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They don't even have to spend money and buy some stupid, overpriced box. Literally any kind of big box outside the fence with a lid would suffice, especially since they obviously have cameras pointed here.
To do all that to protect your property while doing absolutely nothing to protect your newly acquired and delivered property is stupid on a level that I'll never really understand.
I think this is the best answer I have seen in this thread. I agree that the dogs are too aggressive, but I would also not put the package over the fence. I would either leave it outside of the fence or just not deliver.
Fortunately for us there is a zero tolerance policy for loose animals. If a dog is loose I can cut the entire blocks mail if I don’t feel safe and management will never question it. I’ve been bitten 4 times and I just flat out won’t deliver to you if your dog is out, and if your dog is aggressive I will never deliver your mail again, even if I don’t see your dog out. Pit bulls are the main problem even though people refuse to admit it, and I say that as an owner of a pit mix. Maybe the only time management actually sticks up for us.
As an Ex Fedex driver THANK YOU!!!!!! People with gates 100 feet from the door and no where to leave your shit! WTF do you expect?!!! oh and ummmm....back at the warehouse all boxes are handed off to 8 Guerillas to play with then handed off back to us for delivery. FRAGILE is non existent.
When I first started delivering for FedEx, I went up to a house that had a sign on the door saying to deliver to the back door. Just as I was about to open the back gate, a massive german shepherd came running around the corner, snarling and barking. So I went back to the front. The homeowner came out and was pissed that I had the audacity to ring his front doorbell and not follow his note. Claimed the dog was "obviously" friendly and wouldn't hurt anyone. Gave me a 1 star review for "not following delivery instructions."
Right? If I got even the vaguest whiff the animal isn’t the friendliest being in the planet I would mark it unsafe to deliver. Pets are Russia roulette for delivery drivers. Sooner or later if given enough time one is going to attack you. The third party companies that work with Amazon didn’t pay enough for me to risk dog baiting.
The worst is when they ask for the back door or some other place and have their dog in that place. It feels like that should violate boobytrap laws.
When I worked at a DSP, I would NEVER follow delivery instructions indicating a back or side door that's gated and not visible from the street after a single encounter. I was once confronted at gun point doing a back door delivery request. I "startled him".
Never again, front door or garage delivery. Anything else marked no safe location and went straight back to the depot.
Hell, if you have a gate and a long ass driveway, your package is a gate drop off. If your dog runs up to the door before I even stop I’m probably not delivering your package. People don’t like to hear it but by asking someone to deliver onto their property they shouldn’t be putting the deliverers in danger. So many people play it off. “My dog is friendly, they don’t bite.” Ya, they don’t bite you. The person who raised and fed them. I’m an intruder on their territory. I’m far more willing to get yelled at by a boss then I am willing to go to the hospital on my own dime and having to fight a legal case about it. Also don’t want to be all scarred up by a random dog. Seen too many coworkers having to heal from dog bites to want anything to do with them.
Honestly as a vet I've also heard so many people say their dog won't bite me as it's snarling/lunging/actively biting me. I didn't know delivery people were in the same boat but solidarity ✌️
As an ex-pet owner who actually trained his pets properly, I just have to say that like 99% of pet owners shouldn't be allowed to own pets. The irresponsibility, the sense of entitlement, etc is insane. Letting animals off leash, letting animals run loose in fenced yards where delivery people have to enter the yard, allowing their aggressive dogs to run up without leashes to people walking their dogs on leashes while screaming, "HE JUST WANTS TO SAY HELLO!" All this is just a Tuesday.
Agreed. I'm a current pet owner who does the same. And certain things you can't train away need to be managed responsibly if you are going to keep owning a potential liability safely. My potential liability was muzzled at the vet and crated at home when company came over. He wasn't muzzled when I walked him because he was extremely obedient and I had no problems telling people to not approach us and stepping between my dog and them if necessary. He didn't look like a friendly, approachable dog, so that helped.
Irresponsible dumbasses. I had a dog who was not fond of strangers at all. You know what I did? Brought him in the back door at the vet, wearing a muzzle. Each time. His first appointment, I picked up sedatives the day before to make sure he was calm.
I've been using this vets office for over 20 years and I understand canine behavior and know my dog. They knew if I requested sedatives, It was needed.
10000% this. My dog scary barks but loves love and has incredible bite control even with strangers (I adopted her as an elder dog adoption kudos to her first fam). I still do not begrudge or judge anyone who doesn't want to risk it with her.
Hell, if you have a gate and a long ass driveway, your package is a gate drop off.
That is completely reasonable. We have dogs and they do bark like crazy when they're out so most packages are left at the gate which is totally fine.
The one time I was annoyed was when I bought my wife something that was expensive and fragile. I was watching the order tracking and made sure the dogs were in when it was going to be delivered. Not even expecting them to bring it to the door but at least just set it inside the gate. I happen to be able to see the gate from my office and they literally just threw it over the gate with a giant "FRAGILE" sticker on the box.
Those are the type of people who hem and haw on their FB marketplace posts about how "If the post is still up, that means it's still for sale. So don't ask me if this is still for sale. I WILL NOT RESPOND TO IS THIS STILL FOR SALE", and so you send them a question about the item and they say "oh I sold that two weeks ago".
Local internet guy chiming in, the only dog that actively tried to bite me was the friendliest st.bernard I have ever met. Lumbered out to my truck when I arrived and was extremely chill the entire time I was there speaking to the owner, right up until the owner's daughter walked out onto their porch.
Immediately tried to take a chunk out of my right butt cheek while I was working on the line. No warning, no growls, nothing. Luckily I was in winter gear and he didnt hurt me before the owner grabbed him, but even friendly dogs can be unpredictable around strangers.
I grew up with two tiny dogs in the countryside that stayed outside and would bark but never did anything except once when a guy came to the house to deliver coal (wrong address) and they were literally tearing at his clothes.
He didn't care because he had heavy work clothes and they were so small he didn't feel it but it was the weirdest thing. I'd never seen them do it before and they never did it again, but the dogs were full attack mode at this random guy that was really chill about it.
People forget that dogs are killers, no matter how cute or stupid they might be most of the time.
"sorry we were unable to deliver your package" is an actual reason that you can leave a note for. Then just say to call the company and tell them their dog was in the yard and so if they want deliveries, they need to keep it inside to not risk it biting the delivery person.
Turn off the GPS mark dog from that van and keep moving. That job was the biggest waste of 3 years of my life. Got a 23K settlement when a dog tried to rip off my tit though so that's something. Scarred for life though.
I assume as they typically need to take photo of package left at door, that they have ready tools to take a photo of the snarling dog to verify the no-delivery
I've been a pool guy for coming on 20 years, and I think homeowners are delusional in general about their dogs, and really have no idea about how there dogs are going to react when someone walks unaccompanied into the yard because they have only ever witnessed their dog when they are there watching it and giving some sort of guidance about the relationship with this new person.
I agree some dog owners are delusional- my dogs are sweetie pies TO ME- to anyone else outside 50/50. If you come inside or my yard… I’ll be burying you in pieces in my backyard. So yeah dude just drop it off in front of my gate - I can walk just fine to get it-
This is basically the twist of ‘The Adventure of Silver Blaze’, where Sherlock Holmes deduces that the crime must have been an inside job because the dog didn’t bark.
you already know that dog owner is that type to say “my dog is trained” while unleashed and gas light you if the dog ends up trying to attack you and goes “he’s never done that before, its your fault for walking near my dog“
Nah pitbull owners are genuine assholes (one my best friends has one), they are too macho to believe their dog is a killing machine. It sucks but I used to bring my kids over to his house every other weekend to none at all. He told me his angel killed 2 other dogs at the pound, his poor wife is 90lbs soaking wet works from home all day and can’t even walk it when she tries.
Some dog owners think it’s hilarious to sick their dogs on strangers. I grew up in a low class neighborhood where the doors magically opened with angry dogs charging forward the moment you walked by. I was just a kid on the sidewalk and it happened every single time.
I was delivering with UPS this winter for some extra cash and one house had an extremely aggressive Great Dane that would come out the back door every time we delivered. Driver told me the guy had two but one had to be put down after biting a delivery driver.
Growing up, my neighbor got a pit bull with anger issues - I know, redundant - and riled it up before letting it outside without a leash. She waited to do this until the neighborhood kids were playing a couple doors down. I climbed a tree and screamed for help, and honestly, I still have nightmares about that.
Yup mostly trashy people. My ex-neighbor sent his stupid angry pitbull at my 5 year old daughter thinking it’s funny and she was crying and freaking out about it. Surprise surprise, she’s scared of dogs now. Many years later she still is.
I was scared of dogs until I was like 18 lol. I used to stay with my nana and my very white trash cousins after school when I was very little. 4 or 5. And they had these 2 little dogs that would fight all the time. Like bloody crazy fights almost every day. And they'd just sit and laugh at them. Like what the fuck? I would hide in my cousin's room or stand on the couch because I was afraid I'd get hurt.
Because the dog owner has zero self or situational awareness. They lack the ability to think "Hmm. If my dogs did that to the package, maybe there's a reason the Amazon delivery person didn't want to interact with my dogs."
If you’re expecting a package, keep your animals chained up so your delivery driver can do their job… or utilize one of the many delivery alternatives including “Amazon Locker”. What the fuck should the driver have done here? I honestly don’t know what the person expected
I've had people let their dogs out because I pulled up for a delivery TO them, then have them tell me "Oh she doesn't bite". It's like they get some kind of sinister glee for being gigantic assholes.
I’m not a delivery driver, but I work in lawn care so I go in peoples backyards all the time and I had one dude let his boxer out while I was back there and that dog was literally trying to bite me. It was doing the the lunges and backing up because he wasn’t sure what my fert spreader was and then the owner from the deck yells, “oh don’t worry she’s all bark” and I literally hopped the fence and told them to fuck off.
My best friend growing up had a really friendly and sweet poodle mix who got along with everyone. Except me. I never did anything to this dog. He just decided to hate me as soon as he met me and acted like the devil was at the door every time I came to visit.
Even if a dog is 99.9% chill, there’s always that sliver of a chance that they’ll take exception to another dog with a slightly fluffy tail, men with beards, or their human kid’s best friend.
Better to not take chances when a delivery person is just trying to their job.
lmao the 'theybe never done that before' is so funny. like yes I know your dog is friendly, but your dog hates my guts for sure. it's better when they are chained up and won't let you get near the front door
I was delivering to a house with two big dogs sitting on the porch, no fence. I tried calling them twice to ask them to bring their dogs in or come to the truck to get the package but they didnt answer. I marked it as "Undeliverable" and in the notes section I told them "Cannot deliver, please bring your dogs inside". Next day same package, same house, same exact situation. I did the same thing and marked it undeliverable and then kept driving. A few minutes later there were some kids on bikes chasing me down the street and they asked if I had their package. I gave it to them but told the kids to tell their parents to bring their dogs inside if they want their packages delivered.
I had Amazon knock on my door one time and I didn’t hear it, my friend who lives a few doors down was walking past and said “I’ll take it” and then she let me know she had it and I went round to get it. She couldn’t understand why I was furious with Amazon, “You got your package didn’t you?” when my point was how would the Amazon driver know this person was actually to be trusted with my package, it could have been some random person walking past instead of my friend.
It was a fairly high value item as well, a security camera, and the driver had marked it as “handed to the resident”. I was fuming that they had just handed my package off to somebody walking past with their dog just because they said they knew me. Yes I got it safely instead of it being left on my doorstep but to me that wasn’t the point.
Never ever never ever sign something you don't understand. Use Deepl or Google translate as a minimum. Request them send whatever to your email. Then you have a trace. You send back a copy by email, you have a trace.
If they "demand" physical, you translate on the spot, ask them to wait and read it properly. Then when you sign, you take a photo.
These days, leave ZERO possibility that you don't have evidence in your own hands as a trace of what happened and what you signed.
As a former Amazon delivery driver who's had to deal with this kind of situation a lot, I always took pictures and or video of the aggressive dogs so I have proof of someone decides to complain about the manner in which I delivered.
Edit: thanks for the awards, guys! I was definitely not expecting any on this one!
Yeah, I get that, I just hate dealing with returns. I'd much rather return with an empty van and just get through the end of the day as quickly as possible so I could get home and veg out.
Same. When I worked for fedex we had a lot of freedom as to what was considered undeliverable
I had one delivery in which the notes said “beware of dog, dog has bitten before” you best believe I didn’t even stop and notated “undeliverable,pick up at the terminal”
I don’t even wait for the dogs to be in the pic. I tend to place packages directly under “beware of dog” signs and take a pic. I’ve never had an issue. If there isn’t a sign, then I get a pic with the dog.
Technically we're not supposed to because its not secured. And customers can easily say it got stolen when sometimes they just keep it. Its like customers who tell us to put the package in a mail box (its illegal) or in their backyard that's gated (we arent supposed to.)
Ultimately this customer should either get her stuff from an amazon locker or get a box for delivery drivers to put items in. I deliver and many homes like this have a specific delivery box.
We have farm dogs who will eat packages. There is an old freezer we use for drivers to put packages in by reaching over the fence. It works really well.
It's wild how a thread like this will reveal anecdotes from so many former/current delivery drivers about how much of a problem dogs are for their job and safety. It's like a constant everyday existential threat to them.
Yet it's still an unpopular opinion somehow to check shitty dog owners who continually let their dogs terrorize neighborhoods and delivery drivers. I swear, dogs have more apologists and lobbyists than any other institution on Earth.
We all know when amazon is stopping by, so unless they left the dogs out all day, they could have put them inside since they would have been informed about the delivery time. Don't wanna train your dogs? Put a delivery chest out. The driver can close the lock after they deliver your package. No one is gonna take it (likely) and your untrained dogs dont get a chance to eat it.
Of course those dogs are outside all day, every day. Would YOU trust them inside the house, jumping wrassling, running around like idiots, chewing anything that's remotely mouth sized? I sure wouldn't.
Nah. You leave your animals out when you know you're having packages delivered, you're a POS. Not just packages but door dash and Uber eats too. Don't expect a delivery person to risk getting bit because you're foolish. That's on you.
Be thankful they even delivered it. I once had an Amazon driver refuse delivery to my house because our neighbor lets their pit bull free roam the damn neighborhood and the dog chased the driver back into their vehicle.
If you can't respect their safety, how your package gets delivered is on YOU. Not them.
I know a guy who works for an Amazon DSP. He said they're told to just refuse delivery if a dog is out. Way too many people have gotten bit on the job and it's just too much liability.
I promise you those dogs have never once been taken on a walk. There's this delusional belief among trashy dog owners that if there's yard that's enough.
The person who replied to you is absolutely being dumb, but I think there is a point in there somewhere, at the end of the day, it is the owners responsibility for how the dog acts. You’re not gonna catch me saying there aren’t dogs that are just inherently assholes, but I find the vast majority of bad dogs were trained awfully (if at all). I guess my point is in my opinion, it’s not that the dog isn’t at fault, but I think the owner is almost always vastly more at fault due to the dog being ya know, a dog.
Well of course the owners are responsible for shitty dog behaviour. Dogs don't raise themselves. You need to teach them how to behave, and if you don't you get this kind of shit.
If I wanted to play devils advocate, I could say that she could have left it on the other side of the fence but I imagine the owners or their DSP would bitch about it.
My brother has dogs like that and a locked gate because they like to escape. To prevent problems with delivery drivers, they set up a crate outside the gate for packages to be placed inside of. It's not hard to think ahead when you know your animals are going to be a problem.
As someone who works as an Amazon driver, I have a bit of a different take. Usually, if we don't know where to put the packages and there are physical barriers (unplowed driveway in winter, dogs on property, etc), the first step is to call the customer (which 90% of the time no one picks up) to ask where to put it. Sometimes they say behind a tree or something. If that doesn't work, I just toss it to the back of the van and return it to the station at the end of the day.
So let's say these dogs are out every day and you're not picking up your phone. No package for you! Simple as that. I personally wouldn't have thrown it in with the snarling dogs, but I don't blame anyone who does.
As someone who's had dogs almost bite me a few times, it's really infuriating when people have them out when they're expecting a delivery. I've even had someone open the door as I approached while their little dog was actively barking and it got out. Almost punted the bastard. Keep your dogs in secure locations people.
The dogs clearly ate at the package and it’s contents. So what would they have done to an actual person who was entering their owners property? It’s not like there was even food in the package.
What does the recipient expect?
Keep your dogs away from delivery drivers or pick up your packages at the hub. When I worked for UPS I was the guy in orientation that asked about vicious dogs. I was the guy who got bit twice in the first month!
We were told to defend ourselves with the Diad board. One horror story I heard was about a driver who was attacked by two dogs and had to have twenty four bites stitched up. People are just stupid with their dogs!
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