Amazon won't deliver packages to porches

dave · 2025-08-12T02:17:16+00:00

Per recent mailing. ‘to ensure driver safety’ Amazon will after August no longer honour my delivery instuctions to leave all packages on my porch. Deliveries to the front door are fine, so I have changed my instructions from ‘porch’ to ‘front door’. To reach my front door, you have to be standing in the porch. Here’s the full text of the notification: We hope this message finds you well. We are writing to share an important update to our delivery services that will further enhance driver safety. As of August 31, 2025, we will no longer deliver packages to rear doors or side porches. One or more of your addresses currently includes one of these locations as a selected delivery preference. We encourage changing your preference to a supported option using the link below. If you don’t change your preference, we will automatically default your delivery preference to the front door. We also offer pickup locations that you can add to your address book for future orders. Find pickup locations near you here. We appreciate your understanding as we prioritize the safety of delivery drivers while ensuring the secure delivery of your packages.

InternetJeff

Sparkchaser We take pictures of each other. The driver of the delivery and me of the driver.

Oh the camera video I could post (but won’t) of delivery drivers here. High comedy.

takeahike

dave

How do this fit in? Actually, the original notice says side porches. What is a side porch? I’ve never seen on that isn’t in the front? In any event, August 31, 2025 has yet to arrive, so this is all moot as we speak.

dave

"My friends all have porches
I must make amends…"

HooRU

dave Hah, I see what you did there, very rapier of you.

Somewhat-Reticent

Better than leaving parallel trenches on your lawn?

InternetJeff

Somewhat-Reticent

What a lazy moron.

Thane_Bitter

Somewhat-Reticent No stereotypes were harmed in that video.
Sort of curious about the house layout, is their front door so remote from the road and driveway, seems like an odd design choice?

InternetJeff

Thane_Bitter Sort of curious about the house layout, is their front door so remote from the road and driveway, seems like an odd design choice?

Seems to me a perfectly good reason to damage someone’s lawn.
/s

If a driver had done that to my lawn, they (and/or their employer) would be in small claims court to pay for resodding of the damaged areas.

px_eliezer_

InternetJeff

I would have also liked to see the part of the video where he backed up—did he just go in reverse, or do a full 180 and proceed forward.

Sheesh.

I don’t have a long driveway or a large house but some Amazon drivers have left packages at the end of the driveway near the garage doors—and that’s fine and much preferable to abusing the lawn.

It’s more of a tort than a crime, but IF it was a crime, does it constitute “herbicide” ? 😃

Somewhat-Reticent

px_eliezer_ does it constitute “herbicide” ? 😃

Groot thinks so🌱!

dave

px_eliezer_ but some Amazon drivers have left packages at the end of the driveway

… carefully placed so that you can run over them if you don’t notice them on the ground before reversing out of the garage!

real_aurgathor

Somewhat-Reticent

I believe Amazon drivers have to deliver lots of packages and do it relatively fast, and so that’s an incentive to come up with creative shortcuts that can speed up the delivery. Of course some of those shortcuts may come with serious side effects, like as shown in this video.

Somewhat-Reticent

real_aurgathor Sure, but there are better ways.
Even for independent contractors like this one.

Sparkchaser

I waiting to read it was a Tesla in auto mode.

Amazon delivery here is fine. No complaints. They could just walk about a 100′ off the road but they usually walk down the drive and up a stepping stone path to the door. Probably 300′+

Kathy_9

px_eliezer_ I would have also liked to see the part of the video where he backed up—did he just go in reverse, or do a full 180 and proceed forward.

The video on the USA Today site shows the entrance and exit from the property.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/24/amazon-contractor-drive-over-lawn-delivery-video/90680888007/

Somewhat-Reticent

Kathy_9 Thanks.
Article notes “no longer delivering packages”.

InternetJeff

real_aurgathor I believe Amazon drivers have to deliver lots of packages and do it relatively fast, and so that’s an incentive to come up with creative shortcuts that can speed up the delivery.

I might understand that as a reason, but in this instance, from watching the video the person in question did not seem to demonstrate much of a sense of urgency either on her feet or driving the car.

Thane_Bitter

InternetJeff Imagine had the same happen to her lawn (if she had one, I have doubts she owns anything other than debt), she would not be happy. Given that the evidence is strong odds are the company will provide compensation to repair the damage but failing that I would expect anyone would sue.

Somewhat-Reticent

InternetJeff did not seem to demonstrate much of a sense of urgency

Pregnant people may be less excitable.

InternetJeff

Somewhat-Reticent Pregnant people may be less excitable.

There can be great peril in assuming a woman is pregnant merely by appearance. 😉

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