Vendors can't find me because my address is half a block away from my actual unit. When they do find it, they pick one of two mail rooms, inside a random exterior door, in front of my door, or at the front desk.
The front desk is often not staffed and closes earlier than deliveries are out.
The front desk occasionally forgets to notify me a package arrived.
The delivery "lockers" sometimes don't email me.
The architecture and management of a building is very important for delivery success. It needs to be a "business address", it needs to be faithfully staffed, there needs to be delivery-only parking, and it needs to be obvious where a deliverer must go.
I have lived in places where this was done right, and several places where it was done wrong to my intense dissatisfaction.
Well, it sounds like delivery sucks for your particular situation, at least.
I have no problems whatsoever with delivery, either to work or to home. Home deliveries even manage to find the front of my door on the sixth floor of my apartment building, somehow.
One time I got really fed up with FedEx because when they delivered a package to me while I wasn't home, they dropped it off at the leasing office instead of taking it to the FedEx facility.
The leasing office closes at 6pm. The FedEx facility is only a few blocks away and closes at either 8 or 9. I got home at 6:30. Because of that driver's incompetence, I had to wait until the next day to get my package _and_ be late to work the next day because the leasing office doesn't open till 10am.
And this was something that was really time-sensitive, too.
This wasn't the first time they screwed up a delivery to me either. I will never do business with them again if I can help it.
You can have UPS and FedEx hold a package at one of their customer service centers or UPS Store / FedEx Office. If it's time sensitive you can also pay for morning delivery.
If you're ordering with Amazon, the phone app will notify you when your packages are delivered. You could probably create an app that pings the tracking information every so often for other sellers.
What do you mean "it was done wrong"? The idea of designing a place so packages can be delivered there at the exact same time that any working person is not present there is just bizarre.
Vendors can't find me because my address is half a block away from my actual unit. When they do find it, they pick one of two mail rooms, inside a random exterior door, in front of my door, or at the front desk.
The front desk is often not staffed and closes earlier than deliveries are out.
The front desk occasionally forgets to notify me a package arrived.
The delivery "lockers" sometimes don't email me.
The architecture and management of a building is very important for delivery success. It needs to be a "business address", it needs to be faithfully staffed, there needs to be delivery-only parking, and it needs to be obvious where a deliverer must go.
I have lived in places where this was done right, and several places where it was done wrong to my intense dissatisfaction.