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[Greeneyedlady21]

@Venezia Before covid some delivery people might have been able to speak with customers and know their circumstances. Of course sometimes you don't have the same delivery person all the time. That's what I was thinking about when I posted.

[ScarletDove]

For my subscribe and save from Amazon I was getting canned catfood, 15 lb boxes of litter, batteries at same time and all packed together--heavy, heavy and always delivered to my porch; I don't know how the delivery person got that box to my porch. After several messy deliveries of broken boxes, split litter and just generally too heavy items in one box, I decided a change was in order.  The weight was on the delivery person for I just opened the box on the porch and took items inside. I rotated monthly delivery time for some of these heavy items and have eliminated the weighty deliveries.  

[chickenbutt]

One thing that is really helpful for me when I get these large and heavy boxes is that I take a moving blanket and fold it in half long-way (so it's kind of narrow, but wider than the box, and long).  I put that in my entryway.  When I get the box up over the threshhold I plant my feet on the outside edges of that end of the blanket and (I know this sounds weird) I push the box over the blanket, between my legs, until it's completely on the blanket.

At that point, I can just take the other end of the blanket in my hands and PULL the box through the house into the kitchen.

Works great for somebody like me who has no upper body strength.  

[Venezia]

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@Greeneyedlady21 wrote:

@Venezia Before covid some delivery people might have been able to speak with customers and know their circumstances. Of course sometimes you don't have the same delivery person all the time. That's what I was thinking about when I posted.

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@Greeneyedlady21 - I apologize, if you thought my comment about this was directed at you - it wasn't.  It was just that, it seemed to me, some thought the delivery people should think about the physical capability (or lack of) the customer.

In many areas (probably most), the carriers have no way of knowing that.  So it was just me "thinking out loud".  Or in print, in this case.

[ScarletDove]

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@chickenbutt wrote:

One thing that is really helpful for me when I get these large and heavy boxes is that I take a moving blanket and fold it in half long-way (so it's kind of narrow, but wider than the box, and long).  I put that in my entryway.  When I get the box up over the threshhold I plant my feet on the outside edges of that end of the blanket and (I know this sounds weird) I push the box over the blanket, between my legs, until it's completely on the blanket.

At that point, I can just take the other end of the blanket in my hands and PULL the box through the house into the kitchen.

Works great for somebody like me who has no upper body strength.  

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@chickenbutt   Isn't it amazing how we are able to figure out a way to make things work given our own personal situation.  I do something similar to handle an oversized or over-weighty box.....we are ingenious!