[moron4hire]

LOL, your delivery guy doesn't just dump everything on the doorstep as quietly as they can? Or for anything requiring a signature (actually, can't remember the last time I had that through Amazon) run up and stick the "customer wasn't home" sticker on the door without even trying the doorbell or knocking?

I have been working from home, my wife also working from home--so driveway full of cars--and on several occasions heard their truck door slam, only to find that sticker on the door.

FedEx, UPS, DHL, and all the random, local, "last mile" shippers here seem to all have a policy to not actually even try for signature-required delivery until at least the second attempt.

[null_object]

One time I happened to be standing in my doorway chatting to a friend when I got the call from FedEx/UPS to say they were (at that very moment) trying to get into my building but couldn't and didn't have the time to wait. While on the phone and very confused I happened to look around the street and saw the driver sitting in his van 20 meters away talking to me on his phone.

When I said this, he very sheepishly came over with my package.

otoh I'm guessing the poor guy probably didn't have time to piss while delivering > 1.5x the maximum possible number of deliverable packages in a normal working day.

And this was at least an improvement on getting the "we couldn't deliver your package because you were not home" email the day after you've waited in all day to receive it.

[counttheforks]

> otoh I'm guessing the poor guy probably didn't have time to piss while delivering > 1.5x the maximum possible number of deliverable packages in a normal working day.

He should take that up with his employer or switch jobs. Not gaslight customers. The amount of fedex deliveries where they claimed I wasn't home has been absurd lately. I have a doorbell camera, and checked. No fedex truck ever appeared all day.

[OJFord]

Funny how different something as mundane as deliveries (and as widespread as Amazon) can be.

> your delivery guy doesn't just dump everything on the doorstep as quietly as they can?

Never had that, no.

> Or for anything requiring a signature (actually, can't remember the last time I had that through Amazon)

They email & show in 'my orders' numeric codes to give the driver who then enters and verifies them. (This verifies they actually delivered it too, since they don't know the code, just enter what you tell them.)

> run up and stick the "customer wasn't home" sticker on the door without even trying the doorbell or knocking?

You get stickers on your doors? Here in the UK (with any courier) it's a piece of paper through the letterbox that says missed/with a neighbour/in your safe place/whatever.

I suppose that's because you have mailboxes outside with little flags rather than letterboxes in doors, so they don't want to try to deliver to your door and then look for that as well when it doesn't work, easier just to stick something on the door where they already are?

[moron4hire]

> I suppose that's because you have mailboxes outside with little flags rather than letterboxes in doors

That's mostly only rural areas. Where I am, the houses either have letter slots in the door as you described, or a letter box attached to the house next to the front door.

Our previous place had a letter slot. But the place we just moved into has put the letter box next to the side door, at the end of the driveway. It's hit-or-miss where deliveries will get left, but most of the time it's at the front door, the one we don't check on a regular basis because we're usually going out the side door to get to our cars.

[kuschku]

I'm in Germany, so I've never had trouble with the delivery people just leaving packages or telling me that they couldn't deliver them. If I don't get a package on the announced date, I'll usually just get it the next day.