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May I ask where this was? Crazy to me that there would be a place with UPS service but not E911 service.
by mason55 15y ago
May I ask where this was? Crazy to me that there would be a place with UPS service but not E911 service.
- protomyth 15y agoRural ND on a reservation. E911 was implemented not too long ago (5 - 10 years). UPS in ND was always good at getting you your package. The drivers knew everyone and where they worked (or knew who to ask). Packages sent to my home actually got dropped off at my work (in person, well except the furniture type stuff, then they would warn you they were headed to your house so you could put it in the house). The Post Office didn't do a route on the reservation (come pick it up - all PO Boxes), and FedEx was the most pain in the rear, evil group ever (drive 2 hours to pick up you package because we stop delivering in late Dec). You can work up quite the mad driving two hours to pick up network cable in a ND winter. Around 1996, I actually had to tell a vendor we couldn't do business with them anymore because they had to ship FedEx. FedEx did get better, but don't mix up FedEx and FedEx Ground else there will be a lecture.
- benologist 15y agoWe have Fedex/UPS/DHL and use directions in Nicaragua and surrounding countries - I live 50 meters south of a doctor's clinic.
- protomyth 15y agoIts amazing when you get in rural environments how directions like "left after the old Benson house" (never mind Benson has been dead for 40 years) or "first house on the left in the 52 housing" (52 was the year the houses were built. // never mind the "Easter Egg housing" and how they got their name - cheap*$$ government and their "bright" paints