People Share How Amazon Couriers "Hide" Their Packages In An Amusing Twitter Thread

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Damjan

Published in Funny
2 Jul 2021

People Share How Amazon Couriers "Hide" Their Packages In An Amusing Twitter Thread

Amazon delivery stories have a way of turning ordinary front porches into comedy gold. One recent tweet from Danielle McPherson did exactly that, after she found her parcel sitting on decorative stones near her house, with a few more stones tossed on top like that was enough to keep it hidden.

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The photo spread fast, pulling in hundreds of thousands of likes and a flood of replies from people sharing their own low-effort package hiding disasters. Some of the examples are so casual, they almost feel like a joke.

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And once you see the thread, it is hard not to wonder how many couriers are just winging it. Danielle McPherson

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Morgan Stanley estimates that Amazon is already distributing about half of its packages in the U.S. and will soon exceed both United Parcel Service and FedEx in total quantity.

Amazon Logistics has doubled its share of U.S. packages and is now delivering an impressive 2.5 billion packages per year. To put things in perspective, UPS ships 4.7 billion, and FedEx ships 3 billion packages per year in the U.S.

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Amazon's one-day Prime shipping has become a huge part of the company's pitch to customers.

The company focuses not only on delivering more packages to more consumers at greater speeds but also on owning the entire process, from the arrival of merchandise at an Amazon factory, or the product's assembly by an Amazon subsidiary, to the last-mile distribution to the consumer's doorstep. They are doing a great job so far…