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GlitteringBobcat999 t1_ja84vqn wrote

I had a FedEx driver deliver a bike to my front door that I needed to sign for. Good thing for whomever ordered it because he was at the wrong house. Driver said something like, "Where is your house number?". Now, it may not be as obvious as ol' fiddysix here, but I replied, "it's on the wall right here, both sides of the mailbox, and painted on the curb".

I wonder if this person got tired of misdirected packages and went nuts with the spray paint while swearing.

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4jimmyjames4 t1_ja8hx9g wrote

As a courier I appreciate this here homeowner. The amount of queefs I deliver to without visible house numbers is infuriating. Sorry your courier sucks at reading!

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GlitteringBobcat999 t1_ja8sjnx wrote

It's only happened the one time. It was a real comedy of errors, too, as I had a scheduled pickup from UPS that day, and they won't actually ring the bell. I have them on the Ring camera running up to the porch, sticking the "sorry we missed you" label on the door and running back to the truck. I was determined to catch him before he could run away this time, so I ran to the door when FedEx man arrived. I was in such a hurry both dogs got by me and ran barking onto the porch, scaring the poor FedEx guy, all with me trying to hand him the return packages, him trying to give me the bike, both of us confused for maybe 30 seconds before figuring it out. (Fortunately, we have an external gate at the porch entrance, and FedEx guy retreated behind it.) With so much chaos, I'm sure he will always remember our house. Poor guy.

Epilog: After this incident, I got an inside gate so dogs can't get to the front door at all.

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LickMyThralls t1_ja978cn wrote

I've had them straight up deliver to a different house and then snap a picture that even shows the wrong number they put the package next to. Some of them are straight up incompetent.

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Kill3rT0fu t1_ja8mbdk wrote

> I had a FedEx driver deliver a bike to my front door that I needed to sign for. Good thing for whomever ordered it because he was at the wrong house

So the FedEx guy didn't know what your house number was, but somehow also thought you had a package to be delivered? Was he guided by The Force or Jesus?

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Tools4toys t1_ja9vsfl wrote

We get stuff for the wrong houses quite a bit. All of ours houses have low numbers, ie., 1-12 for five different streets. So we've often gotten items for other houses in the sub-division. The biggest one, we had a 15 cubic yard dumpster put in our driveway. They had to drive by the correct house to get to our house, with the good news is they came back and got it before I could even call to let them know the mistake. Assume the neighbors who ordered it saw them go by, then stopped them on the way out, and they came and got it.

EDIT: Was going to say, usually we just take mis-delivered packages over to the person who ordered it, so FedEx UPS USPS, gets they're mistakes corrected without any effort.

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