Maybe it’s just around here but all of a sudden the drivers are ringing the bell again for the first time in years…
I’ve checked my footage and it’s all the drivers (we get many around here).
Scares my cat… Make em stop…
Anyone else have a lot of bell ringing???
Maybe just in your area as they don’t ring the door bell here.
Set up delivery instructions in your account on where you would like the delivery to be at your house and instruct them not to ring the door bell if it is by a door with a door bell.
We have ours set up to deliver under the carport at the back gate entrance into the yard. Works like a charm as they have to walk right by the camera (so we get a notice from the camera). Every delivery we give feedback … thumbs up for following instructions and thumbs down if they don’t.
We have ours set up like that so the packages don’t set out by the front door and so that they are protected from the weather elements and less likely to blow away in the wind.
We installed an outdoor storage box mere feet from our “exposed to everyone walking by” door, where it is clearly in view from the door, but behind a bush from the street view. Those few feet are too much for some. But it is improving, most are using the box, so I don’t care if they ring the bell. We did get to tell our UPS delivery guy that he didn’t have to walk all the way around our house to leave it leaning against the back door, he was the best. I think we are down to only one delivery person who invites theft. Our problem is there are too many delivery people, so we don’t know who is leaving what where and who we may already have spoken to. There are at least three Amazon drivers in our area, and they change frequently.
This reminds me; I need to order a new doorbell. 
Maybe I’ll have something to report later.
And don’t you have that garage delivery thing set up?
We do but Amazon charges more for that type of delivery, (unless you agree to 1 delivery a week and set a day of the week).
Furthermore, My-Q is currently down. Went down about 2 weeks ago and after attempting to reconnect it a million times, I gave up.
Same thing that happened last year. Once I get it back connected, it stays on for 6-8 months and then goes down again.
The trick I used last time (deleting the APP and starting all over) - did not work sadly.
I can get pretty far along in the process but the App stops working right before I get to the part where I link the garage door opener to it.
I am almost positive this is all due to the fact that I have a phone from 2017 (iPhone 6).
It’s time… I think… lol
Now don’t do anything rash… 
Mine is 2018 and have had two apps tell me recently that it’s too old for them 
I have to laugh when you report your phone being too old.
Growing up, we had one telephone line for our household of six. We were told to stay off the phone if Dad was expecting a business call.
There were three extensions, so if one were on a call, there was no guarantee of privacy. Anyone in the house could pick up an extension phone, and as long as they did not breathe heavily or make noise, they could be party to any call received on another telephone extension.
Long-distance calls were billed in three-minute increments, so Mum kept a three-minute sand-timer by each telephone, for the very occasional time we initiated a long-distance telephone call.
Our telephones did not wear out. They had dials. I think we all left them when we moved, for the next owner of our houses.
I haven’t watched “Dial M for Murder,” in several years, but I remember thinking the woman should have backed away from her telephone and purchased an answering machine
Yea, it’s getting bad for me… Way more than 2.
I had jury duty last week in Jamaica Queens and you have to pay to park in a public lot.
Made my registration for a spot for the day I was there and they wanted me to download their App so I could present the QR code to the lot attendant when I got there.
Nope… Couldn’t get the App…
Thankfully there was an option to print the code.
As for Jury Duty… Not too bad, I was out in under 4 hours. They let the self-employed people go by calling them all up in a group and telling them the case they were scheduled for was settled or adjourned. Clearly not true…
Building isn’t that big but they call 300-700 people in a day for, at most, 4 cases.
Whatever… They can’t call me again for 6 years.
You got lucky.
Jury duty for me, in Manhattan, last time, was over an hour on two buses downtown, since I no longer ride the subway.
I have been self-employed for most of my working life. Jury duty is compatible with self-employment. If I don’t work, I don’t get paid. It is that simple.
Friends whose employers pay them their full wages during jury duty love it–getting to go home at 3PM after a day of jury duty and a fine lunch at a nearby to the court house Asian restaurant is a treat for them.
My wife had grand jury duty last summer FOR A MONTH…
My daughter got called too recently but got out of it bc she’s a full time student.
This house has a jury duty target on it…
For some reason, my jury duty calls have all been for Federal cases. Last one I got picked, and the jury waited in a room (not even the normal waiting room; more like a dis-used school room with poor ventilation). We waited for 3 days, before the judge finally came and told us we were dismissed. Why 3 days? It took that long for all of the file boxes of evidence to be wheeled in, or at least enough that the defendants accepted a plea bargain.
For life in prison with no parole.
Very glad we never got into the courtroom.
But I think that was long enough ago that I might be called up again.
Amazon never rings the doorbell here.
Amazon mostly follows delivery instructions to deliver to the correct entrance, but not always.
Amazon usually follows delivery instructions to use the lockbox key to delivery to the lobby, but not all of the condo owners include that in the instructions.
I doubt if Amazon is telling the drivers to ring the bell. I might even doubt the contractor they work for does. I would believe that stolen packages might motivate a driver to ring.
This brings up a good point. I forgot that each area is a franchise for the smile trucks.
It might be the owner of our local franchise that is having their drivers ring and run…
Somewhere there is a robin laughing it’s feathers off … thinking … this is better than doing his windows.
That reminds me… My daughter said she heard something banging on the windows earlier this AM. I was sleeping.
Time to go to the videotape…
Well we had an Amazon driver ring our doorbell today. With package in hand, he said he was not sure he was at the right address (our address is in large numbers on the front of the house and we live on the corner of the street where the street sign is for the street name). He could barely read our name and address on the label and was talking to Amazon dispatch getting instructions. This elderly man was driving a nice new crew cab pickup but was clearly out of his element when using the Amazon device for deliverying packages.
Keeping our fingers crossed that this was a one off type thing. Normally, the drivers have been very good and deliver the packages under the carport as per our instructions on our orders (have a couple of cameras there to watch deliveries).
Probably the cost of living and the price of his new truck drove him out of retirement. 
We had a bad storm last night. The amazon driver dropped the package at the foot of the stairs, took his picture and ran at 9pm.
Needless to say the structural intregretrey of the cardboard box was that of tissue paper by the time I found it at 5 am.