WalMart ID

[K Frame]

I applaud WalMart's innovative use of third world child slave labor as a means of keeping prices low every day.

Everyone knows that children tend to work faster than adults and it doesn't take nearly as much to feed them.

[wmenorr67]

I applaud WalMart's innovative use of third world child slave labor as a means of keeping prices low every day.

Everyone knows that children tend to work faster than adults and it doesn't take nearly as much to feed them.

Plus they don't have to take a smoke break for 15 minutes every hour on the hour.

[Boomhauer]

I applaud WalMart's innovative use of third world child slave labor as a means of keeping prices low every day.

Everyone knows that children tend to work faster than adults and it doesn't take nearly as much to feed them.

Plus they don't have to take a smoke break for 15 minutes every hour on the hour.

Don't forget not having to pay social security or worker's comp.

[lupinus]

Just got off the phone with someone names Viki at corporate.  She states that the new policy is that in states with a readable strip clerks are to swipe the ID.  She didn't make mention if the system required it in order to proceed, but it's policy according to her.

I told her that that means while it is in effect I'll suck up a large percentage increase on certain items and go down the street.

On the upside she seemed to understand my points and not brush them off, and if it was acting she deserve a little golden man (at least the cheap plastic ones walmart sells).  "Hundreds of internet forum responses from various forums with my same reaction" seemed to sink in the most.

Will try it out in a few weeks just to see if it's still in place.  If it is no more hassle then telling the clerk to put it back on the shelf.

[WeedWhacker]

Not if you need it Right Now. Plus, only UPS will deliver it, and UPS seems to think it's the 1950's. They expect someone to be home all day on weekdays to sign for it, do not deliver on Saturday, and if you're not home, you need to go to a UPS office to sign for it.

Georgia Arms sells high-quality bulk ammo. Thus far, they've yet to require the UPS driver to collect a signature, which I find very convenient. No, the ammo isn't quite as cheap as WWB at Wal-Mart, and you have to wait for delivery, but then again paying a little more to support a company you like rather than one you don't is often very worth it in the long run.

As for needing ammo "right now", well, better work on your planning skills a little.

[Manedwolf]

It's not the shipper who requires, it seems like every UPS thing I've seen requires any ORM-D shipment to be signed for and they won't leave it. I don't know if that's a policy or what.

[Scout26]

It's not the shipper who requires, it seems like every UPS thing I've seen requires any ORM-D shipment to be signed for and they won't leave it. I don't know if that's a policy or what

The way to get around that is to call your local UPS (or Fedex or DHL) office and ask if you can fill out the signature required waiver form.  Once they have your "I promise not to file a claim if it gets stolen off my porch" (aka Signature on File) form, they can then do the "drop and run" for all your deliveries. 

[K Frame]

Delivery chimps actually paying attention to the signature block?

Back when UPS was on strike a few years ago I was working at a gunshop that was closed on Monday.

I got the odd feeling that I needed to swing by the shop and check things out.

I found a box on the front porch, for all the world to see in an area that had more than its fair share of undesirable traffic, just PLASTERED with huge yellow signature required stickers.

Nine handguns in the shipping box, just abandoned on the front porch because the delivery chimps couldn't be bothered to come back. I got on the phone and screamed at numerous levels of FedEx management for about an hour. Fat lot of good it did.

[K Frame]

Oh, and remember, UPS is the company that couldn't control employee theft, so it jacked gunowners on shipping.

[cordex]

Mike,
A friend's uncle used to own a gun shop and had a Class III license.  He came home one day from a vacation and his neighbor brought over a long box, saying it had been delivered a few days before and left on the front porch.

Inside was an M16.


I ran by Walmart last night and bought some .22 ammo.  When asked what it was for, I said "submachine gun".  Not asked to swipe my license, just show it (didn't even take it out of my wallet).

[Manedwolf]

Oh, and remember, UPS is the company that couldn't control employee theft, so it jacked gunowners on shipping.

I don't have much good to say about UPS. I had to help take pictures at work of one of their better efforts.

Ceramic tubes for graft manufacturing. Marked, all over the boxes, DO NOT STACK.

They stacked them ten high. They were smashed. There were pieces of ceramic coming out of the smashed boxes.

The delivery person saw nothing unusual about this.

Oh, and a box of MREs sent to my parents was smashed so badly that the MREs were leaking. Yes, UPS actually managed to smash AND tear the outer packs and the retorts inside cardboard. I've been assured that MREs run over by vehicles tend to be intact, and HDRs survive airdrops onto rocky terrain, but UPS managed to destroy them.

[Gewehr98]

I'm not happy with FedEx right now.

I ordered some extra removable hard drive cassettes for my workstations, and paid for 3-day express delivery.

I tracked the shipment via the FedEx website, and noticed that they made it to my locale in 2 days.

Great, but there was a line in the tracking page that said, "Not scheduled for delivery".

So they sat on it for an extra day so I wouldn't get it in 2 days vs. 3 - wonderful.

Then, I tracked it yesterday, checking the website as it said out for delivery.

Early in the afternoon, I checked again, and it said, "Delivered at 11:23 AM, left on customer's doorstep, no signature required."

Except I had been out that same doorway several times during the day to take the dogs out, etc.  There was no package there.

I called FedEx, and initiated action to figure out where my package was, then I went to work at 2:30.

My wife called me, and said the FedEx delivery lady stopped by with a note explaining that she delivered it to a house 100 numbers lower, but when she stopped there to retrieve it, the package was gone and nobody was home.  "So Sorry!"  She said she left a note there with my phone number for that neighbor to return my package.

That was it.  Nothing more.  No hints that they were going to return and attempt retrieval when the resident there was home, no initiation of a claim, no nothing.  I am not impressed, and if I cannot get the package from that neighbor, I'll have to find recourse somehow.