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I received a call while I was at work about a delivery I was supposed to get today, but since I am not home if this is Amazon, what do they do with the package?

If you get this, answer the call!!!  Thank you 800 Notes!  I was able to check the number while the phone was ringing, and saw it was my Amazon Prime Delivery driver.  I answered the phone and gave him directions.  If I had not answered I would not have gotten my delivery.  Yay!  I added a new contact so this number will show up as Amazon Prime Delivery in the future.

It was !!! Thanks for posting this, my package was outside waiting for me :)

Oh, so the wage slave Prime couriers do carry delivery notices, like every other doorstep courier in existence, which means Amazon does not need to pester consignees with rapid-fire phone calls.

Sometimes they have trouble locating the delivery address.  Like the package I received today.  I live in a large and quite confusing apartment complex with poorly marked buildings.  If I had ignored this call, my package would have been returned to the warehouse.  Luckily the third time the driver called I answered and got my package on time.  Not everyone in the World is out to dupe you.

...however, many scammers do spoof numbers, so there's that to take into consideration as well...

In your case, were I the courier, I would have sought a property manager or an alert-looking neighbor if you went MIA. Other comments here indicate that a delivery will likely be made in spite of non-response to the phone calls. So really what good is racking up phone plan minutes for notification one can accomplish more efficiently with an adhesive note?

Let's review some of the earliest posts here:

} 4 calls in less than one minute
} I got three last Sunday, FIVE this morning which woke me up."
} Received a call from 'unknown' at first and the called confirmed my name and then said "This is Amazon and we have your package, are you home right now."

From these remarks and my own experience, I see that Amazon has got itself convinced that behaving like an insistent fraudulent caller is good business practice. The third example cited raises an important issue. Any answer in the negative is a home invasion waiting to happen. Amazon and its stringer fleet drivers apparently require customers to ignore their own call screening and other privacy protocols just to receive a parcel. It also does not seem that customers are given an expectation that lost drivers will be calling them personally with "unknown", "blocked", or otherwise suspicious Caller ID sent.

I worked for the brown-clad courier years ago. One of the reasons it stays in business while many upstarts failed is through commitment to security. Did the stringer drivers have to pay for their own criminal background check like I did? Were they lectured for hours in the principles of safe delivery like I was? Were they trained over time by seasoned field employees to work smarter and prevent problems? I have my own guesses.

We drivers had several options open for a safe delivery at or near the consignee address when a recipient could not be met at the door. None of them required me to mysteriously hassle people on the phone. The only items I might withdraw for a retry were perishable goods and "air tags" needing a signature release. Frankly, if the parcel is one which you know is coming within a few hours of clicking an "order" gadget, you should already have a way to keep watch for its arrival.

I think I have a right to feel unnerved by repeated curt urging here to "please answer" and "don't block" an allegedly "legitimate caller". Sooner or later, until the process is improved, this "legitimate" phone number and excuse to call will be exploited by swindlers and thieves. I'm happy the multiple calls from a stranger worked for some of you, but Amazon evidently has not given thought to the problems which established couriers faced and settled decades ago.

answer the phone! it's amazon prime trying to deliver a package for you.

Send me $900 annually to subsidize my phone bill. Then you can tell me when to answer its rings.

If I see one more demand like this I'm inviting Admin over to red-stamp all the puppets.

I just got 3 calls from this number. I also didn't answer as I wasn't available. Tried to call back but recording says" not a call back number please call the contact number on your Prime Account". Well since I am not expecting a delivery and haven't ordered anything I am a bit suspicious. Unless someone is sending me a gift and then it seems they would be calling the person who sent the gift. Will wait and see what happens. If I do get a delivery for some strange reason I will repost. Otherwise, I am thinking it is a spoofed number. I will delay blocking for now.

Received a call from this number today and caller ID listed only Seattle, WA.  It was an Amazon delivery driver letting me know that he had placed my package under one of my recycle bins so it wouldn't sit on my porch exposed.  Very considerate !!

This is followup to my original post. Still haven't gotten any delivery. No additional calls. Very suspicious.  Sounds more like spoofed number trying to see who is home.  Totally agree with Resident47.

Another tin hat freak.

Your update is appreciated. I've been watching this page since five minutes past your 15 June comment. I have waited much longer for the inevitable, someone to come along who is not a consignee and therefore has no reasonable expectation of phone calls about a bloody Amazon delivery.

I doubt that Bawa will be the only one who does not need anyone's repeated terse exhortation to "answer the call!!!", "answer the phone!", "answer this call!", or "please answer". I am leaning to the thought that frauds have already begun to pose as Amazon employees and stringer help. Look at how many "safe to answer" claims came rushing here in late April alone.

I don't let Amazon off the hook yet. Their parcel processing remains immature. They've been publicly ridiculed for years for absurd overpackaging of tiny items in huge boxes, and also being too lazy to consolidate "smalls" into a single carton. The FAA accuses Amazon of at least 25 hazardous material screw-ups since early 2013 and is now seeking a $350K penalty for the latest snafus, involving a leaky jug of drain cleaner which scalded nine UPS workers. It would barely surprise me to learn that Amazon's management of undertrained contract labor box runners lands somewhere between "fast 'n' loose" and "Wild West".

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Disabled woman who struggled to open a 'ridiculously' large Amazon cardboard delivery box was stunned to find it contained just one tiny rosette
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-35616 ... ny-rosette.html

FAA Proposes $350,000 Civil Penalty Against Amazon.com, Inc
https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=20474

Claiming to be Amazon and actually being Amazon are two different things..

You mean whoever keeps posing as excited parcel recipients and chides total strangers for not answering their phones? Yes, I suppose mental illness could be a behavioral factor.

It was Amazon telling me the driver was at the door with my package.

Indeed, it was Amazon.  I didn't answer because caller ID didn't say who it was.  The driver simply marked the pkg as "undeliverable due to no safe place to leave pkg."  I was home and would have answered a knock or doorbell.  This is the first time they've done this.  They've always left pkgs in the past without any problems.  Sigh, I needed this item weeks ago but had to return it the first time due to a missing part.