Delivery methods!

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No clue to what is going on with the delivery services, but funny mushrooms might be ingested by drivers.

My wife ordered some items through Amazon. She got conformation that for some reason she would get 3 deliveries. That proved out to be correct.

I was riding my ATV to go down to the beach a few days later and halfway there I see what looks like a 15'' X6'' X6'''' piece of wood sticking out of the ground. Yep it was our first delivery. No clue why it was there halfway to my house. Next day my wife gets a notice a parcel has been delivered, went looking and there it was balanced on my mailbox. Next day another package and it was in a large plastic bag inside the mail box.

We get lots delivered and up till now other than the day of a nasty snow storm they come all the way up the hill to the house. I maintain the driveway and keep it in good repair! Told her to call company but she said give them another chance!

I have been seeing more items along the road by mailboxes, is this going to be the new method? In my case my mail box is not seeable from my close to 1/4 mile away house, or any neighbors. So far our area has been safe from porch pirates, but a box right at the edge of a roadway is a open invitation.

My thought on this is the drivers are going for speed so they get done earlier and the hell with the customers, or is it cost cutting by the companies themselvs? What ever the answer you can note my wife and I as not impressed! :mad:
 
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When I first moved to my current address the UPS driver I had was very good. Always about the same time of day and he would bring my stuff to the door and knock. After a year or two I would start seeing less and less of him. From then it was a crap shoot as to what time my delivery would show up and where it would be left. As I have 6 doors to the outside here I often had to
check each one to find my stuff. My old driver is still working for UPS and sometimes he will be the driver but not often. Dealing with deliveries is just one of the bumps in the road of life.
 
Have posted that the Amazon Driver threw my new Coffee Pot into my neighbors backyard.
Most of the time I get delivered at my front door without trauma or drama.
 
My drivers are great, whether Amazon, UPS, USPS or Fedex once the items FINALLY make it to the local terminal and onto the truck. I usually meet them at the front door and make it a point to say Thank You and in the current hot/humid conditions I always offer cold water, pop or Gatorade.
Watching one item that made it from France in 2 days and now has been sitting in Elk Grove Il since 8/2. Vendor won't initiate a trace since the projected delivery date was 8/18.
 
Whenever I get an Amazon delivery, and I get a lot of Amazon deliveries, I get a request to rate the delivery service.

I also think when ordering you can leave special instructions/requests for the driver.

On the whole, I've had no issues with Amazon deliveries. But I also, live in a suburban neighborhood with houses lining the street on both sides, not out in the country like you do.
 
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