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[Naturegirl1999]

Edit: Oh yeah, and I need an Amazon account to get my mail now.

why? Is there not a post office?

[pisskop]

Got my car back from the mechanic. They told me the thing's a piece of junk and not worth the cost of fixing it.

Every car Ive ever owned has been 'a car Im going to drive into the ground' and subject to a pro/con list as to what I fix.  The heat only turns on when the car is hot, I have some dings on the rear end, the windshield fluid sometimes works, and my remote starter died a few months ago and it needs a dealer-exclusive tool to fix.  The passanger window slipped its alignment, it has a small oil leak, and a smaller antifreeze leak, but otherwise is a pretty solid gitup.  After I replaced the brakepads, got 2 new tires, replaced the battery and some wiring, and that ceiling cloth is stapled on in various places.

[Iduno]

Edit: Oh yeah, and I need an Amazon account to get my mail now.

why? Is there not a post office?

Yes, but they deliver to an Amazon delivery center at my apartments.

[Naturegirl1999]

Edit: Oh yeah, and I need an Amazon account to get my mail now.

why? Is there not a post office?

Yes, but they deliver to an Amazon delivery center at my apartments.

why not just deliver to you? Going through a middleman seems like an unnecessary step

[Iduno]

Edit: Oh yeah, and I need an Amazon account to get my mail now.

why? Is there not a post office?

Yes, but they deliver to an Amazon delivery center at my apartments.

why not just deliver to you? Going through a middleman seems like an unnecessary step

They make more money if they sell the rights to knowing what's in my mail to Amazon. It's tough to raise rent as much as they'd like when rent is already ~half of what people earn, and raises are very small, so they find other ways to increase profits.


Edit: Also, doing all of that and then activating my account got me...nothing. I still don't know which locker to open or how. And I don't have a prybar.

[Yoink]

Edit: Also, doing all of that and then activating my account got me...nothing. I still don't know which locker to open or how. And I don't have a prybar.

TEKTON 3320 18-Inch Utility Pry Bar with FREE no-rush shipping on Amazon. You're welcome!   

[Reelya]

Edit: Oh yeah, and I need an Amazon account to get my mail now.

why? Is there not a post office?

Yes, but they deliver to an Amazon delivery center at my apartments.

why not just deliver to you? Going through a middleman seems like an unnecessary step

They make more money if they sell the rights to knowing what's in my mail to Amazon.

That sounds very unlikely as a reason they want a united drop-off point. You're data isn't worth shit enough to assign a space in the physical world for it. If they have mail-drop there and they want data from that, they have to pay a real person to scan the data. The mail data for your one building just ain't worth taking up space and paying a full-time employee to collect it.

Think about the logistics of dropping stuff off to say 6 people in your building. Maybe not everyone is home to pick up at the time they come, so they clear a few but then have to do extra trips. That's costly. Or they drop stuff outside your unit if you're not home to save the extra trips but then it gets stolen and you're on the phone for hours costing them money in customer service calls, and they probably end up replacing it for free. A single drop-off center means one trip per day, not fucking around, you pick up when you're there and you have to sign for it, so nothing gets stolen and/or nobody can bullshit them about the stuff being stolen off doorsteps. The reason for a single center is that it reduces trips and phone calls they have to deal with.

BTW People have a strange idea about what counts as data-collection too. I was reading an article about a company that uses Google Analytics, and commentors said that's proof that they're "selling the data to Google". No they're not. Google Analytics is a data-analysis web service. When you see a site is linking to "Google Analytics" it is categorically not selling your data to Google as a company. Whoever owns that website is paying Google for the service. It's common sense if you think about it but people see "google analytics" and jump to "Google's got my data!"

[Iduno]

Edit: Oh yeah, and I need an Amazon account to get my mail now.

why? Is there not a post office?

Yes, but they deliver to an Amazon delivery center at my apartments.

why not just deliver to you? Going through a middleman seems like an unnecessary step

They make more money if they sell the rights to knowing what's in my mail to Amazon.

That sounds very unlikely as a reason they want a united drop-off point. You're data isn't worth shit enough to assign a space in the physical world for it. If they have mail-drop there and they want data from that, they have to pay a real person to scan the data. The mail data for your one building just ain't worth taking up space and paying a full-time employee to collect it.

Think about the logistics of dropping stuff off to say 6 people in your building.

Few hundred, but similar idea.

[Reelya]

I meant, 6 people per day out of the number of people in the building (that would be 1 delivery every ~2 weeks per household if there were 100 households in the building).

unless you guys get Amazon deliveries really, really often, which I guess is possible over there.

[Iduno]

I meant, 6 people per day out of the number of people in the building (that would be 1 delivery every ~2 weeks per household if there were 100 households in the building).

unless you guys get Amazon deliveries really, really often, which I guess is possible over there.

No, a few hundred households, and also it's every single delivery, no matter who the carrier is.

[Great Order]

Depression.

I know depression is a lying bitch, but unfortunately knowing that doesn't make its effects feel any less real. Just because I know my life's pretty decent all things considered doesn't mean that I'm going to be happy. I really, really wish it would because I'm getting fed up with the constant sadness, self-doubt, lack of self-esteem, feeling unloveable and so on. And this is me on antidepressants that I know are working because I was worse before I started on them.

[Kagus]

Depression.

I know depression is a lying bitch, but unfortunately knowing that doesn't make its effects feel any less real. Just because I know my life's pretty decent all things considered doesn't mean that I'm going to be happy. I really, really wish it would because I'm getting fed up with the constant sadness, self-doubt, lack of self-esteem, feeling unloveable and so on. And this is me on antidepressants that I know are working because I was worse before I started on them.

I wasn't expecting to be ninja'd like this, but there you have it. Guess it's one of those days, eh?

[scriver]

sad ninja hides his face

[Iduno]

Depression.

I know depression is a lying bitch, but unfortunately knowing that doesn't make its effects feel any less real. Just because I know my life's pretty decent all things considered doesn't mean that I'm going to be happy. I really, really wish it would because I'm getting fed up with the constant sadness, self-doubt, lack of self-esteem, feeling unloveable and so on. And this is me on antidepressants that I know are working because I was worse before I started on them.

Agreed. Brains suck.

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[Eschar]

A friend of mine seems to be very upset. I don't know her well enough to comfort her (or anybody, ever, but that's a whole other story). However, a mutual friend who knows her better will probably talk to her later