[dylan604]

That actually made me chuckle. That's definitely not a scenario one would have thought of in advance. I wonder if the "Item is a gift" checkbox would have any bearing on how Alexa describes a delivery? Hey Alexa, hint hint...

[AlotOfReading]

There's a couple of settings for it. One disables the item reading entirely, one disables names for things marked as gifts or items ordered around major holidays.

[quantified]

Alexa is a box, not a butler. Discretion is not part of the makeup.

[dylan604]

It's a box made by programmers to be used by consumers. Programmers can make it do things that would make it even better and more useful to the consumers. As another comment has already indicated, these programmers have already taken this into consideration and provide the options.

Not really sure where you thought anyone was confused by a small box being a butler.

[quantified]

> The surprise was the ruining of the surprise instead of the surprise itself.

Not confused, surprised. A hallmark of a butler is discretion. I hope you didn’t read that I was contradicting you or disagreeing? “Don’t spoil the suprise by divulging the nature of the package to the intended recipient” is beyond Alexa’s programming. For a butler, it wouldn’t even be a checkbox option, it would go without saying.