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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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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!!
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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)
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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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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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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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Except when they use Yodel. When I see that I just know I'm not getting my package. Yodel drivers must have amazing homes, any time I've ordered something "desirable" and it's come via Yodel I've simply not received it. They say it's delivered when it hasn't, you can be in all day and you still that.
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That's not the half of it. I've received a lot of other people's mail. I am sure some of my mail went somewhere else. I have even gotten a neighbor's medications before. What can you expect from a organization that shifted most of their postal delivery positions from full-time to part-time. What's worse, when I questioned on of the mail carriers about it, he just told me to throw wrongly-delivered mail away, because...that's what they do to envelops marked return to sender. 
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Thanks for sharing. It's good to commiserate about this whole mail service thing.
Foothill wrote: What's worse, when I questioned on of the mail carriers about it, he just told me to throw wrongly-delivered mail away, because...that's what they do to envelops marked return to sender
This shocks me because it should...but it does not shock me in the present day because I know the mail service is 💩💩💩💩💩💩
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raddevus wrote: This never would've happened with UPS or Fedex.
Actually, FedEx is way worse. I've had many, many problems with them. It seems like it would be easy to have a GPS in the vehicle such that when the driver marks it as delivered, it records the GPS coordinates. Shouldn't be too hard.
But I have seen several times that it says it was delivered only to have it show up the next day. Not sure why, but I'd give it a day, especially since there is very little delivery on Sundays anyway.
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011111100010 wrote: Actually, FedEx is way worse. I've had many, many problems with them.
Interesting.
011111100010 wrote: I'd give it a day, especially since there is very little delivery on Sundays anyway.
I agree. I'm hoping it does just show up and it seems to be what will happen, it's just weird that they gave the message "it was left on your porch".
In the past, I had the mail carrier mark it as "the item was too large for the mailbox and couldn't be left".
Then, the next day, the item was placed in the mailbox. It was a very small item. 
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I don't know if it has changed, but USPS charged a delivery fee for delivering stamps. Even though they come to my house almost everyday.
Ya, the post office is nutty.
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That's happened to me. The package was from Amazon UK and they use a service for deliveries in the USA that does not provide tracking information. Anyway, I checked on Amazon's (UK) site and it stated the package had been delivered when it hadn't. I promptly reported it to them as not being delivered and they started shipment of another of the same item. Then I found it in the box the next day. I tried to stop the new order but couldn't so I ended up with two copies of one movie. They blew it off as something that happens often.
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raddevus wrote: that the postal service had gravitas and packages and letters sent through it were something very important.
No longer. That's what Facebook, Twitter, PInterest, etc. are now for. The really important stuff! 
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