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0 pointsOJFord3y ago0 comments

Funny how different something as mundane as deliveries (and as widespread as Amazon) can be.

> your delivery guy doesn't just dump everything on the doorstep as quietly as they can?

Never had that, no.

> Or for anything requiring a signature (actually, can't remember the last time I had that through Amazon)

They email & show in 'my orders' numeric codes to give the driver who then enters and verifies them. (This verifies they actually delivered it too, since they don't know the code, just enter what you tell them.)

> run up and stick the "customer wasn't home" sticker on the door without even trying the doorbell or knocking?

You get stickers on your doors? Here in the UK (with any courier) it's a piece of paper through the letterbox that says missed/with a neighbour/in your safe place/whatever.

I suppose that's because you have mailboxes outside with little flags rather than letterboxes in doors, so they don't want to try to deliver to your door and then look for that as well when it doesn't work, easier just to stick something on the door where they already are?

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moron4hire3y ago

> I suppose that's because you have mailboxes outside with little flags rather than letterboxes in doors

That's mostly only rural areas. Where I am, the houses either have letter slots in the door as you described, or a letter box attached to the house next to the front door.

Our previous place had a letter slot. But the place we just moved into has put the letter box next to the side door, at the end of the driveway. It's hit-or-miss where deliveries will get left, but most of the time it's at the front door, the one we don't check on a regular basis because we're usually going out the side door to get to our cars.

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