Bloody Amazon!

[Andy Burns]

I knew I was going to be out last week, so updated the amazon delivery instructions to "leave in garage" and left it unlocked, got home to package in plain view on doormat.

[gareth evans]

Many people were strongly in favour of the Sun's Page Three models but they also had their knockers :-)

[Pancho]

Because it is delivered to Coop and only to you when you pick it up. A more obvious chain of responsibility.

[Scott]

This was pre-Covid.

[S Viemeister]

I like that idea!

[Jeff Layman]

I had an odd "inverted" problem to that a couple of weeks ago. DPD left a parcel on the front step with our address on it, but nobody of the name on parcel lived here. So in a way the parcel had been delivered to the "correct" address, but not to the person intended (whoever sent it had got the address wrong). I then spent an hour trying to find out how to contact DPD to report this, but without a delivery number, order number or other number there was nothing online I could use. I couldn't find a phone number to contact DPD on their website. I was about to take the parcel to their depot a few miles away, when the doorbell rang and it was a guy from the house across the road about 70 metres away (the house numbering is strange here; we are No.3, he is No.4). He told me his name and the name on the parcel was the same, so I gave it to him. I assume he'd checked with the sender and DPD to find out where it was.

Seems odd there's no way to contact DPD if you don't know who sent the package.

[Mark Carver]

Nope. Hermes are still doing it, took a picture of the parcel and my wife's fluffy slippers as she picked the box up from the door step.

[gareth evans]

There's an episode of "Not Going Out" with exactly that scenario but the slapstick that follows is something else!

[Roger Hayter]

So do I. But rationally, if you are going to fit a switch to the knocker why not make it operate the bell? An additional voice announcement is optional: "I told you to use the bell!".

[Davey]

I once programmed a control screen for an oven in a General Motors plant in Michigan in the US, and when I had finished, if you pressed any key other than one of the six functional ones, Pacman came across and ate the screen away. When he had finished, the original screen was reinstated. It stayed like that for years, until the plant was demolished. You have to have some fun at work!

[Dave Plowman (News]

My door bell push has two superbright LEDs. Clearly visible at all times.

[Dave Plowman (News]

Or make it ring the door bell. ;-)

[Dave Plowman (News]

I arrived back as a delivery man called. He wanted a pic of the parcel at the open front door.

[S Viemeister]

Ooh - even better.

[gareth evans]

Why do robots get LEDs for eyes? Eyes are supposed to receive light and not transmit it!

(Yes, I do know that the LED is a reciprocal device and it sensitive to receive light at the frequency it would transmit it)

[Fredxx]

A simple phone call.

Amazon website -> Contact (at bottom of page) -> "We can call you" -> Select item -> In drop down box Select "Other questions" and "Something else" and click on "Phone".

It was a couple of months ago.

Or I might have googled 'Amazon contact phone number' and got 0800 279 7234

Take your choice.

Either way I did well out of it. TBH, if you pay bottom prices for things you shouldn't expect great service.

[Peter Johnson]

He went to the Amazon website. He pressed the button, top right, that says 'Returns & Orders' He found the relevant order and pressed the 'Problem with order' button, on the right. He then followed the instructions, according to his situation. It's quite simple.

[Bob Eager]

Because I could do all that locally, which makes life easier.

The bell push is wired back to an Arduino (and more) on the floor above.

[Bob Eager]

See previous answer, just made.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Who was the carrier, I expect they gave it to somebody at another address somewhere.

Many of their drivers seem to get lost!

I'm sure there is a telephone number somewhere. Brian