Home deliveries
 

are they starting to drop deliveries to people's homes to the street end of their driveways??? Yesterday i saw five houses with deliveries. all were in the street end of the driveways. Little brown boxes or orange Temu bags. Odd and irritating to home owners. Now my granddtr follows her deliveries she gets on her phone and knows when it is placed anywhere. Me, this is irritating. But I'm old and require manners and all the old fashioned things we were used to. Perhaps they get out of their trucks or just toss them. Looks more like tossing. Anyone having this happen?

Wow! That's awful. I wouldn't want my deliveries left at the end of the driveway. You might as well put a sign on it that says "Take me". I'd be very upset about that. I only get deliveries from USPS, UPS, FedEx and Amazon. They all leave my deliveries on the porch.

Sometimes they do depending on weather (snow they can't get up my driveway) and sometimes I think the driver is running behind schedule and they drop by msilbox. It is irritating.

well, hot and sunny here. so far my amazon and ups drivers have been great!!

So far all deliveries have been placed on my front porch. If delivered by post office and won't fit in the mailbox the mail carrier always brings to the door. I always give a positive feedback on line of the delivery driver if package is left on the porch. Those reviews really help the driver. Start leaving negative review if delivery is left in unacceptable spots.

Amazon has started a new thing. They text you a number that you have to give the delivery man. This prevents deliveries to wrong person. And will help avoid porch pirates I don’t know what they do if you are not home

We have a locked gate at our home. I sign up for delivery notifications from UPS & FedEx so I get an email when a package arrives. We have a large black box just outside our gate that they can be put inside so they aren't just sitting outside the gate in plain sight. If it's a really important delivery we will leave the gate open & the driver brings the package to the front door.
It really upsets me when I hear that packages are just left at the end of people's driveways. What is this world coming to? People are really lazy & just don't care anymore.

Every Amazon delivery, I get an instant picture of the package and where it was placed, usually always on the front porch behind one of the rocking chairs. Fed Ex always puts the packages at the side garage entrance not seen from street. Missouri Star is about all I get delivered from Fed Ex.

The only delivery service that dumps stuff in the driveway is FedEx. They totally ignore all instructions to leave items on the front porch. A couple of weeks ago, FedEx drove around with 2 rolls of my batting for 3 days. When they finally made the delivery, they dumped the rolls (with punctures in the packaging and the batting exposed) in the driveway. Luckily we were home or the batting would have been a real mess when it rained later in that day. I happily gave FedEx a 1 star (lowest) review for that delivery. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure FedEx couldn't care less about unhappy customers.

He, he. Amazon took a photo of a large crushed box on my porch one delivery. Luckily the computer keyboard I'd ordered was fine. the box looked like an Elephant had sat on it and they had the gaul to post that photo proudly!!

Thats a lazy delivery guy. That’s just wrong. I have 2 family members delivering & they wouldn’t think of doing that. I watched the driver leave my neighbors box in front of the garage door. 1) it’s maybe 10-12 more steps to leave it on the porch. 2). the homeowner can easily open the garage door and back out, crushing the box.

We have an electric gate at our entrance. There is a mailbox and a package receptacle (steel-shaped like a BBQ pit). Amazon driver proudly posted their picture of a package wedged into the gate. Ruined gate mechanism. They paid for new opener-no questions after I forwarded the driver's delivery picture! They are very careful with deliveries now.

No complaints here, I'm just glad they show up. I was expecting a priority mail express delivery Monday. I have no clue where it decided to vacation until it finally showed up yesterday. Usually our packages are left by the front door, we normally only have Amazon packages that the post office delivers. The rest is UPS, the driver in our area is really good.

I imagine that the quality of delivery service depends on where you live and who the manager is for any given area. Lately, Fed Ex always immediately sends us an email with a photo showing where they left our delivery; the post office rings the door bell when they leave a package; and UPS usually makes all kinds of noise as he walks up the three steps to our porch. During covid, we did have one FedEx delivery of a case of canned goods that they tossed from the bottom of the steps to the center of the deck, damaging both the carton and some of the cans as well as leaving a big dent in the wood planks on the deck. I reported that delivery to both the shipper and fed ex and was reumbursed for the damages from both with no problems. I don't know about FedEx, but the poor UPS drivers are being constantly timed and they get reprimanded if they aren't fast enough, with no considerations made for long driveways or difficult delivery locations.

This last winter I got a delivery from UPS and I was so impressed. I have an 800 foot driveway and was just going to go out and plow when the UPS driver actually walked down my snow covered driveway to deliver the package, I met him half way and thanked him for being so conscientious and told him how much I appreciated him.

I just thought I would update, the weird deliveries seemed to have ceased. Odd but glad.

My guess is that it is a substitute driver or some such.

Our winter home is on the 2nd floor of a building, with stairs for our unit and another. The door to one of the downstairs units is just past the landing for the stairs.

One of the substitute UPS drivers would set packages right at the bottom of the stairs. Annoying for me if it was a large package; all of the regular drivers bring them upstairs and put outside of our door. But it's also a hazard for the others who either use the stairs or need to get past them to get to their doorway.

Overall, I've been very lucky, though, and really appreciate the folks who are doing a great job.

BonnieJP, I also have issues with FedEx. I'm lucky if they even get it to the porch. I'd asked them to deliver some very heavy shelving units (70#) next to the front garage which wasn't that far from the front porch but they barely got it teetering on the front porch and stairs both times. I had to pull out my little dollie and haul them back to the garage, one by one and I'm over 70, not that I'm a weakling but when you instruct them to do something, you expect it. And they wonder why I give them a "1 star" review. Only because I can't give them a "0 star" review.

I got a code today from Amazon to give the driver. First time for that. But the package could be considered a weapon/dangerous? Maybe have a picture of it on the outside of the package? It is a crossbow. My husband said maybe because of the cost. I said my sewing machine was delivered without a code and it cost much more. He thought a minute and said What? LOL

“””I said my sewing machine was delivered without a code and it cost much more. He thought a minute and said What? LOL””

That is hilarious!!!

Sometimes my delivery ends up at a neighbor house because they can’t read addresses…. Like my cat food got dropped off across the street.

We had a creepy-ness with FedEx a bit ago. I order pet food from Chewy and even as heavy as it is (usually order 8 - 24 pack cases at a time) they put it on the porch and post a picture, which is nice of them as the boxes are heavy.

The time that was creepy, I got an email with a picture that the order had been delivered. (It was suppose to be 3 oversize boxes holding 8 - 24 pack cases and also 4 bags of dry food this time) The picture the FedEx delivery driver sent was of an envelope sitting on someones side porch. The address was actually (creepy here) of a house that had been for sale that we had actually looked at several months prior to see if we wanted to buy it, several towns over from where we live.

Wondering if I somehow messed up the address, I looked but -- nope my right address on the order, besides the envelope on the porch in the picture certainly wasn't three cartons. I called Chewy and when I told them, she pulled up the picture saying this isn't even the same town, and that envelope certainly isn't your order. Any how, she was very nice and pleasant and sent out my order again. I hope they got a refund as it was a couple of hundred for the order. This time FedEx delivered it to the right place.

I wonder if the FedEx driver decided he needed it, or what the heck happened to all the pet food? It was so creepy because we had actually looked at that house to see if we wanted to buy it.