Amazon Prime has all but disappeared.....a sort of rant I guess...
Lukki Irish
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Has anyone else had problem with Amazon packaging?
Comments (29)We get small orders rattling around in a huge box, as some others have said. You should have seen the box when my wife ordered a Japanese thimble! I don't recall ever getting a broken or leaky package. Guess we've been lucky. But Anglophilia, I'm a jam maker and seedless raspberry sounds wonderful. I'm going to have to try that....I mail jam to family out of state and they always get new tea towels with it because I put each jar inside a sealed zip bag within a second sealed zip bag with a paper towel or two. Then I wrap tea towels around each jar and rubber-band them. I use a box small enough to fit snugly. It doesn't look like a professional packaging job, but it protects everything and insures against messes....See MoreI guess Thanksgiving dinner is free this year!
Comments (57)https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_9243bb74-ecfa-11e8-8f73-0f42fb5dada2.html "The Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank is filled these days with people volunteering their time and sorting food donated for the hungry. But what this 170,000-square foot facility on Choctaw Drive doesn't have as the holidays start is food. The situation has gotten bad enough that the charity, which serves an 11-parish area, is putting out public calls for extra help, for extra donations of food, and especially for money to purchase additional food. High-profile disasters, including hurricanes Florence and Michael, as well as the ongoing wildfires in California, have diverted the supply of donated food as well as drawn away cash donations that might ordinarily have gone to help hungry people locally at Thanksgiving and Christmas. “You would ordinarily see all of these shelves full,” said Mike Manning, pointing to two tall, long and nearly empty stretches of metal shelving at the rear of the facility. These shelves is where the the charity normally stores its dry, canned and staple foods. Manning, president and CEO of the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, said instead he is flush with candy, a relic of the Halloween holiday, pointing to a big box of M&M bags. “We’ve got a lot of candy,” Manning said. “That’s not what we need.” About 30 volunteers, several of them employees of ExxonMobil, were on hand Monday sorting donated canned food. Many people brought their families. The empty shelves are not visible from their work area. Katie Skiles volunteered on Monday with her father Joe and brother, James, but she said she has worked there by herself since she first volunteered more than a year ago. “My parents made me come,” Katie said. “Now I love it.” A senior at Lee High in Baton Rouge, Katie, 17, said she was not aware of the food shortage. She said she might talk to the National Honor Society at her high school about doing a food drive. The warehouse currently has about 1 million pound of food in its inventory, about half of the normal inventory, Manning said. One million pounds of food is also roughly what the food bank distributes each month to its 100-plus member agencies, he said. And to top it all off, this is normally a time of peak inventory, when the food banks stock up in order to have sufficient supply for the early months of the year. “I’ve never see it this bad going into the holidays,” Manning said. Besides recent disasters and the resulting “donor fatigue,” another food supply factor is the shrinking donations over time from commercial grocers who carry less excess inventory than they used to, Manning said. To help restock, the food bank has asked local schools to do special food drives. What would help most, though, are cash donations, which people can donate online on the charity’s website, Manning said. “We are kind of held hostage by the national situation, unless we can get sufficient money to purchase food,” he said. It doesn’t necessarily take much money to help. Manning pointed to palettes full of canned vegetables without labels on them. These cans, when they have commercial labels, cost 70 to 90 cents a can at the store, but without the labels, they cost the food bank between 5 and 10 cents a can. Manning said he’s talking about having a more formal fund drive around New Years to raise money, but he’s been too busy to pull together anything more formal sooner. “We’re in firefighting mode right now,” he said. “We’re just asking for help.”...See MoreGuess I am gonna have to just suck it up
Comments (45)Update: Sucked it up and went to an urgent care. Jumped through all the ridiculous hoops to get in the door. Saw no doctor, but a nurse practitioner who said that if I lose 20 pounds it wont hurt as bad, then sent me on my way with instructions to take advil to help until it stops hurting when I walk on it. And lose weight. Ok. No tests or official diagnosis. Guess its fat girl foot syndrome. Hope that resolves on its own. I did not take any advil. I have been taking it,to no avail. She said not to stop my walking routine. The circulation will help heal whatever it is going on,she says. I woke up earlier today to SO rubbing something on the bottom of my offending foot. Aspercreme. When I got up a few hours later it felt a lot better when I went to walk on it. It still hurt,but not nearly as bad. So now I intend to use that for the next few days and see if it gets better. I went and bought some insoles to put in my walking shoes and ordered some booties that you put ice packs in to use after my walks. And I will be doing some of the exercises/stretches suggested here. Couldn't hurt right? All in all, I could have better spent the time I wasted going there by staying in bed....See MoreHas this been your experience? Amazon/thefts
Comments (27)the answer to this fear is door bell cameras. It doesn't feel that way to me. Package theft (and other suspicious activity) is recorded all the time. There are SO many people posting about it on social media -- but the suspects wear hats, sunglasses, etc, and for many of these devides (such as Ring) the images are low quality. It's not common to get a picture that could ID anyone's face enough to actually use it against them. The only way I think front door cameras are helpful is to let you know when you got a package (so you can go fetch it). And cameras may act as a slight deterrent -- but most thieves around here don't let that stop them....See Moreterezosa / terriks
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