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Does anyone here get Poland Spring home delivery? Been using them for a few months now and they're really starting to piss me off. We live on the 3rd floor - no elevator. They say they will bring the bottles up for us but never actually do. Even after leaving nice notes on the empty bottles we put out, and calling customer service 3 times, they still don't bring up the new ones for us each month. Does anyone know of any other water delivery service in Bklyn besides Poland Spring?
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Poland Spring's website posts, "Custom Delivery brings pure, great-tasting Poland Spring water to your door and gives you the option of changing the number of bottles you get in your delivery every month." Even after picking up a new water server, you might write to Poland Spring's top jackass and explain that you are doing business with another company that actually cares about customers, unlike Poland Spring's incompetent staff that ignores the fact that YOUR door happens to be on the 3rd Floor and continues leaving YOUR bottle in front of somebody else's door. Why risk straining your own back when you're paying Poland Spring to do it for you?I blame such comments on beer.
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Yeah, I just complained again to customer service tonight. Supposedly the local office manager is going to call me tomorrow. I said if the next delivery isn't brought up I'm leaving the service. I just think - what if I was an old lady? Or a smaller person who couldn't carry those bottles? Those things are damn heavy. Do they just not deliver to the weak and elderly?
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I just order cases of Poland Spring it from Fresh Direct
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I used to use them when I lived in Manhattan, and they were good, but then again, we had an elevator...
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I have a great service - it delivers 100% mountain spring water, it is tested to the highest standards (far higher than Poland Spring), it tastes great, is virtually free and comes with no enviromental cost because it is delivered without the use of plastics, or fossil fuels or even electric - its called NYC tap water
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friendlypitbull » I have a great service - it delivers 100% mountain spring water, it is tested to the highest standards (far higher than Poland Spring), it tastes great, is virtually free and comes with no enviromental cost because it is delivered without the use of plastics, or fossil fuels or even electric - its called NYC tap water
I knew someone was bound to bring that up. I love NYC tap water. In the past that's all I've drank. The problem we have is with our building. It's very old and the pipes are bad. As a result, the water tastes terrible, is sometimes odd colors and leaves a residue on glasses and dishes. Once a plumber came over and said he would never drink that water and that the internal pipes were filled with inches of debris that built up over the years. So we switched to bottled water. -
Hey there get a brita filter (1 year use)...water taste fine..Believe Me I am a former bottled water addict.
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Anonymous » Hey there get a brita filter (1 year use)...water taste fine..Believe Me I am a former bottled water addict.
Thats what we originally had. It didn't work for us. Every day there was a brown slime stuck to the inside of the Brita pitcher. The building just has a lot of residue in the water and the Brita does nothing. -
I would think you and I live in the same building, willregistersoon, except that I've never seen Poland Spring bottles downstairs.
We have a lot of problems with the plumbing, and my Brita filter wasn't cutting it. I switched to bottled water several years ago just to be safe.
I'm moving soon to another building soon, though, so I hope to switch back to my Brita. Spring water is great, but it's expensive.What is essential is invisible to the eye. —Antoine de Saint Exupéry -
My saga with Poland Spring is continuing. I would drop them in a second excpet that I can't find any other water delivery services in the area. Anyone?
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Poland Spring, get your act together! I've converted to tap water. In all seriousness, what are the risks of drinking Brooklyn's unfiltered tap water? If you can tolerate tap water's taste, is it safe to drink? If it's not safe to drink, is your landlord obligated to pay for your bottled water? Is there a water-expert-lawyer in the house? I would like to know if I can be compensated for bottled water or plan on getting cancer.I blame such comments on beer.
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Subject: Me too
I've had problems with Poland Spring since day one over a year ago. I found this thread because I too was searching for other companies to use for water delivery. The customer service women are fine when I call, it's the deliverymen who are the problem. LAZY. When we lived in an apartment (only 1 flight up) they refused to ring the bell to let us know they were making delivery, and instead would leave the full bottles outside where anyone could take them. And by doing so would not pick up the empties. I would call and call and call to complain but nothing changed. Finally we just gave up and started leaving the empties out on the stoop, risking theft, thus risking being charged for them. The deliverymenwould then be able to pick them up and deliver the full water bottles without making the incredible effort to ring the bell as was so difficult for the poor things before. Now that we are in a house, there is a basement door vestibule that is much easier. We can leave out bottles for him to pick up and deliver the new bottles. But they're still screwing it up! Now the delivery guys refuse to pick up the empties. Even when we call the company to request pick-up they won't show up. Nobody tell me to use tap water. This is an issue about getting exactly what we pay for, not about tap water vs. bottled water. If the response is "well use tap water" you're basically telling us all to give in to the man and let bad companies bully us and walk all over us. If anyone knows of other companies that deliver water in Brooklyn, please share the info. Thanks. -
i always had my water delievered from fresh direct but just changed over to poland springs delivery. actually, today is my first delivery after signing up last week. argg, hope i don't have to go back to Fresh Direct. they are a bit more expensive.
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poland springs delivery guy called me three times today to ask for directions to my apt. he just called again to tell me he has been looking for my apt for over two hours.
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Hahaha. That is just ridiculous. I started a thing now where every time they leave the bottles without ringing the bell, I simply call up and they give it to me for free. I do have to bring them up myself though which is a pain (5, 5 gallon bottles, 3 flights of stairs) but the free months they're giving me did get someones attention. So far I got two months free and the 3rd month they brought upstairs finally.
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water has just arrived. delivery guy was very apologetic and thanked me profusely for helping him find the apt.
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let's remember that flouride is never a good idea and that's the top reason why i'm looking for a spring water source, myself. filters are damn expensive, plus what a waste of material - and please don't even talk to me about bottled water! i'm surprised there aren't too many other options out there in brooklyn. there's gotta be a group of hippies that drive to a spring and fill up bottles (glass preferably ; ) of water! i know about the website findaspring.com... anyone know where these good willing brothers and sisters are and if i can hop on their magical spring water gathering caravan?? or we can start our own - there are a couple of springs in new jersey... anyone willing with a vehicle??
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I've been drinking water with flouride in it for 50 years and I haven't been bothered by it. I find it ironic that you that you think filters are a waste of material but you have no problem driving to New Jersey to get water. What about the fuel and tolls, etc. New York water is consistently rated the best for taste and purity. Save some dough, drink from the tap.
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Bklyn Water Delivery & Poland Spring
Posted by willregistersoon 5 yrs ago
Don't get me started -
Pragmatic Guy - I know what you mean and I don't blame you for saying it, but ever since I've moved back to the states - from Montreal, where they don't put flouride in the water, I've felt not only sluggish and always tired, but duller - like my brain doesn't work as well. Certainly there are many other factors at play, transition, age... but upon doing more research on flouride, and learning about the difference in demographics who do have flouride in their water, it just seems to resonate - so I'm admittedly going by intuition on this - which is sometimes an overlooked skill. Plus, if a group of people fill up multiple bottles at a not-so-relatively distant source and even take advantage of being in that area for other reasons, I don't think it's as bad as that same group of people each throwing away chunks of plastic and other materials that only serve a purpose up to a month or so... that's my reasoning but hey, I certainly wouldn't judge anyone for thinking differently - the fact that we're thinking at all is a plus. I'm sure there are other options that I haven't exhausted.
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Molo, it's not the flouride in the water... your brain is suffering from poutine deprivation.
Fortunately, you can now get poutine at Mile End in Cobble Hill, as well as at a couple of places on 5th Avenue in the Slope.
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haha! thanks!
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