I too have an attached garage. I also have a covered front porch. I can't tell you how many times the UPS guy has left a package in front of the garage. I suppose it saves the 30 steps or so. One time I was expecting a tablet and happened to see the delivery guy walk to the garage and put the package there. It was the tablet of course. It had already rained and we were expecting more so it was very overcast. I went outside and told him that this needed to be put on the covered porch.. He became frustrated as he brought it to me and said he thought it would be alright there because it was covered. Yeah, there is a 16" overhang 2 stories in the air above the garage. IOW, he added stupid to lazy on his resume . But that is what many employers face today.
I'm trusting FedEx/ UPS less by the day
Many of the people working these high demand jobs in the shipping industry were already hating it before the pandemic and what not. Now I think many simply dont care one bit. Then you throw huge "fragile" and "do not drop" stickers on the box with a nice big beautiful picture advertisement of the component/ speaker on the outside box for everyone to see and its almost goading them to mess with it.
Recently bought a subwoofer and there was a hole/dent in the box so deep it penetrated through the 2nd interior box. Obviously this was dropped from some distance. Not too mention the fact that the UPS driver just flopped the box off the dolly causing it to roll forward on to its other side. Right in front of me. No apology or anything, just handed me the sign pad and acted like it was nothing. And that's how it's being treated in front of the customer I can't imagine what goes down in these warehouses.
Ok end of rant 🙂