News 2 spoke to neighbors from Goodlettsville to West Nashville who said packages are being delivered outside of mailboxes and even left near the street, some out in the rain.
“Come get me, I’m free,” Everett Head said of the not so special deliveries.
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We don't have that problem here. Our FedEx and UPS packages are delivered to right to the front porch and out of sight from the road, and with the USPS it all depends on who's delivering. If it's Kim, she pulls up alongside the house and honks in case her nemesis, that asshole dog Jack, is wandering around. If I don't come out and Jack never shows up, she'll put it on the table on the back porch. If it's Jason, it'll go in the cab of my truck if it's unlocked and the weather is bad, or the back porch if there's no danger of it getting wet.
I think we've had packages delivered to the wrong address three times. We just take them to the right people. I answered a knock on my door one time and there was a guy standing there holding a package for me saying it showed up at his house in Kentucky. Same road and house number, just different towns and states, 5 miles apart. I thought that was awful nice of him to make a special trip to deliver my package.
During the summer I make a point of talking to USPS, UPS, FedEx, and Amazon folks even if they're not delivering to me. I always offer them water (we keep a few bottles chilled in the fridge at all times), and tell them to knock on the door if they're thirsty.
ReplyDeleteI have very few issues with deliveries.
Small towns, far away from a major metro area is the only way to go. BTW, OPSEC. Your comment about same road and five miles would give anyone with time to spend on google earth a good opportunity to figure out where your house is. (along with some previously posted images on this site)
ReplyDeleteStupid Amazon delivery people are the worst at delivering to the wrong address. And to compound the problem, unlike UPS, Fedex, and USPS, they don't have regular routes, so there is a different delivery person every day, sometimes more than once a day. I live in a house built in 1980. I had Amazon deliver packages for more than 2 weeks that weren't for my address. Every time I was able to catch the delivery person, I would ask them what address the package was for, and after they would read it to me, I would point to my house number to show that it wasn't the same. Then, I would ask them if they knew what street they were on, and not a single one of them could tell me. Needless to say, they were about a mile too far east for the street they needed. The address they needed was in a newly developed housing addition 10 blocks west of me, that didn't show up on Google maps yet. Google being the big help they are, would "suggest" my house for the address they were looking for, and they would blindly follow Google's directions without looking at street signs or house numbers.
ReplyDeleteKnow what you mean, living semi-rural, half my interactions with my neighbors for the last 25+ years is sorting out DHL's mis-deliveries. And Memphis/Shelby County is the wrong place to be that incompetent.
DeleteHonestly, with what FedEx UPS Amazon, yes, even USPS workers have to go through in an average day, I won’t throw any shade on em. By and large I’ve usually gotten very good service from all of em. I could tell a few stories, but most of them hustle and earn every dime they get.
ReplyDeleteUsed to be in a condo complex that was on a corner lot. Same house number (ours) on both streets in the same condo complex. 1234 North and 1234 West for example. Add to that the 1234 repeated for the complex next to us and our unit faced their driveway. Lot's of wrong deliveries. Stupid civil engineers (or whoever assigns street names and numbers).
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Same here, Kenny. I know most of the drivers and mailmen by name, and we always wave at each other. Learned some excellent local history from one of our mail guys, and the FedEx guy always says hi. Packages go up on the front porch, out of sight and out of the weather. Beats SoCal all to hell, for sure!
ReplyDeleteI sure miss my favorite UPS guy. He retired a few years ago. A great guy with two Trad American toxically male sons, who came to the ranch with their dad to do some shooting once.
ReplyDeleteKevin used to plan his route so he could spend some time visiting and charge it off to his lunch or break time. The Eye in the Sky keeps a pretty close eye on those guys.
Before he retired he got the local UPS dream job, driving a 4wd F-350 on the most rural of routes, delivering to places like Sierra City, Downieville and Alleghany. He never had to deal with traffic or crowds, just had to chain up every once and a while and enjoy the beautiful mountain scenery. He loved it.
I haven't talked to him since his retirement. I hope he and his family are doing well.
Secure the delivery of your packages, have the post office hold them for you with pictures ID...
ReplyDelete.
There are still good folks out there!
ReplyDeleteOur driveway is about 100' long. The other night the Amazon person left my wife's new Wave Radio (replace the 20 year old one that went weird) down at the mailbox in a white box with BOSE in big letters. I thought they had left it across the street. Thank goodness for the picture of where the left it and this is a low crime area.
ReplyDeleteFair Oaks, California.
ReplyDeleteA semi-rural suburb of Sacramento.
1993, I was visiting a pal.
UPS knocks, leaves a package.
I open the door, look at the label.
Addressed to my name.
Wrong address, nothing close to her address.
I did skip-tracing for the local credit unions, so I look up the label's address.
Somebody with my name.
Further investigation revealed four (4) people with my name...
...in a rustic community of just a few thousand.
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Now, how did the driver know I would be visiting a friend at an utterly wrong address?
I had zero connection to that address, no telephone listing nor utilities, nothing.