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How do you deal with daytime deliveries?

andrewpendleton — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:42:38 -0800

How do you deal with daytime deliveries? Seemingly-stupid question, but here goes: last year, I moved out of an apartment building and into a house, and it's been my first house-living experience since moving out of my parents' place. I'm car-less, live in a city, and had become accustomed to dealing with the problem of how to buy large things without a car by ordering them and having them delivered.

Somehow, it just never occurred to me pre-move to consider how much of a pain it would be to live someplace without a doorman to accept deliveries of packages during the day. Some things (like books), I now have sent to my work, but for big things that aren't bike-carryable, I have yet to find a satisfactory solution, other than staying home from work (ick). My neighborhood is okay, but not quite to the point that I feel comfortable having stuff left outside in plain view, all day. I often use Amazon Prime's free two-day shipping, which ships by UPS, and I'm not anywhere near our UPS service station or whatever.

The geek in me has started to concoct crazy ideas involving electric locks or door strikes that I could use to let the UPS man into the vestibule outside our front door via the Internet, or maybe some sort of one-way drop-box mechanism, but before I go that far, I wanted to ask how others deal with this. Surely, I'm not the only car-free urban house-dweller that has to deal with this stuff.

Low carb delivery food in Los Angeles?

sdis — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:00:20 -0800

Low-carb delivery options for Los Angeles area? I'm over in Europe, but I'd like to help my father stick to a low-carb diet back in Los Angeles (in the Valley, more specifically). He cooks, but at times he's too busy to go shopping or cook and that's when it becomes much easier to go order a pizza and ruin his diet. What are some good failsafe options for delivery that will keep him on a pretty strict low-carb diet plan? These don't need to specifically be diet food delivery services; I'd love to hear about a specific menu item from Joe-Bob's Chinese Emporium that is particularly low carb and yummy.

(He's in the Studio City area, near Coldwater and Ventura, zip 91604)

I've already discovered the Vons grocery delivery service (which failed spectacularly when they tried twice to deliver and failed to bring even 20% of what I had ordered for him), and so I'm happy to hear of any grocery delivery suggestions for that area as well.

Cooked Whole Turkey Delivery

Jujee — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:48:15 -0800

Where can I order ready-to-eat whole turkey in NYC to be delivered to the West Village?

Is there a bad day to eat fish in NYC?

afroblanca — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:20:41 -0800

Fact or fiction : All (or most) NYC restaurants get their fish deliveries on the same day every week. So, as the legend goes, it is a bad idea to order fish in a restaurant on the day or two preceding that day.

Some say that the deliveries come on Monday, others say Tuesday. It seems implausible, but I've heard it from a number of people who have lived in the city for longer than I.