I watched an Uber driver drop off food at someone's front door...

It's called contactless delivery. Came out thanks to covid and it never went away. They just put the food by your door and leave. The app lets you know your food is there. Pizza hut did it too. They are other options to where the driver has to hand delivery the food and some times they even have to get a pun number to prove it was delivered

Only once have I ever used such a service, and Walmart has their own driver's.

That was a pain. Because they had no cars or anything that could deliver a 52 inch TV. Took three days from Walmart. About 25 miles. I didn't have a car then.

I dont order food delivered. But I do order stuff on line. And I note no one knocks or rings the bell with a delivery any more. But I get an email delivery notification in a matter of minutes..😷

That's beoming common with contract delivery drivers.

They are given far too many deliveries in far too short a time, for poor pay. There is no incentive for them to deliver any sort of service, so they just drop the goods at what they think is the right address (often, the wrong one), and drive away.

The customer cannot track them, and can only sit and wait, hoping the deliverer will ring the doorbell.

They likely get a text and/or email when the food has arrived. But for the prices they charge, a knock would be nice.

You know when your food is there because they keep you updated with texts. They let you know when your driver gets to the shop, when they leave the shop, when they're headed towards your home, and when they drop off your order.

Some bugger left a trolleys worth of groceries on my front door last summer. No address on them. I had to chuck the meat and fridge stuff. I placed a notice on the community Facebook page saying what happened and if the owners of the groceries wanted to pick the rest up. But no one replied.

I don't know what it's like. I live out in country. No one makes deliveries to us.

I believe the person placing the order gets a text saying it has been delivered. So, an electronic "door knock"

I looked into this. I called FedEx and asked them why no doorbell ring?

I was told that delivery personnel are specially told to NOT ring the bell for three reason:

1) It takes extra time to ring the bell. Time is money x 50 deliveries per day.

2) Ringing the bell activates a doorbell camera and now their image is captured in the database of the doorbell camera which is located in two places... the doorbell sim card within the home and the mainframe computer at the doorbell camera manufacturer's facility and available only to police.

3) Many incidents of accidental murder have been logged as a result of the driver ringing the doorbell, where the homeowner (in the USA only) has fired their gun through their wooden front door at whomever was ringing their bell and waking them up in the middle of the day if they worked the night shift. This has happened literally hundreds of times across the USA where the person ringing or knocking was a kid delivering newspapers. Americans also shoot at people who turn their car around in the homeowner's driveway.

Using these 3 issues stated, FedEx decided to make it company policy to not ring the bell or knock on the door, but instead send an electronic notice to the recipient that their box delivery was on the front porch.

Well awful

Even more a mystery is the rise of fast food deliveries at a time when more and more people are complaining about the rising cost of food.

he ate too many 🍟

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