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Not every package is signature required, in fact, few are. you don't know this one is. I am going to assume OP is competent enough to not be complaining about such a package.
The only "signature required" packages I've ever had defaulted to USPS rather than a contracted private service.
If it doesn't require a signature then why wouldn't they just leave it?
???
They don't want to deal with pushing the buttons to enter the premises (presumably apartment building or office) to leave the package at the front desk. Kind of the point of the post.
Yeah I guess I just assumed that the process for delivering a normal package would involve going to the mail room or front desk instead of reading the door code from a sticky note publicly posted on the outside of the building. That's how it has worked at every building I've lived for packages which don't require a signature.
Why should they have to though? It's not a delivery driver's job to jump through various hoops to gain access to a private residence, and that's not even going into the liability and safety issues that come with it.
Also, why even bother having a door code if you're giving it out to every random delivery driver.
Every single Metropolitan area does this
US defaultism much?
This is absolutely not a thing where I live and it sounds quite entitled to expect this level of personal service from an underpaid and overworked worker who's probably already overbooked and struggling to finish his round on time.
Here a delivery driver will come to the street facing door of a building, and attempt to deliver with you in person, or if you live up high you can buzz him in to put the package in the shared entrance space, but he's not going to go on a lone quest to gain access to every single private multitenant building. You're not home, and haven't given permission to deliver to your neighbors? Tough shit. Come pick up the package at the depot.
Sounds like they can't get into the building/ gated community because they can't figure out how to use the numpad.