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Not that I’m endorsing the use of smart phones, but FedEx does have a mobile application. Why not just use that for notifications regarding deliveries?

by chb 3y ago

consp 3y ago
The FedEx one is meh and does afaik, but some (looking at you dhl) are almost useless as they provide little information (tracking info is hidden sometimes), sometimes do not allow you to add the parcel as it has a tracking code from a foreighn service which you cannot use and you have to figure out the local one, are full of "news" also known as ads and do not allow you to select the dropoff location closest to you (go ups!). Sorry, /rant.
- lobsterthief 3y ago
  I feel like DHL is the “YOLO” of delivery companies. My stuff always arrives, somehow, despite the entire process seeming archaic.
genman 3y ago
You mean everyone should install a piece of software from a company that appears to be ignorant about security?
- dotancohen 3y ago
  And buy a very expensive tracking device with frequent security issues? I am lucky to live in a country in which a large religious population eschews the smartphone, so saying "I don't have one" is acceptable and common here. But I have colleagues who tell me that they are expected to have a smartphone from everything to banks to government services to simple small restaurants.
  - risfriend 3y ago
    And where is this?
    - dotancohen 3y ago
      I live in Israel. Most of the ultra religious do not own a smartphone.
  - RugnirViking 3y ago
    interesting. Where is that? I would like to know more
    - dotancohen 3y ago
      I live in Israel. Most of the ultra religious do not own a smartphone.
  - nonrandomstring 3y ago
    Was also thinking, cool, where is this place, and how do I sign up? But then I remembered, I already belong to a religion that makes the ownership of a smartphine quite unconscionable to me. Indeed I wrote about how even a religious objection is unnecessary when there's a knock-down argument on the grounds of what is merely patently unethical. > are expected to I find these "expectations" come from those who didn't read Dickens. [0] https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/06/Microsoft_is_Not_a_Religious_Choice.shtml https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/06/Microsoft_is_Not_a...
DharmaPolice 3y ago
Installing an app for every courier firm you might receive a parcel from seems a bit much.

Not that I’m endorsing the use of smart phones, but FedEx does have a mobile application. Why not just use that for notifications regarding deliveries?

by chb 3y ago

Not that I’m endorsing the use of smart phones, but FedEx does have a mobile application. Why not just use that for notifications regarding deliveries?

consp 3y ago

The FedEx one is meh and does afaik, but some (looking at you dhl) are almost useless as they provide little information (tracking info is hidden sometimes), sometimes do not allow you to add the parcel as it has a tracking code from a foreighn service which you cannot use and you have to figure out the local one, are full of "news" also known as ads and do not allow you to select the dropoff location closest to you (go ups!). Sorry, /rant.

lobsterthief 3y ago
I feel like DHL is the “YOLO” of delivery companies. My stuff always arrives, somehow, despite the entire process seeming archaic.

genman 3y ago

You mean everyone should install a piece of software from a company that appears to be ignorant about security?

dotancohen 3y ago
And buy a very expensive tracking device with frequent security issues? I am lucky to live in a country in which a large religious population eschews the smartphone, so saying "I don't have one" is acceptable and common here. But I have colleagues who tell me that they are expected to have a smartphone from everything to banks to government services to simple small restaurants.
- risfriend 3y ago
  And where is this?
  - dotancohen 3y ago
    I live in Israel. Most of the ultra religious do not own a smartphone.
- RugnirViking 3y ago
  interesting. Where is that? I would like to know more
  - dotancohen 3y ago
    I live in Israel. Most of the ultra religious do not own a smartphone.
- nonrandomstring 3y ago
  Was also thinking, cool, where is this place, and how do I sign up? But then I remembered, I already belong to a religion that makes the ownership of a smartphine quite unconscionable to me. Indeed I wrote about how even a religious objection is unnecessary when there's a knock-down argument on the grounds of what is merely patently unethical. > are expected to I find these "expectations" come from those who didn't read Dickens. [0] https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/06/Microsoft_is_Not_a_Religious_Choice.shtml https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/06/Microsoft_is_Not_a...

DharmaPolice 3y ago

Installing an app for every courier firm you might receive a parcel from seems a bit much.