47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

No offense, but thinking you were getting a “Tissot” for $161 was your first mistake. As for the difficulty returning, I think something is missing from the story, even if not intentional?

Merlin1300 Loc: New England, But Now & Forever SoTX

If it's too good to be true, then it probably isn't.
I've NEVER had problems returning something that was ordered through Amazon Prime.
Or - 'delivered by' Amazon. USPS is a crap shoot.
IF, however, you order through a marketplace vendor, then the risk is yours.

rwww80a Loc: Hampton, NH

I think it's Amazing! Everybody is down on the US Postal Service. However, who does UPS and Fed Ex turn to for so many of their local deliveries.

rwww80a Loc: Hampton, NH

I think it's Amazing! Everybody is down on the US Postal Service. However, who does UPS and Fed Ex turn to for so many of their local deliveries.

47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

I’ve never had an issue with any shipment turned over to USPS for final delivery.

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

Last year I ordered an moderately expensive toy for my grandson. on the expected day of delivery I received the notice it had been left by my front door. When I looked, nothing there. After numerous phone calls and significant time, I gathered information (not willingly given) that the order I made had been delivered to a different address (which they could not reveal) and although the contents of the package was not revealed, the source seller was discovered to be something like a fruit packing company.

So much time spent, so little information provided and excessive anger, frustration and disappointment experienced. I contacted my credit card company, advised them it was an unauthorize purchase and the money was refunded. I did have to get a replacement card, but that was the least of my worries.

BebuLamar

I rarely buy from Amazon but I received packages delivered to me from Amazon which belong to my neighbor very often.

elliott937 Loc: St. Louis

And now that is what happens here, 90% of the time, when deliveries are made by USPS. I know there are some excellent employees of USPS. But here, in St. Louis, the major are total rogue employees and do whatever they want to do. On our block alone, at least 50% of the time we would receive other's mail, and ours would go where? I have yet to receive my W-2 for Social Security, which was to have been delivered by January 31, 2023. I wonder who has that? And with all my vital information??

hj Loc: Florida

Here in Florida there are so many huge subdivisions being built there are currently no directions available for some addresses. I had a 100+ pound desk (from china) delivered to my address AND IT WAS NOT MINE even though the buyers desk was clearly printed for the package. With a little investigation I found their home and took it to them. I honestly believe some unscrupulous delivery employees just dump items at any address when then cannot easily find the address on the package.

elliott937 Loc: St. Louis

I've enjoyed reading every comment written here about Amazon Customer Service, and especially about USPS. As I start my 57th. year of teaching, I've always believed that "If something is worth doing, it's worth doing right". Which, by the way, I hold true to myself as well.

HOHIMER

With your extensive background in teaching physics, I would be interested in your theory regarding the origin of gravity. Not its manifestations, but its root source or origin. BTW- I have some difficulty with Einstein's theory of space warpage due to the objects mass.

elliott937 Loc: St. Louis

I am so glad you asked, for continuing to learn new things is, in my book, Mental Health. (I also believe that when we all get out with our cameras, AND do post-processing, it qualifies too as Mental Health.)

I'm sure you already know that a paragraph I could write here could never do it justice. But, as a coincidence, there is a favorite magazine that I subscribe to, and it's from the UK. It's called: "How It Works". I particularly enjoying more about Biology, which is not my major. But, relative to your inquiry about gravity, the newest issue that I just received has a front cover "What If There Was No Gravity?" I have not read it thoroughly yet, [we've just begun our new semester, leaving all a lot of "paperwork", all due tonight], but when I saw the formula: F = G(m1xm2)/r^2, which I teach in my second semester course, it really caught my attention. I also noticed a number of other facts, necessary to develop that formula. By the way, the "F" on the left side of the equal sign is the ""force of gravitational attraction"". Must of us know that as our ""weight"" seen when you get on a scale. But, actually, it's the force of attraction, and the m1 and m2 would be: our body mass & the mass of the earth. Just so I can peak your interest even more, there is a force of attraction between ANY two objects of mass. So, when you sit at your desk, there is a gravitational attraction between *the mass of your body, and *the mass of your desk. Pick ANY two objects of mass, around you per chance, and consider that must be a gravitational force between any two of them.

Oh, by the way, the article I mentioned is "Issue 179" and sells for 5.50 British pounds. I'm hoping you might have an extensive "book store and newspaper store" near you. It's worth every penny, or should I say pence?

HOHIMER

You, like so meany others, speak in terms of manifestations of gravity and not its root origination. Even the equation you refer to, and the examples you give, defines how it works, not why it works.
Thank you sir for your time.

elliott937 Loc: St. Louis

Fair enough. Let's go to the next level. Consider this the 'door way' in a study of atomic physics. But this can help your quest.

Consider all the atoms that make up all the mass around us, ranging from the dirt on the ground, concrete, oceans, etc. Now of these atoms, consider only the valence shell, and Google can elaborate a great deal on this. But, in short, the valence shell of all atoms will be populated by electrons. How many? Well, carbon has 4 electrons. Gold has only one. How is this significant? If an atom has, in general less than half the number of electrons that COULD fit in that outer most shell, then this atom can easily give up those electrons. Then, this means that gold can very easily give up its one electron, and why gold is such a good conductor of electricity. If however the valence shell of an atom is 'nearly full', but has room for two electrons, then that atom will be "attracted" to another atom that just happens to have two electrons ... sitting out there, looking for a place to go. Can you see, if we move these to atoms close to each other, there will be an ATTRACTING force that exist between those two atoms. Now consider millions of atoms, being attracted to another million of atoms, and this results is a significant force. EX: Let's say our body has 1,000 atoms, and we are standing on the planet earth, with 1 gazillion atoms, our 1,000 will be attracted easily to that 1 gazillion atoms of the earth. Hence, we call that scenario a force of attraction. And on a grander scale, we call it Gravitation. By the way, gazillion is not a real number, but I like using it when suggesting a large number. I hope this explanation might help a little.

HOHIMER

Didn't you just describe the 'weak' force not gravity?