Parcel post sheep (and meaningless signs).

So I order another item from Amazon.com, and have it sent to, instead of myself at my address, my mother at hers across town.

Why am I doing it this way? Because it's more likely that the parcel carrier won't have to re-deliver the item. If I had it sent directly to me, chances are better than good that there would be two, maybe even three attempts at delivery before I even saw it.

And why is this? Because the building manager of the apartment "cluster" in which I live had no foresight. He allowed one tenant, an evangelical Christian church, to take down a sign he had put up on purchasing the property, and replace it with one that gave no clear indication whatsoever of the address to "Joslin House Apartments," which is the name this cluster goes by locally. 168 Main Street is its registered Postal Service address. This sign is visible from the street-side to a distance of some 600 yards (548^2/3 m); it is in the most ideal position available for a street-number sign, but it has no numbers on it except the times for Sunday bible-study and worship.

Consequently, parcel-post-delivery persons can't find Joslin House worth a damn!

I'm sure that if I ordered things from Amazon and other online and mail-order merchants more often than I do, this would not, after a given amount of time, be an issue. However, due to circumstances I'd rather not go into here and now, I don't, and the end-up is a cock-up.

What surprises me, also, is that this same building manager rents units in this complex to small businessmen, from which they operate their sole-proprietorships, partnerships and other modest enterprises. On that odd occasion when one of these presumably professional people have a supplier who changes parcel carriers, or they themselves switch to another goods supplier altogether, they must have to put up with the same hair-pulling headache as I do, at least once.

BZT