Me too, Fedex always does best job here, a lot of the time I ship out regular ground and it gets there next-day. They're also cheaper than UPS if you ship pieces-at-a-time instead of an account.
| | "Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover"" wrote in | message | news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com... | < snip >
| > With Fedex, everything goes thru Memphis, so it shouldn't make any diff. | > UPS I don't know. Fedex sucks IMHO. Nowadays, DHL is eating UPS' and | > Fedex's lunch, and I hope they put Fedex out of business. | >
| | I've always had very good luck with FedEx. It's UPS I try | to avoid.
Amen to that! NewEgg ships via FedEx and my stuff nearly always arrives at least a day earlier than scheduled. :-)
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And even when they are available, they don't know anything 'bout electronics! I won't go back. Also, All Electronics Corp is pretty good with parts.
John
My personal experience with Digikey: I was the official Parts Dude at a well-known company what makes door security access thingies. Surface-mount items mostly, but when I wanted it quick, it was Digi-Key. I would get parts orders in at 4:30 Post Meridian Denver time and have the merchandise by 10:30 Ante Meridian by FedEx the very next day. Not bad, I think...
| | Digikey is highly regarded round these parts.
There is a way to access the Social Security death index - genealogists use it all the time. I believe you can get to it through Rootsweb. There you can see SS#s galore. If you do a search on your surname (or a similar spelling of it), you could get thousands. I just give my dad's SS# - he has been dead for over 50 years.
One thing you need to remember is that SS#s bear a relation to one's location and other factors. In other words the first SS# was not
000-00-0001. Most organizations that put SS#s into a database will have an algorithym to detect improper numbers based on the was SSA formulates the number.
I think almost every state has migrated to the Soundex system for ID and driver's license numbers. You will note that the first four characters in your DL or ID number is the first letter of your surname and then three numbers based on the consonents in your surname. This is the Soundex value of your surname and it is the basis of sorting and indexing US and some state census information since before 1870. Soundex was not used to generate any part of a SS#. Based on my surname, Ferman, my Soundex in the census and my drivers license first four are F655, but my SS# starts out
473. My father's SS# did not start out with 473.
That was very interesting..... Thanks for sharing that. For what it's worth, I too have done SS# searches as some suggested herein, much information is out there! As to Radio Shack, the ONLY time - they've asked me for my name, address and "phone number" as of late (SS# was not requested) - was when I returned some merchandise. Otherwise, when "buying", they didn't inquire.
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Well, personally, that's sounding way too much like work to come up with something to give in response to a question that has no legitimate purpose in being asked.
I prefer my response:
Clerk: And your phone number? Me: You don't need it. Clerk. We have to have it or we can't Me: TIs the money laying on the counter in front of you enough to cover the purchase? Clerk: Uh, yes, it appears it is. Me. Discussion over. Have a nice day.
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The first three digits are defined by the location from which the SSn was issued.
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Tom Stiller
PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3
7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
A number of sources I've seen list the first issues SSN as
055-09-0001, while the lowest issued one was 001-01-0001.
In the early 90s, a lot people would question my SSN's legimitacy, since my card (which had been issued to me at the ripe old age of 14) had a SSN that started with an unusually high number for someone in my current location (Michigan, the card had been issued in Arizona). Also, my card was white, while most other cards for people my age were mottled blue, although I've since been issued a blue replacement (that also no longer says "not to be used for identification purposes" on it). People seem to have gotten used to it, however, since I don't get comments on it anymore (although my SSN doesn't get used as much as it used to, either).
I also know some older people with 700-728 series numbers which raise eyebrows (The 700-728 range was issued by the Railroad Board).
-- Richard W Kaszeta rich@kaszeta.org http://www.kaszeta.org/rich
The facts can be found at the SSA web site at
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