Amazon delivery one stop away

Mr Badger

Mr Badger

Mr Badger

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Hi whinge fans.

Just wondered whether this is common or a local phenomena. Last week I was expecting an Amazon delivery. It was getting towards the end of the time window and I checked the tracker to find that it was one stop away with the map showing the vehicle about 2 streets away. It took another 45 minutes to get to me.

This afternoon I'm awaiting another delivery. I was about to go out when I looked at the Amazon tracker which showed two stops away. This updated to one stop away with the map showing the driver just around the corner so I decided to wait for it. That was about 40 minutes ago, still no delivery.

What gives?
 
Mr Badger said:
Hi whinge fans.

Just wondered whether this is common or a local phenomena. Last week I was expecting an Amazon delivery. It was getting towards the end of the time window and I checked the tracker to find that it was one stop away with the map showing the vehicle about 2 streets away. It took another 45 minutes to get to me.

This afternoon I'm awaiting another delivery. I was about to go out when I looked at the Amazon tracker which showed two stops away. This updated to one stop away with the map showing the driver just around the corner so I decided to wait for it. That was about 40 minutes ago, still no delivery.

What gives?
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Yeah, I get these too, really annoying when - like you say - you're about to go out somewhere, and then they don't come for hours
 
I've had the opposite last couple of times - tracker showed 6 and 7 stops away, in the next village, within 2-3 minutes drops down to 2 stops then turns up about 30 seconds later...

I've also been the next stop for 30-40 minutes and can see them parked up at McDonald's or a Lidl, etc. LOL.
 
I sometimes get this. I think it's them having a break at a convenient place to park up.
It's still miles better than no info at all.

I ordered 3 items the other day and instead of 1 delivery that would have been easy to be home for, they booked 3 deliveries via different couriers throughout the day, missed one.
 
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gingergundog said:
Yeah I've had a that a couple of times, normally with the message saying "Your driver has had to make some extra stops" What? How does that happen?
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I dunno specific to Amazon but it will be stuff like customer not in on something they can't just leave and if their route takes them back past they might try again, another driver sick so they've had to manually add drops to split that driver's load with other drivers, etc.
 
Rroff said:
I dunno specific to Amazon but it will be stuff like customer not in on something they can't just leave and if their route takes them back past they might try again, another driver sick so they've had to manually add drops to split that driver's load with other drivers, etc.
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That makes sense
 
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Yeah I've been getting this a lot lately, goes to 'you're the next stop' for a good 40mins, updates to 'Your driver has to make a few more deliveries along the way', then it's a complete mystery how long it'll take from there.

Always annoying when I stand on my balcony and see the driver repeatedly pass by delivering packages.
 
Mr Badger said:
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Just wondered whether this is common or a local phenomena. Last week I was expecting an Amazon delivery. It was getting towards the end of the time window and I checked the tracker to find that it was one stop away with the map showing the vehicle about 2 streets away. It took another 45 minutes to get to me.

This afternoon I'm awaiting another delivery. I was about to go out when I looked at the Amazon tracker which showed two stops away. This updated to one stop away with the map showing the driver just around the corner so I decided to wait for it. That was about 40 minutes ago, still no delivery.

What gives?
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very common

1 stop away 45 minutes

6 stops away (already here) ?

i see a lot of them sit outside mine sorting their deliveries out as theirs a big open space, Seen a few spend 30Minutes reordering their parcels on shelves..

the organised ones have shelves in their van with post codes on like XX14 XX16. then you have idiots lob all in back & their bouncing around

a while back i tried ordering a bunch at once, (talking 250 quid of random stuff) it came in a big warehouse like this, & driver said keep it. ended up selling it for 10 to a neighbour :cry:

started thinking might do 1 "big" order a month
 
The Amazon tracking is usually pretty accurate for me. But I did notice the last time I had a delivery that after my delivery the driver stayed parked outside for at least 30 minutes, initially sorting lots of boxes out and then just sitting inside his van, probably taking a break. So whoever was "1-stop away" would have had a long wait.
 
on the subject of deliveries does anyone regularly get knocks on the door to take in parcels for a neighbour? we do and i think it's a bit cheeky! nowadays with tracking etc we know when a parcel is coming, usually to within the hour or so, but the person next door to us obviously pays no attention to this or doesn't care as she is often out when someone attempts a parcel delivery to her and they knock at our place to leave the parcel, she must have a leave it at number so and so note on the delivery. ok it's not a massive favour to ask but still, why not just be available for your delivery instead of expecting your neighbour to be.
 
throwaway4372 said:
I ordered 3 items the other day and instead of 1 delivery that would have been easy to be home for, they booked 3 deliveries via different couriers throughout the day, missed one.
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I had one a while ago, 2 Amazon orders both being delivered by Amazon logistics but on separate vans. As the first guy was walking away from my door the 2nd guy was walking towards it.
 
tyke_ said:
on the subject of deliveries does anyone regularly get knocks on the door to take in parcels for a neighbour? we do and i think it's a bit cheeky! nowadays with tracking etc we know when a parcel is coming, usually to within the hour or so, but the person next door to us obviously pays no attention to this or doesn't care as she is often out when someone attempts a parcel delivery to her and they knock at our place to leave the parcel, she must have a leave it at number so and so note on the delivery. ok it's not a massive favour to ask but still, why not just be available for your delivery instead of expecting your neighbour to be.
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I worked from home even before lockdown so the regular drivers got to know me as the "go to" when people nearby were out. Its just the neighbourly thing to do. Two household nearby are NHS and and one are teachers, so they get zero chance to WFH.

A lot of deliveries don't give you a precise time slot, or you only get an estimate during the day so murphy's law is bound to kick in.
 
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