People Are Sharing How Amazon ‘Hides’ Their Deliveries In A Hilarious Twitter Thread
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!
Well what did they want them to do? Buy wire and hang it on the outside of the fence?
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.
Amazon is the only company that punishes employees for not completing a delivery if there's a legitimate reason to not deliver it. They're also the only company to routinely deliver well past normal hours. (21:00 here, officially. but, I've seen deliveries well past bar close- 02:00 )
Again, not every where. Where I am there are no Amazon Lockers. Thankfully I have a good relationship with the USPS here and they've luckily over-ridden Amazon's "leave if no-one answers" thing that's on their package and leave me a note every time I have a package. Luckily UPS and Fedex, I can change delivery locations to a pick-up location with their apps.
and in america, you don't often get the choice of who and/or when delivers them. Even you can do as you say and be home, yet many times delivery drivers still don't bother to ring the door bell or even knock and then still claim they missed you (had this happen 99% of the time when I lived with my parents). So no, in America, it really doesn't matter when you order.
Not unique to America, and not unique to Amazon. I have watched, from my kitchen window doing the washing up, a courier walk up my driveway and shove a card through the door. No knock, no bell, just the card. Which he will have pre-written while in his van. The parcel went back to the depot for ME to collect the following day.
Shame. I feel whichever company that is the first to get their shit together when it comes to customer delivery, will the one that people will go with. But probably not. Amazon can crush them all with their market dominance
At my previous house we could see our local (Post Office) sorting office from our front door, although the paths made it a 1 minute walk. On more than one occasion we opened the front door to a postal worker filling in a sorry-we-missed-you form because they hadn't bothered to actually bring the package. We could collect it "at our convenience" between 2pm and 3pm on certain work days of the week. Useless. (As a side note, we don't have this issue in our new house, a mile down the road. Our current postie is brilliant.)
Gareth Graham Good response!
Exactly, most can give you a time down to the hour so either arrange for someone to be there or have it redirected. There are plenty of Amazon lockers around where these smaller items could have been left, if you give them no other choice what do you expect?
Mark lol
You can't always be sure when packages arrive. And it totally depends on where you live how this is handled. In The Netherlands, they try once (or sometimes a second time) and then take it to the package point. I think that is very reasonable in an urban environment. And many of these pictures seem to not be somewhere rural. I don't get it with leaving packages at doorsteps like this...
in suburban/rural areas it's quite safe. where I've been for the past few years-a house- I've *never* had a package go missing off the front porch. I have had it go missing as a result of the ever so helpful courier delivered it to a neighbor out of concern. Usually, a 'missing' package is somebody report they delivered it without delivering it. Apparently the courier has 24 hours before you can 'officially' report it missing, with amazon.
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 shit so I really can’t find it in me to judge these drivers.
Julie C Rose easy
Amazon mistreats a lot of its workers, but everyone is willing to fork money over to them for prime, etc because it's cheap and they want it noooow. You can't have so many cheap items and expect them to treat their employees reasonably. I don't know why people don't understand that.
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. :)
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.
Amazon is the only company that punishes employees for not completing a delivery if there's a legitimate reason to not deliver it. They're also the only company to routinely deliver well past normal hours. (21:00 here, officially. but, I've seen deliveries well past bar close- 02:00 )
Again, not every where. Where I am there are no Amazon Lockers. Thankfully I have a good relationship with the USPS here and they've luckily over-ridden Amazon's "leave if no-one answers" thing that's on their package and leave me a note every time I have a package. Luckily UPS and Fedex, I can change delivery locations to a pick-up location with their apps.
and in america, you don't often get the choice of who and/or when delivers them. Even you can do as you say and be home, yet many times delivery drivers still don't bother to ring the door bell or even knock and then still claim they missed you (had this happen 99% of the time when I lived with my parents). So no, in America, it really doesn't matter when you order.
Not unique to America, and not unique to Amazon. I have watched, from my kitchen window doing the washing up, a courier walk up my driveway and shove a card through the door. No knock, no bell, just the card. Which he will have pre-written while in his van. The parcel went back to the depot for ME to collect the following day.
Shame. I feel whichever company that is the first to get their shit together when it comes to customer delivery, will the one that people will go with. But probably not. Amazon can crush them all with their market dominance
At my previous house we could see our local (Post Office) sorting office from our front door, although the paths made it a 1 minute walk. On more than one occasion we opened the front door to a postal worker filling in a sorry-we-missed-you form because they hadn't bothered to actually bring the package. We could collect it "at our convenience" between 2pm and 3pm on certain work days of the week. Useless. (As a side note, we don't have this issue in our new house, a mile down the road. Our current postie is brilliant.)
Gareth Graham Good response!
Exactly, most can give you a time down to the hour so either arrange for someone to be there or have it redirected. There are plenty of Amazon lockers around where these smaller items could have been left, if you give them no other choice what do you expect?
Mark lol
You can't always be sure when packages arrive. And it totally depends on where you live how this is handled. In The Netherlands, they try once (or sometimes a second time) and then take it to the package point. I think that is very reasonable in an urban environment. And many of these pictures seem to not be somewhere rural. I don't get it with leaving packages at doorsteps like this...
in suburban/rural areas it's quite safe. where I've been for the past few years-a house- I've *never* had a package go missing off the front porch. I have had it go missing as a result of the ever so helpful courier delivered it to a neighbor out of concern. Usually, a 'missing' package is somebody report they delivered it without delivering it. Apparently the courier has 24 hours before you can 'officially' report it missing, with amazon.
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 shit so I really can’t find it in me to judge these drivers.
Julie C Rose easy
Amazon mistreats a lot of its workers, but everyone is willing to fork money over to them for prime, etc because it's cheap and they want it noooow. You can't have so many cheap items and expect them to treat their employees reasonably. I don't know why people don't understand that.
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. :)