A Christmas begging thread from an Amazon driver

[SeasonallySnowyPeasant]

Please:

• Clearly number your house.
• Have a letterbox.
• Don’t moan at me when I ask for ID. We get mystery shopper-checked and if I don’t ask I could lose my job.
• Adjust your safe place settings if you know you’ll be out so I don’t have to take your parcel 30 miles back to the depot after my shift (unpaid).
• If you live in a mansion with electric gates, have no neighbours and are never home to receive parcels, get a wall-mounted parcel box.
• Don’t complain that it’s really late when you ordered something for same-day delivery between 6-10pm and it’s 9.45.

In return, I will:

• Not throw your parcel or leave it in a stupid place where it will get soaking wet, nicked or taken away by the bin men.
• Leave a ‘sorry you were out card’ to tell you where to find said parcel.
• Not moan when you order the heaviest presents known to mankind, live at the top of a block of flats laid out like a maze with no working lift.
• Not laugh when you answer the door in your underwear.

Season’s greetings!

You sound like an excellent delivery person, please could you move to my patch?

3 months running my safe place instructions have been ignored and £90 worth of cat food in branded cardboard boxes been left on the front path, in plain view, in pouring rain.

And on one of those months, they also left 96 loo rolls in a clear but ripped bag next to it.

Customer Services have been very helpful but jeez, does our delivery person not have a brain?!?

I often come home to a card saying that I have somehow had a conservatory or porch installed while I was out.

At least, that's allegedly where my parcel is.

Most fun was the delivery driver who rang my mobile (good chap)
to say he was an hour early (not so good)
but he'd unloaded my fence panels and left them under my campervan.

Oh dear. We don't have a campervan. Wrong road, chum.

Amazon definitely better than Royal Mail here... our postie smokes on his rounds so our mail often smells like roll ups

@Kazzyhoward Perhaps people should start using the alternatives more (as offered on the Amazon website) such as the local post office, Amazon lockers at supermarkets/shopping centres etc. to avoid the problem of not being in when the driver arrives.

That is all well and good but I live in the middle of nowhere 8 miles from the nearest shop and I have no clue as to where my nearest locker is but it's not close, so I blowed if I'm getting in my car to drive to collect things when I pay for Prime to have stuff delivered to my door.

I'd love it if my amazon drivers used my designated safe place. It's my shed, which they have to walk past to get to my door where they then prop up the parcels. No idea why!

@RLOU30, could you point me to where I can get free prime on Amazon? Because I pay a monthly fee for mine. That’s not “free” shipping. And if other delivery people who do actually provide me with free delivery can manage to park their vehicles and follow the Highway Code - then absolutely I expect the courier to whom I pay a monthly fee to do the same. Amazon’s targets for their drivers are their shit show and is in no way a justification.

I love this thread!

I have become the unofficial hub for all deliveries on my little cul de sac. All the amazon drivers know my safe place and that I will take deliveries for all the neighbours too!

Great work OP keep it up :-)

Yes I agree they have gone totally downhill in every way.

I, and others I know, are using them less and less because of their appalling service and their aggressively commercial stance which turns people off and destroys tye marketplace.

No wonder they are short on drivers!!

They sell a lot of absolute tat, and don't take responsibility for it.

Slopey slopey shoulders.

I much prefer Royal Mail, who's posties know all the people in the street are super friendly and have local training.

I have experience of many different delivery drivers and their commitment to duty to their recipients has been very slack and unprofessional, not all, but many, playing fast and free with others property and precious gifts.

Lets not pretend otherwise or shut down people just because they don't agree with your approach of telling householders how to receive their parcels, stop takibg it so personal and get yourself another job OP!

Amazon drivers are pissing me off lately.

They're not even bothering to knock in the door, (can see them on my cctv) just dumping parcel on front step in full view of the road, or chucking it over the gate (usually a bottle or fragile stuff), when I'm actually home.

They then sign in my name because when I look at the delivery details it clearly states 'handed to resident' even though it most certainly wasn't.

@LazyDaisey

Sure. What you pay is a membership to Amazon Prime which, amongst other things, means you receive free shipping on prime items. You could order an item a day if you choose.
@AnyMinuteNow
Okay. We get it you don’t like Amazon..

...and you...one of their reps that you are adressing everyone's issues and taking a personal stand against dissenting?

Its also not true that they are rhe cheapest atall.

They may have been once, but they are not now.

A while ago I started double-checking all their prices, and the items I checked could be found cheaper elsewhere, ...and, more importantly, better. With far superior service.

Their algorithms have changed significantly now too.

You sound like Amazon.

There's no need to pass comment on me atall. There are many that have problems with them, especially with deliveries.

But hey, yeah lets big them up to the cost of the rest of the marketplace, like supermarkets they destroy other livelihoods with aggressive commercialism.

I'd rather support independents and local business, otherwise local prosperity will disappear.

@SeasonallySnowyPeasant I work near an Amazon depot. In a morning there us often a huge queue of Amazon Vans waiting to get out of the depot side road and into traffic. My Christmas kindness is to pause as I drive past in a busy flow of traffic and flash out a few Amazon vans waiting to turn right. Paying it forward

I agree HERMES always take ages to deliver, I have an email what say your parcel is with driver...... 5 days later I get it !!!!
Amazon is amazing, I ordered something the other night at about 9ish it was delivered 10am the next morning!!!!
Now that is incredible xx

Don't think it's a legal requirement to number your house? Mine doesn't have one and as far as I know has never had one? Old hours and none of the other have numbers either?

I don't know if they still do it but Amazon was infamous for a while there for what they call dynamic pricing.
Higher prices for those who buy the most often from them and lower prices for first time buyers.

AnyMinuteNow

Indulge me, what are your plans for Xmas dinner? Just playing a hunch.....

How can I help you Pyong? I don't believe I have made any comment toward you, did you mean that question toward me, as it doesn't really make sense to me?

I don't know if they still do it but Amazon was infamous for a while there for what they call dynamic pricing. Higher prices for those who buy the most often from them and lower prices for first time buyers.

I kept hearing that but I never found it happen in real life. I use different computers, use a VPN to hid my location, and have two different premises (home and office). We also have 4 Amazon accounts in the household (me for work, me and OH, our son and MIL) with enormously different spending patterns/values/purchases, etc. Many times, I've compared prices by logging in with a different account, different PC, different location, etc., but never yet found any different pricing.

Same with holidays, etc. People keep saying the airlines and booking sites put up your price if you keep looking at things too often. Nope, not for me they don't. Prices increase as you get nearer to the travel day, but are always consistent whichever computer, ISP or other device/location I try from.

Don't think it's a legal requirement to number your house?

Why should it matter whether it's law or not. Surely it's common sense to put a cheap/simple number on your door. If you can't be arsed to do that, then you can't complain when letters/parcels go astray can you? You're just lazily assuming all the houses near you will have numbers (i.e. they're not as lazy as you), and that the delivery guy will be able to work it out from others.

In turn I’d quite like my Amazon delivery guy to not phone me at work and shout at me for not being at home.

On further questioning, I had ordered a single dvd, MY HUSBAND had ordered 3 large parcels, so why was he shouting at me?

Sorry, should have @PyongyangKipperbang in case you are not actively following this thread and you were wanting some sort of clarification, perhaps you were responding to something I posted on another thread?

@Kazzyhoward what number should I go for then? I can put up a cheap/simple number on my door but I'd be the only person in my entire village to have one so what would be its purpose? Not all houses, streets or villages use numbers, which I think is the point a pp was making!

No houses on our road have numbers - the new estate does but the old part of the village is names only.

Numbers I think have to be assigned anyway.

To help out the delivery drivers I purchased a secure parcel box. After my old wall-mounted letterbox failed me I decided we needed a more modern approach for our deliveries. This is the best purchase I've made in a long time. My postman even commented on how good this thing is. see here: iloveparcels.com/

I would recommend 100%