OT Amazon drivers.

The ad sez:

We seldom see them - they tend to just drop it at the front door and drive away - not even bothering to ring the doorbell .. The one time I tracked a delivery - made by a 3rd party contract courier - there was a photo of the parcel sitting on my doorstep on the company's website, with date & time code. John T.

Pics of not my porch once a month. I do shop everyday.

Kinda hard when they drop the parcel in the bushes beside the door. Sometimes they even press the doorbell button before they lope down the driveway to their truck

The only time I see one is when I'm outside and he's delivering to someone else. Some of those times I plead with him for a package but he won't give me one. Why should I tip him?

That too.

I did see one acrosse the street put the package way to the left of the door, where it can't be seen from the street, and then ring the doorbell, but I'm not sure my upstairs doorbell still works. I concluded a couple years ago that it didn't but I forget why, and I need someone else to help me test it.

(It piggybacks on the doorbell built into the house. I soldered a jumper acrosse the button switch and replaced the battery with the rectified output of the doorbell transformer, mounted the button to the basement ceiling, so that when someone rings the original doorbell, it powers the new button which is wirelessly connected to a beeper plugged into the upstairs hall. When it worked it was loud enough for the whole upstairs but hard or impossible. to hear when in the front hall at the front door.)

Are you saying once a month they leave your package at the wrong house?

Is it in walking distance for you, at least?

I can't remember the last time a delivery dimwit rang my doorbell.

Most times they leave pkgs in front of my garage door rather than carry it up the obvious flight of stairs next to it to the front door.

I've called and complained to the post office (the worst offenders), UPS (the dumbest CSRs) and Fedex (who apologized and no longer do that).

Well, I'm glad to say that I seem to have been overly suspicious:

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It's interesting to me that if they do get to set their own hours (and I can see that working) that the radio ad just says "Ready for flexible shifts?". I wonder if they realize that can be taken two opposite ways.

"*Actual earnings will depend on your location, any tips you receive, how long it takes you to complete your deliveries, and other factors."

I have seen the UPS driver. He was proud of the fact that he did "put package to right out of view", and I thanked him for it. Maybe I should have tipped him. It's only 3 or 4 feet to the right, but in one case, he lifted up a small plastic garbage can, put the package beyond that and replaced the can. It was a bigger heavier box than usual. maybe he knew it was a desktop computer.

My stuff always ends up on the bench next to the front door but I have a guard snake living there.

My worst experience was with Airborne Express. Back when laptop RAM was expensive they left a little box with $400 worth on a neighbor's woodpile. I'd already contacted the vendor who was going to send a replacement when the kid noticed the box while playing around the woodpile and brought it over.

The mail contractors sometimes use random sorting when putting mail in the cluster box but we've gotten used to exchanging mail. I did almost pay a neighbor's electric bill before the name on it registered.

f*ck them

He knows how to mug for the camera. Might have a future in modeling.

It's too cold here 5 or 6 months a year for me to have one of those.

A buddy used-to do a big Halloween yard display - animated witches and huge spiders with lighting and sound effects etc. But one of the simplest and most effective nearly-piss-yourself scares was a fake snake - under which he had hidden a small air line with a remote valve - the open end of the air line was pointed at the ground, under the snake's head - so people would recognize that it was a fake snake - and walk up for a closer look - at which point, the operator would let off a shot of compressed air - .. the snakes head would lift off the ground with a sudden HISS noise and said people would run & scream. it was great. John T.

MOST of the deliveries I get, the driver doesn't ring the doorbell. I either see it or find a package there later.

I had been getting mis-boxed mail about once a month. It would be addressed to the right house number, but on the next street. The mail carrier is getting better this year. I might go 3 months without having to take something around the block.

That really started with Covid. The doorbell button is seen as a touch hazard. (silly as that seems)

Sometimes you have to mark it up as roads with similar names.

Dad lived on White Farm Road. He got a lot of mail that was for just White Road.

Friend lives on Stanwyc Circle. It is just off of Stanwyc Road. About half his packages wind up at a house with the same number on the Road instead of Circle.

I have trouble with getting my road on some order places on the internet. It is St. Luke's Road. That is on the road sign and local tax records. Most internet places will not take the Luke's but just want Luke. Not usually problem getting mail and packages .

Apostrophes tend to be a pain in the butt. A database search with

WHERE StreetName = 'St. Luke's'

will fail. You can mess around with double and single quotes but one or the other will bite you sooner or later.

I lived with search engines 40 years before Google. We never used any punctuation at all. In the RETAIN system you could even leave out the vowels. Enter easy terms, they are easy to find

Apparely my suspicion was too suspicious.

They played it some more and it also says "Ready to work hard" and that's good too. And in contrast to "ready for flexible shifts, it that clearly means the new hires will work hard. So it's good that they warn them. In addition, since much of the work time is driving, and since they are iiuc expected to use their own cars, so the packages can't be that big, the only opportunity for rushing is in and out of the car and up to the door. I'm sure they will work hard but it's not like being a lumberjack or bronco buster.