FedEx drivers sure don't know. They sure are proud of the pictures they send of the delivered package at someone else's house though.

Is all the rounding for common core math the problem? Do the kids not know how to match numbers anymore? I know they are overworked but really, all you have to do is match the number on the package to the number on the front of the house. My numbers are 6" high. The house my two packages were delivered to I would estimate at 4". Well, two of the digits out of four matched my house number, I should count my blessings.

"Real" FedEx? Or FedEx Ground?

FedEx Ground is not FedEx employees. It's a contract company, probably the low bidder, hiring the cheapest drivers that can be found. Probably those who are not qualified to flip a burger and ask if you want fries with that.

Taxation, that seems to be the sole reason.

Some of them around here have the house number correct but get the street name wrong.

It has happened to me twice this year. Me and the neighbor have numbers on the mailboxes and house. He even has his last name on the house.

The first time I sent him a text asking if they mis-delivered, he found the box and ran it over.

The second time I sent him a text, but he wasn't home, and one of his kids had already grabbed the box. And I was irritated so I called Fed Ex. I got pretty much nowhere since I was not the shipper. So I called Home Depot. I explained that the package was mis-delivered, the picture of the porch was not mine. They said they would look into it.

About two days later I had credit on my card for the purchase amount.

My subdivision is the worst for this.

Whoever platted the subdivision decided to name all of the streets for Civil War officers who fought at the nearby battlefield.

So there's 3-4 neighboring streets named Colonel X, 4-5 neighboring streets named Captain X, and 2-3 streets named General X.

Then, the genius numbered the houses identically on each street.

So, for example, there's:
505 Captain Smith
505 Captain Jones
505 Captain Johnson
505 Captain James
Etc.

50+% of deliveries within the subdivision end up at the right house number, but the wrong street. The neighborhood Facebook group is 99% posts about missing or misdelivered packages. Luckily, the main full time USPS/FedEx/UPS drivers have a decent success ratio, since they're familiar with the challenging layout. It's mostly the gig drivers (Doordash, Instacart, Spark, et al), or during the holiday season with the temp delivery drivers for the big carriers.

When I first moved in, I had Dominoes deliver me at least a half dozen pizzas that I didn't order within a few month span. This was also in 2020 during the era of pandemic contactless delivery, so they'd just leave it on the doorstep. Oftentimes when I wasn't even home. So I'd come home to an hours/day old pizza sitting on my front doorstep, or blown all over my front yard if it was storming.

It took multiple phone calls to Dominoes, and the installation of a video doorbell, to address that.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
So, for example, there's:
505 Captain Smith
505 Captain Jones
505 Captain Johnson
505 Captain James
Etc.

50+% of deliveries end up at the right house number, but the wrong street.

Wow! That sounds remarkably similar to my neighborhood. The house directly a block away from mine basically looks like mine and has the same house number... it's amazing how much of their mail I used to get.

We used to joke about who'd get hammered one night and end up being dropped off at the wrong house.

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Originally posted by k5blazer:
Some of them around here have the house number correct but get the street name wrong.

That's happened to me a couple of times. Fortunately my phone number was on the shipping label and the guy who received it was kind enough to call me.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
"Real" FedEx? Or FedEx Ground?

FedEx Ground is not FedEx employees. It's a contract company, probably the low bidder, hiring the cheapest drivers that can be found. Probably those who are not qualified to flip a burger and ask if you want fries with that.

I don’t know. It’s a real FedEx truck with drivers wearing FedEx uniforms.

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Originally posted by mark123:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
"Real" FedEx? Or FedEx Ground?

I don’t know. It’s a real FedEx truck with drivers wearing FedEx uniforms.

If it's "real" FedEx, the "Ex" on the truck will be red, like this:



FedEx Ground, which uses the low-bid contractor who probably has minimum wage drivers with questionable (if any) training, uses trucks with green "Ex" like this one:

FedEx dropped several heavy boxes of dog food at our house.

The address was for a rescue about 10 miles away and the addresses didn't even come close to matching.

I paid a couple of young studs to load it on our trailer and took it to them.

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Originally posted by holdem:

...The first time I sent him a text asking if they mis-delivered, he found the box and ran it over...

Could you arrange to have a box of Tannerite mis-delivered next time?

I live in a subdivision with 54 homes. There were two developers who built the homes. They worked together to have some common elements. One of which is a brass plaque with the house number by the front door of every home. Allow me to repeat myself again, every home. Same plaque. Different numbers.

One would think it's an easy delivery and it is, about 99% of the time. In my case it's usually Amazon that can't see or read. The good news? All my neighbors are good folks and get the package to the correct address.

Three misplaced packages a week on the Tiny Town Face book page.

Along with two " I lost my pet" and two
"I found a pet" posts.

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Originally posted by k5blazer:
Some of them around here have the house number correct but get the street name wrong.

Here, too. I had someone’s carpet roll delivered here when it was 3 street names below our block.. same number, though.
And my sister’s bday gift to my son went 1 street below us. Again, numbers were correct, names, no.

I guess I really don’t remember this happening in the past. Sure as hell not with this type of frequency. It’s scary.

^^ Same here. My number is on 3 parallel streets, and a couple times a year we get each others packages. I have a corner lot and the street sign is in my front yard so no excuse for not knowing which street they're on.

Unfortunately, one of the guys with the parallel number is a pushy, nervous, weird dude and the last thing I want to do is get into a conversation with him. I deliver the package anyway (and hope someone else answers the door), but try to get in and get out as fast as humanly possible.

It's all delivery services, it appears. A few nights ago my doorbell rang. I answered and found a wrapped sandwich on my doorstep. Apparently the Uber Eats moron had driven off. I didn't order it. And don't get me started on Jimmy Johns.

I live on North Park Ave. and a street about 3 blocks north is a new development on the sight of a former elementary school named Erin Park Ave. Amazon spent an entire summer delivering items addressed to Erin Park to my home. Tried calling Amazon 3 separate times about this issue and got exactly nowhere, at one point I was told to just throw the packages in the trash because they were not going to send a driver to take the package(s) to the correct address. One day I came home to a pile of packages on my front porch and that was the last straw. I called the local Police and explained the issue and they took it from there. Don't know exactly what was done but a rather nice lady stopped by to pick up her packages and Amazon has not mis-delivered to my house one single time. I suspect that the police contacted the purchaser and also either made a call to the actual Amazon warehouse or sent a Scout Car to have a talk with the warehouse manager.

If you are being bombarded with packages to a street named similar to yours then your best option is to call the local PD.

PS; it's also distinctly disappointing that students are being graduated in a educational condition that they don't even have a tiny clue that North and Erin are two different words. One signifying a direction and one is a name derived from an ancient name for Ireland.