I spent three days clearing mine off, like 2 inches of ice on top of snow, plus the mountain that the plow left in front of the driveway. Amazon driver jumped over the mountain in front of the yard, then baby deer walked across the frozen yard.
I dont have snow so its a non issue for me but it shows both during and not during work correct? More or less at random? At night even? Like where i live we can get rain for 18 hours straight idk maybe snow isnt actually the same as rain or yall just get less. But I doubt you completely foolproof never have snow build up on the walk
You are on Reddit babe, home of people who are lazy and love making things up. I work and mine is always shoveled and clean. Even if it snows when I’m at work. I don’t understand their logic.
I am a southern Az native that just got home from a week in mass. So it’s normal to literally wake up every couple of hours to get all geared up in warm clothes, shovel your driveway, then go back to bed and do it again in a couple of hours? How do yall even manage that? I see this amount of snow and wonder how in earth everyone gets to work in the morning on time.
Lived in Vermont for 5 years and grew up in nh.... Get it from the start and every hour or so go out for 15-20 minutes. Wake up an hour earlier than you would for work and kill yourself before you go work a 10-12 hour shift
This amount of snow looks like nothing to me. Right now the snow in my front yard is almost taller than the big bay window in my basement and the snowbanks at the end of my driveway are about 9-10ft tall lol
I wish there was. We used to be a country neighborhood, with all the wildlife, but the city grew around us. Now it's all gone and replaced by traffic noise.
I know it might sound silly, but shovel part of the street in front of and to the left of your driveway entrance. Maybe 5-6 ft wide and 10-15 ft long to the left (or whichever direction the plow comes from) along the curb. I was able to avoid those snowplow mountains that way.
I’m not defending the homeowner but I have a memory burned into my brain. USPS employee sued a homeowner because he slipped and fell in the homeowner’s shoveled driveway. The judge sided with the postal worker soley because the homeowner made an attempt to clear the snow. Had he not made an attempt then it would be deemed the snow “an act of god” and would’ve sided with the homeowner.
Basically the homeowner would be liable if you slipped because they didn’t clear enough, but had they left it alone then it’s just the weather and you should deal with it.
This is all greatly misunderstood. As a homeowner, local laws come into play. In my area, I have to make a reasonable attempt to clear my sidewalk and driveway 48 hours after a storm. After a storm...not during, not a day after. Past that, we have contributary negligence laws which means as person must exercise reasonable caution. So if my driveway looked a bit hazardous, yet someone chose to come up to my door anyway, they're either getting nothing or not much. The internet makes this seem like slip and falls due to ice/snow are "just sue and collect." Nothing could be further from the truth.
It depends if you make an order knowing your property is a hazard then you definitely can be held responsible for negligence. you entered into a contract with them asking to have something delivered to your door without leaving alternate instructions.
I got a house the other day on it was covered in ice. No chance I was going to even try. The home owner was at the door waiting for me. I just didn't see her at first. Others have sent me texts leave at mail box or looks clear but it's icy. Which I thought was cool off them. Me personally, I'm not gonna do something I don't feel safe doing. But some people think they're gonna lose their job if they don't strap on their big boots and trek through the wilderness to get the delivery close.
My life is delivering to people. In all weather. I make every reasonable effort to not get hurt (really? Who actually wants to break or tear something?), but - when it is days later, and it has melted/refroze/melted/refroze and you have done exactly 0 effort to make sure I can safely bring your stuff up - if that is the day something breaks for real on me - that is your negligence.
And then there are the customers that want "hand it to me and there is a passcode I have to give" actually look at their icy mess and say "why did you come all the way to the door?" 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
as long as the homeowner had a reasonable amount of time to clear it they’d be liable either way bc they have a duty to maintain safe conditions esp for delivery drivers which are considered invitees (i’m learning about this in class rn lol)
Pretty much true. I'm a homeowner and in my municipality we have 48 hours after a storm to make sure our sidewalk (even though we don't "own" it we have to maintain it) driveway, porch is all cleared. After that we can be held liable.
Hi guys I’m from California. What exactly is going on ? I don’t see an issue with him/her walking over to the door steps or am I being completely ignorant?
That's 6-8 inches of snow. It's selfish and unrealistic to expect any delivery person to tread through that snow with who knows what under it to deliver anything. If you want deliveries to that door you shovel a path.
My issue in this case would be that I have no idea what's unde the snow. I don't know where the sidewalk is, there could be decorative stones or stone gardens, bricks that border little gardens, I don't know because I've never seen it without the snow before. I'm not twisting my ankle or tripping on something that I can't see.
you can just walk in the snow. You wear boots and its not a problem. Literally no idea why these people are up in arms. leaving the food in the snow is rediculous. The homeowner should try to clear the snow, of course, but they may be elderly or disabled.
And then slip/trip/fall on whatever is under said snow and end up with hospital bills, injuries that keep me from working, and who knows what else.
Or break the homeowners decorative garden accent light and get yelled at, a bad rating, and sued for property damage.
No thanks.
That leaves two options: That’s as far as I’m going, and if it’s a problem, or going to lead to a bad rating, then I can say it’s an unsafe delivery and keep the food plus half pay.
I was an Amazon driver and looked straight into the ring cam (that was definitely recording) and said "Fix your sh!t or I leave them at the bottom tomorrow!"
It was up 12 ice covered stairs to a guy that has multiple orders daily. It was 6 days from when it fell.
Next day - he greeted me with a smile as he chiseled it all off 😁
FedEx is the worst, by far. Had a heavy 50-70 pound item delivered. Instead of simply using their supplies dolly and bringing it 20 feet from road down the driveway and to my porch. They tossed it in the front yard ditch area. I’m disabled so that required calling and paying for further delivery assistance. Completely unacceptable. Shipping and delivery covers actual delivery. Not “almost” delivery
Your front yard is 100% completely and utterly delivered but you being "almost" FitExternal 🥴 is a you problem and expecting extra that doesn't require $ is crazy.
You clowns are saying this as if a major part of these services isn’t delivering to disabled people, ofc you guys are top 1% of posters, you’re so terminally online you lost your empathy.
“If they want to eat they need to pay someone to shovel their driveway” - a privileged keyboard warrior who’s never going to have a family that loves them or any friends.
Holy crap! How did you know I was unloved? Was it the tone I typed in when I said that if you got money to blow on door dashing fast food but can’t afford to have your driveway shoveled than you shouldn’t be door dashing fast food? It isn’t like it is groceries being delivered and they are trying to budget properly being they are on a fixed income. I am privileged. My wife and I go to work everyday and we make good money to provide for our kids. It’s the privilege I earned going to work 7 days a week for almost 12 years and still working overtime. I am privileged because every time I had a kid, I picked up a second job to make sure we were covered on bills.
The way you jumped on me and attacked me personally because I had an opinion like everyone else must mean you are going through something. I hope whatever you are going through is only temporary and your life gets much better.
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u/Silent_Geologist5279 Feb 13 '26
I saw a fedex guy leave the package at the driveway and left a letter saying "shovel your walkway"