• phantomwise@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    I’m the other kind of ADHD : “A package? Thanks for the kind gift past me, I wonder what you got me because I have completely forgotten about it!” Then “Ooooh it’s the thing I couldn’t live without then I forgot all about it! Cool!”

  • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl
    3·
    1 day ago

    Leaving packages at the door is so uncool, they should either put it inside, behind a fenced of area or just return it to the nearest pickup point

    • SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      As long as they don’t leave it in the stoner nook it’s fine.

      Great place to get rid of old furniture though. Put my old busted computer chair down there and saw them wheeling it off. When I got back inside.

  • k0e3@lemmy.ca
    8·
    2 days ago

    I’m probably just overthinking it, but the more I see these ADHD comics/memes, I feel like I’ve been living my entire life undiagnosed.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 day ago

      or most of these memes aren’t exclusive to ADHD at all… like getting excited about something you’re waiting for, wow what a unique experience to people with one particular diagnosis.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        Have you ever accidentally shit your pants? Congrats, you have IBS.

        They’re not exclusive to ADHD, but if you experience these things all the time and they are literally interfering with your ability to lead a happy life it could be.

        Just like how shitting your pants once or twice in your adult life isn’t the same as having a problem that causes you to shit your pants much more than the average person.

    • Zanathos@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Same here. Ordered something last week and it’s still in “ordered” status with no shipment or tracking confirmation. Brain can not stop thinking if it will actually be here on time with only a day and a half left.

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 days ago

      Yeah I’ve setup DHL deliveries to automatically deliver everything addressed to me to a nearby package locker. I always get my packages way sooner than if I let the delivery driver come to my house. Like a package normal arrives at 15.00h at the latest in the locker. A DHL delivery to my house doesn’t come until 19.00h and it’s fuck knows when it actually arrives. I once had a delivery driver at my door at 23.00h

  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    I know this is probably the worst place I could possibly pose this question, but I’ve been wondering, so here goes. But first some background.

    Probably within the past year or two, I discovered that FedEx started showing the name and a photo of the delivery driver on the tracking pages. Since they started doing that, I’ve noticed a very strong trend.

    Whenever my package is late, meaning it’s marked as “Out for delivery” on a given day, but doesn’t arrive, it’s always the same driver. Now it’s at the point where if I get a notification that my package is out for delivery and I happen to see that Bob (not his real name) is the driver, I know for sure it’s not coming that day. Sometimes it’ll come the following day, but most often it doesn’t get delivered until a different driver shows up on the tracking page several days later.

    So, I’m wondering, when they know they don’t plan on actually making a delivery attempt but they need to mark the package as out for delivery, do they just have a designated “fake” driver they assign it to? Is Bob even a real human?

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 day ago

      Best guess: “out for delivery” means “loaded into the van”. Especially if the projected delivery time is rather late, that is, you’re at the tail end of their round, it can happen that they won’t make it. And because FedEx isn’t being smart about things and flips route directions every day it can be that they won’t make it the next day, either, because you’re still at the end of the route. Only when your location is covered by another driver which doesn’t have you towards the very end then is the package delivered.

      There’s various ways to alleviate that, in particular switching around routes so the tail end problem doesn’t hit the same people all the time, but I guess the penny-pincher MBAs that be at FedEx don’t see it contributing to the quarterly results. Here in Germany it’s usually along the lines of “we’re fucking busy, sucks to be you, we brought it to a parcel pick up, go there, next delivery attempt in three days, then it’s going to stay at the pickup until you pick it up or we send it back. Did you know that you can register with parcel pickup and have all your packages sent there also it’s self-serve. Please, it’s right next to the supermarket our backs hurt. Do something for the environment, :)!”.

  • KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca
    3·
    2 days ago

    Me, the one time I order something every year: “Oh shit oh shit oh shit are they gonna bring it to my door? the depot? Or maybe they’ll leave it at the post office again or shit maybe they’ll try to find my house but can’t because google maps sucks here and they’ll take it back and someone will give me crap for living in a place that doesn’t exist oh shit oh shit oh shit I’m never ordering something ever again it’s all gonna fail! I better call the depot and let them know that something might be dropped off with them…”

    Meanwhile, my wife who orders 5 billion things that all arrive without incident: “Oh neat! Another parcel! I forgot I ordered this!”