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Being very old & living in a semi-rural area, we are increasingly dependent on the various delivery services like USPS, USPOD, Amazon, FedEx, etc.
Recently their business volumes have exploded, and they have had to hire inexperienced drivers.
Suddenly, we are having massive delivery like we’ve never seen before. Deliveries to wrong addresses, packages left on ground in rain, large items rammed into our RFD Mailbox, & missing items.
After extensive phone conversations with some of their “customer services”, one major cause is coming to light. We always give them our street address. Our long crooked driveway entrance is on the paved public street next to our clearly marked mailbox. Our driveway is packed concrete aggregate covered with abundant coarse limestone. It doesn’t flood, is two pickups wide, //very well lit/marked, & is graded & rolled regularly. We also have a turn-around loop & extra truck-size parking places at the carport & garage concrete aprons
What could cause the problems ?
The newer drivers have difficulty with street addresses, so they try to use “GPS Location” instead of the actual address. This is blamed by their C.S. Our neighborhood has numerous very long driveways, some 1/2 mie long.
So we must write-in in the instructions sections of the labels: “Deliver to STREET ADDRESS, not GPS Location!”
I am posting this in the hopes it could help someone else in a similar situation.
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Being very old & living in a semi-rural area, we are increasingly dependent on the various delivery services like USPS, USPOD, Amazon, FedEx, etc.
Recently their business volumes have exploded, and they have had to hire inexperienced drivers.
Suddenly, we are having massive delivery like we’ve never seen before. Deliveries to wrong addresses, packages left on ground in rain, large items rammed into our RFD Mailbox, & missing items.
After extensive phone conversations with some of their “customer services”, one major cause is coming to light. We always give them our street address. Our long crooked driveway entrance is on the paved public street next to our clearly marked mailbox. Our driveway is packed concrete aggregate covered with abundant coarse limestone. It doesn’t flood, is two pickups wide, //very well lit/marked, & is graded & rolled regularly. We also have a turn-around loop & extra truck-size parking places at the carport & garage concrete aprons
What could cause the problems ?
The newer drivers have difficulty with street addresses, so they try to use “GPS Location” instead of the actual address. This is blamed by their C.S. Our neighborhood has numerous very long driveways, some 1/2 mie long.
So we must write-in in the instructions sections of the labels: “Deliver to STREET ADDRESS, not GPS Location!”
I am posting this in the hopes it could help someone else in a similar situation.
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