• resend: Customer service

    From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to JOE MACKEY on Sat Oct 13 14:14:00 2018
    Date: 18 Sep 18 19:59:47
    From: Nancy Backus
    To: joe mackey
    Subj: Re: Customer service ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Quoting joe mackey to Daryl Stout on 10-Sep-2018 06:13 <=-

    The only time I have a trouble is with deliveries.
    Nowadays, folks are following the delivery trucks around, and
    stealing stuff as soon as it's dropped off!!

    I've heard about that.
    A neighbour ordered something that was supposed to be signed for but
    the delivery guy just left it at his door. (He worked midnight's so
    might not have heard the knock). We had problems when that landlord
    rented to just anyone with cash in hand. (A lot of evictions when they couldn't come up with the following month's rent, or just didn't pay). Anyway, someone saw it and walked off with it. (The seller replaced
    it at no cost).

    Generally that is the case, that it will be replaced, same as if it got
    lost in the mail... We live in a neighborhood with single family (and
    some two-family) homes... here the problem is more likely that the
    postman delivered the package or letter to the wrong house... Sometimes
    the wrong recipient is honest and will either deliver it or put it out
    for the carrier to try again... But sometimes it just gets kept....

    The current landlord has security cameras in all public areas,
    requires background checks (good thing I was grandfathered in <g>)
    and so forth. Don't have those problems now. Plus the outer doors
    are locked, etc. (Used to have keys but some tenants made copies
    for their friends. Now everyone is issued a swipe card).

    You'd probably still pass background checks... after all, you work in security.... <G>

    ttyl neb

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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to NANCY BACKUS on Mon Oct 15 07:08:30 2018
    Nancy wrote --

    postman delivered the package or letter to the wrong house

    My building has multiple boxes at the entrance in the wall. (Picture
    an old movie set in NYC apartment building. Several rows and stacked.
    The mailman opens the top and the apartment slots drop down about six or
    so inches and the mail dropped in).
    There was a mailman several years who just put mail in any slot. It
    wasn't uncommon find mail for someone else in ones box. (I remember one
    time not looking closely and opened someone else's mail by mistake. I resealed, wrote opened by mistake on the envelope and slipped it under
    their door. I wondered why a bill collector was after me. <g>) *
    People here take the mis-delivered mail to whomever, either in person
    or under their door.

    The current landlord has security cameras in all public areas,
    requires background checks (good thing I was grandfathered in <g>)

    You'd probably still pass background checks... after all, you work in security.... <G>

    The company I work for only does local background checks for new hires.
    At times they would send someone to parking, with the police
    department doing a different check on different state/federal level.
    One time at the start of the school year we had three new people show up.
    I was starting my training instructions when a LT from the PD walked in
    with a clip board and called people by name, looked over the paperwork
    and he asked for this one person to go with him. I thought nothing much
    about it, figuring they just needed more information or something.
    Sometimes there were questions.
    Anyway, the fella was gone a long time, I didn't want to proceed too
    far along and we all took a break.
    Standing around outside we saw the guy had been "cuffed and stuffed"
    and in the back of a police car that was leaving.
    I found out the fella had several outstanding warrants on him in
    another state!
    The last we heard he was a guest of the county before going back to wherever.
    No one could understand, either in parking or the police department,
    why someone like that would want work in security.
    * Shortly after I retired I would help out here and there for either
    four hours or one day. I would just wait a while to pick up my cheque, sometimes a month later.
    One time I was expecting two small cheques for four hours each.
    In the binder cheques are kept at this one place (where I am working weekends now) were two cheques. I picked up both envelopes, not paying attention, it was some days after the last payday. At the bank I opened
    the envelopes and endorsed them but just before I got to the ATM I found
    one was for a lot more than I was expecting then that one was for another person! Yikes.
    I called my captain, told him what I had done and returned the cheque
    where that person could pick it up. I was so glad I checked the amount
    and noticed a different name on it. Never did that before, or since.
    That guy had quit and moved out of town. A new cheque was cut and
    sent to him.
    Joe
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