Couriers often get a bad rap. If a package gets damaged or even worse, stolen, it's usually the delivery driver who gets the blame.
But judging from a picture Danielle McPherson recently tweeted, some of them might not even be trying! When she came home, Danielle found her Amazon package laying on decorative rocks near the house, with a few of them thrown on top of the box.
Danielle's tweet instantly went viral and has already accumulated over 325K likes and 1.1K comments, many of which are other people sharing similar experiences.
Yes, these images scream "minimal effort" but have in mind that there's only so much a courier can do without a secure mailbox. Anyway, continue scrolling and check out the photos!
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According to Morgan Stanley estimates, Amazon is already delivering about half of its packages in the U.S. and will soon pass both United Parcel Service and FedEx in total volume.
Reportedly, Amazon Logistics more than doubled its share of U.S. package volumes from about 20% in recent history and is now shipping at a rate of 2.5 billion per year. For comparison, it is estimated that UPS and FedEx have U.S. shipping volumes of 4.7 billion and 3 billion packages per year, respectively.
"Customers love the transition of Prime from two days to one day — they've already ordered billions of items with free one-day delivery this year. It's a big investment, and it's the right long-term decision for customers," CEO Jeff Bezos said about the one-day Prime shipping on an earnings call at the end of 2019.
For his company, it’s not just about getting more packages to more customers at higher speeds. It’s also about owning everything from the arrival of a product at an Amazon factory (or the creation of the product from an Amazon subsidiary) to the so-called last-mile delivery to the customer’s doorstep. And the numbers say they have been doing quite a good job so far. What is your experience with Amazon deliveries? Tell us in the comments!
This actually makes it stand out more. It's not just a package - it's a package with a CAPE!
If you order something that is too big to be hidden, what do you expect them to do? Try staying at home to collect it.
I can't tell you the number of times I've very intentionally asked for the 'nondiscript' packaging, or whatever, expressly because the item *was* expensive, only for it to show up not in an amazon box, just it's normal, brightly labeled package. also, I'd be rather more pissed about the rummaging about to find the broom in the first place.
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Guessing that from the street the pail/planter would have blocked most of it. Probably would have turned the TV around so that the part that stuck out beyond the planter was the white part of the box, to blend more against the white wall.
Hobo happened to be passing nearby looking for a bed for the night. Hobo for the night: "YO, DUDES. GATHER! FOUND A 40'' FLAT SCREEN"
German here: How is this possible and acceptable? In Germany this would never happen as the delivery company is responsible for package until somebody receives it personally
I once had a package delivered the same day as trash day. And out it went with the garbage truck 🤦🏽♀️
Couriers don't have time to mess around with their deliveries. If you don't have an obvious spot for them to conceal your packages they can't be expected to create one. They do what they can. If there is a fenced in yard with a dog running loose, what are they supposed to do there? The pictures are funny though.
where exactly do you expect them to put it when you don't give them a proper spot?
Controversial opinion. Don't order packages if you don't know you are going to be home to accept them. In Britain you can have orders shipped to post offices and various other convenience stores that you can collect them from at your time and ease, just need an ID for proof
Agree with this. Amazon/UPS/Fedex drivers have schedules and are under pressure. While it's great if they find somewhere to hide your package, it's not really their job to do so unless you have an established place for your deliveries. example: "Inside the recycle trolley on side of house." There are Amazon Lockers you can have your items shipped to. I've had mine shipped to work (not all workplaces allow this). You can ask a retired neighbor to receive packages if they're willing. Bottom line: People are asking for items to be hidden because of the rise in package theft - so address THAT with a secure plan, don't whine about the drivers.
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I came in to this thinking I'd be amused and get a good laugh, but instead I'm leaving annoyed and disliking humans, once again. Complaining about the carriers, who, by the looks of the majority of these photos, are doing the best they can, is just flat out rude. If you don't want your packages left out in the open, put something out there that the packages can be put in/under/behind. You give the carriers no other options, and then you batch about it. That's not funny.
I came in just to see how many other commenters would say this. It’s extremely well known that Amazon in particular overworks their drivers, packers, etc and treats them like s**t so I really can’t find it in me to judge these drivers.
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This is dumb, I try to put packages where they aren't noticeable but it's on the buyer. If you can't be home to get your packages, then you should have a receptacle and camera/neighbor. My route is sometimes light, but we have had up to 300 - 400 packages in a single day. And then some of us have to go back out (if you're an RCA) if there is a route that doesn't have a carrier that day. People need to take responsibility for themselves and plan ahead on where they want their packages to go and the most secure.
Agreed. The drivers I've seen are always busting their tails to get packages delivered as fast as possible. They do a great job. I did like the prickle tree one. :)
Load More Replies... Doesn't happen in the Netherlands because the sender is responsible for the goods until you receive them. They won't allow couriers to just drop their parcels on doorsteps or in gardens. The sender needs to proof that you received the package in a dispute.
Same in Italy..if nobody is at home they leave a note and try next day..
Load More Replies... This is so weird to me. Here in Germany they leave your package with a neighbour, if you are not home, or if no neighbour takes it, they'll drop it off at the nearest post office for you to pick it up. Leaving a package out in the open where it could be stolen would make them liable for damages.
It used to be like that in the us decades ago
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I thought this was supposed to be a list about packages? I didn't see any of them though??
I bet half if these were delicered according to instructions (ie front door), not the deliverymans fault you have no space for hiding stuff
I call Karen on this. If you don't specify a safe place or don't have a safe place to hide, don't expect people with dozens of packages in line to snoop around finding a special place.
By us, if courier come and nobody is home (they call in advance), he just will come next day or day we agreed :D :D
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Which country is this? I live in Greece and unless someone is home to pick up they aren't supposed to leave the packages.
I find this funny....I didn't know it was the delivery persons job to hide your package like the damn Easter bunny! If you're so worried about package theft then take advantage of some of the other options available. Before I got my video doorbell and started working from home I had it set up that packages could only be delivered on Saturdays since someone would be home. Video doorbells are a great investment and they make package lock boxes that you can install on your property. Amazon/UPS/FedEx all have features on their sites where if you register you can send instructions for a delivery...I've asked for delivery after 5p if possible or if they can hold it at their site and I'll pick it up before they close.
You see gifs and vids about how awesome Amazon delivers packages but after seeing this, my faith on Amazon has gone down the drain!
I wish my Amazon delivery drivers would even attempt to hide my packages instead of just leaving them on my doormat to be stolen. I live in an apartment strip in the hood and people just walk through and take s**t, disregarding the security cameras. I have to make it a point to be home for every delivery, but the damned thing is is many times they don't even knock.
The real dummies in all these examples are the people ordering stuff online and not providing a safe place for the packages to be left. Total lack of thought and planning. This entire article is one massive FAIL!
Yeah, Laura Gilman.. I like that! On the outside should say, we cannot deliver bodily specimens, please take this to your local lab, for specimen examination.
Bottom line... you, as a homeowner and person ordering things for delivery, are the one responsible for making a place, or hidey -hole, for them, not the drivers who sometimes don't care or they try to hide it, or actually get pretty creative hiding your package! If you don't like what they do, then create a space for your deliveries to go! I usually don't write mean sounding comments, but this one is on the orderer, not the deliverer!
Amazon once posted a package of mine through an small open window. It was the window to my downstairs loo and yup, the package landed straight in the toilet!!
Unless you are actively wishing for your city/town/suburb/village/neighbourhood to be left without any shops whatsoever, or if you feel it is your duty to make a tax-dodging billionaire even richer, well, my advice is this: Do Not Buy From This Company! Support your local shops and businesses.
We're always home now. Amazon couriers NEVER ring the bell to let us know they're making a delivery. Too much effort, I suppose.
at least it is better than getting an e-mail to say, 'Your package has been delivered' No sign of package, When enquiries are made someone named Maddie signed for it, the delivery driver said it was your brothers wife, on your behalf. When my Brothers are on the East Coast and I am on the West Coast. and my name is not Maddie.
Our postal workers and sometimes Amazon/UPS will come into our apartment building, and drop things at our apartment door. LUCKY there is a camera in the hall, and only 2 units on the first floor, and 6 units on floors 2-4... so finding a thief if it goes missing, isn't hard.
I've got a secure spot aaaand it's written in my account : behind the house on the veranda (with a roof). Not one of the packages has ever been there! They are in the front, prominent for everybody to see and rained on ocassionally. (Both spots are exactly the same distance to walk from the car!)
Amazon should randomly change their boxes. Print should look like something gross. Like barf or maybe it can say stuff like. Adult colonoscopy results inside.
I live in France and Amazon deliveries were depressingly poor here. You never knew if they would turn up or not. I got totally sick of their couldn't care less attitude to customer service, so I went on Google and got an email address for Jeff Bezos and fired off a complaint to him. This is the richest person on the planet and almost unbelievably, my email got to him and he actually read it!! I got a couple of great replies from Customer Service whom he'd forwarded the email to and I have to say that since Jeff Bezos involvement, the Amazon service here in France is like chalk and cheese compared to before. The improvement in service has been massive. I just got lucky with my email because he must get hundreds a day.
And if the delivery person didn't leave it and was coming back tomorrow to try to re-deliver they would be all upset because they needed their precious package that day. People complain about everything. This is a ridiculous post about spoiled people
At least they all got their packages presumably in one piece. After one day waiting for the UPS delivery guy, he shows up the next day and boom! a thick metal piece already broken in the box. It's not their job to look for spots to hide parcels, but it's definitely their job to deliver them when they said they would and not to play football with the packages, and they're failing at both way too often.
I thought I'd be home, but just in case I asked that a small package be placed "in the tree to the left of the door". When he came to my door he would see a much overgrown, bushy tree and it would be obvious. I forgot about the bird nest but he saw that and put the package at the base of the tree where no one would notice it. It wasn't there long before I got there; I wanted to high five him for good thinking.
I have "LEAVE ITEMS INSIDE PORCH" in the second line of my address and in special instructions. Boxes on the stoop. Boxes behind the porch. Boxes in the trash bins. That's via UPS. USPS puts them inside my porch. Fedex just throws it sort of near the door from two steps up the driveway so the gps clicks in, then they turn an click delivered on their computer thing. I've found stuff under my car. Seriously. It's not that freaking hard. You walk to door. Turn k**b. Put inside. Close door. Fml with these delivery fuckwads.
I don't shop at Amazon, but I have my packages dispatched to work. I decided to do this after Canada Post and UPS left expensive packages under a lawn chair near my front door. I don't know who came first, but it was a case of 'dumb and dumber'. The instructions were that I had to sign for them. I called the both couriers to complain.
If u want a package hidden..tell them where. Imagine these poor drivers trying to make in time deliveries while they have to hide the s**t from your spouse. Well done Amazon!
What kind of neighborhoods do y'all live in that you need special lock boxes and cameras at your front door?
It often turns out the people who steal these packages do not even live in the neighborhoods. They just drive around looking for "free Christmas gifts". It can be very profitable when you "find" tv's, cameras and laptops on doorsteps, ready to be taken away. Just search "thief got caught stealing packages".
Load More Replies... Controversial opinion. Don't order packages if you don't know you are going to be home to accept them. In Britain you can have orders shipped to post offices and various other convenience stores that you can collect them from at your time and ease, just need an ID for proof
Agree with this. Amazon/UPS/Fedex drivers have schedules and are under pressure. While it's great if they find somewhere to hide your package, it's not really their job to do so unless you have an established place for your deliveries. example: "Inside the recycle trolley on side of house." There are Amazon Lockers you can have your items shipped to. I've had mine shipped to work (not all workplaces allow this). You can ask a retired neighbor to receive packages if they're willing. Bottom line: People are asking for items to be hidden because of the rise in package theft - so address THAT with a secure plan, don't whine about the drivers.
Load More Replies... I came in to this thinking I'd be amused and get a good laugh, but instead I'm leaving annoyed and disliking humans, once again. Complaining about the carriers, who, by the looks of the majority of these photos, are doing the best they can, is just flat out rude. If you don't want your packages left out in the open, put something out there that the packages can be put in/under/behind. You give the carriers no other options, and then you batch about it. That's not funny.
I came in just to see how many other commenters would say this. It’s extremely well known that Amazon in particular overworks their drivers, packers, etc and treats them like s**t so I really can’t find it in me to judge these drivers.
Load More Replies... This is dumb, I try to put packages where they aren't noticeable but it's on the buyer. If you can't be home to get your packages, then you should have a receptacle and camera/neighbor. My route is sometimes light, but we have had up to 300 - 400 packages in a single day. And then some of us have to go back out (if you're an RCA) if there is a route that doesn't have a carrier that day. People need to take responsibility for themselves and plan ahead on where they want their packages to go and the most secure.
Agreed. The drivers I've seen are always busting their tails to get packages delivered as fast as possible. They do a great job. I did like the prickle tree one. :)
Load More Replies... Doesn't happen in the Netherlands because the sender is responsible for the goods until you receive them. They won't allow couriers to just drop their parcels on doorsteps or in gardens. The sender needs to proof that you received the package in a dispute.
Same in Italy..if nobody is at home they leave a note and try next day..
Load More Replies... This is so weird to me. Here in Germany they leave your package with a neighbour, if you are not home, or if no neighbour takes it, they'll drop it off at the nearest post office for you to pick it up. Leaving a package out in the open where it could be stolen would make them liable for damages.
It used to be like that in the us decades ago
Load More Replies... I thought this was supposed to be a list about packages? I didn't see any of them though??
I bet half if these were delicered according to instructions (ie front door), not the deliverymans fault you have no space for hiding stuff
I call Karen on this. If you don't specify a safe place or don't have a safe place to hide, don't expect people with dozens of packages in line to snoop around finding a special place.
By us, if courier come and nobody is home (they call in advance), he just will come next day or day we agreed :D :D
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Load More Replies... Which country is this? I live in Greece and unless someone is home to pick up they aren't supposed to leave the packages.
I find this funny....I didn't know it was the delivery persons job to hide your package like the damn Easter bunny! If you're so worried about package theft then take advantage of some of the other options available. Before I got my video doorbell and started working from home I had it set up that packages could only be delivered on Saturdays since someone would be home. Video doorbells are a great investment and they make package lock boxes that you can install on your property. Amazon/UPS/FedEx all have features on their sites where if you register you can send instructions for a delivery...I've asked for delivery after 5p if possible or if they can hold it at their site and I'll pick it up before they close.
You see gifs and vids about how awesome Amazon delivers packages but after seeing this, my faith on Amazon has gone down the drain!
I wish my Amazon delivery drivers would even attempt to hide my packages instead of just leaving them on my doormat to be stolen. I live in an apartment strip in the hood and people just walk through and take s**t, disregarding the security cameras. I have to make it a point to be home for every delivery, but the damned thing is is many times they don't even knock.
The real dummies in all these examples are the people ordering stuff online and not providing a safe place for the packages to be left. Total lack of thought and planning. This entire article is one massive FAIL!
Yeah, Laura Gilman.. I like that! On the outside should say, we cannot deliver bodily specimens, please take this to your local lab, for specimen examination.
Bottom line... you, as a homeowner and person ordering things for delivery, are the one responsible for making a place, or hidey -hole, for them, not the drivers who sometimes don't care or they try to hide it, or actually get pretty creative hiding your package! If you don't like what they do, then create a space for your deliveries to go! I usually don't write mean sounding comments, but this one is on the orderer, not the deliverer!
Amazon once posted a package of mine through an small open window. It was the window to my downstairs loo and yup, the package landed straight in the toilet!!
Unless you are actively wishing for your city/town/suburb/village/neighbourhood to be left without any shops whatsoever, or if you feel it is your duty to make a tax-dodging billionaire even richer, well, my advice is this: Do Not Buy From This Company! Support your local shops and businesses.
We're always home now. Amazon couriers NEVER ring the bell to let us know they're making a delivery. Too much effort, I suppose.
at least it is better than getting an e-mail to say, 'Your package has been delivered' No sign of package, When enquiries are made someone named Maddie signed for it, the delivery driver said it was your brothers wife, on your behalf. When my Brothers are on the East Coast and I am on the West Coast. and my name is not Maddie.
Our postal workers and sometimes Amazon/UPS will come into our apartment building, and drop things at our apartment door. LUCKY there is a camera in the hall, and only 2 units on the first floor, and 6 units on floors 2-4... so finding a thief if it goes missing, isn't hard.
I've got a secure spot aaaand it's written in my account : behind the house on the veranda (with a roof). Not one of the packages has ever been there! They are in the front, prominent for everybody to see and rained on ocassionally. (Both spots are exactly the same distance to walk from the car!)
Amazon should randomly change their boxes. Print should look like something gross. Like barf or maybe it can say stuff like. Adult colonoscopy results inside.
I live in France and Amazon deliveries were depressingly poor here. You never knew if they would turn up or not. I got totally sick of their couldn't care less attitude to customer service, so I went on Google and got an email address for Jeff Bezos and fired off a complaint to him. This is the richest person on the planet and almost unbelievably, my email got to him and he actually read it!! I got a couple of great replies from Customer Service whom he'd forwarded the email to and I have to say that since Jeff Bezos involvement, the Amazon service here in France is like chalk and cheese compared to before. The improvement in service has been massive. I just got lucky with my email because he must get hundreds a day.
And if the delivery person didn't leave it and was coming back tomorrow to try to re-deliver they would be all upset because they needed their precious package that day. People complain about everything. This is a ridiculous post about spoiled people
At least they all got their packages presumably in one piece. After one day waiting for the UPS delivery guy, he shows up the next day and boom! a thick metal piece already broken in the box. It's not their job to look for spots to hide parcels, but it's definitely their job to deliver them when they said they would and not to play football with the packages, and they're failing at both way too often.
I thought I'd be home, but just in case I asked that a small package be placed "in the tree to the left of the door". When he came to my door he would see a much overgrown, bushy tree and it would be obvious. I forgot about the bird nest but he saw that and put the package at the base of the tree where no one would notice it. It wasn't there long before I got there; I wanted to high five him for good thinking.
I have "LEAVE ITEMS INSIDE PORCH" in the second line of my address and in special instructions. Boxes on the stoop. Boxes behind the porch. Boxes in the trash bins. That's via UPS. USPS puts them inside my porch. Fedex just throws it sort of near the door from two steps up the driveway so the gps clicks in, then they turn an click delivered on their computer thing. I've found stuff under my car. Seriously. It's not that freaking hard. You walk to door. Turn k**b. Put inside. Close door. Fml with these delivery fuckwads.
I don't shop at Amazon, but I have my packages dispatched to work. I decided to do this after Canada Post and UPS left expensive packages under a lawn chair near my front door. I don't know who came first, but it was a case of 'dumb and dumber'. The instructions were that I had to sign for them. I called the both couriers to complain.
If u want a package hidden..tell them where. Imagine these poor drivers trying to make in time deliveries while they have to hide the s**t from your spouse. Well done Amazon!
What kind of neighborhoods do y'all live in that you need special lock boxes and cameras at your front door?
It often turns out the people who steal these packages do not even live in the neighborhoods. They just drive around looking for "free Christmas gifts". It can be very profitable when you "find" tv's, cameras and laptops on doorsteps, ready to be taken away. Just search "thief got caught stealing packages".
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