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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
A second factor at work is that your UPS (for example) package(s) delivered on Saturday may have actually been delivered by the Postal Service. In the last decade or so, USPS has tried to be less set in its ways (as government agencies tend to be) and let other carriers handle packages that have to travel long distance (they get it done, for whatever reason, faster than the Postal Service), and receive packages from other carriers for them (the Postal Service) to do the actual delivery, etc.
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Thinking about it, I don't believe I've had any UPS packages arrive on Saturday. I actually haven't had much from Amazon arrive on Saturday period, but all the ones I can think of were obviously USPS since they were stuck in the mailbox.
It's usually easy to tell here even without checking the label. USPS arrives before lunch, UPS is always in the afternoon. If it's raining, UPS puts it in a garbage bag and leaves it. USPS either dumps it on the front sidewalk in the rain, or doesn't deliver and leaves a slip in the mailbox. (Sadly the latter is pretty rare.) Had them leave a hardback book Amazon had shipped on the windshield of a car, in the rain. Somehow the book managed to not get wet, but the package was soaked.
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Perhaps you've heard about Amazon's plan to deliver packages by drone (they actually may be testing this in certain test markets). In that case, you could, in the future, place your order on Sunday, and get it on Sunday!
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Yeah, I still think it's a pipe dream for now,
maybe in another 5-10 years. But I doubt I'll live to see it happen where I live. The town's just too small to make drone delivery cost-effective, and lots of hills and trees around. Not exactly great terrain for drone deliveries either.