a few days, and I did. Still no pants, so I called again and they gave me a credit, and I used it to buy 3 pairs of sweat pants without the cargo pockets from a different Amazon partner.

That order arrived in about 4 days. The original order arrived 2 days after that. I didn't report it, which probly makes me as thievy as a porch-pirate, but I chalked it up to "We all have our moments." 😏
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Hey, that's on them. I've done it too. But beware, Amazon is getting smart on this and tracking it even when delivered through the Post Office. I once had a book not come for a month and I said cancel it and refund my credit card. They did and the book came a month later. They sent me an e-mail oh we see the USPS has delivered it, either return it or we'll charge your card. I ignored it and let them charge my card.

After all, I was willing to pay for the thing to begin with but two months is a bit extreme for delivery. But, yeah, they're getting wise. I'd have probably returned it if not for it having been in winter when I can't get to the danged Post Office in the snow and ice on my power chair. This stupid book wasn't worth the wait and it wasn't available on Kindle.

I confess, I've been ordering up classics before they can "alter" them on reprint to be politically correct - got into the obsession with the news that they were going to alter Charle and the Chocolate Factory so Augustus Gloop was no longer called fat and Kindle books (where I had everything) they can change on you without warning. And, yes, I check the print date and don't trust anything to not have been rewritten to PC norms after 2020 and I prefer before 2000. I get the earliest printing I can.

Humorously, in a batch of several recently, one was Farenheit 451. I looked over at my shelf of I'm no longer trusting having it just on Kindle classics and grimaced at the thought of the firemen entering my abode. Don't turn me in!
 
Blaze Duskdreamer said:
Hey, that's on them. I've done it too. But beware, Amazon is getting smart on this and tracking it even when delivered through the Post Office. I once had a book not come for a month and I said cancel it and refund my credit card. They did and the book came a month later. They sent me an e-mail oh we see the USPS has delivered it, either return it or we'll charge your card. I ignored it and let them charge my card.

After all, I was willing to pay for the thing to begin with but two months is a bit extreme for delivery. But, yeah, they're getting wise. I'd have probably returned it if not for it having been in winter when I can't get to the danged Post Office in the snow and ice on my power chair. This stupid book wasn't worth the wait and it wasn't available on Kindle.

I confess, I've been ordering up classics before they can "alter" them on reprint to be politically correct - got into the obsession with the news that they were going to alter Charle and the Chocolate Factory so Augustus Gloop was no longer called fat and Kindle books (where I had everything) they can change on you without warning. And, yes, I check the print date and don't trust anything to not have been rewritten to PC norms after 2020 and I prefer before 2000. I get the earliest printing I can.

Humorously, in a batch of several recently, one was Farenheit 451. I looked over at my shelf of I'm no longer trusting having it just on Kindle classics and grimaced at the thought of the firemen entering my abode. Don't turn me in!
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For that reason, I ignored the postcard they sent requesting a review of the ones I reported undelivered....probably one of the ways they track it.

I hear you about editing classic books. That really ticks me off as well. There's no justification for not keeping them in print when they can print 2 versions; one for sane people and one for *the modern audience* (cue ominous echo).

Or they could just put a jacket cover on them with a list of Trigger Warnings for the (over-)sensitive. But what sensitive person is going to buy novels with titles like Blood Meridian or American Psycho anyway? Sure, some slasher novels and books about war and books with words like "fatso" somewhere in them have completely innocuous titles....so put a jacket on 'em.
 
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I live in an apartment building so it is different for me. So I think if I had a house and someone was knocking on my door I would look out and see who it was first. Then turn on the outside light. Then open the door if I saw he had an Amazon box for me. Or ask through the door who he was and what he wanted. I guess I could tell him to just leave the package there in front of the door.
 
Blaze Duskdreamer said:
You once date my crazy sister!?

Back in the '60's when we lived in the projects, she used to run around them on those metal skates with the leather straps to tie them to your feet. Anyone messed with her, she's whip them off her feet and get them swinging around her head like that in about two seconds flat. If the idiot was too stupid to run, idiot in the next second got metal skates up side his head.

Man, but she was great protection! There was this bully we little kids lived in dread of because he got his kicks beating little kids up. About my sister's age but tall, about six feet already. We called him the Jolly Green Giant but jolly he wasn't.

Anyway he cornered me in the playground one day. Thinking because it was he and my sister who had the bad reps in the neighborhood, it wouldn't work on him like it did on everyone else (not many blondes there so they took me at my word that she was) I closed my eyes and braced to be hit but yelled out my basic defense none the less, Candy's my sister! Candy's my sister.

Braced for punch never came. After a while I got brave and peeped my eyes open and Jolly Green Giant was gone. Wow, my little eight year old self said in awe of my 13yo sister. She was committed to a mental hospital shortly after that but the Jolly Green Giant still didn't take any chances and left me alone.
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Well the gal I dated was pretty crazy. But as far as I know, she hasn't been committed ...yet.

Maybe it's not too late, though. ;)
 
bobcat said:
.... and the batteries are probably for your dead flashlight that you're gonna need.
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Love your new profile pic Bob! 😍 Funny reply.
HD I rarely have things delivered here because delivery people have done some dumb stuff, like leaving packages right in front of the multi unit apartment door where they can be stepped on by someone coming out.

Now I have packages delivered to my son's job or Amazon's to their hub. The P.O delivers my meds and since they have a key to the building, they ring my bell & leave it by my door. But to answer your question, I wouldn't open the door that late. Like others, I'd wait until they left.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Love your new profile pic Bob! 😍 Funny reply.
HD I rarely have things delivered here because delivery people have done some dumb stuff, like leaving packages right in front of the multi unit apartment door where they can be stepped on by someone coming out.

Now I have packages delivered to my son's job or Amazon's to their hub. The P.O delivers my meds and since they have a key to the building, they ring my bell & leave it by my door. But to answer your question, I wouldn't open the door that late. Like others, I'd wait until they left.
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Diva they do that here in the UK at some apartment buildings.. or they leave them in the wheelie bins... we hear all sorts of stories.. and of course they either get stolen or damaged..

Talking of not delivering to individual apartments... here in the UK many...many deliverers of furniture won't deliver upstairs .. in their contracts when you buy, they state that the item ( say, sofa or bed or desk) will only be delivered to the main door of the building. That's bad enough if it's a house, but if its an apartment, it's a big problem.
 
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katlupe said:
I live in an apartment building so it is different for me. So I think if I had a house and someone was knocking on my door I would look out and see who it was first. Then turn on the outside light. Then open the door if I saw he had an Amazon box for me. Or ask through the door who he was and what he wanted. I guess I could tell him to just leave the package there in front of the door.
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Common sense is pretty helpful, isn't it?
 
Blaze Duskdreamer said:
...I confess, I've been ordering up classics before they can "alter" them on reprint to be politically correct - got into the obsession with the news that they were going to alter Charle and the Chocolate Factory so Augustus Gloop was no longer called fat and Kindle books (where I had everything) they can change on you without warning. And, yes, I check the print date and don't trust anything to not have been rewritten to PC norms after 2020 and I prefer before 2000. I get the earliest printing I can...
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I haven't thought of publishers updating e-versions of the books on kindle, etc. Maybe it is better to get a hardcopy of the books.
 
Just went out for a little walk. Coming back, checked the mailbox though I was certain I'd gotten the mail in the late morning. Sure enough, small Amazon package in there. Sadly it was the wrong thing, so I checked... I goofed, not them. Ordered a WiFi smart temp/hum/lux sensor instead of a ZigBee unit that looks the same.

It'll work, but I don't want to eat up another DHCP address on my router or replace the device's batteries so often. ZigBee doesn't have those drawbacks.

Oh well, bored everyone already but my point is that we can screw up too.
 
hollydolly said:
to accept a delivery ?

I ordered some batteries from Amazon. Just had notice that delivery will be made between 7.45 an 9.45pm.... ! it'll be pitch dark at that time...

if you live alone would you open your door at that time in the dark for a delivery ?
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Yes, of course I would. If someone is knocking, I'm answering.
 
I never answer my door, I don't care what time it is or whose knocking. Unless, Of course, they're expected company.
I had some jerk the other night, Amazon I think, banging on my door...I wasn't answering. Continued like forever. I was sitting here in my computer room on my computer w/the light on. It was dark out 5:30pm or so. I heard him tell someone that I wasn't answering. I caught him parked in front of my house later and went out there and asked him if it was him banging on my door. He apologized. I told him there was no need to be banging on my door ever.

Come to find out, he was at the wrong house.
 
Gardenlover said:
I haven't thought of publishers updating e-versions of the books on kindle, etc. Maybe it is better to get a hardcopy of the books.
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There's this whole movement to update books to politically correct language both in print and e-books. It's horrible. Farenheit 451 is probably coming. Why not? 1984 was only some 40 years early in its estimation of a totalarian society. So, yes, I've been buying up print copies and the earliest printing I can get - both children and adult classics that I've loved over the years.

It really started with wanting to take the n-word out of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn despite the language was typical of the times and if they actually bothered to read them, they would realize that N Jim was Huckleberry's friend and well thought of by Huck and Tom. The most publicized one that spurred me to start buying them before it was too late was to reprint Charlie and the Chocolate Factory removing calling Augustus fat.
 
Glory hallelujah! Amazon just delivered an item that was supposed to be delivered by 10pm yesterday. You would not believe the amount of beetching it took to get them to deign to come out here at all. Of course, they did because I decided if they weren't here by five, I was going to cancel. It was a small item so not worth all this trouble. I should have gone to Walmart.
 
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