Delivery methods!

[NYlakesider]

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!

 

[65-2x2]

Our drivers are a little better than that. They get out of the vehicle and put my packages behind the privacy fence.

 

[grover99]

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.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

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.

 

[mckenney99]

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.

 

[Onomea]

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.

 

[Chuck24]

My route was in a rural area , most houses a good ways from the road. I always went up to the house, but to be honest, it was mostly to play with the dogs

 

[old bear]

I must be lucky. With one exception I've had good luck with my delivers and drivers.

 

[LVSteve]

It's the companies. Between the drive by the metrics people for higher productivity, and the lawyers twitchiness about their vehicles on private roads, this is what you get.

 

[olfart]

What chaps me is when I go down the 700' driveway and open the gate, leave it open all day awaiting the arrival of my package, and then at 8:30 PM I get an email saying "Unable to deliver, no one at home". Then I check my gate camera, and it shows the truck speeding by and not stopping.

 

[venomballistics]

can't say as any of our delivery people were ever so lackadaisical as that. A few will leave it in the driveway by the garage, but most drop on the porch. Some even try to place the packages so they are hard to see from the street.

 

[LVSteve]

What chaps me is when I go down the 700' driveway and open the gate, leave it open all day awaiting the arrival of my package, and then at 8:30 PM I get an email saying "Unable to deliver, no one at home". Then I check my gate camera, and it shows the truck speeding by and not stopping.

That frosts my chops. These delivery people not only tell lies, they tell dumb lies.

 

[Onomea]

Reminds me of the time the postman claimed I had not been home for a registered letter when I was home waiting for it.

My doorbell camera recorded him first writing the notice that I was not home, then sticking it on the door, then knocking twice, softly on the door frame (not the door), and then immediately leaving..

 

[Rustyt1953]

Over the decades I have received a container ship of parcels (both business and home) and have yet to have a problem that wasn't rectified to my satisfaction.

 

[TX-Dennis]

Pretty good drivers here. Amazon tends to leave packages on the bench on my front porch, and that's okay with me. One day last week it was raining, and the UPS guy delivered a small parcel that he had placed inside a plastic bag. He placed it (as he usually does) right at the front door. As he was leaving he glanced at the amazon package sitting on the bench, turned around, picked it up, and placed it next to his on the front door mat. I consider that to be above and beyond service.

I watched it on my phone while at work.

 

[Rustyt1953]

If has taken me 26 months to train them but most of my route drivers know where to leave our parcels.