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Is there no such thing as "signed delivery" there? Almost every single thing I've ordered online where I live (South Africa), was delivered in-person. They woul
by zo1 11y ago
Is there no such thing as "signed delivery" there? Almost every single thing I've ordered online where I live (South Africa), was delivered in-person. They would not leave the package until it's been signed for. If you're not there and there is no one else to sign for it, they will take it to the post-office for you to collect. And yes, this happens even with "free-delivery" online stores.
Heck, sometimes when import duties had to be paid upon delivery, they would stay upwards of 20+ minutes while I went to a nearby ATM. In those cases, they could just as easily have taken the package to the local post-office for collection.
- dripton 11y agoIt's up to the seller. If they insist on a signature then the delivery won't happen without one. But that doesn't happen much in my (nice, suburban, US) neighborhood. I guess package theft is rare enough that the extra cost of requiring a signature outweighs the extra risk of not.
- pki 11y agoI'm in SF and Amazon packages use Ontrac. Ontrac appears to use contractors that just have a sticker on the side of their car with the logo. In the last month alone I've had them forge multiple signatures + report a package as delivered when I've been home all day and nothing arrived. And other times they throw it a decent distance or put it in front and it's stolen within five minutes. Amazon re-ships via UPS/other and it arrives acceptably. The worst UPS has done is not knock/ring and that's rare. 90%+ of my packages via Ontrac had forged signatures, misreported delivery statuses, not actually arriving, [...]