Beyond aggravated with Amazon home delivery [View all]

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Does anyone else have this problem?

We have dogs and an inside cat. We often leave the sliding door to the screen porch open. There is a screen door that goes from the porch to the back yard, which has a hook-and-eye latch, but if we are coming and going a lot we often don't latch it. There is a wooden privacy fence around the back yard and a chain link gate leading to it. We live in a very rural area surrounded by a few houses and lots of coyote- and bear-filled woods.

I cannot seem to stop Amazon people from opening the gate, leaving it open, and, if the latch is off, entering our screen porch to leave a package. This leaves an open path for our pets from inside the house to the screen porch to the back yard, and out the gate and into the woods. I have specified delivery instructions in our Amazon account to leave packages "in the garage" (we have a carport) and additional instructions in caps DO NOT ENTER THE SCREEN PORCH. I have these posted outside the back yard:



Since I took that picture, I have added a BEWARE OF DOG - KEEP GATE CLOSED metal sign to the gate. They continue to enter our yard, leaving the gate wide open.

I have called Amazon and was told my concern would be "passed on to the correct department."

I am considering ordering a custom sign that says "THIS GATE IS RIGGED WITH C-4. IF YOU OPEN IT, YOU WILL BE BLOWN TO SMITHEREENS."

We had the same problem with a USPS delivery yesterday. I caught the guy before he got to the screen porch. I said "Did you see the giant yellow sign?" and he nodded. I made a sweeping gesture and yelled ON. THE. TABLE. (Dogs were all at my feet on the porch barking their heads off.) And he left to put it on the table. I came inside and said "Idiot" to my husband. I imagine the guy heard it so we might not be getting our USPS packages any more.

Any thoughts? This is also the gate that leads to the driveway and is how we come and go, so a padlock would be too inconvenient.