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0 pointsAdmiralAsshat6y ago0 comments

I've had plenty of flat-out lies from Amazon delivery before (e.g. they claim delivery attempted at HH:MM PM, while I was in the living room five feet from the door, and yet somehow I must have "missed" their knock), FedEx and UPS alike, although I've never been able to prove it. With the proliferation of people with Ring video doorbells, however, I am surprised that someone does not send footage.

"Oh, you tried to deliver at 3:13 PM? Well gee, my front door camera sure doesn't seem to show anyone approaching my door at that time!"

But again, you're already dealing with people that will lie to your face, so I can't imagine why video proof would compel them to change their strategy.

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baddox6y ago· 2 in thread

I don't think any of this has anything to do with Amazon, or at least it isn't limited to packages from Amazon. I've had several categories of what are almost certainly flat-out lies from various carriers throughout the years:

- Packages marked as being delivered, but they don't actually show up for another day or two. (I assume this is a driver who can't be bothered to make it to my building that day but doesn't want to get penalized.)

- Entire carriers who systematically fail to deliver. My current apartment building has a near zero delivery rate for packages from USPS that cannot fit in mail slots. UPS and FedEx generally deliver to our package room without issues, but USPS will just claim to have attempted delivery two days in a row then leave the package at their sorting facility for me to pick up (which I won't do). This is clearly a building-wide problem, because I see hand-written notes on our outside door begging USPS to deliver packages. I think the USPS package delivery person simply cannot be bothered to try, and is apparently not incentivized to do so. Thankfully this rarely affects me, because the only time I get larger USPS packages are from rare Amazon deliveries that for some reason use USPS.

- Packages that claim that the delivery was attempted on a Saturday, but are redelivered on Monday. This has bitten me a few times where I took care to rush a package to me when the shipper claimed it could be delivered on a Saturday. I suspect the weekend delivery person cannot be bothered to make it to my building. I can't really blame them. Saturday delivery is fairly new and I can live without it, I just wish the carriers wouldn't promise it then "attempt to deliver" unsuccessfully.

lotsofpulp6y ago

I just had USPS tell me a package couldn’t be delivered to a 24/7 staffed hotel because they didn’t have access to the delivery location.

baddox6y ago

My apartment building has a call box and someone will buzz them into the package room. When it says “delivery attempted” it’s almost always because the delivery person couldn’t be bothered to try.

macjohnmcc6y ago

I've been sitting at the door expecting a delivery that I paid to have delivered by 10am and saw a UPS driver run up to my door and put a note saying he missed me then running away. I opened the door and made him actually attempt to deliver. He didn't even ring the doorbell.

fhbdukfrh6y ago

Except Amazon owns ring and all that cloud based video footage, so good luck getting far with that evidence.

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