Monday, November 14, 2011

How do I get package delivery companies to deliver to the correct address?

My house is on the corner of two streets (lets call them A and B). My mailing address is on street A, but the house actually faces street B. There have been numerous times over the past several years when delivery companies deliver my package to a completely different address, sometimes just seeming to randomly pick another street nearby and deliver it to the same house number. Many times, I have no idea how many, my neighbors were kind enough to just bring over the package and leave it on my doorstep. A handful of times I was home when this happened and I apologized to them. One family became frustrated after who knows how many times of this happening and wrote me a nasty note on the bottom of one of my packages telling me to "stop having my stuff delivered to their house." This has happened with several different carriers, and as I mentioned, I actually have no idea how many times it's *actually* happened if my neighbors are just dropping stuff off when I'm not home. I hate being a nuisance, but I don't know what I can actually do to fix this. I tried adding a 2nd address line when having stuff shipped to my house indicating that my house is at the corner of streets A&B, but when the packages arrive, that line is not listed. I recently was waiting for a package to be delivered before I went out of town. I had to go without receiving the package, which I later found had been delivered 2 days before I left to someone's doorstep (not mine, and that neighbor apparently decided not to return the package). I do a lot of my holiday shopping online and I'm dreading it this year if I have a repeat of all the other years. Any ideas how to fix this?

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