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Might have been covered but is anybody noticing Amazon deliveries being thrown over gate , door not knocked. Today I went to door when me camera went and yes over fence n 6 broken white sauce 😡 it’s like throw and run now

paulamanning
2 weeks ago
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Imnotcheap

A different delivery driver threw my parcel over back fence not leaving a card so it was outside for couple of weeks before we knew. It was clothing so not damaged

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paulamanning

Imnotcheap I have it so much lately even if I’m here I’ve watched them just throw it my gate is 7 foot high

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Imnotcheap

paulamanning wow that's a high gate. I'm lucky a lot of my parcels are delivered by a very nice man. I make a point to review delivery's. I would definitely complain especially with things getting damaged

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paulamanning

Imnotcheap I sent pictures they gave me an email address I get different drivers. Maybe lack of wages means throw n deliver quicker

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blacklabrador

Must be a new tactic - this was my Amazon Delivery Yesterday, seems they can't be ar$ed to open a gate anymore.

Happens again and I'll simply inform Amazon it's not been delivered, because In my opinion it hasn't.

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paulamanning

blacklabrador omg actually my partner says the same we pay for delivery its laziness.

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Leannexxx

blacklabrador wow that's bad that I know they are busy but come on that's taking the ****

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blacklabrador

paulamanning Luckily Yesterday wasn't rainy, unlike today.

Because of where it was put I didn't get a notification from the Ring Doorbell, thankfully I checked my inbox and got the "your item has been delivered" email, so went out searching.

If I wanted to go on a treasure hunt I'll setup my own 😅

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paulamanning

blacklabrador funny thing is my delivery days I set when I’m in they ignore that. So now when you get a delivered message I go right to the back gate 🤣🤣

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Lynibis

blacklabrador Martin Lewis would agree with you, he covered the law on it on t.v. a while back.

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janphoenix51

blacklabrador ...That's nearly as bad as the letter I found neatly next to my plants on my patio last year,it was between the slabs on the patio,I couldn't believe it,I don't know how it ended up there!

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Leannexxx

Can't say I've had that issue with Amazon but there was a issue with evri I had a parcel getting delivered to my dad's as they always have a issue delivering to my address and one of his neighbours knocked on with it they had thrown it over his back gate and because it was raining it had been in his gate for a few days I was fuming made a complaint but nothing gets done about it

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paulamanning

Leannexxx I do get annoyed because it’s money and having to keep messing about getting refund and a lot of drivers don’t knock just throw 😌

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Leannexxx

paulamanning I agree I had it with royal mail they didn't even knock on just got a email saying they have put it in my bin

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paulamanning

Leannexxx I mean a dirty bin fgs the art of knocking door or neighbours has died.

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Leannexxx

paulamanning lol I'll tell you how bad royal mail is they are so lazy they won't walk up some stairs they leave all my post in the post office coz I live above one

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paulamanning

Leannexxx wow now that’s a joke 😮

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Leannexxx

paulamanning I wouldn't mind but it sometime it gets mixed up with other people's stuff and I never get my post I've missed appointments because of it so I had to sign up for email letters

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paulamanning

Leannexxx you shouldn’t have to it seems a lot of postage/delivery companies are just getting worse

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Fatabelly

Leannexxx I’ve had a similar experience where the postie was too lazy to deliver. They just marked my house as inaccessible when it faces onto a main road!

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hspexy

No ours seem ok. But it helps that we have a door camera so I guess they don’t want to be reported

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paulamanning

hspexy and I do lol hence how I first started seeing what they were doing lol your lucky guess some don’t notice camera 🤣🤣🤣

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hspexy

paulamanning lol yes it’s usualLy down to if they think they'd get into trouble. All our neighbours have cameras too so I guess it’s deters them from behaving badly

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paulamanning

hspexy you got me thinking I’ll stick a note on gate saying your on camera cuz me and neighbour have doorbell cameras lok

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hspexy

paulamanning that’s a good idea to let them know. If they’re aware, they may take better care

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hspexy

paulamanning my cousin caught an Amazon driver on camera being heavy handed - rang the doorbell and then tossed the package and buggered off before anyone came to the door. Rude and unacceptable

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jdible

Yes we was in waiting for the parcel when a guy got out of his van and thrown over our back garden we had it on camera when we opened the parcel the poor dinner service was all smashed I don't think this guy could read handle with care

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KateGriff169

Thankfully I’ve never had them throw them over gate or anything like that but i have had it where they’ve knocked the door, left parcel on step and when I’ve got to door they’re already driving off

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martinlufc5637

Yeah a few times I've found packages behind bin, never knocked on the door

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BonzoBanana

There must be some sort of bonus for delivering at a higher rate as sometimes it seems like as soon as you open the door the van is driving off and the parcel is just left at the door.

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paulamanning

BonzoBanana there is a bonus but Amazon don’t seem to care we have to keep claiming for smashed items.

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paulamanning

Well three parcels via Amazon today delivered by dpd parcel force and Royal Mail 🙈🤣🤣🤣

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jms19

They just leave ours in the doorstep and ring the bell, that’s fine if we’re in but if we’re not then it could be stolen or get wet/damaged.

I don’t think amazon care really, they’d rather have stuff delivered quickly and pay for any theft it seems.

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paulamanning

jms19 yea because although I choose a time and day it don’t happen so you can’t rely on it, but ya right

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janphoenix51

We have had issues with delivery drivers too,we have our Cat Food delivered by Amazon, also Cat Biscuits but not together, I walked home to find our parcel of 3x40 pouches on front step in full view of passerby

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janphoenix51

I nearly fell over a parcel which was wedged under my back door one day as I stepped out to go to the shops,nearly broke my ankle!

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eyeballkerry

My daughter owns a pub and a few years ago a delivery company used to throw ordered food for the kitchen over the gate in the morning. That was bad enough but they didn’t tell anyone they had delivered! It all went back.

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paulamanning

eyeballkerry omg shocking hun

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JulieTurne55740

The delivery driver kicked our gate open because his hands were full and broke the gate off the hinges, he didn’t even knock for us to get the parcel, he just put it on the step and rushed back to his van🤬

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paulamanning

JulieTurne55740 omg well you can claim if contact Amazon with pictures honest no care in the world

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JulieTurne55740

paulamanning Thanks Paul but I didn’t think, hubby has repaired it now, so no photographic evidence 🙄🤷‍♀️.

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KAW18

Yes delivery drivers are terrible. Normal deliver to wrong address. I can't have anything delivered to my home address have everything delivered to a locker instead much less stress.

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compingonly

lately amazon can't even be bothered to dump it on the doorstep and run; they've been dumping the parcels behind the gate in the front garden. just throwing them over and running back to the van. The last parcel had a glass bottle and how it didn't break, I do not know.

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paulamanning

compingonly yeah mine was 6 bottles of white sauce this week and to be fair wonder if they throw their own over gates lol

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JulieTurne55740

Another driver said my parcel was delivered AND handed to the resident but we never received the parcel, trying to sort that out now 🤬

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LL81

I don’t know where you live but the drivers don’t do that here. Normally it’s a bang at the door or doorbell and leave on doorstep.

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paulamanning

LL81 im in West Midlands

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intherealworld

Love to hear the comments - However would you do the job for the pittance they get paid ? Only a couple of poor deliveries in my experience from several hundred .

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Mango4

My delivery is often left on the doorstep and sometimes they don't even attempt to ring the bell or knock the door. I suppose like many delivery companies they have so many deliveries and are under such pressure that they try to save time wherever they can.

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MelissaLee1

Quite good up my end.Only once had a 3kg jar of honey broken .That was very sticky indeed. Image

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