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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 4852795" data-attributes="member: 60252"><p>Ground has a tiny hub here, but HD is still 70 miles away. I can't believe that ALL of HD and ALL of ground aren't in the same terminal everywhere. The HD driver here almost never delivers my packages the day he gets them. They will be 'out for delivery' for as many as 3 days, and then end up at someone else's house. We have 6 streets from 18th st to 23rd st with house all numbered the same on different streets. So if the driver is on 22nd st, and sees his next stop is numbered 265 23rd, if his previous delivery is 247 22nd street, all he may look for is the house number, because for a new driver, they just never seem to bother verifying they are on the right street and/or at the right house. Amazon at least now allows you to give very specific instructions, and they have misdelivered fewer vehicles since then. They know from their scanner to look for a red car AND a camper in my driveway. The HD drivers seem to change from day to day, so never learn to be careful. I might have been the only fedex driver who NEVER misdelivered a package because I always verified I was in the right spot, even in the middle of nowhere- once looked through a eindow and saw a magazine with the name/address, once through a car window and saw the gegistration on the dash, once lifter the lid off a trash can and saw thrown out mail. I did NOT want to spend another hour the next day driving up some rutted road twenty miles up some damn mountain again if I could spend an extra minute to verify the address. Yet here, living in town with streets clearly marked, and my house number right on the house facing the road, clearly visible, I get maybe 10% of my packages misdelivered. I have no idea how much of my mail goes missing. It is not only HD, but UPS, USPS, and ground. Amazon is doing much better with their system recently.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 4852795, member: 60252"] Ground has a tiny hub here, but HD is still 70 miles away. I can't believe that ALL of HD and ALL of ground aren't in the same terminal everywhere. The HD driver here almost never delivers my packages the day he gets them. They will be 'out for delivery' for as many as 3 days, and then end up at someone else's house. We have 6 streets from 18th st to 23rd st with house all numbered the same on different streets. So if the driver is on 22nd st, and sees his next stop is numbered 265 23rd, if his previous delivery is 247 22nd street, all he may look for is the house number, because for a new driver, they just never seem to bother verifying they are on the right street and/or at the right house. Amazon at least now allows you to give very specific instructions, and they have misdelivered fewer vehicles since then. They know from their scanner to look for a red car AND a camper in my driveway. The HD drivers seem to change from day to day, so never learn to be careful. I might have been the only fedex driver who NEVER misdelivered a package because I always verified I was in the right spot, even in the middle of nowhere- once looked through a eindow and saw a magazine with the name/address, once through a car window and saw the gegistration on the dash, once lifter the lid off a trash can and saw thrown out mail. I did NOT want to spend another hour the next day driving up some rutted road twenty miles up some damn mountain again if I could spend an extra minute to verify the address. Yet here, living in town with streets clearly marked, and my house number right on the house facing the road, clearly visible, I get maybe 10% of my packages misdelivered. I have no idea how much of my mail goes missing. It is not only HD, but UPS, USPS, and ground. Amazon is doing much better with their system recently. [/QUOTE]
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