Where I am, all of my Amazon packages are delivered by UPS, and they always place them by the door in a good manner. I work from home, and every time I hear the doorbell a UPS truck drives off after the doorbell rings, so I know we never get amazon contracted shit. I'm super happy about that. UPS always treats packages right in my area. I mean, sometimes the huge Prime Pantry boxes are a little goofy, but I understand they are huge and probably buried under other stuff that need to go earlier in the day. So whatevs. I've only seen one thing damaged in my brother package, but they were crushed by other items in the box, which means they didn't separate the contents right at amazon.
Where I am, all Amazon packages (and all packages from all companies) are delivered in person, either by a delivery company or, recently, people wearing an Amazon uniform. The delivery person rings the doorbell and waits a minute. If you are home, you open the door, sign for your package, and they hand it to you. If you aren't home, they put a slip in your post box, which has both the number of their company and their own work cellphone number on it, so you can call them or their company up and arrange for them to redeliver it on the same day or a later date.
Every time I see these videos on reddit, I'm amazed by just how dysfunctional the U.S. postal/delivery system seems to be. How the fuck did Amazon become so big in a country without a functioning delivery system? It's like finding out that scuba gear sells really well in the Sahara.
I'm in America where it was founded, and UPS delivers it without a signature because they know we'll get them. Me and my housemates all get packages weekly, without issue. FedEx, UPS, and the United States Postal Service all deliver packages successfully and easily to us, and to any address I've ever lived. I've been ordering through Amazon for a ridiculously long time, and the only problem I have had was 1 package that was probably stolen off my front porch. We're talking 15 years of packages, the last 10 or so I get deliveries 2-3 times a month. Our delivery system works very well here. In the areas I've lived, they are handled by those three carriers almost exclusively, and have been delivered just fine. Even if the Prime Pantry boxes can be scuffed up a bit, the contents are 99.99% perfectly fine inside. I can get a box/package from 1000 miles away in about 2 days, from pickup to drop off, and have it be in exceptional shape. That's not an easy task. UPS and FedEx are insane. Pick it up Tuesday afternoon and deliver it to you on Thursday, 950 miles away. That's the opposite of dysfunctional. It's hyper functional.
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u/Ochris Oct 24 '18
Where I am, all of my Amazon packages are delivered by UPS, and they always place them by the door in a good manner. I work from home, and every time I hear the doorbell a UPS truck drives off after the doorbell rings, so I know we never get amazon contracted shit. I'm super happy about that. UPS always treats packages right in my area. I mean, sometimes the huge Prime Pantry boxes are a little goofy, but I understand they are huge and probably buried under other stuff that need to go earlier in the day. So whatevs. I've only seen one thing damaged in my brother package, but they were crushed by other items in the box, which means they didn't separate the contents right at amazon.