Amazon's flawed new delivery process.

[edhopper]

So it seems for items Amazon is delivering within a day or two they have set up a fleet of local freelance delivery people. I won't even get into them taking work from Unionized Post Office and UPS workers. But I will say that millions of people live in Apartments and Condos. The Postal workers and UPS drivers have access to our building, so they can leave packages. But these random people in their delivery vans don't. So they can't deliver if I am not home. I am not ordering from Amazon so I can stay home all day to wait for a delivery. Feels like a big misstep.

And please, if you only want to chastise me for buying from Amazon, don't bother.

And I do realize this is very much a First world problem.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Amazon has been doing this for quite some time.

[marybourg]

2. How about using an Amazon Hub?

[edhopper]

6. If I wantesd to go to a store to get something

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I would go to a store and buy something.

[marybourg]

15. OOOh Kay

[edhopper]

16. Sorry

I added some emojis. it sounded like a joke in my head when I wrote it, but reads very terse.

[marybourg]

20. Understood

[edhopper]

21. It would have been hilarious

in a stand up comedy routine.

[NewJeffCT]

3. I also see a lot of trucks from the local Post Office

delivering packages after hours for Amazon - including on Sundays. It's not just Amazon-exclusive trucks.

[edhopper]

8. But Postal workers

have access to Apartment Buildings and can leave packages inside if no one is home.

[NewJeffCT]

9. right

they can do that - maybe they're not available to do it in your area?

[edhopper]

10. I think it is just Amazon

cutting costs at the expense of workers.

[Rebl2]

11. That's

the way I always get Amazon packages. I have a PO Box so it gets delivered to my PO Box address. Of course I have to go in and get it from postal workers, but I’m there anyway to get my mail, so no big deal-except at Christmas when it’s really busy.

[csziggy]

13. I had to stop getting Amazon packages delivered to my PO Box

My local PO "lost" too many packages, Amazon and other wise. Then they simply would not look for them, just told me to contact Amazon and re-order the "lost" items.

It wasn't just Amazon, it was also medical supplies that got "lost" - and I put quotes around the word since it was too consistent and the higher ups at that PO branch were obviously making no effort to find out what was going on.

I still get my important mail delivered to the PO Box since my street box is not secure and not visible from anywhere on my property. But packages come to the street address and the lady that delivers the mail is very good about bringing packages straight to the house.

[KewlKat]

4. I supposedly got a delivery yesterday, Sunday, from USPS...email said left at front door.

problem...high winds here and it was a VERY SMALL item, so no package on the porch. I was home all day and no one rang the bell or knocked on the door, etc. We do have a MAILBOX. So now, I'm trying to find out how to get a replacement, etc., from the vendor. So, they delivered a day early and it's lost.

[PTWB]

12. You should look at a Ring or Nest doorbell camera.

Yeah, some people don’t like the “big brother” ramifications but let me be the first to admit that my life is boring and I don’t care who from a mega-corporation can monitor my front porch.

These cameras are so cool. They give you the ability to see and talk to someone at your door remotely. You can get alerts to your phone when something has been delivered, when someone is walking onto your porch, etc.

They’re really useful.

[shanti]

17. On Ebay

if your package is lost, and they have 'proof of delivery' via the tracking number, you are shit out of luck.

[Blues Heron]

5. try the hub - is there one nearby?

they send you a code, you have several days to pick it up.

[safeinOhio]

7. I try to have small items delivered

to my PO box at the post office. Works for me. I have a porch, mailbox on the street and a PO box for important stuff.

[shanti]

19. There's a lot of stolen mail

in my neck of the woods. I bought a locking mailbox and now stress free.

[HipChick]

14. Use the Amazon Lockers...a lot of grocery stores have them now..

I pick up my packages when I go the the grocery store..

[shanti]

18. Ours is at

the local GNC or 7/11.