I live in San Angelo, a town/city of right about 100k people.
We live on a 'private road,' with 24 houses on it. There is only 1 entrance, you come in, and can go left or right at the fork, and either way, it circles around right back to the entrance. It's a .7 mile loop.
At LEAST 1 in 5 UPS or Fedex packages end up at a neighor's house.
MOre than a few times, a neighbor will call or come by the house and tell us they were expectign a package, too, so they didn't even look at the addressee: They just opened it and realized it wasn't theirs- at which point they looked, and then brought it or called...
Likewise, many times over the last 5-10 years we've had to walk around the neighborhood and locate our package on someone's porch (some of these homes almost exclusively use the side or garage entrance and won't check their front door for weeks on end).
What I don't get is that, while I don't 'know' our UPS or Fedex drivers, I recognize them, and I can't help but think that if I recognize them that they should...could...likely know our addresses as well as our USPS guy.
Our USPS mailman only VERY rarely gets a deliver wrong- mostly that only happens when he's out and has a sub.
Are the Fedex and UPS drivers so overwhelmed with massive numbers of packages that they're basically frazzled and unable to cope?
I've read accounts of what delivering for amazon's subcontractors is like, and that has to be pretty horrible... Have Fedex and UPS gone that far down the road of 'corporate optimization'
My daughter is an Amazon driver. Excels at it and loves it. She actually runs from truck to door and back. She finishes her route in less than half the allocated time - usually. Then she gets paid to help the slower drivers finish their route or takes the rest of the day off. There are several drivers just like her at the logistics company she works for. It is friendly competition among them to see who finishes first error free. Some drivers really do care about the quality of their service. Some could care less!