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Elon may have competition from new internet companies like Access...something which I found at Las Vegas Bay CG a few months ago. Darn fast, and if you pay a week it's only $2/day. Also the KOA at Avi Casino recently upgraded theirs and it's really good. But, I'm sure he wouldn't be going into this strictly for the benefit of Rvers! Visible sounds great, but it's hard for me to wrap my head around something that's "just as good" for $40/mo instead of $100. I've been burned before on "good deals"!!

Yeah, well, this thread's gone off the rails. Have fun.

I camp in places like Quartzsite where my cat wouldn't even come near your campsite. Cats bury shit. You don't know cats very well. Some people actually like cats and welcome them to their sites, it's so unusual to see. Unfortunately it looks like that isn't this kind of crowd. Besides, this is for the OP, not the 'get off my lawn' crowd. I should know better than to ever mention this on any board, or to anyone, ever.

I have an 11yo female traveling cat companion who loves the RV life. I do let her out by herself, even at night, when it's warm enough. She loves that, and I've found many campgrounds where there is little risk of predators...so far at least. I don't sleep real well when she's out, as I get up about every 2 hours to check on her, but so far we're good. And I do walk with her, unleashed, during the day. I love to watch her climb trees and run. Took a couple years for us to get that down. I do see cats camping from time to time, but they're almost always inside or harnessed. That's fine, just not my style, or hers. I'd post a pic but I see the file size is pretty small.

He told me about the frequency drift...but I'm not clear on what causes it.. unless it's just high demand which what, causes the turbine to spin slower? I guess this is the technique used in paralleled Honda generators... but certainly not by engine rpm.

I watch a you tube series called "Practical Engineering" and learn all kinds of stuff. He went into a very detailed explanation of what happened in Texas, and I was surprised to learn that power problems have more to do with the frequency (Hz) than actual power availability. He explained that if the Hz drift below 59.4 for a certain period of just minutes, things start shutting down. I guess that frequency drop can cause some big problems. I trust this guy and I hope he's correct.

That's cruel, especially in cold weather. Cats and dogs get cold just like we do.

I think I'm going to have to write a paper letter to Amazon to get through to anyone. I'm hoping I can find an online site that does this, since I would have to hunt for paper and envelopes. I do have stamps from the 90s.

I did. That was almost worse. The man was obviously of Indian descent with a heavy accent, hard to understand, and put me on hold for over 3 minutes. I hung up.

Even a rich company like Amazon hires know-nothing chat clerks who are paid to listen, not understand the problem, assure you it won't happen again, and say your complaint will be passed up the chain.

Just got off a chat with Amazon. The tech "assured" me this wouldn't happen again. Yeah, right.

I had a gas can delivered to my house yesterday by UPS, no problem. Not an Amazon order. Perhaps Jeff doesn't have a trillion dollars yet so he's having UPS contract out to the post office to save a dollar on the delivery. It occurs to me I may be able to get around this nonsense by ordering from somewhere else.. but then I'd be waiting longer for the item to actually ship. That's how it usually goes.

Nah, not you. I've learned to be a little more creative and subtle with my 'correction', because I usually just end up making enemies. Sooo... in a further update, the Delivery Attempt failed because the "mailbox was full." That's interesting. I checked it yesterday and there wasn't a thing in it. They're open from 10 to 1pm today, so I'll wait awhile for the packages to return to the office and then go and hopefully get them. Or, perhaps they really did "deliver" them by leaving a slip of paper in the box saying to go to the post office. This 'last mile' crap drives me nuts. My house is maybe a quarter mile from the mailbox. No, they couldn't simply drive to my house and leave it. No. That would be too efficient, and I'm sure the carrier would get fired for doing that.

Oh I've heard of it, experienced it many times, I just don't understand it or have any control of it. What's very strange is how 'last mile' large boxes will end up at the post office, but small boxes will be delivered to my house by UPS or FedEx. It makes no sense, at least in my area. I checked this am and my packages are 'out for delivery' and not being forwarded, so that's taken care of. I may, next season, just put my mail on hold. Probably less stress that way. EDIT: Just checked status. Says they went "out for delivery" at 6:10am. LOL. The post office doesn't deliver that early. And then it says "Delivery failed." What does that mean? So, now what, another fun day dealing with the post office???

The fun just never stops. I was expecting a UPS package today. So I check on Amazon, and it tells me the USPS got it and was forwarding it!! NO NO NO... So I jump in the car and head to the post office, and thank goodness a supervisor was able to find it for me, and take my information and assure me the forwarding would stop as of tomorrow. This was not the same supervisor yesterday who told me to go online and change my address back. Perhaps he was right.. I don't know. But if forwarding is supposed to stop, it should stop. I'm expecting many packages in the next week, and I have no control, or even know, why UPS hands it off to the USPS. Nor do I know why BIG packages end up at the USPS and little ones are delivered to my house by UPS. It's a big mystery.

My secret is to know where the first-come first serve campgrounds are.

I can't count the number of times my mail has ended up in someone's else's mailbox. I can count the number of times my email has been misdirected: ZERO. I get a kick out of medical billing where they claim (or used to ) that email is not "secure." I beg to differ.

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Dang.. my address is not eligible. That figures..why make my life easier? Oh well, thanks! What I just hate is when the local taxing authority doesn't send email notices for things like property taxes when I've signed up for that. Some businesses, especially government, insist (and exist) on paper, like medical bills. ARGGHH! I wish these businesses would enter the 21st century.

Some of us have met it, some of us have ignored it. I have a pretty good idea of how things got that way. Not that there haven't been detractors of almost everything in the past, it just seems like the last 4 years were particularly worse.

I didn't. As I said, there was a sticker in the box. I get virtually nothing of value in the paper mail anyway, so I'm not going to do anything.

Yeah, that's what I thought. He may think I made a permanent address change.

Working? What do you plan to do with the dogs?

Last October I went online and had my mail forwarded to So Cal from my home in New Mexico. That is a *temporary* change for 6 months. Upon arrival at home this week I checked my rural mailbox and inside it was a sticker that said "Forwarding expires 3/31/21". That's all well and good, but just to make sure I stopped in at the local Post office to see if they'd held any mail, and if everything was OK for my mail to resume delivery here at home. Not quite. The guy at the counter told me I was supposed to go online and make my "New" address my home, and my "old" address the previously mentioned temporary forwarding address. That makes no sense. Of course it wouldn't be the first time the USPS made no sense.

It seems highly unlikely there would be an inverter in the unit.