Amazon don’t care

50Twuncle

I had a thought this morning regarding potentially infected Amazon delivery drivers and came up with a solution – after a similar suggestion in a email from Papa Johns

Why not allow drivers to txt customers, minutes before a delivery is due and this would allow customers to watch out for the delivery and the driver could then leave the parcel by the front door safely and not involve face to face contact

I had an on-line chat with Amazon this morning and suggested it – you would  have thought that Amazon would look into this – but I was given short shrift and told “SORRY NOT POSSIBLE – IT WOULD TAKE  TOO LONG”

Amazon clearly are more interested in profits than customer safety

EssexExile

Be realistic Twuncle, their drivers are rushed off their feet already, even more so now.

comeandgo

Customer safety?  I thought it was their drivers you were worried about.  You could just shout through the letterbox leave parcel, I'll pick it up after you go. 

Undervalued

If you track your delivery online, a map appears when the driver is about 10 or so stops from your house and you can while away a happy half hour watching him wind his merry way to your door.

It will make a pleasant change from moaning on here!

KxMx

I absolutely think Amazon should look at putting a system in place, but you can do that yourself.

Stick a notice on your front door asking for the parcel to be left outside due to isolation etc.
There are already templates floating around the internet.

You know when it's out for delivery so put it up then, and can take it down when the driver has been.

Andy_L

50Twuncle said:

Why not allow drivers to txt customers, minutes before a delivery is due and this would allow customers to watch out for the delivery and the driver could then leave the parcel by the front door safely and not involve face to face contact

Why not just use the existing delivery options & tell them to leave it by the front door

travis-powers

My Royal Mail postie knocked on the door today and said parcels are down by the door we are not allowed to pass them! I do not understand the logic behind this!

p00hsticks

travis-powers said:

My Royal Mail postie knocked on the door today and said parcels are down by the door we are not allowed to pass them! I do not understand the logic behind this!

https://www.royalmail.com/coronavirus

John_

Andy_L said:

50Twuncle said:

Why not allow drivers to txt customers, minutes before a delivery is due and this would allow customers to watch out for the delivery and the driver could then leave the parcel by the front door safely and not involve face to face contact

Why not just use the existing delivery options & tell them to leave it by the front door

Careful there, I don’t think that the OP takes well to people suggesting he does things himself. He prefers major international companies change how they work to accommodate him instead.

LilElvis

50Twuncle said:

I had a thought this morning regarding potentially infected Amazon delivery drivers and came up with a solution – after a similar suggestion in a email from Papa Johns

Why not allow drivers to txt customers, minutes before a delivery is due and this would allow customers to watch out for the delivery and the driver could then leave the parcel by the front door safely and not involve face to face contact

I had an on-line chat with Amazon this morning and suggested it – you would  have thought that Amazon would look into this – but I was given short shrift and told “SORRY NOT POSSIBLE – IT WOULD TAKE  TOO LONG”

Amazon clearly are more interested in profits than customer safety

Most of the time I get a message when my parcel is 8 stops away - I can see the van moving on a map. I can also designate a safe place to leave my parcel. I get notifications when the parcel has been deliveredq. Where's the problem?

LABMAN

LilElvis said:

50Twuncle said:

I had a thought this morning regarding potentially infected Amazon delivery drivers and came up with a solution – after a similar suggestion in a email from Papa Johns

Why not allow drivers to txt customers, minutes before a delivery is due and this would allow customers to watch out for the delivery and the driver could then leave the parcel by the front door safely and not involve face to face contact

I had an on-line chat with Amazon this morning and suggested it – you would  have thought that Amazon would look into this – but I was given short shrift and told “SORRY NOT POSSIBLE – IT WOULD TAKE  TOO LONG”

Amazon clearly are more interested in profits than customer safety

Most of the time I get a message when my parcel is 8 stops away - I can see the van moving on a map. I can also designate a safe place to leave my parcel. I get notifications when the parcel has been deliveredq. Where's the problem?

...it's with the OP as per usual.