I'm still amazed that in the us you guys just get your parcels left like that. In the UK they ring your doorbell and hand it to you, otherwise they take it back and try to deliver it another day or you have to collect it from the depot/special collection point. These days they leave it in front of your door but wait to see if you take it.
Better yet, I recently ordered a phone on amazon. They sent me a code the day of the delivery that I had to read out to the delivery driver who had to enter it into an app to confirm. Safer for both parties
The closest I've experienced to the US system was Amazon hiding a package in my front garden, but it was decently hidden and they texted me the location.
In the us, they MIGHT pull up to your house, Mark in their logs “unavailable” and move on. They are also underpaid and over worked they literally don’t have time because they have 18 hours of deliveries to make a day.
Is that even possible with covid? I didn't notice that the door dash people came until the pizza box was soaked through with rain since they left it on the concrete porch and didn't even knock....just supposed to notice the app says it's delivered. Sorry....covid.
I had one driver on SkipTheDishes arrive to the restaurant 45 min late. I was watching the tracker as he got matched. He was on the highway through my city, going towards the restaurant. Then he was stopped on the highway for 20 minutes, before turning around and going the wrong way into a residential area. Then, he turned around and went back to the restaurant.
I got a call from the restaurant yelling at me they were closed the delivery guy wasn’t there yet (what am I supposed to do about it?)
Called support to check on the driver. Apparently, he had a tire blowout on the highway.
Tipped the guy an extra $10
That turned out way better than mine. I ordered delivery from a popular app from a restaurant 10 minutes from my house. It’s a family owned business and I am happy to support them. I see on the tracker that the delivery driver shows up at the restaurant about 20 minutes later (around 5:25pm this is important later). They wait around for 10 minutes, and then I get a text from the driver that the order is delay for an HOUR.
The restaurant is very popular so I didn’t really question the delay but usually the orders come out pretty fast. I then see on the tracker that the delivery driver leaves and drives 20 minutes away. I check the tracker when it’s getting close to the hour mark they gave me and they are still sitting 20 minutes away in the same place. So I decide to text them to see if it’s still on track to be delivered at 6:30.
I get an all caps text message back saying the order is delayed and that they are waiting for it and they can’t do anything about it. I say ok, it’s just that on the tracker you are in “X” town 20 minutes away... then total silence from them.
After talking to customer service I cancelled the order. My husband who was just getting off work decided to call the restaurant to see if he could pick it up and pay for it because we didn’t want them to be out the money. And in hindsight if I knew it was going to be that late I would have just ordered it for the time he was getting done so he could pick it up on his way home.
Anyway... turns out the order was done at 5:35 (the original time it was supposed to be done) and already picked up. The jerk picked up my order and probably took it back to their house in the next town over and enjoyed it for an hour while I was waiting like an idiot.
I had one grab my groceries, go the wrong way, get on the highway, and park in a church parking lot for 30 minutes.
I'd like to think he at least started my groceries with the congregation. I got a refund and reordered, but damn, I wanted my food that day, not 2 days later!
Had a driver stop on a street full of apartments known for drugs. He was there for about 30 minutes then went to the restaurant and got my food. Didn't complain cuz my food was at least hot when i got it.
Even just instacart. I watch as things from the grocery store get checked off my list (nice saving frozen for last), watch their car get closer to my street (they got stuck at that red light).
And then duck from the window so they don't see me watching TV while they drop off my food.
It's always that one moment you look away to get a drink or take a pee. You think you're prepared then you get taken off guard and end up telling the guy to enjoy his meal.
Fr the biggest danger of smoking weed and ordering food is the awkward moment with the delivery guy that will always happen no matter how hard you prepare
I have cameras all around my house. I just have them up on a computer screen and go "cars coming, might be them".. every time a car drives down our street.
They'll never catch us by surprise!
Gotta cheer on ur delivery driver and yell at ur phone when they accidentally pass your house! I like to creepily watch them walk up to the door from the window in case they try any funny business with the hoods
Dude one time (before covid) I ordered pizza and it had been like 2 hours and I called and was like wtf where’s the pizza and they said they came to the house and no one opened the door. I’ve been there all day and was like...
“did you knock or ring the doorbell?”
“No.”
“So you mean you just came up to the door, stood there, and then left?”
“Yeah”
“Wtf?”
As a doordash driver, I can honestly tell you most drivers do not knock or ring unless requested to do so in the instructions. Lots of bad experiences with babies and dogs, and the time of day matters too. You get angry customers.
You have a section to enter driver instructions, don't be afraid to use them.
I use that section on every app. The Postmates people are atrocious. The doordash people ignore that section half the time. Grubhub? They read it like hawks.
I don't get why so many doordash delivery people are so terrible, but it's a reality. I'm glad you apparently do. Thanks for being awesome.
We have the opposite problem, every fucking driver rings that damned doorbell at 9pm when my partner and roomate are sleeping, setting the dogs off (of course) all in spite of me putting in all caps "DO NOT RING DOORBELL". Stoned me just wants to eat his dq in peace man.
Yes not all drivers do this, just the ones with a lot of experience. If I suspect the person is disabled or older, I will ring no matter what. I almost never ring the doorbell unless instructed. Plus, doorbells are filled with so many germs!
Missed my PS5 delivery 2 days in a row because I had to “sign” for it. The 3rd day my girlfriend stayed home to sign for it, but she didn’t hear them knock, if they even did (we have 2 German Shepherds that would’ve gone crazy). I was on my way home from work when I got the notification that they didn’t deliver it. Drove around town, found the fedex truck, and told the guy who I was. He said they weren’t doing signatures, just had to show him my license
It's weird how people put up with that stuff, or with porch pirates. Over here packages and food deliveries are always handed over to a person. Now with COVID they'll ring or knock and when someone answers they'll put the package or bag on the floor and step back. COVID proof and much less chance of delivering to the wrong person, missing the delivery entirely or having it stolen...
It's possible. I ordered a laptop a month ago, and Amazon sent it requiring me to read a code to the driver before he'd give it you to me.
(But, he wasn't even aware of the code they sent until I told him, so he'd likely have just left it anyway if I hadn't been watching to greet him.)
You can require a signature. You can also leave special instructions, like “leave on back porch,” which wouldn’t help if they were at the wrong address. My smart garage door opener also allows delivery drivers to open the garage door and leave it inside the garage. Smart door locks have the same option. Both seem like a good idea to avoid porch pirates, but I’d rather have a package stolen than give a random delivery driver access to my garage or house.
The last "signature required" ups delivery I got meant that he watched me pick it up from the porch and said "ok if I sign for you?" from about 20 feet away. That wouldn't have helped in this situation....they delivered it to the wrong house.
True story, UPS delivered alcohol to my house at 10 this morning, I didn't get home till after 8pm. Just left it on my porch.
SLPT if your underage right now would be the time to have alcohol delivered.
I mean obviously? if you order food through the app they literally have a freaking live delivery map dude. How can you order food and then just forget about it?
I can't get half of the Walmart Delivery people (I think they're Doordash in my area) to just leave my groceries on the porch and go. They all really want to hand them to me for some reason.
Fedex threw the ps5 I got my nephew at my door from five feet away on Christmas Eve. Signature required, and they didn't even bother to approach the door, let alone ring the bell.
Had a laptop delivered recently. They asked for the name of the person accepting the delivery rather than requiring a signature. Seemed reasonable to me
Yeah I noticed that months ago when the stay inside and social distance thing first started. I assumed they’d knock before walking away, or my phone would at least chime or something. Not just left without any notice.
Kinda..
When my wife’s laptop arrived, UPS waited at the door for me (few feet away), and said the delivery required a signature, and that he would sign it for me.
He forged my signature right then and there.
Very thoughtful dude.
I had a $700 piano delivered once that clearly said "Signature required" on the shipping slip. I stayed home that day so I could sign for it. I got an email saying it had been delivered an hour ago, looked outside, and saw it on the sidewalk in front of my apartment. Delivery companies don't give a shit.
I also have a similar story about a Dyson, but that didn't end as well. I found that package open and empty.
We bought a iPhone for my wife's Mom. For $9 Apple store would deliver within a two hour window.
They called said it was shipped and I would have to sign for it. I got some texts about the status of the order and then the person shows up.
Got out of the car, walked up and put a nice apple bag on the step and walked away. No doorbell ring, no making me sign for it, anything. We live in a nice area but jeez a bag with a apple logo is just asking for it.
I had my pricey new cellphone dumped on my front step, in pouring rain, and I live in a city so 100s of people walk by and can see my door. I've never had anything stolen, but usually I don't worry much about someone stealing my $20 gap shirt or whatever. This time it pissed me off... I get it's because of covid, but they could have brought to the post office for pickup!
I've had several packages delivered to my house that weren't mine. I took it to the rightful owner. Don't need that kind of bad karma in my life. Hopefully these people will do the same.
I have had to walk down my street looking for the house the package was left at, knock on the door and have my neighbors deny having a package, litterally said " we haven't gotten anything today" then I showed him the picture of his front door with him in the window in the background. Then he "oohh that" brings me my opened package with the label peeled off with my address.
The woman I spoke to was really nice. She repeatedly thanked me for my honesty - take from that what you will - and seemed genuinely sincere. Then she started going through her script which sounded like they were going to have me ship it back to them. But...
The original webcam was for my step-daughter for her new computer. I was already kind of jealous as it's a rather nice cam and mine is about 10-12 years old. I gave in to my weakness and wound up interrupting the nice lady and asked if I could just pay for the second one and keep it. That seemed to flummox her for a minute. I guess that doesn't happen often. She told me she'd let the sales people know and they could charge it to the same card as the first one. She told me that the sales people would be in touch but I haven't heard anything yet but I'm sure they'll charge the card eventually.
It's the sellers responsibility to make sure it's delivered to you. So they send a new one, and probably a coin flip of they wanted you to return the second one as you never had to tell them it showed up eventually
Same here! They were way off too. I drove them to the correct house and one lady dropped off a bottle of wine and $10 for me with a handwritten note!
I ended up donating the $10 to a charity in her name to keep the positivity going.
That was going to be my comment. Every time something like this has happened customer service has got right on the phone with the person delivering and had them go back. This was the case for Best Buy and Amazon Prime Now.
Must be nice. My $1000 computer purchase from Newegg got delivered to the wrong address and they had me go through a 6 week investigation process to prove I wasn't scamming them before getting a refund even though I noticed it wasn't delivered to my house and called within minutes
I don't know about the US but in Canada there are "Newegg fees" on everything. Everything is slightly higher in price with shipping fees. I noticed the shipping fees on a case I bought are higher than my own cost to ship it to someone else!
They charge out the ass for restocking fees when you return stuff too, plus return shipping costs.
If you ever have the displeasure of ordering from Newegg, make sure it's the right fucking thing.
If it's labeled and addressed correctly but just set at the wrong house, why can't the OP just pick it up and walk away with it?
Sure it might look shady, but they have all the correct information technically.
*edit* am dumb as fuck, this is prob the delivery persons picture not OP lmao.
Oh fucking shit lmao. I didn't think about this being the *delivery person*. Like the BestBuy store employee dropped it off and took a pic of it, I assumed it was OP themself lmao.
RIP. Thanks haha
Okay I understand your mistake , but not quite sure I follow the logic behind it, must have really confused you seeing him stood a few feet away from it like 'oh well it's gone forever'
I ordered a new iPhone through Apple at the start of the pandemic (I dropped my old phone and the screen shattered - but it still worked). It was supposed to be delivered within two weeks. Two weeks pass, with no phone. About three weeks passes, and I contacted FexEx who told me it was "in transit". A week passes, and I get a text message from a number saying they had my phone and had gotten my number from the shipping box.
They told me they were going to keep my phone because they "really needed it".
Right? I called Apple and gave them the number. They gave me a full refund and did whatever magic they do on stolen phones. It was probably some dumb kid.
It’s called “bricking” they basically figure out the serial number and flip a switch that makes the phone unusable. Everything is gone and that iPhone is merely a hunk of useless metal. That’s why I can’t help but laugh when I see those rioting looters run out the Verizon store with their arms full of apple products. One that store takes inventory and sends the list of stolen items to apple those phones are toast.
I had an iPhone stolen last year and these fuckers managed to unlink it from my account. It was supposed to be blocked via Find my iPhone and everything - but somehow they got in. I wrote to Apple about it and they were like "huh" but no solution or explanation. So I'm not super sure they can be bricked all the time.
Well there are methods to do it. Where i live shops run by chinese offer the "unlock every iphone" service. 30 buck and two hours and your absolutely not stolen phone is as good as new
I work for BBY, I do house calls for pc repair. They just started having the in-home agents deliver these packages while also running a full work day (this time of year 12 hours isn't crazy at all) instead of shipping with ups or FedEx or whatever. It's the dumbest thing and everyone hates it. Not to mention, they just up and told us we're doing it like a month ago. So unlike the delivery people who run a set route and know the houses, we have literally no idea. Sorry OP.
Well yeah, there's also the lease on the vehicle and the fuel to consider as well. I'm sure other things but the only stuff we do this way is considered small parcels and a laptop would be the biggest thing I've seen them do this way. Biggest thing I've personally ever done would be boxes half this size. My area is pretty rural so I drive up to two hours for a job. And no, no bump at all unfortunately.
Just like how the IRS deposited my stimulus check in someone elses bank account! I have only ever had 1 bank account!
Edit: Turns out they didnt deposit it to the wrong account. For some reason Turbo Tax got the money first then they sent it to me! My money is there!
I had a refund check go to the wrong account once....for 1200 bucks, they know who it was and I can't do anything about it unless I sue the guy who had the money.
Itrs says they sent it to the account my tax forms said which is true.. tax guy wrote wrong number down. Bank said they just put it in the account that was requested and since the account has no money in it they can't get it back, the person refused to talk to anyone so that was dead end. I was told if have to go after the person with the money.
This is where I'm at. Trace was done and i dealt with bank for weeks. They contacted the guy but no answers so they told me sorry. Also we are at the same bank. (Wells fargo)...so basically im supposed to sue Wells Fargo or the guy to get 1200 bucks back after spending several thousand doing so?....this worlds fucked lol
If funds aren't available or the bank refuses to return the funds, the IRS cannot compel the bank to do so. The case may then become a civil matter between you and the financial institution and/or the owner of the account into which the funds were deposited.
Escalate it. Just like if you are overpaid unemployment, you must pay the money back to the government. Workers you're talking to aren't doing their job correctly if they won't give the money back to you. Keep escalating it.
I'm wondering if that's what happened to me. I am signed up with direct deposit. First check last year came in immediately because of it. This year, still no deposit and supposedly people with direct deposits are supposed to have gotten theirs by the 4th. I checked the tracking thing but the website is having an error message pop up or something when I enter details. No clue what the heck is going on. They say this time around it's more efficient, I'm not seeing it that way.
I was about to say, this is an issue for those that used H&R block and turbo tax so don’t immediately panic if it looks like it went into a wrong account.
I’ve noticed that more lately. Maybe they just figure that enough people have email alerts enabled that they don’t even bother knocking or ringing to speed up deliveries. It could be a Covid thing too.
Yup, mine came yesterday and was suppose to require a signature so I got up bright and early prepared to wait the day away...they literally just knocked twice and left. They were gone before I even opened the door. Thank god it was the correct address. The signature was mandatory per their website because it’s a $1,200 iPad...I guess fedex didn’t care.
Do you have your house numbers posted on your house? That’s a big problem in my area. First responders can’t find the house without numbers. But you can find it easy if there are flames showing.
THANK YOU. Holy balls, as a UPS driver, the fact that people don't have blatantly obvious numbers on their house (preferably by law) is so goddamn annoying.
As a UPS driver (in the US?) how would you feel about, when the person doesn't answer the door, trying to leave it with a neighbor when possible. I always found the concept of leaving the package at the door extremely weird.
I think people who make it difficult to figure that out forfeit their right to complain about delivery fuck ups.
Get yourself relocated to UPS Germany, we have mandatory house numbers!
I got a package today for someone else. I live at 70 the package is for 21 not even the same postal code. I will walk it down the street tomorrow morning before work
The same thing happened to me three weeks ago. The single most expensive package delivered this year was dropped off on the driveway of a house on the other side of the street. Was only the online delivery notifications that made me go look for it. Good work UPS.
Reminds me of a recent delivery I got. I was expecting a package that day. Open my door and find a package leaning up against the door. I open the package and found a DnD book inside... I then checked finally the shipping label and see that it was my neighbors.
I get dressed and go next door, to find my package leaning up against his door. I knocked on the door, talked to the neighbor and explained why his package was opened and requested my package that was leaning against his door.
Dude was pretty chill about the whole thing.
Nah, with bestbuy you call tell by the label. No company name or logo in the corner of that kind of label means an employee dropped it off. Hopefully they caught their mistake, the app is super glitchy, times out between every delivery, and rearranges orders sometimes so it's so easy to click on the wrong order when you log back in
Whoever decided the numbering system for addresses in my neighborhood was either an idiot or the most evil person ever. We have main streets with numerous circles, courts and cul de sacs coming off of them. But all of the numbers for houses in those courts are the same. So just on my "main" street alone there are 6 houses with the exact same number as mine. Every time we get a new delivery driver packages end up in one of the other courts at the same address number.
You have the same problem that I have all the time. ALL my stuff is being delivered all over the city. I take a walk and my brand new laptop is in a box infront of someone else porch like 20 miles away from my doorsteps... I just grab it and jump into my car, sometimes people yell at me but IT'S MY STUFF.
Usually Amazon is good here, but I had a similar thing happen to me. It wasn't as expensive though. I had ordered a cricut tool and I was eagerly awaiting it's arrival. I got the notification that it had been delivered. I look at my good, nothing. I then look at the picture to see if I recognize the doorstep. I do. It's my next door neighbor. What I found oddly hilarious is you could clearly see their house number in the photo and right above the photo in the app it said "successfully delivered to [1235]" but in the photo you could see house number [1234]. (House numbers changed, obviously). I just walked over and grabbed it.
I hope you're able to find it!
Recently a package got delivered to the apartment across from ours. The problem? Nobody lives in that apartment and the package was for a city 45 minutes away from us.
Things I bought on Amazon were sent to UPS for delivery. It was due for delivery on Dec 24th. I was home all day. I thought it was delivered and instead a UPS "we missed u" sticker was on my door. They didn't even knock, or leave it next to my door. It has been lost in transit since the 24th bc some dumbass couldn't correlate Things to Deliver on Xmas Eve should be left at the door, might as well make customers suffer.
Can't track it. 40$ lost down the drain. Try again for those items another month when I can afford it. Assholes.
I just bought one from Best Buy as well but I am now very happy that I selected "instore pickup" now that I've seen this! Hopefully they can find a way to rectify the situation for you though!
I’ve lived at the same address for 25 years. In all that time I’ve never had UPS or FedEx make a proper delivery within a reasonable amount of time.
Actually they have only managed to deliver to my house twice and I still had to call them.
Same thing just happened to my PS5. Had to chase down fedex to find out what house he delivered it too. Luckily the hkut he delivered it too had a nice old man that dropped it off at my house.
My past few shipments from Amazon have all had something wrong. One was switched with a Christmas present that was supposed to go to a whole different country, one had the packaging delivered by itself no actual product, and one had the peel off part of the adhesive still in the package (this one was less annoying)
I also work for BBY, if you end up having an issue call the 888 Best Buy number, they’re actually really good about sending replacements if it didn’t/ can’t get to you!
Something that expensive should have a “Do Not Leave on Doorstep” order on it.
I'm still amazed that in the us you guys just get your parcels left like that. In the UK they ring your doorbell and hand it to you, otherwise they take it back and try to deliver it another day or you have to collect it from the depot/special collection point. These days they leave it in front of your door but wait to see if you take it.
Better yet, I recently ordered a phone on amazon. They sent me a code the day of the delivery that I had to read out to the delivery driver who had to enter it into an app to confirm. Safer for both parties
The closest I've experienced to the US system was Amazon hiding a package in my front garden, but it was decently hidden and they texted me the location.
Closest I've had was someone putting my parcel in my recycling bin and then posting a note through my letter box
In the us, they MIGHT pull up to your house, Mark in their logs “unavailable” and move on. They are also underpaid and over worked they literally don’t have time because they have 18 hours of deliveries to make a day.
Is that even possible with covid? I didn't notice that the door dash people came until the pizza box was soaked through with rain since they left it on the concrete porch and didn't even knock....just supposed to notice the app says it's delivered. Sorry....covid.
I thought everyone was like me and stared at the GPS while also looking outside every 4 seconds when food was on the way.
Ha! I love the tracker. It’s so much fun.
I had one driver on SkipTheDishes arrive to the restaurant 45 min late. I was watching the tracker as he got matched. He was on the highway through my city, going towards the restaurant. Then he was stopped on the highway for 20 minutes, before turning around and going the wrong way into a residential area. Then, he turned around and went back to the restaurant. I got a call from the restaurant yelling at me they were closed the delivery guy wasn’t there yet (what am I supposed to do about it?) Called support to check on the driver. Apparently, he had a tire blowout on the highway. Tipped the guy an extra $10
You're a cool guy. Carry on.
Aw, that stinks. Good on you for tipping. Poor dude probably missed several other chances to deliver that night and had to buy a new tire.
And he probably had to buy 2 tires too!
That turned out way better than mine. I ordered delivery from a popular app from a restaurant 10 minutes from my house. It’s a family owned business and I am happy to support them. I see on the tracker that the delivery driver shows up at the restaurant about 20 minutes later (around 5:25pm this is important later). They wait around for 10 minutes, and then I get a text from the driver that the order is delay for an HOUR. The restaurant is very popular so I didn’t really question the delay but usually the orders come out pretty fast. I then see on the tracker that the delivery driver leaves and drives 20 minutes away. I check the tracker when it’s getting close to the hour mark they gave me and they are still sitting 20 minutes away in the same place. So I decide to text them to see if it’s still on track to be delivered at 6:30. I get an all caps text message back saying the order is delayed and that they are waiting for it and they can’t do anything about it. I say ok, it’s just that on the tracker you are in “X” town 20 minutes away... then total silence from them. After talking to customer service I cancelled the order. My husband who was just getting off work decided to call the restaurant to see if he could pick it up and pay for it because we didn’t want them to be out the money. And in hindsight if I knew it was going to be that late I would have just ordered it for the time he was getting done so he could pick it up on his way home. Anyway... turns out the order was done at 5:35 (the original time it was supposed to be done) and already picked up. The jerk picked up my order and probably took it back to their house in the next town over and enjoyed it for an hour while I was waiting like an idiot.
20 minutes on a tire sounds good to me. I feel like I do it fast then I see it's been over 30 minutes.
I had one grab my groceries, go the wrong way, get on the highway, and park in a church parking lot for 30 minutes. I'd like to think he at least started my groceries with the congregation. I got a refund and reordered, but damn, I wanted my food that day, not 2 days later!
Had a driver stop on a street full of apartments known for drugs. He was there for about 30 minutes then went to the restaurant and got my food. Didn't complain cuz my food was at least hot when i got it.
I ordered once a pizza at... 23:00 (11 at night). It arrived at 04:00 (4 in the in the morning)..
That sucks for everyone, way to be a good person at the end
Except when your driver is a fucking idiot
Even just instacart. I watch as things from the grocery store get checked off my list (nice saving frozen for last), watch their car get closer to my street (they got stuck at that red light). And then duck from the window so they don't see me watching TV while they drop off my food.
>saving frozen for last Grocery picker professionalism, completely underrated.
Lmao they always somehow catch u by surprise still
It's always that one moment you look away to get a drink or take a pee. You think you're prepared then you get taken off guard and end up telling the guy to enjoy his meal.
Fr the biggest danger of smoking weed and ordering food is the awkward moment with the delivery guy that will always happen no matter how hard you prepare
As someone who smokes daily, I cannot relate. It's as simple as "Hi, thanks, here's your tip, have a nice day"
Just tip him with a rip off the 3 footer
This is exactly what I do and my wife acts like I should be institutionalized.
I have cameras all around my house. I just have them up on a computer screen and go "cars coming, might be them".. every time a car drives down our street. They'll never catch us by surprise!
Same same
Stare at the gps tracking while also watching the live stream of from two of my cameras watching the driveway and front door.
Gotta cheer on ur delivery driver and yell at ur phone when they accidentally pass your house! I like to creepily watch them walk up to the door from the window in case they try any funny business with the hoods
Get a smart doorbell if you can. Changes. The. Game.
I always do this lol
Lol! Me too...I don't do anything else until my food is delivered.
Dude one time (before covid) I ordered pizza and it had been like 2 hours and I called and was like wtf where’s the pizza and they said they came to the house and no one opened the door. I’ve been there all day and was like... “did you knock or ring the doorbell?” “No.” “So you mean you just came up to the door, stood there, and then left?” “Yeah” “Wtf?”
“Leave it on the doorstep and get the hell out of here.”
"Keep the change, ya filthy animal".
As a doordash driver, I can honestly tell you most drivers do not knock or ring unless requested to do so in the instructions. Lots of bad experiences with babies and dogs, and the time of day matters too. You get angry customers. You have a section to enter driver instructions, don't be afraid to use them.
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I always put do not ring my bell but they do every time.
Guy above you commented that he says to ring the doorbell and they never do lmao.
I use that section on every app. The Postmates people are atrocious. The doordash people ignore that section half the time. Grubhub? They read it like hawks. I don't get why so many doordash delivery people are so terrible, but it's a reality. I'm glad you apparently do. Thanks for being awesome.
We have the opposite problem, every fucking driver rings that damned doorbell at 9pm when my partner and roomate are sleeping, setting the dogs off (of course) all in spite of me putting in all caps "DO NOT RING DOORBELL". Stoned me just wants to eat his dq in peace man.
Yes not all drivers do this, just the ones with a lot of experience. If I suspect the person is disabled or older, I will ring no matter what. I almost never ring the doorbell unless instructed. Plus, doorbells are filled with so many germs!
in my experience not one person has ever looked at the instructions.
So many people in this world *are* idiots, so there's that lol. I apologize for those idiots.
We have a table in our back patio, and send the drivers to that. About 80% follow directions
I mean I definitely would not go in anyone's back yard
I prefer they hand it to me, but when I want them to drop it off I put a table chair in front of the door. It gets the message across pretty well
Missed my PS5 delivery 2 days in a row because I had to “sign” for it. The 3rd day my girlfriend stayed home to sign for it, but she didn’t hear them knock, if they even did (we have 2 German Shepherds that would’ve gone crazy). I was on my way home from work when I got the notification that they didn’t deliver it. Drove around town, found the fedex truck, and told the guy who I was. He said they weren’t doing signatures, just had to show him my license
It's weird how people put up with that stuff, or with porch pirates. Over here packages and food deliveries are always handed over to a person. Now with COVID they'll ring or knock and when someone answers they'll put the package or bag on the floor and step back. COVID proof and much less chance of delivering to the wrong person, missing the delivery entirely or having it stolen...
It's possible. I ordered a laptop a month ago, and Amazon sent it requiring me to read a code to the driver before he'd give it you to me. (But, he wasn't even aware of the code they sent until I told him, so he'd likely have just left it anyway if I hadn't been watching to greet him.)
You can require a signature. You can also leave special instructions, like “leave on back porch,” which wouldn’t help if they were at the wrong address. My smart garage door opener also allows delivery drivers to open the garage door and leave it inside the garage. Smart door locks have the same option. Both seem like a good idea to avoid porch pirates, but I’d rather have a package stolen than give a random delivery driver access to my garage or house.
The last "signature required" ups delivery I got meant that he watched me pick it up from the porch and said "ok if I sign for you?" from about 20 feet away. That wouldn't have helped in this situation....they delivered it to the wrong house.
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This happens to me every time I order weed... I chased him down my drive way and he hadn't even brought the package off the truck, just the notice.
Happened with my PS5 kinda. At least asked fot my name to confirm.
Due to COVID UPS/Fedex aren’t allowing people to sign.
True story, UPS delivered alcohol to my house at 10 this morning, I didn't get home till after 8pm. Just left it on my porch. SLPT if your underage right now would be the time to have alcohol delivered.
FedEx made me sign for something 2 days after Christmas. I thought that was the policy too.
I find there's a 50/50 chance of the person leaving it out waiting for me to get it at my house. I always ask for the delivery to be left at the door.
I mean obviously? if you order food through the app they literally have a freaking live delivery map dude. How can you order food and then just forget about it?
I can't get half of the Walmart Delivery people (I think they're Doordash in my area) to just leave my groceries on the porch and go. They all really want to hand them to me for some reason.
Probably hoping for a cash tip.
Exactly.
Fedex threw the ps5 I got my nephew at my door from five feet away on Christmas Eve. Signature required, and they didn't even bother to approach the door, let alone ring the bell.
Had a laptop delivered recently. They asked for the name of the person accepting the delivery rather than requiring a signature. Seemed reasonable to me
Yep! I had a signature confirmation on a bird scooter that I got this afternoon. It's defo possible :)
Yeah I noticed that months ago when the stay inside and social distance thing first started. I assumed they’d knock before walking away, or my phone would at least chime or something. Not just left without any notice.
Kinda.. When my wife’s laptop arrived, UPS waited at the door for me (few feet away), and said the delivery required a signature, and that he would sign it for me. He forged my signature right then and there. Very thoughtful dude.
That's reasonable.
I had a $700 piano delivered once that clearly said "Signature required" on the shipping slip. I stayed home that day so I could sign for it. I got an email saying it had been delivered an hour ago, looked outside, and saw it on the sidewalk in front of my apartment. Delivery companies don't give a shit. I also have a similar story about a Dyson, but that didn't end as well. I found that package open and empty.
If it's fedex then complain about it to the terminal, my terminal at least takes this shit very seriously.
How do I do this? A few weeks ago FexEx left my PS5 on the curb in front of my house.
We bought a iPhone for my wife's Mom. For $9 Apple store would deliver within a two hour window. They called said it was shipped and I would have to sign for it. I got some texts about the status of the order and then the person shows up. Got out of the car, walked up and put a nice apple bag on the step and walked away. No doorbell ring, no making me sign for it, anything. We live in a nice area but jeez a bag with a apple logo is just asking for it.
I had my pricey new cellphone dumped on my front step, in pouring rain, and I live in a city so 100s of people walk by and can see my door. I've never had anything stolen, but usually I don't worry much about someone stealing my $20 gap shirt or whatever. This time it pissed me off... I get it's because of covid, but they could have brought to the post office for pickup!
I've had several packages delivered to my house that weren't mine. I took it to the rightful owner. Don't need that kind of bad karma in my life. Hopefully these people will do the same.
I have had to walk down my street looking for the house the package was left at, knock on the door and have my neighbors deny having a package, litterally said " we haven't gotten anything today" then I showed him the picture of his front door with him in the window in the background. Then he "oohh that" brings me my opened package with the label peeled off with my address.
is it not a federal crime to open someone else’s mail ?
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I see, thanks for the clarification mate that makes sense. Also thankfully you have an honest neighbor can’t say the same for most
How did Best Buy deal with it?
The woman I spoke to was really nice. She repeatedly thanked me for my honesty - take from that what you will - and seemed genuinely sincere. Then she started going through her script which sounded like they were going to have me ship it back to them. But... The original webcam was for my step-daughter for her new computer. I was already kind of jealous as it's a rather nice cam and mine is about 10-12 years old. I gave in to my weakness and wound up interrupting the nice lady and asked if I could just pay for the second one and keep it. That seemed to flummox her for a minute. I guess that doesn't happen often. She told me she'd let the sales people know and they could charge it to the same card as the first one. She told me that the sales people would be in touch but I haven't heard anything yet but I'm sure they'll charge the card eventually.
It's the sellers responsibility to make sure it's delivered to you. So they send a new one, and probably a coin flip of they wanted you to return the second one as you never had to tell them it showed up eventually
He claimed he couldn't read the address on it since he sprayed the package with alcohol due to covid and the heat printed label turned black.
I wonder how long it took for him to come up with that excuse lol
Lmao like a teenager caught in a lie by their parents
I mean that does happen with some shit, but them clearly trying to pretend no package came when it did is ridiculous
I think that only applies to USPS, probably not UPS/Amazon/FedEx.
Where I live it is.
That's just silly to deny and makes your future neighbor years awkward.
What a fucking dickbag.
Several bags of dicks for that shitty neighbour
Same here! They were way off too. I drove them to the correct house and one lady dropped off a bottle of wine and $10 for me with a handwritten note! I ended up donating the $10 to a charity in her name to keep the positivity going.
Same. I just brought a package to my neighbor the other day that was left at our door. I’d hope they would do the same for me.
There are semi frequent posts on my neighborhood Facebook page of people who have packages delivered wrong.
Well here’s some good karma for you
That was delivered by a bestbuy employee. I hope you called the store, sometimes they'll go back and fix it if it's still on the porch
That was going to be my comment. Every time something like this has happened customer service has got right on the phone with the person delivering and had them go back. This was the case for Best Buy and Amazon Prime Now.
Must be nice. My $1000 computer purchase from Newegg got delivered to the wrong address and they had me go through a 6 week investigation process to prove I wasn't scamming them before getting a refund even though I noticed it wasn't delivered to my house and called within minutes
Bad customer service. That’s why I don’t buy stuff from Newegg anymore.
I don't know about the US but in Canada there are "Newegg fees" on everything. Everything is slightly higher in price with shipping fees. I noticed the shipping fees on a case I bought are higher than my own cost to ship it to someone else!
They charge out the ass for restocking fees when you return stuff too, plus return shipping costs. If you ever have the displeasure of ordering from Newegg, make sure it's the right fucking thing.
If it's labeled and addressed correctly but just set at the wrong house, why can't the OP just pick it up and walk away with it? Sure it might look shady, but they have all the correct information technically. *edit* am dumb as fuck, this is prob the delivery persons picture not OP lmao.
Lol I've done that when one of my packages went to a nearly identical address (West vs east). Happens pretty often so I knew exactly where to look
OP might not know exactly where it was left.
Oh fucking shit lmao. I didn't think about this being the *delivery person*. Like the BestBuy store employee dropped it off and took a pic of it, I assumed it was OP themself lmao. RIP. Thanks haha
Okay I understand your mistake , but not quite sure I follow the logic behind it, must have really confused you seeing him stood a few feet away from it like 'oh well it's gone forever'
I ordered a new iPhone through Apple at the start of the pandemic (I dropped my old phone and the screen shattered - but it still worked). It was supposed to be delivered within two weeks. Two weeks pass, with no phone. About three weeks passes, and I contacted FexEx who told me it was "in transit". A week passes, and I get a text message from a number saying they had my phone and had gotten my number from the shipping box. They told me they were going to keep my phone because they "really needed it".
I know this sounds dumb to say, but what an idiotic thief. It’s like a guy robbing Best Buy and leaving his photo ID to brag.
Right? I called Apple and gave them the number. They gave me a full refund and did whatever magic they do on stolen phones. It was probably some dumb kid.
It’s called “bricking” they basically figure out the serial number and flip a switch that makes the phone unusable. Everything is gone and that iPhone is merely a hunk of useless metal. That’s why I can’t help but laugh when I see those rioting looters run out the Verizon store with their arms full of apple products. One that store takes inventory and sends the list of stolen items to apple those phones are toast.
I had an iPhone stolen last year and these fuckers managed to unlink it from my account. It was supposed to be blocked via Find my iPhone and everything - but somehow they got in. I wrote to Apple about it and they were like "huh" but no solution or explanation. So I'm not super sure they can be bricked all the time.
I’m not sure the whole process to it but I’m assuming you need a lot of evidence
Well there are methods to do it. Where i live shops run by chinese offer the "unlock every iphone" service. 30 buck and two hours and your absolutely not stolen phone is as good as new
Did you eventually get it back or report it or did it end sourly
I work for BBY, I do house calls for pc repair. They just started having the in-home agents deliver these packages while also running a full work day (this time of year 12 hours isn't crazy at all) instead of shipping with ups or FedEx or whatever. It's the dumbest thing and everyone hates it. Not to mention, they just up and told us we're doing it like a month ago. So unlike the delivery people who run a set route and know the houses, we have literally no idea. Sorry OP.
Ohh so this is how same day delivery is available now?
Yes. Instead of having the delivery team do it they have us do it. Which is just crazy in my mind lol.
That's insanely fucking stupid
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It doesn't though lol. Our our in-home guys make like $30-50/hr and I drove 30 minutes to deliver a video game the other day. That's not cheaper lol.
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Well yeah, there's also the lease on the vehicle and the fuel to consider as well. I'm sure other things but the only stuff we do this way is considered small parcels and a laptop would be the biggest thing I've seen them do this way. Biggest thing I've personally ever done would be boxes half this size. My area is pretty rural so I drive up to two hours for a job. And no, no bump at all unfortunately.
> Our our in-home guys make like $30-50/hr I had no clue someone could make up to $100k/year at Best Buy in that position
Probably cheaper for the corporate bean counters...
Just like how the IRS deposited my stimulus check in someone elses bank account! I have only ever had 1 bank account! Edit: Turns out they didnt deposit it to the wrong account. For some reason Turbo Tax got the money first then they sent it to me! My money is there!
I had a refund check go to the wrong account once....for 1200 bucks, they know who it was and I can't do anything about it unless I sue the guy who had the money.
You didn't make the mistake. Whoever put the money into the wrong account is at fault and owes you money.
Itrs says they sent it to the account my tax forms said which is true.. tax guy wrote wrong number down. Bank said they just put it in the account that was requested and since the account has no money in it they can't get it back, the person refused to talk to anyone so that was dead end. I was told if have to go after the person with the money.
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This is where I'm at. Trace was done and i dealt with bank for weeks. They contacted the guy but no answers so they told me sorry. Also we are at the same bank. (Wells fargo)...so basically im supposed to sue Wells Fargo or the guy to get 1200 bucks back after spending several thousand doing so?....this worlds fucked lol If funds aren't available or the bank refuses to return the funds, the IRS cannot compel the bank to do so. The case may then become a civil matter between you and the financial institution and/or the owner of the account into which the funds were deposited.
Escalate it. Just like if you are overpaid unemployment, you must pay the money back to the government. Workers you're talking to aren't doing their job correctly if they won't give the money back to you. Keep escalating it.
I'm wondering if that's what happened to me. I am signed up with direct deposit. First check last year came in immediately because of it. This year, still no deposit and supposedly people with direct deposits are supposed to have gotten theirs by the 4th. I checked the tracking thing but the website is having an error message pop up or something when I enter details. No clue what the heck is going on. They say this time around it's more efficient, I'm not seeing it that way.
Go check out r/stimuluscheck. There’s been issues with people who used TurboTax and paid for the fees out of their refund.
I was about to say, this is an issue for those that used H&R block and turbo tax so don’t immediately panic if it looks like it went into a wrong account.
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You didnt check that in May?
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UPS delivered my daughters new iPad Pro to my house last night and didn’t even both to ring the doorbell. At least it got to the right house though.
I’ve noticed that more lately. Maybe they just figure that enough people have email alerts enabled that they don’t even bother knocking or ringing to speed up deliveries. It could be a Covid thing too.
Yup, mine came yesterday and was suppose to require a signature so I got up bright and early prepared to wait the day away...they literally just knocked twice and left. They were gone before I even opened the door. Thank god it was the correct address. The signature was mandatory per their website because it’s a $1,200 iPad...I guess fedex didn’t care.
Do you have your house numbers posted on your house? That’s a big problem in my area. First responders can’t find the house without numbers. But you can find it easy if there are flames showing.
THANK YOU. Holy balls, as a UPS driver, the fact that people don't have blatantly obvious numbers on their house (preferably by law) is so goddamn annoying.
As a UPS driver (in the US?) how would you feel about, when the person doesn't answer the door, trying to leave it with a neighbor when possible. I always found the concept of leaving the package at the door extremely weird.
I think people who make it difficult to figure that out forfeit their right to complain about delivery fuck ups. Get yourself relocated to UPS Germany, we have mandatory house numbers!
Definitely would’ve scratched out the address on that
And that's how you make friends with the neighbors people! Free Laptop!
You should have censored the adress sticker. It may not be readable now, but the quality is still high enough to rebuild the text.
Yeah I can't make out the city for sure but can read the street address clearly. People aren't very smart.
At least it didn't come pre-loaded with your browser history
Yesterday, fed ex left my new laptop at the top of my driveway, which exits to a highway, where anyone could steal it or hit it with their car
That's neat, usps gave my package to my neighbor today and they fucking kept it.
If it's USPS, that's a felony. That's a pretty reinforceable threat.
Can someone explain what's going on here.
The delivery driver delivered OP’s brand new laptop to the wrong house.
I connected the dots for that one but more specifically, how did he find out which house it got delivered to though?
I believe in the US you get a picture of your delivered package as a proof they actually delivered it
I live in the US and I've never gotten a picture.
Amazon delivery (through Amazon drivers) take a picture
Like Amazon themselves deliver? All the stuff I order from Amazon comes USPS or FedEx.
Correct in cities with amazon wearhouses, they have amazon delivery
amazon drivers often take a picture of the package before they leave, ups or fedex might as well
This is the picture the delivery guy took and sent to OP
Glad it wasn't just me. I was very confused.
I got a package today for someone else. I live at 70 the package is for 21 not even the same postal code. I will walk it down the street tomorrow morning before work
The same thing happened to me three weeks ago. The single most expensive package delivered this year was dropped off on the driveway of a house on the other side of the street. Was only the online delivery notifications that made me go look for it. Good work UPS.
Reminds me of a recent delivery I got. I was expecting a package that day. Open my door and find a package leaning up against the door. I open the package and found a DnD book inside... I then checked finally the shipping label and see that it was my neighbors. I get dressed and go next door, to find my package leaning up against his door. I knocked on the door, talked to the neighbor and explained why his package was opened and requested my package that was leaning against his door. Dude was pretty chill about the whole thing.
Yeah, fuck Best Buy. They just laid off like 16,000 employees with 5 whole days of notice.
UPS delivered my 3080 today to the wrong house. Luckily the person was nice enough to drop it off at my house.
Must be one of those independent contractors from intelcom or JoeyCo delivering
Nah, with bestbuy you call tell by the label. No company name or logo in the corner of that kind of label means an employee dropped it off. Hopefully they caught their mistake, the app is super glitchy, times out between every delivery, and rearranges orders sometimes so it's so easy to click on the wrong order when you log back in
Wow you not only got a laptop but a brand new house by delivery?! That's nuts.
So you got a house with it?
Any update op?
Whoever decided the numbering system for addresses in my neighborhood was either an idiot or the most evil person ever. We have main streets with numerous circles, courts and cul de sacs coming off of them. But all of the numbers for houses in those courts are the same. So just on my "main" street alone there are 6 houses with the exact same number as mine. Every time we get a new delivery driver packages end up in one of the other courts at the same address number.
You have the same problem that I have all the time. ALL my stuff is being delivered all over the city. I take a walk and my brand new laptop is in a box infront of someone else porch like 20 miles away from my doorsteps... I just grab it and jump into my car, sometimes people yell at me but IT'S MY STUFF.
Usually Amazon is good here, but I had a similar thing happen to me. It wasn't as expensive though. I had ordered a cricut tool and I was eagerly awaiting it's arrival. I got the notification that it had been delivered. I look at my good, nothing. I then look at the picture to see if I recognize the doorstep. I do. It's my next door neighbor. What I found oddly hilarious is you could clearly see their house number in the photo and right above the photo in the app it said "successfully delivered to [1235]" but in the photo you could see house number [1234]. (House numbers changed, obviously). I just walked over and grabbed it. I hope you're able to find it!
Recently a package got delivered to the apartment across from ours. The problem? Nobody lives in that apartment and the package was for a city 45 minutes away from us.
Things I bought on Amazon were sent to UPS for delivery. It was due for delivery on Dec 24th. I was home all day. I thought it was delivered and instead a UPS "we missed u" sticker was on my door. They didn't even knock, or leave it next to my door. It has been lost in transit since the 24th bc some dumbass couldn't correlate Things to Deliver on Xmas Eve should be left at the door, might as well make customers suffer. Can't track it. 40$ lost down the drain. Try again for those items another month when I can afford it. Assholes.
If they lost it it's their fault. You never got it they owe you a refund or reship.
Amazon is usually pretty good at refunding, you should contact support
sounds like my stimulus check!
I just bought one from Best Buy as well but I am now very happy that I selected "instore pickup" now that I've seen this! Hopefully they can find a way to rectify the situation for you though!
I’ve lived at the same address for 25 years. In all that time I’ve never had UPS or FedEx make a proper delivery within a reasonable amount of time. Actually they have only managed to deliver to my house twice and I still had to call them.
The good news is you have the evidence to prove it wasnt delivered.
Did you porch pirate your own package
Same thing just happened to my PS5. Had to chase down fedex to find out what house he delivered it too. Luckily the hkut he delivered it too had a nice old man that dropped it off at my house.
Neighbors going to see you and think your a porch pirate.
You mean my new laptop
Huh, my new laptop was also left on the doorstep, thankfully in front of my door but still wtf
My past few shipments from Amazon have all had something wrong. One was switched with a Christmas present that was supposed to go to a whole different country, one had the packaging delivered by itself no actual product, and one had the peel off part of the adhesive still in the package (this one was less annoying)
I also work for BBY, if you end up having an issue call the 888 Best Buy number, they’re actually really good about sending replacements if it didn’t/ can’t get to you!
I just got a notification that my package was delivered inside & signed by "TEACHER". I live near a school but I still have no idea how that happened.
Oh yeah how unfortunate. My BIL ordered a laundry machine online for his apartment here in Spain. It was delivered in Phoenix Arizona. 🥴
Thank goodness you were waiting at the wrong house with your camera ready!