Solar landscape lights

[rachael simpson]

there goes my dr. pepper....

[Dave]

Look at the weblink a bit he/she provided. Its business associated. The previous part of the thread was about private mail I assumed. (you probably did too) Well, actually, solar powered landscape lights originally.

Now that I reconsider all said. The person seems to have little control in his/her life, and, I made the mistake of taking that away in this thread. My apologies to "Sheldon".

Take care Rachael. Dave

[rachael simpson]

oh, i saw the link. i knew what the original post was about too....been following the thread....i just had to back ya on the mail delivery policies though...

you too, rae

[Sheldon]

Parcels are not necessarilly mail, they're freight and delivered by a separate division of the USPS, tantamount to UPS. Some parcels are mail, those must fit into teh rural mailbox of there'll be a pick up card inserted notifying one to come to the PO. I get packages delivered to my door too but all MAIL goes into my rural mailbox at the side of the road, in fact in my case it's acoss the road because that's the direction the postal carrier drives on his route. Once again for the IQ impaired ALL rural US mail gets delivered to a properly located/constructed Postmaster approved rural roadside mailbox , NEVER EVER anywhere else. Handicapped are welcome to obtain a PO Box. All US post offices have handicapped parking. If someone is all alone and doesn't drive or is too ill to leave home there are agencies that can be designated to pick up mail from the PO, ask ones medical provider, church, town clerk, etc.... but most folks have family, neighbors and friends who can pick up their mail... but even if you're dying the rural route carrier will only deliver roadside[period]

[Billy Rose]

You takin' notes Sheldon?

FB - FFF (Raise a Stink)

[rachael simpson]

I guess your mail carrier isn't your friend either.....

Go ask a physician, RURAL mail boxes can be placed elsewhere under certain circumstances, all you have to have is a special note or letter stating the medical problem, be it severe nerve damage of the legs or any other problem that can cause you to not be able to walk too far, or simply some other disability or handicap. Then you take that letter to local PO. They will help you make the arrangements to have your rural box moved to a better location for you, whether that requires moving the box across the road or not. I know this, because when working at the clinic, i constructed several of these letters for patients. It worked every time.

Not only will your carrier leave parcels in a designated area (you know, what dave was talking about? the rural form on agreement of where to leave something that doesn't fit in the box?), but they will leave extra mail, etc. in that area also. The only exception is something that has to be signed for. If it's certified/return receipt and you are not home, then they will try again the next day to deliver it. Then, they will leave a note stating that you have certified/return receipt mail that you need to pick up at the local PO.

Our area for delivery when not home is the back-porch, or one of the other vehicles upon rain. If they leave something in one of the other vehicles, then there is a note at the door stating so.

Now to clarify, the united states postal service offices do this, not the parcel service. although the parcel services will leave things at your home also.

oh, and whoever you give your key to can pick up your mail at the PO also....you only have to have someone designated upon the possibility of you needed someone to pick up something that the PO put a slip in your box for.

oh, while i know that i don't always use the best grammar and tend to type one handedly due to holding the baby, so my punctuation and caps aren't always right....your spelling is slipping a little there, Sheldon. Just thought you should know, since you think you are so perfect!

Take care & make some friends before life is over. It would suck to not have anyone at your funeral that could call you friend.

Rae

[SteveB]

"Dave" wrote in

Wow, I guess they would have to shoot my carrier. We have a box at the street. When we have deliveries, or prelabled packages to be picked up, we leave an orange placard that says so. In order for the postman to do this, he has to go beside our garage, open a metal gate, go into a courtyard with a Lab/Rott mix dog and a Corgi, pick them up, sign the receipt, and leave. If they're delivering, they just put them there on a table.

We used to do ebay, and at times had ten or fifteen packages there. Every once in a while, we get a new carrier for a day, and we have to help them through the process, but not ONE has refused to pick up or leave in the side yard. We still get and send a lot of packages, and no problems.

Yeah, right. We're going to leave ten packages at the curb until the postman comes.

Hope the gummint don't find out about this.

Steve

[jl.partners777]

Hi Tony,

I am responding to your google topic resspond on finding durable casing quality for solar lights. I have on hand a wide variety of solar lights with durable casing quality.

It is not cheap plastic but thick layer of weather proof plastic. To break it would mean you take a big hammer and start knocking on it repeatedly which I would doubt so.

Do take a look at the 2 URLs below for the 2 different range.

Regards,

VIs

[Sheldon]

Solar garden lamps cost very little, typically $15. Mine have been working perfectly for more than four years now. Low voltage lamps are fine too, but they do not lend themselves for setting any distance from an AC electrical source. I'm guessing that you don't believe in batterys because you're afflicted with CCBD (ChronicCheap Bastard Disease), that all the remotes for your TVs are plug-ins, and you start your automobile by rolling it down a hill. Are you taking notes, Pinhead Billy.

[willshak]

The only thing solar garden lights are good for is to indicate the sides of walkways, like airport runway lights indicate the sides of the runway for aircraft. They provide very little illumination for anything other than showing that you should walk between them. You should carry a flashlight in case there is an obstacle on the walk. All of the solar lights I have bought suffered the same problems. After a few years, the plastic over the solar cells turned milky and oxidized, and the solar cells themselves looked like they were becoming un-laminated.

[Sheldon]

Actually runway lights are quite powerful, were you to actually walk beside them on the tarmac you'd think it was daylight.

They provide very little illumination for anything other

That's all solar lamps are intended for.. thye're so one doesn't wander off the path is all... whaddaya, a Boeing 1011?

That would be delaminated.

The Intermatic brand lamps I have work fine. The solar collectors look good as new, as does the entire unit... shows absolutely no wear and tear whatsoever. They've been working for more than 4 years now (rain, shine, snow, hail, hot, cold, whatever... even birds shit on them, washes away when it rains). No one expects solar lamps to give much light... whaddaya sneak outside at night to peep at Hustler... they're merely to find ones way with *minimal* illumination and to add decorativeness is all. When I need LIGHT outdoors at night I flip on my dual 150W incandescent floodlamps and remember to wear my miner's hat. And there do exist solar lamps that give pretty good illumination, ie. flag spots, but they cost five times as much as the typical $10-$15 pathway units... if mine die next week I'm ahead of the game, cost me like $3/yr and not a cent added to my electric bill. And Intermatic will sell the entire top cap (contains panels, batterys, and bulb) for like $4.