Pretty much every office job, tech or otherwise, that I've taken has this. I think it's probably there in case you might have to move your monitor or chair or something similar. Maybe someone uses a case of printer paper to prop a meeting room door open and you need to shut the door. Incidental office workplace stuff. Maybe to inform an applicant who couldn't perform these actions that they should inquire further.
I'm not sure how things work up there, but in the US you can refuse any unopened package by taking it back to the nearest carrier facility and telling them you refuse it.
This applies whether the package was dropped off or handed directly to you, signed for, taken into possession, or not. If the original seal is intact, the carrier must accept the refusal.
It's unfortunate that she opened any of them, because now the above doesn't apply and she probably technically took on some legal risk/liability by doing so.
Usually just because a package has been misdelivered, but you still know it's not for you, you still haven't gained the right to open it.
Still, hopefully someone will help her find a way out of her predicament.
By law, companies can’t send unordered merchandise to you, then demand payment. That means you never have to pay for things you get but didn’t order. You also don’t need to return unordered merchandise. You’re legally entitled to keep it as a free gift.
If it's addressed to you, then yes. But if the mail carrier mistakenly delivers you a package addressed to someone else, you don't automatically get to keep it.
It's worth noting that the article is about a Canadian woman. Given that both the US and Canada have legal systems originating in Britain, there's a great deal of commonality in the legal code, but what the FTC says about US law does not necessarily apply to Canada.
All that said, the spirit of the law the FTC is citing is something reasonable enough I do imagine Canada has something similar. Just don't quote me on that.
In the US, non-misdelivered items are considered a gift; there are no actionable courses for recovery — other than being polite — to get the item back. Misdelivered items must be surrendered, on request, or you can fall awry if a laundry list of theft/mispossesion crimes.
The issue here is customs. Who is going to pay those fees - the women who got the product doesn't even want it. I suspect this is a never happened before situation and so the women legally owes. Though she can probably spend a ton of money on a lawyer and get out of it. She also has a case against whoever put her name/address in as where to return - but that is probably a foreigner so it is easy to win the case but impossible to collect. She may also have a case against Amazon, but this will be difficult as it requires arguing Amazon isn't a third party which they will claim they are.
Of course the case is in Canada, so I don't know how their laws work.
Yeah, I don’t know about Canada; but, a cursory reading of the US code seems to say that mail delivered by a carrier has already had all HTS (tarrifs) applied to it, or else it couldn’t be in the country (modulo criminal enterprise). I mean, IANAL, not legal advice, etc. But… if delivered on purpose to the address, it’s a gift, and there’s no possibility of a custom on it.
This question has been asked with near identical or very similar wording in almost every LK-99 submission I've seen over the last week or so... Is there something botnet-y happening? I find it hard to believe anyone reading similar threads could have missed the numerous answers to this and similarly-formed questions that have been offered lately.
I’ve been half assedly following this, not understanding a single word in the papers that keep coming out, not understanding the musings of enthusiasts and professionals
and it looks like I know just as much that its a nothing burger, with maybe some sliver of novelty
Maybe it is the most natural question which comes to a lay person like me when it comes to superconducting. Not everyone can be as knowledgeable, or in the loop as you are.
And I assure you that I am no bot. I acquire sustenance, go into low energy states and have a lifetime warranty like all fellow meatbags.
Where to begin, even? The first paragraph perhaps:
> As with Justice Potter Stewart’s non-definition of pornography – ‘I may not be able to define it, but I know it when I see it’ – the soul is slippery
Libcom.org is a wonderful place. I still benefit from it regularly after 10+ years of reading wide and deep, there. It's not very similar to Quanta though.
You may also like Emergence Magazine. It's significantly more humanities/culture oriented but similarity wide-ranging and imaginative.
Come to think of it, I think imagination is one of the qualities that makes Quanta so magical. Ostensibly it's a magazine about the interactions of formal and natural sciences, but they're not afraid to include a bold dash of imagination.
I agree, I find it easy to identify in any season. We have few plants that resemble it or its growth habits in anything but a superficial way, plus poison oak is much less variable in leaf size and shape than poison ivy.
The buds and stem tips are especially good giveaways, but I didn't really realize it until I lived somewhere with multiple species of sumac.
