i get it’s a legitimate safety thing to some degree and to certain people but have you considered that i cannot leave my place right now which is why i paid 40 dollars you ess dee for taco bell. which was a legitimate safety thing for myself as well, frankly.
and i totally get it: apartments fucking suck ass. i did this job for years. every single apartment design is absolute dogshit minus maybe 2 or 3 i’ve seen in my life between 3 cities. buildings will not be laid out, address wise, sequentially at all so finding anywhere is a fucking nightmare, the roads will be dogshit as well, potholes and speedbumps and i’m just trying to do my job and certain dumb complexes will randomly have some address noumbers on like, the back side of the building facing away from the fucking road for some reason??? why??? insane. just a total fucking hell. yes. i understand. but when i did the job i gritted my teeth and figured it out myself. calling the person is an absolute last resort. it’s a nightmare but frankly also when i gave up and called the person, waiting around and/or trying to get directions from them was just as annoying. bullshit job. we need high speed tubes connecting everywhere in the city.
I refuse to answer phone calls from delivery drivers. They either deliver it, or they don’t. For the drivers that just use the phone call to alert you that it’s been delivered great. I don’t need to answer that call. For the drivers who want to negotiate at my front door for whatever reason, I don’t need to talk to them either.
I should add there’s a table at my front door for deliveries to be left at. There is no human interaction required for a delivery. Though happily all the local drivers here just take a photo of whatever it is on the table, 10% of the time they’ll make a phone call (one ring - they don’t want to talk either) to let you know it’s been delivered.