This guy calls to tell me he has delivered my package, after receiving a text message and an email. Why do these drivers need to also call. I live in a house in a remote suburban cul de sac.
I wasn't wearing my comic face. Several comments here fail to "clearly actually" identify a strange caller and have come from people who did not "clearly actually" expect a delivery or place any orders. What's not clear is a reason for relentless demands made here, often in the pattern of fraudulent shills, telling people what to do when unnamed callers pounce on their phones.
Everything I am reading about the Amazon Prime stringer drivers describes a delivery system which was lashed together with little to no consideration for efficiency or security. Amazon could study what works and what fails in parcel delivery and put real thought into logistics, but instead dumps all that homework onto not-really contractors who lack experience and training. Amazon is run by big boys and girls who should be able to populate Caller ID with a proper CNAM name tag so that these "oh so important don't you dare ignore them" phone calls do not ambush people the same way as countless calls from all kinds of thieves and con men.
Into these weaknesses will creep exploitation, deception, and abuse, if not from criminals posing as Amazon stringers, then from those very faux freelancers. This is why you are free to describe your caller experience, but you are not free to blanket everyone else's.
I think part of the problem is that the delivery people are actually sub contractors and are using their own phones to make these calls. I have read the same thing about this new delivery system and that it was poorly thought out. Maybe they spend too much time trying to figure out how to make drones work for delivery?