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csziggy

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22. You're lucky it was only across the street!
Wed Mar 24, 2021, 03:58 PM
Mar 2021

I'm in a rural location so it is a significant distance - too far and too dangerous to walk - to any of my neighbors. While the regular drivers are good about deliveries, the replacements are haphazard.

Our street address is 7489, the guy across the street and a little north is 7498. The neighbor to the north on the same side of the street is 7589. My packages have ended up at those other houses at various times. Sometimes I get them after I call to check, sometimes not.

Then there is the Google Maps/GPS problem. Our property is a half mile deep. GPS and Google show the street closest to the middle of the property, which a cul de sac with a name that has nothing to do with our street address. They even show the house at the end of the cul de sac as the correct house for our address. Even though I have complained multiple times, whatever algorithm is used continues to change the correction back to the incorrect street and house.

The worst was when materials for our addition were being delivered. One of the concrete trucks went down there, even though they were warned. Since there is a significant slope they spilled concrete on the private subdivision road and had to pay thousands of dollars to clean it up. Another truck got down there and there was not enough room for it to turn around. They had to back uphill a quarter of a mile, then put someone out on our road to stop traffic while they backed out onto the road to get to our place.

Now I tell delivery companies if they use GPS do NOT turn down the road that is not the road on our address but go to the driveway just north of there and that's us. They still get it wrong.

Amazon keeps pushing the envelope... [View all] alwaysinasnit Mar 2021 OP
Many companies have been doing similar tracking for years. TwilightZone Mar 2021 #1
Indeed GregariousGroundhog Mar 2021 #6
amazon is hijacking the postal service to remake it as its own delivery service as well nt msongs Mar 2021 #2
Amazon is rescuing the postal service.. HipChick Mar 2021 #3
Amazon needs to be reigned in. Joinfortmill Mar 2021 #4
Who among us doesn't want to know exactly where our s**** is.... VarryOn Mar 2021 #5
You have a good point, but why do they need biometrics for that? alwaysinasnit Mar 2021 #7
I know I do t want my employer to know every move I make... VarryOn Mar 2021 #8
I agree. This is trucking. The company should be able to monitor the driver and load. Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2021 #11
Me. Iggo Mar 2021 #18
Makes me think of my car insurance company Allstate Tree Lady Mar 2021 #9
My brother has that on his cars. What a pain in the ass. Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2021 #10
Exactly why I didn't do it Tree Lady Mar 2021 #14
I don't have one of those insurance apps... Silent3 Mar 2021 #13
The same people BGBD Mar 2021 #12
hell, they track their warehouse personnel onethatcares Mar 2021 #15
k&r as many bosses in the US keep trying to push the envelope. n/t area51 Mar 2021 #16
Well, it's a knotty problem, for sure. MineralMan Mar 2021 #17
I do understand about on-time and correct delivery concerns, but how does requiring biometrics and alwaysinasnit Mar 2021 #20
The only thing it would prevent is the driver swapping I mentioned. MineralMan Mar 2021 #21
Thanks for your response. Amazon is in the business of facial recognition software. Requiring alwaysinasnit Mar 2021 #23
Amazon is in every business. MineralMan Mar 2021 #25
You're lucky it was only across the street! csziggy Mar 2021 #22
This message was self-deleted by its author alwaysinasnit Mar 2021 #19
Oh brother! Who cares? This is perfectly reasonable. NurseJackie Mar 2021 #24
Well said, and this is nothing new. Amazon is late to the game. Some companies and agencies Nixie Mar 2021 #26
Who cares? People who don't do that work and MineralMan Mar 2021 #27
Perfect description and analysis. NurseJackie Mar 2021 #28
Bank Tellers have been surveilled for decades fescuerescue Mar 2021 #29
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