Posts by Dana Torres9

I’ve noticed that a standard package or even something sent via certified mail actually shows up faster than FedEx or that 24-hour shipping option. That’s probably why they dropped "express" from the name entirely. I still just use envelopes for most of my sales—you know, anything that doesn't strictly need a box due to size—and nobody ever asks what's inside. If they did, I'd just tell them it's documents.

I've got some collision coverage through an insurer like GEICO $367, but it’s basically limited to just one claim. It could be anything from a tiny scratch to a total wreck, but once you use it up, I think you have to pay an extra premium to keep the coverage active. Not really sure how much that would run, though.

I guess it’s my turn to weigh in. Liver transplant. It all started with an emergency call—"We have a liver for you in Chicago." I hopped on a medevac flight straight to the hospital, carrying a donor organ all the way from Amsterdam. I rolled in around 3:00 AM, ran through the lab tests, and they told me to just get some rest. So, I went to sleep. They came back at 6:30 AM like, "Let's go!" We headed toward the OR, me and the guy on duty, just walking. I vaulted over the desk, stripped everything off, tossed it to him, turned around, and there it was—all the surgical gear and tools laid out perfectly. Someone in a white coat pointed to the table and said, "Lie here, this is where we'll work." I lay down, and he hooked up my IV. I didn't wake up until 9:00 PM, strapped down by my arms and legs, totally lost in space and time. Later, they told me I was being pretty aggressive and shouting while I was coming around. Ever since then, for about 8 years now, I’ve been dreaming everything in vivid detail, like watching a movie. Mostly good dreams, though.

Mine usually show up from the United Kingdom in about five days. Honestly, I’d check in with the seller—you really ought to be concerned if you actually paid for this thing. Since you don't have a tracking number, it's pretty much impossible to figure out what's going on or where it's stuck.

Usually, once you get that yellow slip, you can swing by and grab your packages after 4 PM. That applies to this one from the United Kingdom too.

Maybe you just got a new mail carrier. Honestly, mine hasn't even been leaving those little slip notices lately—I guess they figured I’m already obsessively tracking the package myself. Anyway, your best bet is just heading straight to the USPS. Grab your tracking number and ask them point-blank: what's the status and where on earth is it?

The USPS guy should've left you a yellow slip. If he didn't, it probably means they aren't even trying to deliver it to your door—you'll likely have to swing by the local branch and show some ID to pick it up.

That basically means your package hit the local USPS office, so you just need to swing by and grab it!

Standard mail is basically "junk mail" at this point, and it can easily sit in the same sorting facility for two weeks. It really ought to arrive within a couple of days, especially since San Francisco serves as the main hub for southern regional mail. Here’s how it works in a place like Charleston: if you’re sending something from Street A to Street B, both right there in Charleston, that package doesn't just go down the block. It heads straight to the major sorting center in San Francisco first, then gets sent back out to the local branch. To make matters worse, the mail carrier only swings by that neighborhood twice a week. Honestly, living in San Francisco, you get much faster delivery because everything moves through the hub more directly.

If you're sending money via a USPS money order, they charge a 3.75% fee on whatever amount you're trying to move. Just a heads-up though, there's a minimum charge of $9 and a cap at $27.

Can someone tell me how often you guys actually get mail deliveries? I live in a residential neighborhood where they only swing by twice a week, which means everything is constantly lagging. It’s even worse with certified mail—I can't pick anything up until the carrier leaves one of those yellow slips. To top it all off, the staff at my local post office are pretty incompetent. They lose things left and right. I had a certified package coming from a nearby suburb that took seven business days to arrive, and six of those days it was just sitting there unrecorded in the office. I literally had to go in there and hunt it down myself.

John Turner34 said:If I were an electrician, I’d probably be asking around here, but honestly, you can't tackle this on your own. It's hard to say if it's even worth fixing when you haven't pinned down exactly where the fault lies.
Hand it over to an old-school electronics guy and he’ll probably fix it 99% of the time. My gut says it’s the power supply. Could be that the 5 volts aren't actually hitting the 5 volt mark... things like that.
Honestly, it could be anything else. You look at a Dell today and there’s probably more electronics packed in there than what you'd find in a Roku, even if you can't see it. It's all just tucked away right behind the screen.
Don't go poking around in there. Seriously. You could end up dead—there’s enough high voltage in there to take you out.
Just hammer out a price with them beforehand if they end up fixing it—you know, just to be safe. $67And if all that fails and you can't pay a single cent...

First thing I'd do is check your graphics card settings in Microsoft Windows. Make sure it's actually set to 60Hz and hasn't somehow defaulted to 100Hz or something else weird. If the Dell isn't broken, it really should be working perfectly fine at 60Hz.

Look, I’m obviously no electrical engineer. If I were, I wouldn't be asking questions on a forum like this. The actual electronics inside a Dell aren't even that complicated, really. Most pros won't even bother poking around the individual circuit boards; they just swap out the whole unit, which is pretty much what I'd end up doing anyway. But, following some advice from a fellow member, I think I'll start by replacing all the capacitors and see where that gets me. I've got nothing but time on my hands, so I might as well tinker with this little thing. And don't worry about the high voltage—I can handle a little shock.

Right now, whenever I pull the plug and pop it back in, the image pops up in about five seconds. There’s this thin, high-pitched whining sound that just lingers for a bit. Honestly, I’m thinking the issue is somewhere on the Dell power supply board—maybe a blown capacitor or some transistor attached to one of those aluminum heat sinks.

I popped the hood and took a good look at the power connector and the VGA input, but honestly, everything looks perfectly normal. No obvious signs of damage or anything weird. I’m just stumped—when I boot the PC, all the BIOS text and numbers show up just fine, but the second it tries to load Microsoft Windows, the screen goes dark. It’s weird because you can still kind of see faint outlines of the image if you look closely enough.

I tested it on a different computer too, so it’s definitely an issue with the Dell. If there's any way to fix it, I'm all ears.

I've got this old Philips 200 VW LCD Dell, and it’s acting up. It shows the startup screen just fine, but then everything goes dark. You can still see faint outlines of the image if you look closely, though. Is there any way to save this thing, or am I just looking at a lost cause where the repair cost outweighs the value?