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I ordered a FireStick on amazon late in the day on friday.
It said it would be delivered Sunday.
Sunday I checked on the delivery and it said it as "out for delivery".
Was busy and didn't check again for a while.
The status said, "the package was left on your porch near your door".
I looked and it wasn't there.
I'd been outside (in the front) all day.
There was no reason for the post person to walk to the door. We have large mailboxes on our street that are accessible by mail truck.
We are way at the end of a court / dead-end so we had no traffic.
So, I guessed the Sunday delivery person left it at the wrong house.
I looked around, drove down our road and tried to check other people's porches.
Nothing.
The Failure of The WEB AGAIN!!!
(Note: I'm talking about individual web sites having crappy interfaces and functionality -- but it is because it is on purpose, because the sites don't want to provide functionality)
So I decided to report it.
I just wanted to let the us postal service know that, "hey, they delivered it to the wrong house, please do something".
The automated phone message goes on for about 15 minutes about the North Carolina flooding and why you may not have received a package and then after that it tells you " we are not open right now".
I go online to report it. Takes about 15 minutes on the us postal service web site to find out a way to report a missing package.
I put in the tracking number and it says,"The package did not have insurance on it so you cannot report this package."
What?!?
I cannot even tell you that you delivered it to the wrong address?!? I wish the US postal service would go out of business. This never would've happened with UPS or Fedex.
I reported it to Amazon but they didn't really understand either. They just said, "If you don't get it by October 1 then we'll send you another." I don't understand this at all.
I used to think (in my youthful naivete) that the postal service had gravitas and packages and letters sent through it were something very important. Now the attitude is, "well, you are lucky if you received it. If you didn't then well, it happens. Sorry about your luck." 
EDIT - CLOSING THE LOOP
I got home today after work and the package was in my mailbox.
It seems to just be the way the process works.
They mark the pkg as delivered, of course, even though it hasn't been delivered yet, it will be delivered in the future. 
modified 1-Oct-18 21:35pm.
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Lets see if this is what is delivered: Clickety click click
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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No clicky on dodgy linky :P
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: It'll arrive today.
I think you are correct. I think the "it was placed on the porch" was just a lie of some sort.
I don't understand it though. 
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Thanks for letting me know. Do you ever get the item you paid for?
Is this just how it goes? Mail service doesn't deliver and Amazon just ships out another?
Wow!!
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raddevus wrote: I think the "it was placed on the porch" was just a lie of some sort. I don't understand it though
This way, the carrier doesn't get dinged on their review for not delivering packages on time.
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patbob wrote: This way, the carrier doesn't get dinged on their review for not delivering packages on time.
Nailed it!!
I do believe that is exactly the reason for this. It is completely Evil and part of the terrible bureaucracy that is created by the terrible mail system.
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raddevus wrote: It is completely Evil and part of the terrible bureaucracy that is created by the terrible mail system
I agree it's evil, but not part of the mail system. If you create a metric and incentivize people to meet it, you get behavior change. Just maybe not the one you wanted  [Obligatory Dilbert[^]]
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patbob wrote: you get behavior change
You make a very good point and that is one of my all-time favorite Dilberts. 
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Before clicking link - Please tell me I'm writing a new minivan!
After clicking - KaCHING!.
Had that on my desk for years.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I'va hsadthat happen to me, too. MY office window looks out on the porch, so I'm always aware of coming and going. so far Amazon has reshipped everything, so I got what I ordered and paid for. I hope they file complaints with the responsible idiots. Amazon has always done well.
That reminds me of the joke when theyt went to 9 digit zip codes:that's enough for every man woman and child in the US to have thir own zip code, but that's easier than teaching their employees to read!!
Most of my failed deliveries say it was shipped with UPS and arrived at a local transfer point and was then sent with USPS to be delivered and that's where it failed. Theey always say it was placed in the mailbox or on the p[orch, even when thast's impossible. It must be a builtin default in the tracking software!
The scaery thing is I get job offers every day offering to pay ME to deliver Amazon packages. Now not even I wouls trust myself to do that!!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: always say it was placed in the mailbox or on the p[orch, even when thast's impossible. It must be a builtin default in the tracking software!
Yeah, it seems to be what it is. They just mark it as "delivered" even though it isn't delivered.
It seems to be because they want to inform Amazon that it is delivered since it is a prime pkg that was supposed to be here then.
Today, I got home and the package was in my mailbox. This is the craziest thing ever...to say the pkg is delivered but it is not. Completely and utterly ridiculous. 
Maybe restaurants should deliver your steak to you frozen and uncooked and tell you it is cooked. then you can come back the next day and it'll be actually cooked? 
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All my delivery messages have included a picture of the package, sitting at the door (although that just be FedEx, come to think about it)
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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stoneyowl2 wrote: picture of the package, sitting at the door
A picture of the package at the door? They don't do that for our packages. Sounds to me like someone's been having problems with being able to guarantee that the package was actually delivered like the database says it was.
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You were right. I got home today after work and the package was in my mailbox -- not on the porch of course.
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I'll try to shed a tear for you.
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I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: I'll try to shed a tear for you.
I'll bet you are weeping uncontrollably, aren't you?
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The UK Royal Mail parcel service is as bad: the tracking service tends to show "The sender has told us it's read to go" for three or four days, and then update to delivered a couple of days after you got it.
Amazon have their own Prime delivery service in the UK, and it's pretty good. With some of their vans the tracking is so good you know where it is, how many more drops it will make before yours, and even what time it will arrive (to within 5 or 10 minutes).
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have noticed that DPD have very good tracking (unless you want to ship chicken by them). 
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Her Esteemed Royal Parcel Express Service.
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Yes, I got the subtle and quite funny message. The acronym for the mail is quite appropriate. 
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