I was waiting on the front lawn for a UPS delivery to show up while surfing on my laptop one day since it was a nice day. I occasionally took a look at the online tracking page and flipped out when it went from "out for delivery" to a failed delivery notice because the recipient wasn't there. Since I saw no UPS truck driving past my house, and the front door is the only way to make a delivery short of climbing over walls of other houses, you can probably understand why. Called up UPS customer support, asked them to please redeliver the next day because I would be leaving home soon and I didn't want to wait for the delivery, wherever the guy was, so he could save himself some time and effort.
The UPS delivery guy actually came over 4 hours later when I was definitely away from home to put up a delivery attempt notice saying I wasn't there. After I explicitly told two separate customer support folks NOT to deliver the package after I talked to them because I will not be there to pick up - and those two were separate from the initial call I made. This guy seemed to have an absurd sense of humor, because he marked the one and only notice I received that I didn't want as a second delivery attempt.
Your idea will only make sense if UPS actually did their job. They failed catastrophically for me in that incident. Since I seem to get delivery attempt notices quite often, I wonder just how many times they actually stopped by (unfortunately I usually take the car out when I'm going, and that's a different exit..).
The UPS delivery guy actually came over 4 hours later when I was definitely away from home to put up a delivery attempt notice saying I wasn't there. After I explicitly told two separate customer support folks NOT to deliver the package after I talked to them because I will not be there to pick up - and those two were separate from the initial call I made. This guy seemed to have an absurd sense of humor, because he marked the one and only notice I received that I didn't want as a second delivery attempt.
Your idea will only make sense if UPS actually did their job. They failed catastrophically for me in that incident. Since I seem to get delivery attempt notices quite often, I wonder just how many times they actually stopped by (unfortunately I usually take the car out when I'm going, and that's a different exit..).