Amazon deliveries

[spiders]

Does anybody else have problems with Amazon? All of my profiles are setup to deliver to the front door. UPS, FedEx Express, the USPS and DHL all manage to find the front door. FedEx Ground and Amazon seem to really scrape the bottom of the barrel.

This happens frequently. They deliver something and put it just outside the garage door, even when it’s raining — and of course not off to the side because that would require some common sense. They did this late in the day and I was fortunate enough to see it on my camera since it was large enough. I’ve run over smaller stuff before.

 

[tvguy]

I have never had any delivery come anywhere than my front door. From any delivery company.

 

[CynBeth]

I have never had any delivery come anywhere than my front door. From any delivery company.

Same here.

 

[Communicore1991]

Amazon drivers always drop our packages off and don't ring the doorbell. Unless I see the email notification on my phone, I have no idea the package has arrived and frequently have brought in packages that are soaked through when it is pouring rain

 

[Mousemom234]

Amazon used to deliver properly, and ring. Not lately.
I've had them put packages on the porch, in my garden, by the garage, UNDER my mailbox (on the other side of the street).. .

At least they get them here -- FedEx, on the other hand, constantly delivers my stuff to anybody BUT me.

 

[_19disnA]

Amazon deliveries work fine for me, never had a problem. They send an email estimating the delivery date when I first place the order and then I get another email when the package is actually delivered. Maybe in some parts of the country they are having delivery issues.

 

[TippyThomas]

Almost all of my Amazon deliveries come via UPS these days and they do very well with location. The FedEx guy delivers my Sams Club shipments and he can be hit or miss with location but never has it been placed in a bad location. It's usually that it gets tossed a bit further than I'd like to the location of his choice.

 

[tvguy]

I have to admit our Amazon Driver is a little over the top. If we are working in the yard and he drives by he ALWAYS waves and honks his horn. And if we are out working in the yard and he has a delivery for us, he always says "thank you, because of you I have a job"

 

[prairie_girl]

I’ve never had an issue with Amazon deliveries.. we’re in an apartment now so of course we always get the delivery at our door with a knock to let us know it’s there. When we lived in a house, we had times where we weren’t home and they would actually take the package to our back door, which is a mudroom, and left them there.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Amazon drivers always drop our packages off and don't ring the doorbell.

I hate this. Not just Amazon, but all deliveries they just drop & go. Sometimes they take a picture of it sitting on the doorstep, but, heaven forbid, they ring the doorbell, or knock on the door to let us know there's something there.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

I hate this. Not just Amazon, but all deliveries they just drop & go. Sometimes they take a picture of it sitting on the doorstep, but, heaven forbid, they ring the doorbell, or knock on the door to let us know there's something there.

It’s got to be so hard for them to make everyone happy, though, because everyone has different preferences. I definitely do not want them ringing the bell because it too often results in waking a baby. (Setting off barking dogs isn’t enjoyable either.) I actually disconnected the doorbell in my last house because it was such an issue. Then, when they pressed the button and realized it didn’t work, they’d bang on the door which somehow managed to be ten times louder.

 

[KayMichigan]

My problem with Amazon is that I live in a large apartment complex with several buildings and there have been times when they deliver my stuff to the wrong building. I get the picture of where they left the package and it very clearly isn't my apartment door. I've been lucky in that the people have brought my packages over, otherwise I'd never be able to find them as there about thirty buildings in the complex. The building numbers are right above the front doors but I guess the drivers aren't paying attention.

 

[Meriweather]

All our deliveries are by the front door....sometimes right next to it. Sometimes down the wall a bit but always on that walk by a wall.
Very rarely do they ring a doorbell.....but I have a video doorbell so that gets set off anyway.

 

[tzolkin]

Amazon deliveries work fine for me, never had a problem. They send an email estimating the delivery date when I first place the order and then I get another email when the package is actually delivered. Maybe in some parts of the country they are having delivery issues.

I have no problem with having things delivered on time. But, like the OP, every driver leaves the package in a different location. My Alexa will start blinking that something has been delivered and, unless they take a picture of the delivery, I have to go outside and start hunting for where the package was left. In the past, packages were always left on our front porch. But with the addition of Amazon trucks to our area, they are left all over the place. Our front yard is fenced-in and our back yard is on a slope so packages have been left: on the front porch (in various locations), at the front gate (usually when it's raining), by the basement door, by the back door, somewhere on the two flights of stairs to the back door, under the stairs to the back door, under the back porch, inside the garage/shed under the house. If they go under the back porch, they will sometimes even hide the item among the tools or building supplies while we were renovating.

A few times our packages have been delivered to our neighbor's front porch. Fortunately, those had a photo so I could tell it was not anywhere on my property and could walk over and pick the item up.

 

[mjkacmom]

I hate this. Not just Amazon, but all deliveries they just drop & go. Sometimes they take a picture of it sitting on the doorstep, but, heaven forbid, they ring the doorbell, or knock on the door to let us know there's something there.

I hate when they ring my doorbell. We have a large wrap around front porch, we have 2 sets of stairs and a walkway, no need to let me know a package arrived, the dog goes nuts with the doorbell (although she will bark anyway if she just hears them dropping off). I can only think of 2 times where packages were dropped off on the walkway and not the porch, and I am an Amazon addict.

 

[Communicore1991]

It’s got to be so hard for them to make everyone happy, though, because everyone has different preferences. I definitely do not want them ringing the bell because it too often results in waking a baby. (Setting off barking dogs isn’t enjoyable either.) I actually disconnected the doorbell in my last house because it was such an issue. Then, when they pressed the button and realized it didn’t work, they’d bang on the door which somehow managed to be ten times louder.

I think it is a big enough issue that Amazon should have options on our accounts to let us choose how or if we are notified of package deliveries. I don't have a dog that will bark at the doorbell or a baby that will wake, but I do have a package that will sit out in the rain for hours and be potentially ruined if I am not notified that the package has arrived.

 

[Moliphino]

I have the Amazon app setup to give me notifications when packages ship, are out for delivery, and are delivered.

Most packages are left at my back door, which is my preference. We don't use the front door and there is no path to it from the road or driveway, so most delivery people don't go to it. The last time something was left there it sat for a few days because we didn't realize it was there. Occasionally things are left by the garage doors, it's more been an issue for me coming home from work and having to park and get the package before I can drive into the garage.

 

[OneOftheB's]

I had a few bad amazon deliveries and contacted Amazon (items left after dark in front of the garage door in the rain, items left in my mailbox on a Sunday, etc). They seem to have put a note on my account and 99% of the Amazon deliveries arrive at my front door, under a covered porch now. Often they "hide" them behind a column so that you see them easily from the house, but aren't obvious from the street.

 

[CallieMar]

Most of the drivers put our packages on or in front of a chair we have on our covered porch, that is pretty well hidden by some shrubbery. Our USPS carrier is the one who will drop small packages right on the front doorstep for all to see which is kind of annoying.

 

[SC Minnie]

Ours always put packages on the front porch.

The only problem I've had with an Amazon delivery is when they backed in to our garage door, didn't leave the package, and left. I was coming home as they were pulling out of the driveway otherwise I would have never known they were there.