# How are package delivery services where you live? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 23, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-package-delivery-services-where-you-live/1026000 "2025-12-23T23:43:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 51
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-package-delivery-services-where-you-live/1026000/51 "2025-12-31T16:05:32Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > calling them generally stupid and/or lazy is just flat out privileged, shitty behavior. I did manual labor jobs starting from when I was 15 and through the first years of college. Anyone who hasn’t, is incapable of getting it and should give empathy a try. That’s what really rubs me the wrong way. When the way you do your job, by stopping in the middle of the road, is antisocial, illegal, & a danger to life & property (yes, we recently had fire apparatus delayed getting to a house fire) then the delivery drivers are the ones acting privileged & shitty. > [@hajario](#): > > I did a little searching and the consensus seems to be that the default of not ringing the doorbell started over Covid. Clearly the delivery services didn’t change it to benefit the public. Why direct anger at the majority of the drivers who are just doing what they are told to do? 60% of us [(MPSIMP - Polls)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6463) _want_ the doorbell rung. COVID is not the same very deadly unknown pandemic that it was in March of 2020. Do you have research that shows the drivers are told not to do it by the delivery services? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-package-delivery-services-where-you-live/1026000)._