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I wonder how much fuel could be saved by avoiding unnecessary residential deliveries. How many delivery attempt notices does UPS leave every day? If shippers p

I wonder how much fuel could be saved by avoiding unnecessary residential deliveries. How many delivery attempt notices does UPS leave every day? If shippers provided UPS with an email address for the recipient a notice could be sent by email the day before a package is to be delivered. This notice could provide options to let UPS know to wait a day or two to attempt delivery when someone will be there or redirect the package to a commercial address (e.g. the recipient's place of employment). I recently had a package delivered that required a signature. After the first attempt I called UPS and had it redirected to my work address. Unfortunately they already had it on the truck so I was told they would attempt delivery to my home address the next day before redirecting it.

silencio 18y ago
I was waiting on the front lawn for a UPS delivery to show up while surfing on my laptop one day since it was a nice day. I occasionally took a look at the online tracking page and flipped out when it went from "out for delivery" to a failed delivery notice because the recipient wasn't there. Since I saw no UPS truck driving past my house, and the front door is the only way to make a delivery short of climbing over walls of other houses, you can probably understand why. Called up UPS customer support, asked them to please redeliver the next day because I would be leaving home soon and I didn't want to wait for the delivery, wherever the guy was, so he could save himself some time and effort. The UPS delivery guy actually came over 4 hours later when I was definitely away from home to put up a delivery attempt notice saying I wasn't there. After I explicitly told two separate customer support folks NOT to deliver the package after I talked to them because I will not be there to pick up - and those two were separate from the initial call I made. This guy seemed to have an absurd sense of humor, because he marked the one and only notice I received that I didn't want as a second delivery attempt. Your idea will only make sense if UPS actually did their job. They failed catastrophically for me in that incident. Since I seem to get delivery attempt notices quite often, I wonder just how many times they actually stopped by (unfortunately I usually take the car out when I'm going, and that's a different exit..).

silencio 18y ago

I was waiting on the front lawn for a UPS delivery to show up while surfing on my laptop one day since it was a nice day. I occasionally took a look at the online tracking page and flipped out when it went from "out for delivery" to a failed delivery notice because the recipient wasn't there. Since I saw no UPS truck driving past my house, and the front door is the only way to make a delivery short of climbing over walls of other houses, you can probably understand why. Called up UPS customer support, asked them to please redeliver the next day because I would be leaving home soon and I didn't want to wait for the delivery, wherever the guy was, so he could save himself some time and effort. The UPS delivery guy actually came over 4 hours later when I was definitely away from home to put up a delivery attempt notice saying I wasn't there. After I explicitly told two separate customer support folks NOT to deliver the package after I talked to them because I will not be there to pick up - and those two were separate from the initial call I made. This guy seemed to have an absurd sense of humor, because he marked the one and only notice I received that I didn't want as a second delivery attempt. Your idea will only make sense if UPS actually did their job. They failed catastrophically for me in that incident. Since I seem to get delivery attempt notices quite often, I wonder just how many times they actually stopped by (unfortunately I usually take the car out when I'm going, and that's a different exit..).