Remember Amazon's not-quite-fully-postpersons scheme?

It keeps delivering:

• Over the last month, at least two people have gained fraudulent access to my building's hall pretending to be delivery drivers, probably to grab a couple unsecured Amazon packages.
• On NextDoor, someone received questions from a couple of Amazon employees tasked to figure out how to reduce package theft. The author believed they were yet another couple of crafty package thieves casing their building and refused to give them any details.
• Amazon began to roll out large lightweight package storage crates to hide packages from outside sight.
• These crates are making very handy storage extensions to the shopping carts used by people collecting bottles and cans from garbage bags in order to get pennies for them at recycling points.

At this point I feel like putting my own signs in the lobby urging people to shop from anywhere but Amazon to eliminate package theft. USPS has access to the package closet, UPS, FedEx and Lasership too, it's just Amazon that doesn't.

Hypolite Petovan

2021-11-13 16:57:00

Amazon Marketplace is harmful, episode 362

In the United States #Amazon has a contract with USPS, the national mail carrier. Last mile deliveries are performed by USPS, but not by regular postpersons. This status quirk enables Sunday/holiday deliveries that aren’t done by full-status postpersons.

On the other hand these Amazon-contracted sub-postpersons aren’t trusted with the postal key, a sesame to access mailboxes and package rooms in residential buildings throughout the city of New York.

In my building, this leads to Amazon packages being left in the hall, and apparently there has been enough package theft reports that the management company had to put up signs urging Amazon delivery people not to leave them the hall, but I believe they are paid way too low (as sub-postpersons) to comply with these rules that wouldn’t be needed if people didn’t order on Amazon in the first place.

CQFD.