Herp Deliveries

[Fallguy]

I just bought another snake the other day. I feel like I should be going to some type of meeting... I found out that they will be delivering through Fed-Ex. I live in a small town and the place I work at gets a lot of deliveries from both Fed-Ex, and UPS. We happened to be getting one from Fed-Ex about 2 hours after I ordered the snake. I went up to the delivery driver, and told her that I would be getting a new snake, and to keep an eye out for it, and to not be rough with it. She looked at me, and said, "Another one? How many is this?" I said, "This will make 14 in the house." She gave the "I'm creeped out" shake, and said that she would keep an eye out for it. She has even given me her cell number in case I do not see her, and I need her to know about something coming, or arrange an alternate delivery point.

I don't think I would have gotten this response from the UPS driver. We call him Shifty, as he always looks up to no good. He also leaves any delivery just sitting on the back porch. Sometimes he doesn't even knock on the door. I hate to even talk to the guy for more than the time it takes to sign the pad.

Do any of you announce to your drivers that you have a new shipment coming in? Do you avoid telling them in fear that they will refuse deliveries because they hate the animals, or think it is against company policy? Anybody get their drivers interested in Herps?

[Fallguy]

Nobody talks to their delivery drivers?

Wierd.

[cinderbird]

when i was in upstate NY i talked to the delivery guy ONCE he was there, he was excited i was getting snakes but didnt usually hang around to watch me open the box... haha. This was FedEx by the way.

[panthercz]

I have a UPS account and ship out several thousand packages out a year. My UPS driver is a great guy.
I don't really talk to any FedEx drivers since I only get in FedEx packages once every couple months. The few brief comments have always been pretty nice though.

[nixer]

our ups guy is cool but the fedex ppl are like phantoms
sometimes i think they teleport packages on my porch

[Fallguy]

I hate when they do that.

I once had a box of Ammo left on my porch... It needed an adult signature.
I was not happy with UPS after that.