but...but why? it's a good way to relax :)
- Sir Shuping
I must remember as I venture to the wool shop: I have to have enough room for Dorothea to come stay in a couple of weeks. The entire den should not be stacked with skeins of yarn.
Adequate supplies--what a wonderful idea! My wife's basically given up, despite being asthmatic: There's so little vaccine around here (Northern CA), apparently, that it's only going to children and extremely high-risk people.
- Walt Crawford
Feeling kind of grinch-ish. Already have had ten different charity requests on my checkbook for the holiday season and it's not yet Thanksgiving. How do you decide what to contribute to?
Actually, part of it is extremely bad habits by some charities. I complained to two that we regularly donate to, early in the calendar year, that they've been sending multiple renewal letters since September. The response? "We start asking when our fiscal year begins and we keep on until you give"--not even an apology, much less willingness to cut the flow of excess mail, postage, etc. VERY tempted to drop those outfits.
- Walt Crawford
Just to clarify: They *do not care* when you prefer to donate. Donate at the start of *their* fiscal year, even if it's a month after you just donated, or the letters just keep on coming.
- Walt Crawford
It's not just mail--though I agree with Walt that I get a ton of snail mail too asking for funds--it's the 3 different drives at work (city sponsored general stuff, sponsor a family, book drive) plus the various ones through Kiwanis (Salvation Army, sponsor families, gifts in shoe boxes to go around the world, etc) plus plus plus plus plus......
- Abigail
When I processed some donations/managed db for a non-profit, people could specifically request not to get paper mail/solicitations. But then, it was an environmental group, so maybe we were better about that than most. :)
- Rachel Walden
Our state-wide one at work has a local fund drive chairman who likes to use (via email) Kantian deontic harangues about our "duty" to contribute. As "retired" military I can spout off about duty all day without resorting to Kant. I do not need that crap!
- Mar₭ the Engaged
If Iris gets rock hard abs from the perpetual cough, I want them from the continuous sneezing.
that's a usps thing. they don't ever "track" packages...even if it has a tracking number on it. they only scan it at destination points and it's really freaking slow
- Sir Shuping
In my experience, the *only* downside of USPS--lack of tracking. Otherwise, MediaMail seems to be faster than UPS Ground as well as cheaper. (Sez I, sitting here with the new Cites & Insights 9 trade paperback, shipped on Friday or Saturday from across the country via MediaMail...)
- Walt Crawford
I guess... they seem to scan things when I send them, stuff is delayed 24 hours showing up on their website but I track packages I send all the time.
- Abigail
USPS seems to roll dice as far as how they're going to scan packages. I've had them not show up in the tracking system until they arrive.
- Jàson Puçkett
This is when we get ours....apparently the semi with them arrived last night. And Samoas break all the acceptable-food-with-braces rules...so, no, not this year.
- Abigail