Can (and should) I provide a door code for our front door for deliveries to our house when we’re not home? I’m sick of deliveries being put smack in the middle of the front step on a perfect pedestal for porch pirates…
I can set up a specific code for each delivery company and make it only work during certain hours/days when a delivery is expected, so the security implications aren’t too bad imho. My bigger question is: will delivery companies even bother with it?
@cassidy There are alternative delivery options as well where FedEx, UPS, etc will hold your package at a nearby retail location for later pickup. Amazon also has locker pickup. I'd do that before giving delivery drivers access to the house.
@cjw2001 yeah, that becomes a whole lot less convenient, then. Luckily porch pirates have not been a huge issue; I think we had something stolen a couple years ago and then got a small deck box for packages and it hasn't been an issue since. But today FedEx delivered a big box right on our porch while we were out, and it got me thinking.
@cassidy It depends on who the shipper is in my experience
I think UPS and FedEx deliveries mostly follow delivery instructions, DHL a bit less so (coin toss) and Amazon...well if they bother even walking up to your door at all instead of just throwing your package at the house consider it a win
@benpocalypse we do have a delivery box by the door, but sometimes the package is too big… in which case they just plop it right in front of the door which:
• Makes it exceptionally visible to porch pirates, and
• Prevents us from opening the door if it’s heavy!
@cassidy secondhand anecdote, but I remember when Amazon rolled out their own supposed integration for deliveries in garages or inside doors, one story I read at the time indicated few of the delivery drivers ended up using it when dropping things off.
@ryne my old MyQ smart garage door opener kept trying to convince me to give Amazon (and now Walmart) access to our garage for deliveries. It is a neat idea but I kind of hate that the third party cloud service wants to be the intermediary there.
I guess I can try adding the instructions and just see what happens?
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