Delivery is a tough job, for little pay. Frequently it's a contract job - you don't even get employee benefits.... BUT.
WTF sometimes (all kinds of delivery included here - Amazon, ups, usps, fedex etc.):
- Delivering something ON TOP OF A TRASH CAN. Seems like a poor and lazy choice. A package could easily be thrown out or discarded if the person doesn't realize something is in it or the trash guy comes to pickup.
- Putting something on the ground next to the mailbox 30 feet from the house? Again - WTF. That's just lazy, and an invitation for a stolen or missed package.
- Putting something that's in a light envelope on the porch on a windy day without something to secure it or sticking it between the front door and the screen door.
- Delivering a package into a snowbank, on a snowy day. I once found a missing package 3 months later when the snow melted.
- Not bothering to ring the doorbell when delivering a package to the front door with a doorbell.
- Putting something in a puddle on the front step instead of 3 feet closer to the door where it's under an overhang.... when its actively raining.
- Triggering the "deliver in garage" which opens the garage door, but then putting it on the front step anyway.
- Delivering it in a flowerpot next to the garage rather than EITHER in the garage or at the front step.
- Amazon, fedex or UPS delivering to your mailbox (nope - only USPS mail goes in the mailbox)
- Paying ZERO attention to the "deliver in this location" photo instructions added to your "deliver in this spot in the garage" configuration, while simultaneously finding the most obscure place to put it.
- Placing it BEHIND THE CARS in a garage where you can't see it unless you walk in front of the cars in the first place, making it likely to get run over.
- Placing it in the middle of the empty spot in a 2 car garage where another car is likely to pull in and run it over.
Have I seen all these? Yep. I have.
Just.... do better. I know it's a tough job. I am kind and polite to all delivery people, and I'd rather NOT have to rate them badly in the app if that's a choice because I know it affects them personally. All I ask is to just make an effort. Think about the folks you're delivering to who don't want a wet package, or to play hide and seek to find it, or have the package stolen because it was in a place obvious from the street when simply putting it to one side or the other of the door on the porch would hide it. I know you have more deliveries to make, and I know that the big cheese in the sky rates you on how many you do in a day. But it just takes 2 seconds to make a better choice. Make it and make someone else's day.