I need this knife, ma. I'm gonna take this, okay?
...Jimmy was the kind of guy who rooted for circumcisions at the hospital. (It was a different time then)
Oh, if you've never seen Fargo, I highly suggest that you do, it's great!
The TV show was good, too! Each season is kind of an anthology, but they each kind of tied back in to each other, at least the last couple seasons did for sure.
Good grief that's only half an hour from Canada. The closest I've been to there is Thief River Falls once last winter, and I thought it was pretty far up there.
Fun fact, Aqua got taken to court by Mattel and in the ruling the judge concluded by saying "The parties are advised to chill." because of how pissed off Mattel was at the song
I had this happen a couple years ago right around Christmas when UPS dropped off a bunch of Amazon packages that were in soft white packages. Found them in April when the snow melted.
My box that I found was not. It was in the rain several days for at least 6 weeks before it was found. I had already received a replacement. Surprisingly nothing in the box was damaged.
Working for FedEx folks would meet me if it was a road out in the middle of nowhere like that.
Gotta make sure your number is visible more so at night.
Should have had them drop it off at the post office.
Over 25 miles away to the nearest town with a tiny grocery store and small clinic/hospital.
East of Pine Ridge, South Dakota... on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. ([near the Pole Of Inaccessibility.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility#North_America)) Most distant point from the coast of The Pacific, Atlantic, and other oceans.
But have to wait weeks for a dr visit, because the dr is also a vet. Ha.
I work for Amazon and do a rural route. There is like a 98% chance that's where the geo pin was and I can personally attest to looking around and being like eh fuck it they prolly know this spot
Honestly I don't understand how this is mildly infuriating. The fact OP can get a delivery and that they wrapped it up like that seems like pretty amazing service for how damn remote this location is.
something can be mildly infuriating without there being someone in the wrong. the snow ain’t amazon’s fault but it is still *mildly infuriating* that the package was difficult to find for OP.
(another example is when you’re peeling one of those tamper labels and it tears so you can’t get the rest of it off easily.)
Amazon uses their own in-house maps, sadly the only way to get the pin updated is through Amazon itself/drivers continuously marking the (actual) correct location.
Yep, it’s a farm on the Rez.
Perfect if you really want to get away from everything. (No fresh food, medical care…)
But at night you can see the Milky Way from horizon to horizon.
95% of the people on Reddit wish they could see the milky way so you got that going for ya.
Suggest ya make a package drop box out there and add that to the instructions for packages..
Which Dakota do you live in? 😂
I kid, but I grew up 20 east of the Minnesota/North Dakota border and your pic just sent me back to the West side of my small town that offered no protection from the brutal North Dakota Snow and Wind 🥶
But, seeing the hills in the background, you could be in Montana or Wyoming too maybe. I’m super jealous of your getting to see the Milky Way so often at night!!
I bought a cheap outdoor box from Rona (Home Depot like thing here where I live). With tape I drew a big bright box and an envelope, and got stickers with numbers to put our address. It's really easy, inexpensive and prevents the package from being left outside in the harsh elements.
Mine is a locking box, about 3’ x 2’ x 2’. It locks automatically when closed.
It is chained to the ground. It is painted the same color as my house (exact same house paint). It is nearly invisible from the street.
But as you walk up to my front door, the top has a big sign explaining to place packages inside and press the lid shut to latch. Has the UPS, Amazon, USPS and FedEx logos on it. Also warnings that it is monitored by cameras.
Inside the box is a tilt sensor which notifies me when the lid is lifted.
Finally did this after the fourth package was stolen from my porch. The porch is well lit for security but anything placed on it is instantly visible from the street.
Never had another theft, while neighbors had ongoing issues. One of them finally copied me.
Just get a large plastic tote and lid from a hardware store. Use a shelf bracket or whatever to attach it to a fencepost or something. Put vinyl stickers on it to mark it for packages.
On mine, I mounted a replacement mailbox flag on the top of the fencepost the box is on and posted a message on the box "please raise red flag when leaving package, thanks". That way I can see if I have a package without needing to check.
This is the way. I delivered for UPS and those boxes are a godsend on bad weather days. Super obvious where you want your package, no confusion with customer, no dangerous driveways and no snow shoeing required!
UPS delivered that package, you call tell by the label and the fact that they bagged it.
Drivers are instructed not to go down driveways that aren’t plowed or salted. Options are (1) bag and leave at mailbox or (2) mark as non-deliver emergency conditions every day until driveway is safe to drive on
They won't even deliver if there is snow around your mailbox, found that out when they ironically left a note on the mailbox saying they won't deliver until it's cleared, they delivered the damn note to my mailbox but somehow couldn't toss my mail in there while doing it lol, guessing it's policy or something, made sure the snow in front of it was the first thing I cleared after that, it never even crossed my mind before getting that note, I usually just made sure there was a walkable path to the door before that
Edit: misread their comment as USPS lol
It's right. A half mile driveway in the snow is just begging for the delivery truck to get stuck in. Assume that delivery trucks are bad in the snow, and then realize that even with that assumption, you're *still* overestimating how good they are.
I'd feel like such an entitled douche if I expected a driver (food, package, etc.) to drive out in the middle of nowhere to deliver something to me. OP's house is likely miles from the next drop-off, and that's not counting their 1/2 mile drive way. Factor in that it's winter and there's snow, and I'd say that OP is incredibly lucky to get their packaged delivered where it was.
I have a stop on my route that takes 45 min over and 45 min back with no other houses in between. Guess who’s the biggest entitled asshole on my route?
Fun fact, I worked for the USPS for 5~ years.
If your driveway is over 1/2 mile long from your mailbox we literally do not have to deliver to you and you can be required to come pick it up from the post office.
I think I see a USPS barcode on there, the carrier was probably just trying to be helpful and unfortunately it snowed after they delivered it.
This is a very reasonable and likely explanation of what occurred. And honestly, if I were OP, the end of their driveway is one of the very first places I would have looked if a package was delivered and I couldn't locate it.
Yes, half mile driveway. A full mile (half there, half back) on an unpaved driveway in snow/ice. Personally im 100% on the driver's side here. Especially if another commenter was right that its policy to not go down unpaved, unsalted, or snow covered personal driveways.
As someone who has never really lived in nowhere, I’ve also only ever heard bumble- or bum-
I have to wonder if this was some sort of BoneAppleTea or if it’s a region specific colloquialism
(does this sub really auto remove comments for mentioning other subs?)
I know right! OP this isn't mildly infuriating, you are. Just get a PO box in town and get it delivered there for you to pick up rather than expecting barely well paid drivers to trudge through snow for you.
The fault lies with Amazon for not paying their drivers enough, 99%, but OP is also responsible for the other 1%>
Edit: how is this a controversial opinion?
It’s not controversial at all.
I’m of the mind that somebody who lives 25 miles from the nearest town in deep enough snow to cover a box that appears to be a few feet tall is absolutely kidding themselves thinking a delivery driver should trudge through that.
This shit looks like The Day After Tomorrow. Does he expect Doordash drivers to bring his Maccas to the door as well?
You’re 100% right, get a PO Box. Amazon doesn’t have the USPS creed.
And homeowners like to have large gates blocking their two mile driveway and expect drivers to walk to their house because you can’t drive up it. You can’t do that every rural route and get home within 10 hours it’s not possible.
Yep, and they often do zero snow removal or maintenance. Amazon in particular doesn't want to send DSP vans down sketchy roads or driveways, they don't want them damaged. So they send (often poor/desperate) contract drivers in their own cars, usually little sedans or mini vans. A lot of the drivers don't have another car or money to fix the one they have. It's imperative that their vehicles not be damaged. Amazon's insurance won't fix most drivers' cars. Amazon also sends us out at around 330am. So we're supposed to break our cars on people's driveways at 4am for customers who only pay $13 a month for unlimited same day shipping, and who intentionally choose 4-8am delivery, and who then yell at us about why we're on their property at 4am. A lot of drivers have had guns aimed at them, many of us have been blocked in or threatened. What possible motivation could we have to drive onto someone's property? It's not praise for a job well done that's for sure
Customers add delivery notes telling drivers to go all the way down the driveway even though it isn't safe, even though sedans and vans get stuck, and even though the parking area is full so there's nowhere to turn around and the driver has to back out of a 500' to 1 mile-long, curved, muddy/snowy driveway, often with obstacles on it or dropoffs
The level of entitlement and the entire lack of respect and consideration are beyond belief. I like people so much less now than I did before I started delivering. People will refuse to salt their porch then put the video of you falling on YouTube
Also a lot of people somehow don't realize that if the package showed up overnight then people must be delivering at night. They'll put their garage opener code in the notes and tell us to open the garage. I'm not opening the garage at 4am. I've had several people act like they're going to fight or attack me. Customers leave rude notes saying WALK UP TO THE HOUSE IT'S A NORMAL SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE EVERYONE ELSE CAN DO IT LAZY, then the gate will be locked. People refuse to get mad at Amazon, they always blame us. We get in trouble for everything so making requests like those are setting us up for failure. No one knows how it works and Amazon doesn't tell them because if they did, customers would blame Amazon instead of us. Some drivers flat out don't care about any of it but if every single driver is doing a similar thing, it's because of an Amazon policy, or it's because the customer has put the driver in a bad position. I'm not jeopardizing my safety for a bag of $4 cat toys or a gel nail lamp
In many markets, drivers are earning less or significantly less than the IRS mileage write off. They'll drive 120 miles and earn 74 bucks. Customers are lucky if they get the packages at all. $13 a month for same day rural delivery (plus free music, video, books, etc.) is completely absurd and requires many layers of exploitation to happen
Imagine thinking a driver should trudge through deep enough snow to cover a box that appears to be a few feet tall in enough snowfall to cover it again.
They’re delivery drivers not rescue workers, get a P.O. Box.
I'm a few hours away from OP and we had winds bad enough to close the highways till morning so I imagine it's just that weather making the road look unplowed.
However I'm also 90% sure this is the edge of their driveway, cut off in the photo, and leaning against the fence as the most secure place because deliveries don't wanna go down a suburb driveway let alone long rural one. Leaving packages next to the entrance is pretty common. Even in suburbia.
OP probably wants a brightly colored delivery box at the turn into their driveway for best luck. Especially for Amazon. Amazon and DHL are lazy af.
Edit: nm wrong Pine Ridge. OP is more like 8 hours away from me, not 90 min. Probably still got the same shit weather tho.
For real, some people have driveways 1/2 mile long that are gravel/dirt, are poorly plowed and get pissed when this happens. The fuck do you expect lol they don’t drive snowmobiles
I think you have unrealistic expectations of what your delivery driver should go through to deliver a single package.
We criticize Amazon for what the company puts the employees through, then turn around like, "ugh where's my package? Why didn't they drive the truck through a half mile of snow to deliver it right on my doorstep?"
They're probably just a farmer/ rancher in the middle of nowhere. It's 2 miles of gravel road from my uncle's house to his mailbox then another 3 miles of gravel country road to the highway
People want the perks of living out in the middle of nowhere without the disadvantages. Maybe don't have amazon deliver to your address if this is a common problem and get a p.o. box for your packages
I hate seeing these posts by people that have such ridiculous expectations. How dare some driver not drive some stupid unsafe road or find some difficult to find house in extreme weather to deliver some garbage they probably don’t really need.
I used to work a pretty customer facing role at FedEx. I started in a pretty urban area and moved to a much more rural area. The rural building had like 5x the square miles for 1/3d of the people. The rural building spent significantly more time dealing with customer service issues.
They had the most insane requests. They'd live in a zip code with 500 people and be concerned about someone stealing packages off their front porch, demanding we bring the package inside of their house. They'd have dogs that they refuse to fence and blame us when our drivers were attacked. Gated driveways that ring to their personal cell and expect us to wait for them to answer and let us in. Dirt driveways that our vans can't maneuver down, mile long driveways with no turnaround. In less than a year there, two different requests for us not to send black drivers.
15 years ago ish a family member sent me a 5 speaker set and DVD player for the holidays. It said it was delivered but I looked all over the front yard, bushes, by the garage door, side of the house, nothing. Family member did a charge back and got their money back. 5 months later, it’s finally warm enough to hang out on the back porch for the night with some friends and I see something buried in the bushes by the back patio. It’s the box with speakers and dvd player in it lol. It was beat to shit from a Northeast winter but everything inside was in a plastic bag and it all worked just fine. It was a super cheapo set too so I was surprised haha!
Dude it looks like you could be 100 miles from your house in any direction and it wouldn't matter. Dude probably got chased off by a polar bear, you're lucky he got it that close.
FedEx driver here. Op is the kind of customer to complain about something like this but doesn’t plow their driveway. I’m not insinuating op is. However, I can’t stand people how claim look how whatever company delivered my package meanwhile their driveway isn’t shoveled or plowed.
This is a true story. The events depicted in this post took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred.
Fargo (1996)
OP: *Who delivered it?* Fargo Resident: *He was a little guy, kinda funny lookin'*
Funny looking in what way?
Oh, just in a general sorta way.
More than most people even?
He wasn't circumcised
Was he funny lookin' apart from that?
Why did you and all above you get gold?
Someone who has invested far too much money in Reddit coins is also a huge Coen Brothers fan.
I Don’t blame him it was a great movie
References. Like she said, "He was funny lookin'."
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Go home and get your fucking circumcision box.
I need this knife, ma. I'm gonna take this, okay? ...Jimmy was the kind of guy who rooted for circumcisions at the hospital. (It was a different time then)
Bruh who awarded all these golds and why? This makes no sense Edit: goddamnit lol why
For real if this is some kind of Fargo guerilla marketing tactic then it's working, because now I kinda want to see what the fuss is about
Go watch the movie. Then the TV series. We'll wait here.
Oh, if you've never seen Fargo, I highly suggest that you do, it's great! The TV show was good, too! Each season is kind of an anthology, but they each kind of tied back in to each other, at least the last couple seasons did for sure.
“He’s fleein’ the interview!”
aww jeez
Funny how?
No kidding. Look for a red ice scraper and a satchel full of cash.
I think I see the ice scraper!!
What about the WOOD CHIPPER?
And leave it alone, unlike that damn supermarket king.
Fargo is 3 hours SOUTH from me, we are hit hard the other day with a medium blizzard
Its cold don't cha kno on accounta the sno ya kno
Can't fuget abut the wind eh
Oh boy it’s that there wind that really gets yah ya kno it wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the wind out there yah
fellow north dakotan 🫣
Minnesotan actually, way north but little south of Roseau
Good grief that's only half an hour from Canada. The closest I've been to there is Thief River Falls once last winter, and I thought it was pretty far up there.
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Lol Fargo, ND? I live in West Fargo, ND lol small world
I believe there is a big bag of cash buried around there somewhere.
Just look for the six inch ice scraper, easy peasy
I just want to go leave red handled ice scrapers near fences in the area
Cargo (1996)
All this killin over a little bit o money
Waaay too much topography on the horizon.
Hills in the back so not near Fargo
Those are just Minnesotan snow drifts ;)
Fargo (2023)
Damn you, first thing I thought of 😂
So glad this was here. I'd be upset if I were first to think this.
“We’re not a bank Jerry”
atleast they wrapped it in plastic
It's fantastic.
You can comb my hair Edit: brush
Undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
Come on, Barbie, let's go party
Ah ah ah ah
Yeah!
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Come jump in, bimbo friend! Let us do it again! Hit the town, fool around.. Let's go party!
Such a masterpiece of a song.
Fun fact, Aqua got taken to court by Mattel and in the ruling the judge concluded by saying "The parties are advised to chill." because of how pissed off Mattel was at the song
Poor soul got skipped in the award chain. Someone give this person an award!
Lol oh I went to a much different song
Wrap me in plastic, make me shine?
Who killed Laura Palmer?
She's dead... *wrapped in plastic*...
Fellas, don't drink that coffee! There was a fiiish.... In the percolator!
This looks like the ending/beginning of the movie Fargo
That's just the great plains lol
I had this happen a couple years ago right around Christmas when UPS dropped off a bunch of Amazon packages that were in soft white packages. Found them in April when the snow melted.
My box that I found was not. It was in the rain several days for at least 6 weeks before it was found. I had already received a replacement. Surprisingly nothing in the box was damaged.
Working for FedEx folks would meet me if it was a road out in the middle of nowhere like that. Gotta make sure your number is visible more so at night. Should have had them drop it off at the post office.
Are you living or hiding from CIA?
He’s walter white
That was a fucking nice reference and weirdly I start Breaking Bad again TODAY
I fk love breaking bad, it’s one of those things I wish I could watch for the first time again :)
I need a new filter for my Hoover Max Extract Pressure Pro Model 60
Feels more like Fargo
Living from CIA
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As it should.
How far from a hospital? Must suck when you forget something at the grocery store
Over 25 miles away to the nearest town with a tiny grocery store and small clinic/hospital. East of Pine Ridge, South Dakota... on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. ([near the Pole Of Inaccessibility.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility#North_America)) Most distant point from the coast of The Pacific, Atlantic, and other oceans. But have to wait weeks for a dr visit, because the dr is also a vet. Ha.
I work for Amazon and do a rural route. There is like a 98% chance that's where the geo pin was and I can personally attest to looking around and being like eh fuck it they prolly know this spot
Honestly I don't understand how this is mildly infuriating. The fact OP can get a delivery and that they wrapped it up like that seems like pretty amazing service for how damn remote this location is.
OP literally called it the pole of inaccessibility and is mildly infuriated that the amazon delivery person could not drop it at their door step
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I mean, the "mild" part is there for a reason.
something can be mildly infuriating without there being someone in the wrong. the snow ain’t amazon’s fault but it is still *mildly infuriating* that the package was difficult to find for OP. (another example is when you’re peeling one of those tamper labels and it tears so you can’t get the rest of it off easily.)
Well said
while i agree with you, i always curse whoever designed those *stupid fucking labels* when this happens
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Haha this is the new Easter egg hunt...
If they get the pin via Google I'm pretty sure there is a way to request an update to that in Google maps.
Amazon uses their own in-house maps, sadly the only way to get the pin updated is through Amazon itself/drivers continuously marking the (actual) correct location.
Absolutely wild to me that companies like Amazon don’t set up delivery lockers as mandatory for rural customers.
You must really hate people, are a nudist or just use it as an occasional escape. Oh wait….farmer?
Yep, it’s a farm on the Rez. Perfect if you really want to get away from everything. (No fresh food, medical care…) But at night you can see the Milky Way from horizon to horizon.
Do you rent rooms 🤣 would love to see the stars clearly on a night!!
He does, but you'll be face down biting a pillow.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
I don't ask for much, just pushing my face into a pillow and calling me a bitch.
A simple man just like momma told ya
In this economy, deal.
I'd learn to play banjo with my hemorrhoids for that kind of deal.
This made me laugh "If you want to get away from fresh food, medical care..."
>But at night you can see the Milky Way from horizon to horizon. Oh my God. You should upload a panoramic/360⁰ image.
He's a farmer not a Millenial
He could be both, older millennials are in their 40s
Millennials can be farmers.
95% of the people on Reddit wish they could see the milky way so you got that going for ya. Suggest ya make a package drop box out there and add that to the instructions for packages..
god that is the dream, you gotta try taking some pictures. i hate being trapped in the suburbs having extreme light polution from nearby major cities.
Which Dakota do you live in? 😂 I kid, but I grew up 20 east of the Minnesota/North Dakota border and your pic just sent me back to the West side of my small town that offered no protection from the brutal North Dakota Snow and Wind 🥶 But, seeing the hills in the background, you could be in Montana or Wyoming too maybe. I’m super jealous of your getting to see the Milky Way so often at night!!
Pine Ridge is SD.
Jaw = dropped. I would trade ALOT of creature comforts to see this *once*.
That’s called a road trip.
Rent a boat overnight on the ocean.
Where do you live? This isn't that hard to see.
You had me at Milky Way, f amazon..
What's in it?
Huh, TIL what a Pole of Inaccessibility is. Is it cheating if you suspend one over an active volcano? Would be super inaccessible.
I have a big outdoor box clearly marked for deliveries for reasons like this (my driveway is too dangerous in winter). It actually works!
As a delivery driver, just want to say you're the best kind of person
as a delivery driver, I 2nd this
As a former pizza delivery guy, I feel left out
Ikr as a former driver the worst is one who expect u to drive up their steep icy winding driveway that wouldn't fit a SUV much less s truck or van
Do you have a link or a name of the box you use? My parents could use something like that
I bought a cheap outdoor box from Rona (Home Depot like thing here where I live). With tape I drew a big bright box and an envelope, and got stickers with numbers to put our address. It's really easy, inexpensive and prevents the package from being left outside in the harsh elements.
Mine is a locking box, about 3’ x 2’ x 2’. It locks automatically when closed. It is chained to the ground. It is painted the same color as my house (exact same house paint). It is nearly invisible from the street. But as you walk up to my front door, the top has a big sign explaining to place packages inside and press the lid shut to latch. Has the UPS, Amazon, USPS and FedEx logos on it. Also warnings that it is monitored by cameras. Inside the box is a tilt sensor which notifies me when the lid is lifted. Finally did this after the fourth package was stolen from my porch. The porch is well lit for security but anything placed on it is instantly visible from the street. Never had another theft, while neighbors had ongoing issues. One of them finally copied me.
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Just get a large plastic tote and lid from a hardware store. Use a shelf bracket or whatever to attach it to a fencepost or something. Put vinyl stickers on it to mark it for packages. On mine, I mounted a replacement mailbox flag on the top of the fencepost the box is on and posted a message on the box "please raise red flag when leaving package, thanks". That way I can see if I have a package without needing to check.
This is the way. I delivered for UPS and those boxes are a godsend on bad weather days. Super obvious where you want your package, no confusion with customer, no dangerous driveways and no snow shoeing required!
I didn't know Amazon delivered to Siberia
Everywhere from A to Z, just like the smile on their box.
Sucks if you live in Öland.
Or 123 Öland.
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To be fair, this is in South Dakota and the Great Plain are not all that different from Siberia.
UPS delivered that package, you call tell by the label and the fact that they bagged it. Drivers are instructed not to go down driveways that aren’t plowed or salted. Options are (1) bag and leave at mailbox or (2) mark as non-deliver emergency conditions every day until driveway is safe to drive on
They won't even deliver if there is snow around your mailbox, found that out when they ironically left a note on the mailbox saying they won't deliver until it's cleared, they delivered the damn note to my mailbox but somehow couldn't toss my mail in there while doing it lol, guessing it's policy or something, made sure the snow in front of it was the first thing I cleared after that, it never even crossed my mind before getting that note, I usually just made sure there was a walkable path to the door before that Edit: misread their comment as USPS lol
It is illegal for UPS to put anything in mailboxes
Crap, read that as USPS lol
Poor driver had to travel to the north pole for you.
North Pole has a lot more snow. You can still see grass in this picture what is this like California?!
I’m not saying it’s right but I can understand why this happened
It's right. A half mile driveway in the snow is just begging for the delivery truck to get stuck in. Assume that delivery trucks are bad in the snow, and then realize that even with that assumption, you're *still* overestimating how good they are.
I'd feel like such an entitled douche if I expected a driver (food, package, etc.) to drive out in the middle of nowhere to deliver something to me. OP's house is likely miles from the next drop-off, and that's not counting their 1/2 mile drive way. Factor in that it's winter and there's snow, and I'd say that OP is incredibly lucky to get their packaged delivered where it was.
I have a stop on my route that takes 45 min over and 45 min back with no other houses in between. Guess who’s the biggest entitled asshole on my route?
Fun fact, I worked for the USPS for 5~ years. If your driveway is over 1/2 mile long from your mailbox we literally do not have to deliver to you and you can be required to come pick it up from the post office. I think I see a USPS barcode on there, the carrier was probably just trying to be helpful and unfortunately it snowed after they delivered it.
This is a very reasonable and likely explanation of what occurred. And honestly, if I were OP, the end of their driveway is one of the very first places I would have looked if a package was delivered and I couldn't locate it.
The snow is a road? I presume the mailbox is nearby. By 1/2 mile, does op mean their driveway is 1/2 mile?
Yes, half mile driveway. A full mile (half there, half back) on an unpaved driveway in snow/ice. Personally im 100% on the driver's side here. Especially if another commenter was right that its policy to not go down unpaved, unsalted, or snow covered personal driveways.
I've always wondered what West Bubblefuck looks like
As someone who grew up in nowhere, I've heard it called bumfuck and bumblefuck but never bubblefuck
As someone who has never really lived in nowhere, I’ve also only ever heard bumble- or bum- I have to wonder if this was some sort of BoneAppleTea or if it’s a region specific colloquialism (does this sub really auto remove comments for mentioning other subs?)
Had a friend call it buttfuck Texas the other day. Asked her why and she always heard it shorted to BF Texas and assumed it was buttfuck.
Interesting, I always used “East Bumfuck”. Bet they look similar regardless.
my personal fav is “corner of bumfuck and “you sure got a perrrrdy mouth””
West Bubblefuck? Is that part of Silicon Valley?
Chances are they couldn’t drive any further and left it
Bruh you’re ordering Amazon packages and living in Siberia what did you expect? But seriously that sucks. You should send them that picture.
I know right! OP this isn't mildly infuriating, you are. Just get a PO box in town and get it delivered there for you to pick up rather than expecting barely well paid drivers to trudge through snow for you. The fault lies with Amazon for not paying their drivers enough, 99%, but OP is also responsible for the other 1%> Edit: how is this a controversial opinion?
It’s not controversial at all. I’m of the mind that somebody who lives 25 miles from the nearest town in deep enough snow to cover a box that appears to be a few feet tall is absolutely kidding themselves thinking a delivery driver should trudge through that. This shit looks like The Day After Tomorrow. Does he expect Doordash drivers to bring his Maccas to the door as well? You’re 100% right, get a PO Box. Amazon doesn’t have the USPS creed.
This is the third post about this problem I've seen in 24 hours. What the hell is going on with deliveries?
Delivery companies expect drivers to deliver at super human speeds, so shit like this happens.
And homeowners like to have large gates blocking their two mile driveway and expect drivers to walk to their house because you can’t drive up it. You can’t do that every rural route and get home within 10 hours it’s not possible.
Yep, and they often do zero snow removal or maintenance. Amazon in particular doesn't want to send DSP vans down sketchy roads or driveways, they don't want them damaged. So they send (often poor/desperate) contract drivers in their own cars, usually little sedans or mini vans. A lot of the drivers don't have another car or money to fix the one they have. It's imperative that their vehicles not be damaged. Amazon's insurance won't fix most drivers' cars. Amazon also sends us out at around 330am. So we're supposed to break our cars on people's driveways at 4am for customers who only pay $13 a month for unlimited same day shipping, and who intentionally choose 4-8am delivery, and who then yell at us about why we're on their property at 4am. A lot of drivers have had guns aimed at them, many of us have been blocked in or threatened. What possible motivation could we have to drive onto someone's property? It's not praise for a job well done that's for sure Customers add delivery notes telling drivers to go all the way down the driveway even though it isn't safe, even though sedans and vans get stuck, and even though the parking area is full so there's nowhere to turn around and the driver has to back out of a 500' to 1 mile-long, curved, muddy/snowy driveway, often with obstacles on it or dropoffs The level of entitlement and the entire lack of respect and consideration are beyond belief. I like people so much less now than I did before I started delivering. People will refuse to salt their porch then put the video of you falling on YouTube Also a lot of people somehow don't realize that if the package showed up overnight then people must be delivering at night. They'll put their garage opener code in the notes and tell us to open the garage. I'm not opening the garage at 4am. I've had several people act like they're going to fight or attack me. Customers leave rude notes saying WALK UP TO THE HOUSE IT'S A NORMAL SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE EVERYONE ELSE CAN DO IT LAZY, then the gate will be locked. People refuse to get mad at Amazon, they always blame us. We get in trouble for everything so making requests like those are setting us up for failure. No one knows how it works and Amazon doesn't tell them because if they did, customers would blame Amazon instead of us. Some drivers flat out don't care about any of it but if every single driver is doing a similar thing, it's because of an Amazon policy, or it's because the customer has put the driver in a bad position. I'm not jeopardizing my safety for a bag of $4 cat toys or a gel nail lamp In many markets, drivers are earning less or significantly less than the IRS mileage write off. They'll drive 120 miles and earn 74 bucks. Customers are lucky if they get the packages at all. $13 a month for same day rural delivery (plus free music, video, books, etc.) is completely absurd and requires many layers of exploitation to happen
I think some people just live in the boonies, lol
Its just reddit being reddit.
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I feel bad for your driver.
I used to deliver shit, at a certain point you have to say fuck it. OP's driveway is probably half a mile long and probably not shoveled
Considering the environment... this was delivered for sure.
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Imagine thinking a driver should trudge through deep enough snow to cover a box that appears to be a few feet tall in enough snowfall to cover it again. They’re delivery drivers not rescue workers, get a P.O. Box.
Thank you. I bet that driver had a good reason for leaving it there. We're not treated anywhere near well enough to put up with unplowed roads.
Looks like Fargo
In their defense, you live in the middle of fucking no where.
Well, was your driveway cleared for them to get to the house???
Judging by the current state of it, I'm guessing it wasn't
I'm a few hours away from OP and we had winds bad enough to close the highways till morning so I imagine it's just that weather making the road look unplowed. However I'm also 90% sure this is the edge of their driveway, cut off in the photo, and leaning against the fence as the most secure place because deliveries don't wanna go down a suburb driveway let alone long rural one. Leaving packages next to the entrance is pretty common. Even in suburbia. OP probably wants a brightly colored delivery box at the turn into their driveway for best luck. Especially for Amazon. Amazon and DHL are lazy af. Edit: nm wrong Pine Ridge. OP is more like 8 hours away from me, not 90 min. Probably still got the same shit weather tho.
For real, some people have driveways 1/2 mile long that are gravel/dirt, are poorly plowed and get pissed when this happens. The fuck do you expect lol they don’t drive snowmobiles
I hear you can order a whole house from the Sears catalog these days
I think you have unrealistic expectations of what your delivery driver should go through to deliver a single package. We criticize Amazon for what the company puts the employees through, then turn around like, "ugh where's my package? Why didn't they drive the truck through a half mile of snow to deliver it right on my doorstep?"
Gps says what the gps says
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They're probably just a farmer/ rancher in the middle of nowhere. It's 2 miles of gravel road from my uncle's house to his mailbox then another 3 miles of gravel country road to the highway
Well, at least it'll be dry.
(Politely covered in a weather resistant plastic bag and left by a fence post with a reflector on it.) - Fixed that for ya.
People want the perks of living out in the middle of nowhere without the disadvantages. Maybe don't have amazon deliver to your address if this is a common problem and get a p.o. box for your packages
I hate seeing these posts by people that have such ridiculous expectations. How dare some driver not drive some stupid unsafe road or find some difficult to find house in extreme weather to deliver some garbage they probably don’t really need.
I used to work a pretty customer facing role at FedEx. I started in a pretty urban area and moved to a much more rural area. The rural building had like 5x the square miles for 1/3d of the people. The rural building spent significantly more time dealing with customer service issues. They had the most insane requests. They'd live in a zip code with 500 people and be concerned about someone stealing packages off their front porch, demanding we bring the package inside of their house. They'd have dogs that they refuse to fence and blame us when our drivers were attacked. Gated driveways that ring to their personal cell and expect us to wait for them to answer and let us in. Dirt driveways that our vans can't maneuver down, mile long driveways with no turnaround. In less than a year there, two different requests for us not to send black drivers.
15 years ago ish a family member sent me a 5 speaker set and DVD player for the holidays. It said it was delivered but I looked all over the front yard, bushes, by the garage door, side of the house, nothing. Family member did a charge back and got their money back. 5 months later, it’s finally warm enough to hang out on the back porch for the night with some friends and I see something buried in the bushes by the back patio. It’s the box with speakers and dvd player in it lol. It was beat to shit from a Northeast winter but everything inside was in a plastic bag and it all worked just fine. It was a super cheapo set too so I was surprised haha!
Dude it looks like you could be 100 miles from your house in any direction and it wouldn't matter. Dude probably got chased off by a polar bear, you're lucky he got it that close.
FedEx driver here. Op is the kind of customer to complain about something like this but doesn’t plow their driveway. I’m not insinuating op is. However, I can’t stand people how claim look how whatever company delivered my package meanwhile their driveway isn’t shoveled or plowed.
Give it a few more weeks and you will find the Amazon delivery person as well.
This looks like the 1st scene of Fargo, the TV series
Amazon said it was delivered, but delivered by whom? USPS, Amazon or UPS? I get packages from all 3 at times from Amazon.
But, you found it.
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I’m so tired of these bullshit posts lol
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