Not what I expected from Amazon.

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My thoughts of Hermes are well known,
having said that it seems that I now have a new courier.
Flawless deliveries (y)

However Amazon have been excellent, always have.
Now to the point.
My man cave overlooks the road outside,
I'm expecting a delivery from Amazon, soon, so I have half an eye on the road.
Amazon ( 100% Amazon) pull up opposite, and go to the house opposite.
Ring the doorbell, and leave packet on the step.
They were back in the van and drove off in seconds, not knowing if they were in or not.
They are out, I saw them leave a couple of hours ago.
Packet on door step, and its raining ...
 
Yes, we have had that happen..............within seconds I was at the door and no one to be seen expect the grey branded Amazon van over the hedge...............I call out thanks!

Thankfully we have been in most of the time but having said that we have on occasion come home to find a packet/parcel on the step :banghead:

PS we get both the Amazon Prime(branded) vans and the drop couriers.
 
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We don't even hear the Amazon vans most of the time, just the doorbell (most of the vans here are electric). 50/50 as to where a parcel is left if we're out and haven't put the keys in the meter cupboard door and the note on the front door (the only courier who ignores the note and keys uses red vans...) - either on the doorstep under the porch but in full view of the road or under the bush beside the front door, in the weather but out of sight.
 
Nod said:
is left if we're out and haven't put the keys in the meter cupboard door and the note on the front door (the only courier who ignores the note and keys uses red vans...)
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I have a note on the door where to leave if there is no answer and set my preferences for delivery's to be left in a nominated safe place,
hardly anyone waits long enough to see if I am in or not...

edited to add it now seems my prime delivery has been pushed back at least 2 hours..
#1stworldproblems
 
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Hermes are useless IMO, Royal Mail aren't perfect, and have allowed stuff to go "walkies" before now, but even they're more competent than "Herpes". Only time I ever had a problem with Amazon was a few years back I bought something from a Marketplace seller, I never got it, I challenged the seller and he turned round and said he'd "changed his mind" about selling, pardon? Is that even legal under the terms and conditions? Probably not IMO.
 
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Cobra said:
I have a note on the door where to leave if there is no answer and set my preferences for delivery's to be left in a nominated safe place,
hardly anyone waits long enough to see if I am in or not...

edited to add it now seems my prime delivery has been pushed back at least 2 hours..
#1stworldproblems
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I use line 2 of my address to tell them where to leave it. Amazon is a mystery and sometimes they tell the couriers and sometimes they don't - but they always print line 2 on the label.
 
JonathanRyan said:
I use line 2 of my address to tell them where to leave it. Amazon is a mystery and sometimes they tell the couriers and sometimes they don't - but they always print line 2 on the label.
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Good plan (y)
 
JonathanRyan said:
I use line 2 of my address to tell them where to leave it. Amazon is a mystery and sometimes they tell the couriers and sometimes they don't - but they always print line 2 on the label.
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This is a really good shout!

I'm a courier for DHL, and even when I have the leave safe option, sometimes the instruction is just that "Leave safe" with nowhere to leave it. One of my towns I deliver is an old town and lots of terraced housing, so some sort of instruction on how to get to the back garden would always be appreciated.

I suffer the same fate with Amazon deliveries though, even with a note on the door to leave in the greenhouse, I've came home to parcels on the bench in the back garden right next to the greenhouse, once a book, in paper packaging, left out in the rain. I've started seeing locally now that any Amazon deliveries left on the doorstep on the same route as I do, which is predominantly very rural, are actually put into plastic ziplock type bags now to protect them from the elements. Great for the parcel, not so much for the environment!
 
Often had Amazon packages just left at the front door, hail rain or shine. They seemed to be very good earlier, we have Prime and deliveries were quick and they always made sure someone was in - that didn't last too long. Our regular postie knows us enough to leave parcels in the recycle bin and pop a note saying so in the post-box, with the likes of Amazon though, you are just another number.
 
The past couple of years have seen a huge growth in online shopping, whether via the big river or other sellers. Free deliveries mean more per driver so less time per delivery and failed deliveries may mean the driver doesn't get paid for them.

That delivery instruction as line 2 of the address is genius!!! We're lucky in that we're in a cul-de-sac with good neighbours and we're also blessed with (mostly) good delivery drivers.
 
Nod said:
The past couple of years have seen a huge growth in online shopping, whether via the big river or other sellers. Free deliveries mean more per driver so less time per delivery and failed deliveries may mean the driver doesn't get paid for them.

That delivery instruction as line 2 of the address is genius!!! We're lucky in that we're in a cul-de-sac with good neighbours and we're also blessed with (mostly) good delivery drivers.
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You're not getting free delivery with Amazon prime though, you're paying a monthly fee and I know people who pay for it and rarely ever order anything - they just have it for the Prime video and other perks
 
I don't pay a monthly subscription and can't remember the last time I got charged for delivery. I never NEED anything so fast that I can't wait until I want/need over £20 worth of goods or a tenner of books and that gets me free delivery.
 
Steelo said:
I've came home to parcels on the bench in the back garden right next to the greenhouse,
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My safe place is in the garage, which is attached to the house.
I've had parcels left IN FRONT of the garage door, 2 steps away from the front door.

I even spotted one courier wandering up and down my neighbours drive ( un attached houses) looking for my garage! ( apparently)
 
Had a funny one with an Amazon van, delivering to our farm. For some reason the driver decided to rely on his satnav instead of his eyesight and used what is officially a public highway but which is in reality just a track, used by tractors . . . It's narrow, unsurfaced, very hilly and deeply rutted.

He was lucky just to get stuck, he could easily have turned over. Anyway, went and got him out with the telehandler but he wasn't in the least grateful, he complained about the mud on his van:)
 
Nod said:
I don't pay a monthly subscription and can't remember the last time I got charged for delivery. I never NEED anything so fast that I can't wait until I want/need over £20 worth of goods or a tenner of books and that gets me free delivery.
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Ah, difference being we're in Ireland ... Prime gives us similar priviledge to you UK lot, outside of that we get rode for otherwise [from the UK]
 
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Cobra said:
My safe place is in the garage, which is attached to the house.
I've had parcels left IN FRONT of the garage door, 2 steps away from the front door.

I even spotted one courier wandering up and down my neighbours drive ( un attached houses) looking for my garage! ( apparently)
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I sometimes wonder about some of the people the likes of Amazon employ outside of their own grey Prime vans tbh. The Yodel lad who does the same town I mentioned above, rather than going to the road end to turn around, almost got his van stuck Austin Powers style in one of the narrow streets. I know people bang on about time schedules and pressure etc, and yes we have to work within them, yet if you know your route, it's bloody difficult to lose so much time that you're outside of your time window.
 
Our usual DPD driver sometimes has to wait because he's a minute or 2 early. If they've given a time slot, they're (apparently) stuck with it!
 
Steelo said:
I sometimes wonder about some of the people the likes of Amazon employ outside of their own grey Prime vans tbh.
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My ex (thank god) Hermes driver, I'm sure was on a different planet to most of us :rolleyes:
 
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