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Amazon arrived in force kinda recently in my country. My parents are amazed by it and started making expensive purchases... And now are surprised at how shitty

Amazon arrived in force kinda recently in my country. My parents are amazed by it and started making expensive purchases... And now are surprised at how shitty their delivery is. The worst case was when they bought some medicine for their dog and a expensive screen to use in their business. The dog medicine arrived on a friday, I was present and heard a car horn, went to check, and it was a random normal car, a lady climbed out, said it was a delivery. when I said I was son of the person that made the purchase, she just shoved the package through the gate opening and drove away, didn't even said hi or bye or whatever, didn't check my identity properly, didn't take a signature, didn't even tried to deliver the package safely, she almost threw it at me. Then saturday my parents had a meeting with someone, and left, but on that day the city hall sent some workers to do some work on the sidewalk. Seemly Amazon deliverd it to these workers, Amazon claims they delivered, and claims some dude we never heard of accepted the delivery, we believe the dude in question is some random city hall employee that was doing sidewalk maintenance.

rwmj 5y ago
Likely to be Amazon Flex (https://flex.amazon.co.uk/ https://flex.amazon.co.uk/). Anyone can download the phone app, go to the Amazon warehouse, and start delivering packages. As you can imagine, quality of delivery is pretty variable. I had an Amazon Flex worker steal a phone that I'd ordered - Amazon refunded with no questions asked and as far as I know didn't bother to investigate the theft.
thebruce87m 5y ago
My general rule is: Do not buy anything electrical (plug in or battery) or anything that goes in to your body from Amazon. I would definitely not buy dog medicine.
- aydwi 5y ago
  I think I could use your rule. Amazon delivery is outrageously atrocious in my (poor) country. As an instance, this was the condition of an assorted pack of fruit juices that got delivered to me just yesterday: https://imgur.com/a/sSMmgot https://imgur.com/a/sSMmgot To top it off, (rather poorly trained) Amazon support encouraged me to consume the contents of the pack with no understanding of what a health hazard means; at which point I hung up and cancelled my Prime membership.

rwmj 5y ago

Likely to be Amazon Flex (https://flex.amazon.co.uk/ https://flex.amazon.co.uk/). Anyone can download the phone app, go to the Amazon warehouse, and start delivering packages. As you can imagine, quality of delivery is pretty variable. I had an Amazon Flex worker steal a phone that I'd ordered - Amazon refunded with no questions asked and as far as I know didn't bother to investigate the theft.

thebruce87m 5y ago

My general rule is: Do not buy anything electrical (plug in or battery) or anything that goes in to your body from Amazon. I would definitely not buy dog medicine.

aydwi 5y ago
I think I could use your rule. Amazon delivery is outrageously atrocious in my (poor) country. As an instance, this was the condition of an assorted pack of fruit juices that got delivered to me just yesterday: https://imgur.com/a/sSMmgot https://imgur.com/a/sSMmgot To top it off, (rather poorly trained) Amazon support encouraged me to consume the contents of the pack with no understanding of what a health hazard means; at which point I hung up and cancelled my Prime membership.