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Miss Lily

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I have a serious question...


Why do delivery people leave packages directly in front of the screen door? You either open door and push the boxes off the stoop, risking breakage or, walk around from another door to retrieve them.

Fortunately, there was nothing fragile in the delivery and between rain showers.
 
Preach it sister!
 
I have a good relationship with the people who deliver stuff to my house. Most know me by name. The UPS and Fedex people leave stuff on my screened in porch if there is a chance of rain. Even USPS does me right except when I get 5,000 124gr bullets shipped to me and then they ask me to come get them. LOL We get wine delivered to the house and if I am not going to be home I just leave a note with a signature and they leave it. If I am home when they pull up open the garage door and help them unload my crap and talk with them. They are are getting killed right now. I feel for them. One of my UPS guys said its like Christmas but it has lasted 6 months not 2.
 
MacEntyre said:
I should design a front door that allows delivery people to drop stuff where they will, but then a trap door or something sweeps them inside, so the porch pirates are foiled...
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Some type of cabinet, with a slot for returning a key, and the extra key on your key chain. All you need. Deliveries deposited, drop the key, you open and you have your shipment.

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MacEntyre said:
I should design a front door that allows delivery people to drop stuff where they will, but then a trap door or something sweeps them inside, so the porch pirates are foiled...
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Something like this? Jobs program for senior citizens. :D

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"Why do delivery people leave packages directly in front of the screen door?"

they were trained that way, or copied what they saw others do.
 
wvsig said:
I have a good relationship with the people who deliver stuff to my house. Most know me by name. The UPS and Fedex people leave stuff on my screened in porch if there is a chance of rain. Even USPS does me right except when I get 5,000 124gr bullets shipped to me and then they ask me to come get them. LOL We get wine delivered to the house and if I am not going to be home I just leave a note with a signature and they leave it. If I am home when they pull up open the garage door and help them unload my crap and talk with them. They are are getting killed right now. I feel for them. One of my UPS guys said its like Christmas but it has lasted 6 months not 2.
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The grocery and wine delivery people are great. Of course those are scheduled and I meet them at the open garage door with a card table already set up.

We have a very good relationship with our "regular" USPS carrier. The replacements when he is off are another issue entirely.

The "Amazon prime" delivery yesterday, in the rain, was a tipping point.
 
I help the FedEx Home gal when the cartons are heavy, let her use my hand truck for neighbors. She is real purdy, 100lbs 5'.
 
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MacEntyre said:
that allows delivery people to drop stuff where they will, but then a trap door or something sweeps them inside
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Probably not a good idea to sweep those people inside during the GonnaKillosol-19 virus time. You don't know where-all they've been.














:)
 
Windini said:
Probably not a good idea to sweep those people inside during the GonnaKillosol-19 virus time. You don't know where-all they've been.
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@Chdamn , do you care to weigh in on the strange places people might have been putting things?
 
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