[calvinbhai]

This is much worse an issue if you live in a super new apartment in the suburbs. UPS/FedEx drivers know location very well. Amazon delivery ends up in a totally different location, marking it as delivered. I dont know how Amazon makes money when 2 out of 5 deliveries to my address were being lost or mis-delivered ️

[snapetom]

I live in a pretty well established suburb. The first year I moved to my house, I had zero problems with Amazon deliveries, usually from FedEx. Somewhere along the way, they switched to their own drivers, and I started getting deliveries for a guy with a somewhat similar name +10 streets away (like 44th St. instead of 54th St.).

Over the span of about six months, some stuff I got included an electric lawnmower left right in front of my door, motorcycle helmet, cooking appliances, and a foot massager. Every time I called, I begged Amazon to fix this. After the third delivery, I threw my hands up and stopped calling. I figure the recipient calling to complain about missing packages was more effective than me calling to ask them to stop sending me stuff. There were a couple of more deliveries after that before they got the hint.

[kenhwang]

If I had to guess, it's by having typically 6-figure salary delivery drivers replaced with near minimum wage gig workers.

But yes, I've also noticed when my package ends up in a completely different building on the other side of town because of missed cardinal direction on the address. Our office manager has working relationship with the office manager on the other side of town with an address similar to ours because of how often they have to trade wrongly delivered/addressed packages/mail.

[servercobra]

Looking at Glassdoor and a couple other Google results, the median is closer to $50k than >$100k for Fedex and UPS, as well as USPS. Though the point stands that gig workers should save money, even if they mess up fairly often.