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Had to buy a new phone...
The oh-so-rugged Sonim's rubber is stretched out, and deteriorated after only 2 years. Back to Sonim it goes, so I picked up the red phone at Target for $40 until the Sonim gets back - which will take at least 10 days according to Sonim. In addition, the thing will sporadically lose time - anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes - for no apparent reason.
I'm NOT impressed. Sonims are supposed to be "da bomb", but this one "bombed" all right. Then Sonim sends me a label they want on the outside of the box with the RMA number - WITH A BARCODE. USPS does NOT want any barcodes on their packages other than theirs! Idiots.
The problem is, Sonim's repair probably won't last any longer than the first time - I may end up just using the red phone instead. It doesn't do hotspot (Which I only have used when our AT&T internet went out), but I can live without it.
The oh-so-rugged Sonim's rubber is stretched out, and deteriorated after only 2 years. Back to Sonim it goes, so I picked up the red phone at Target for $40 until the Sonim gets back - which will take at least 10 days according to Sonim. In addition, the thing will sporadically lose time - anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes - for no apparent reason.
I'm NOT impressed. Sonims are supposed to be "da bomb", but this one "bombed" all right. Then Sonim sends me a label they want on the outside of the box with the RMA number - WITH A BARCODE. USPS does NOT want any barcodes on their packages other than theirs! Idiots.
The problem is, Sonim's repair probably won't last any longer than the first time - I may end up just using the red phone instead. It doesn't do hotspot (Which I only have used when our AT&T internet went out), but I can live without it.
You are always so quick to judge and wield the idiot sword, my friend. Take a chill pill. I think you are wrong, but - full disclosure - I could be wrong. I took a quick look through postal regs and couldn't find anything on non-USPS bar codes on packages. However, I see non-postal-service barcodes on labels (that are incorporated into the actual label that acts as postal currency) all the time. I'm pretty sure I've returned items to online vendors where the shipping label included a bar code they use on their end on the same label as the USPS IM code many times. In order to print a postal-service recognized label with an IM code, the software printing the label goes through an approval process at USPS. If it's on there, I'm pretty sure the USPS is cool with it because, if they weren't, it would have no value and be returned to sender as postage not paid.
I love learning new things, so if you know for a fact that non-USPS barcodes are not allowed, I'd love to see where that is spelled out...
You would be correct. USPS doesn't give a single fuck about other barcodes on the packages.
I know this for a fact because I deliver mail for them. What's really fun is when USPS lables have more than 1 barcode on them, which does happen from time to time. Typically when the package started it's life in a foreign country.
I am also constantly delivering packages from the post office that have multiple barcodes from different handlers, eg. USPS tracking, UPS tracking, and supplier's stocking barcodes.
You guyz are correct - I dropped the thing off at the post office and asked the guy. No problems. I guess its a common misconception, as I see packages with spurious barcodes on them and they're always crossed off or obscured, or taped over or something. So it was my turn to learn something new today!
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Oh fuck me. Somehow during one of my parts buying spees, I managed to buy the greasable spicer cardan centering ball/yoke thing, instead of the Spicer 211544X NON-greasable. While I'm normally all for greasable stuff, I sure don't want to be greasing this thing. So off to eBay this will go, and the replacement will take a week to get here. And of course the "non" is twice as expensive! Sigh...
Sometimes I think if I had half a brain, I'd be dangerous...
Sometimes I think if I had half a brain, I'd be dangerous...
If you had a smart phone you could sell it on “offer up” really quickly!
eBay works just fine, no smartphone needed. Interesting that you bring up offer up - they used to work on the web, now you must have a smartphone even though offer up still has a website. I've bought a thing or three there years back - but they had this annoying habit of showing ads from literally YEARS ago - what's up with that?
But Zorba , how can you get by for a week in the wilds of the space coast with only 2 wd. ?
But Zorba , how can you get by for a week in the wilds of the space coast with only 2 wd. ?
Won't be able to make it to the top of that infamous mountain!
Wait..so you 're saying you had surgery on this knee in 1985 and some 40 years later the metal thats been inside your knee decided it wasn't happy and now you're having to go through all this bullshit? I can't believe that can happen considering the metal in your knee is not open to the air or any way for an infection to occur, especially after all this time. Damn...i'm sorry this shit is happening to you especially right here during the holidays but i suppose it would suck no matter when it happens. Will you eventually heal up and have full range motion of your knee again?
I just went through the same thing with my hip revision. Had the first one done 28 years ago and it finally had enough. My blood tests showed a infection but they couldn't find anything until they removed the old hardware. The infection attached itself to the old hardware and showed up in cultures later. mxz800 seems to be way worse than my issues and I definitely feel for him
They say that I have hardware related staff infection from bacteria that somehow entered the body. They said it goes to the weakest part which happens to be one of the hardest places to treat.
Infectious doctor said in a year or so I could get knee replacement that would solve my problem. I would still have the staff infection.
The reason I didn't get knee replacement years ago my cardiologist wouldn't sign off on surgery. So maybe I can get knee surgery down the road?
The doctors say my arthritis is so bad it's hard to say how my leg will be. So I just need to keep plugging along, not much else I can do.
Oh when I was whining my PT said a few months back they had a similar case to mine. So it happens.
People are becoming even more addled by smartphones than even I suspected. I went to our local DMV today. They're very well set up, you check in and they give you a slip of paper with a code on it, mine was E-382 this time around. They have two large screens in the waiting area showing what code is now being served at which window - IN ADDITON - a synthesized voice announces "E-382 now being served at window 2". Slick!
What does this have to do with smartphones you ask? First of all, you can check in via a QR code, and the system will text you your service code. I, of course, didn't do that, I checked in with the receptionist who gave me my slip of paper. Unbeknownst to me, she also entered my phone number into their system (The paper work I turned in had it). When I got home, I discovered that in addition to the double screen AND voice announcements,that the thing had texted me (I just happen to have texting on right now) the same information. This is fucking pathetic - people obviously can't get their noses out of their phones long enough to pay attention to their surroundings to see the screen and/or hear the voice announcements! Its all about the PHOOOOOONNE!!
Interestingly, although there were plenty of smartphones in evidence around the waiting room, a surprising number of people didn't have their noses buried in them. I was almost shocked...
What does this have to do with smartphones you ask? First of all, you can check in via a QR code, and the system will text you your service code. I, of course, didn't do that, I checked in with the receptionist who gave me my slip of paper. Unbeknownst to me, she also entered my phone number into their system (The paper work I turned in had it). When I got home, I discovered that in addition to the double screen AND voice announcements,that the thing had texted me (I just happen to have texting on right now) the same information. This is fucking pathetic - people obviously can't get their noses out of their phones long enough to pay attention to their surroundings to see the screen and/or hear the voice announcements! Its all about the PHOOOOOONNE!!
Interestingly, although there were plenty of smartphones in evidence around the waiting room, a surprising number of people didn't have their noses buried in them. I was almost shocked...
I would be the one with the Smartphone out. Reading my news feeds or on this site waiting for it to tell me it’s my turn. I’m the opposite of you. I have not opened my laptop in years. Need to answer email in Rome or Mexico, done. Make plane, hotel and restaurant reservations along with other trip reservations, done. What’s the weather radar showing, done. Need to remember something for later and be notified before it’s due, done. Need to drop a location pin on maps and send it to someone, done. Need to identify a part, take a picture and use Google Lens, done. Need a flashlight tell Seri to turn it on and off, done. My uses for my Smartphone go on and on.
A 13 yr old girl would give ip her smart phone before I would. For good or bad my smartphone is indispensable for me to conduct my business and life. But hey that’s just me.
Also I have All tracking by websites and phone disabled so Big Brother can only track my cell phone signal. which they can do to you regular phone also.
A 13 yr old girl would give ip her smart phone before I would. For good or bad my smartphone is indispensable for me to conduct my business and life. But hey that’s just me.
Also I have All tracking by websites and phone disabled so Big Brother can only track my cell phone signal. which they can do to you regular phone also.
I used my smartphone to order a desktop computer tower today!!!
Bucky isn’t wrong
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