How is this not an option in the US?
This guy had his package stolen many times in a short space of time. Seems like the problem is pretty bad?
What Amazon is doing is much more clever: whenever possible, they’re now recording the serial number of the product they ship to you. This way, if the police find it when busting a fence, they can (hopefully) get the fence’s providers out of them and then actually bust them, too (because now they have real physical evidence—along with testimony—that that particular person stole a particular thing.)
Roughly one third of Americans have ever had a package stolen. (https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/11/20/package-...) It’s not that big a deal. For people who want to avoid taking chances with it, there are various options to avoid it. Not that they should have to, but there are many bigger problems to worry about.
Also it's very unclear exactly how long any of this took there's no timestamps on any of the surveillance video. Could have been months.
I still don't understand why this hasn't been 'disrupted' by a company providing evening deliveries. They could do business delivery during the afternoon and then switch to residential.
Nightcall! I'll even throw a name in for free.
There is way too much volume to fit deliveries into times when people are home.
Overall the rate of package theft is low though, so people prefer the convenience and low cost of normal package delivery.
The US is big and diverse. Most areas have little to no package theft. However, if your home has a very exposed front porch and you live in an affluent area very near a not so affluent area, theft can be more of an issue.
> How is this not an option in the US?
In the US, there are at least four major carriers and in my experience only the official postal service does a decent job automatically delivering to nearby location (the local post office) if they can't hand-deliver to a person or a secure location. Some apartments complexes also have locked drop boxes that only the postal service can use.
UPS lets you set your default drop off to a nearby shop (but then you never get anything at your home), Fedex makes you manually change the delivery location while the package is in transit if you won't be at home. If the latter two attempt a delivery at your door and don't want to leave it, you have to wait until the next day for redelivery or drive to their inconveniently-located distribution warehouse to pick it up.
Amazon has their own delivery service that they use preferentially, and they rely on nonprofessional gig-economy labor, so you're lucky if your package isn't literally tossed at your door. They'll always leave the package at your home if that's the destination. If you don't want that, you have to set your delivery location to a locker, if one is available nearby.
Usually UPS will put it somewhere out of sight if they think it will be an issue.
Exactly this. I sorta hate it, we have 2 boxes for like 12 units and one of the boxes keys was lost before I moved in so we have 1 box for 12 units with people getting packages almost daily it means I have to rush home and rush to the office to get my packages.
Since moving in it's considerably cut down my Amazon purchases, unless I can time them to arrive on Saturdays or Sundays when I'm home. I'll actually delete my cart sometimes if something isn't going to come on a Saturday or Sunday haha.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/2/18057034/amazon-day-prime...
It's less to do with wholesomeness than it is with a lower population density (there's also a lower crime rate in general in the suburbs, though it's less of a difference than it was 25 years ago).
In the suburbs you have far fewer people walking past your doorstep--fewer crimes of opportunity. You're also much more likely to be noticed as being out of place if you're driving around a quiet neighborhood looking for packages.
I think if you have get the note, you can do this for that one package but for all you need to create a UPS account.
This breaks down if you don't do car commutes although, in urban places like NYC & SF or can't ship to work.
It was a shitty minimum wage job and my responsibilities definitely didn't stretch to doing unpaid work for multiple people on top of my shitty job.
EDIT: Maybe this is just a lack of understanding of what happens in goods-in? Or working some place where your deliveries don't add much burden?
"Ship to us, and here's how to get automatic email notifications of when your package is here!"
At work, there are people who work at the shipping department and then deliver the packages to people's desks. AFAIK they are paid to do this job and seem somewhat peppy compared to other similar staff in the company.