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In reply to the discussion: Amazon keeps pushing the envelope... [View all]csziggy
(34,120 posts)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.