206-922-0193

I'm not sure why them doing a courtesy call bothers you so much as to repeatedly post how them trying to be polite and do a good job as a delivery person is somehow an attempt to annoy & eat up plan minutes (people still have limited minutes?). You must be very hard to please in your personal life.

I worked for Amazon for years.  We ALWAYS knock or ring the bell.  The only reason we would have central make a call is if the package requires a signature and we didn't get an answer.  I suspect, Seth, that you are the person who has been telling everyone to answer the phone.  I advise everyone who is worried about this to check with Amazon and check your delivery settings if you are with Amazon prime.  As I said, Seth, there is no way we would fail to knock or ring the bell.

They called 2 times in a row. Why wouldn't they leave a message on my answering machine? I went outside to see if there was a package. I didn't think there would be but I am expecting some.

Seriously.
People are out there that can help. Maybe a therapy kitten will do some good.

I am in fact quite easy to please. Don't lie to me and don't sneak behind my back. For some reason, various personalities who demand that I stop screening calls just for them find creating that transparency difficult.

Reports here indicate multiple clustered nuisance calls with useless Caller ID, avoidance of message recording, and calls made to people who are not expecting any parcels. Meantime, cheerleaders for the caller want me to believe that Amazon's couriers are incapable of reading maps, using GPS, finding places or persons for safe delivery, pressing doorbell switches, knocking on doors, or posting delivery attempt notices. In other words, their sheer incompetence somehow justifies causing consignee phones to ring three or five times in a row. I am real hard put to find the "courtesy" in any of these practices.

Thanks so much for the ad hominem attack. You're helping me handily to prove my point.

Seth's claim made no sense to me, either. Ultimately Amazon loses money on needless delivery retries. If they operate like my former employer, they will lean on drivers to get rid of those parcels promptly as well as safely, which means exhausting every practical option before resorting to playing "phone tag".

Call from Amazon Courier needing help finding my delivery location. DO ANSWER!!!

.... something the courier could have done three times faster and above suspicion with a delivery notice. Very insidious!

Yes, obviously the courier was unable to press a doorbell button or knock on a door because he had no limbs. What happened to the recycle bin where you told us a day before the guy stashed your goods?

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-206-922-0193#p1056305321376722152

Here we go again ....  "answer the call!!!", "answer the phone!", "answer this call!", "Don't block", "DO ANSWER!!!" ..... Does the phrase "broken record" still mean anything to you?

What is the penalty if I don't answer? Hmm? What's the worst that can happen? Just maybe there is something going on in my life at that moment which is far more pressing to me than some schmuck tooling around outside with a cardboard box burning holes in his palms.

Or maybe I find it ridiculous that a person who is hired to locate and visit strange addresses all day can't find his own rectum with a flashlight and a mountain sherpa unless he calls me several times from an unidentified phone number. This is supposed to be for my convenience?

You really want me to believe that a courier making nine to twelve stops an hour has nothing but time to call every one of his same-day consignees because he can't find "north" on a map? Or he needs to proudly announce his clever hiding place for a parcel? Or consignees immediately fall dead asleep or develop amnesia six seconds after ordering and therefore cannot watch for the courier's arrival?

If these stringer drivers cannot think on their feet and solve their little problems without someone else wiping the mess, they have the wrong job. But let's underline where I'm going. None of these specious excuses for the mystery phone calls aligns with my experience of doing the same job for a different company. While physically exhausting, the vast majority of stops are simply not so difficult to manage in a logistic sense. You would think from this thread that Prime drivers need to pause and question and hesitate all day, and maybe would find air traffic control or nuclear power plant management less complex work for better money.

As others have noted, this is Amazon. The first time I met an actual Amazon delivery person, he explained that they would often call if no one answers the door because they're trying to prevent packages being stolen while sitting outside the door. He also said the calls would usually show up as a Seattle or Washington, DC, number with no other identifier and wanted me to know it could be him trying to call.

Res, you've totally missed the driving force behind this policy. Are you aware that if Amazon ships you something (by UPS, FedEx, or whatever) and it's stolen off your porch, they'll usually instantly replace it for you at no charge? That's an out-of-pocket expense for which they're not legally liable, but they do it anyway and it's bound to cost them a fortune. They're trying to prevent it. Makes perfect sense.

Um ... Jerry - slow down!

If a person is notified by a delivery service that the package was delivered, but if the package is not where it is expected to be, the person is supposed to notify the delivery service.

The delivery service then tries to contact the driver to see if the driver remembers where the package was dropped off.  If the package cannot be found, the person can then contact Amazon or whomever.  That contact is initiated by the recipient, who will be informed what happens next.

"Cold calls" regarding supposed deliveries are seldom made by the driver (although they may be made if the recipient is in a gated community, or for some other reasons).  In those cases, the call will be from the gate phone, or from the driver's cell phone ... NOT from an 800 number, and definitely NOT from an out-of-state number!

In most cases, the "cold call" is a variation of scam #19 , as described here:
http://phonehelp.2truth.com/facts.html

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Just received a call from this number. The driver for Amazon Prime couldn't find my apartment and I had to give direction. I would advice NOT to block this number.

Amazon delivery driver at our gate with a package.  The dogs wouldn't let him in.

This is Amazon's own delivery service.  Two days in a row I received a call from this number, then Shortly after an Amazon delivery man showed up at my door with a package.

It is the courier for the Amazon purchase I made.  The package was at the front door.

It was Amazon, I walked out as he was calling me.

I didnt pick up or call the number back but the ship delivery time of my packages i was expecting today, corresponds with the time i missed the call. So yeah, id say its Amazon. This is new....