Amazon purchases in the US of A
Sometimes delivered by one of three services, and sometimes by the Postal Service (cycling nexus: Lance's old sponsor) under arrangements where the delivery service moves it most of the way in their big truck, then hands off to USPS to get it to the delivery point.
Last week: I happened to find a moisture-sensitive package placed atop our mailbox, in the rain. When tracked, showed that it had been delivered, complete with the delivery person's online photo of where it had been placed: in front of our neighbor's gate. Now, our mailboxes are either side of said gate, but it's really clear which is ours; why couldn't they figure out which we were, and drive down the long driveway (ooh, scary in the dark), see the sign pointing to the front door (covered place to leave packages) (needed because of packages left all over the place), and leave it there?
Today, while trying to sort out another mis-delivery of the wrong product (separate story, but when things come in flavors, we kind of expect to get the flavor we ordered), my wife learned that Amazon's GPS system had tagged the neighbor's gate as our address. This would explain why we've received cellphone calls from the more diligent deliverers asking us for the security code for the gate ... Well, it took half an hour for this bastion of all things cyber to fix our address point.
So, don't think the UK has a monopoly on incompetence