# Let's debate the wisdom of allowing Amazon and others to access your home while you are not present **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 22, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-the-wisdom-of-allowing-amazon-and-others-to-access-your-home-while-you-are-not-present/947064 "2021-07-22T16:52:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-the-wisdom-of-allowing-amazon-and-others-to-access-your-home-while-you-are-not-present/947064/41 "2021-07-25T20:51:36Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > One possibility, and we may very well see more homes designed with this in mind in the future, is a specific delivery room. You’ve got the front door, which leads into a small entryway, beyond which is a second door. You let Amazon (or other delivery services) in through the outer door, but not the inner one. Put a sink and a shoe rack in there, too, and you are set up to decontaminate when you get home during the next pandemic. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-the-wisdom-of-allowing-amazon-and-others-to-access-your-home-while-you-are-not-present/947064/42 "2021-07-25T20:56:29Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > I allow Amazon to deliver inside of my garage. I leave my garage door open unless it is very hot or very cold out. I nonetheless sometimes find packages left on the driveway, in the rain. 🤬 ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-the-wisdom-of-allowing-amazon-and-others-to-access-your-home-while-you-are-not-present/947064/43 "2021-07-25T22:07:20Z")
Do none of you have cleaning services? It seems like the idea of letting people into your place is pretty well established. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-the-wisdom-of-allowing-amazon-and-others-to-access-your-home-while-you-are-not-present/947064/44 "2021-07-25T22:14:42Z")
Speaking for myself, no I do not have a cleaning service. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-the-wisdom-of-allowing-amazon-and-others-to-access-your-home-while-you-are-not-present/947064/45 "2021-07-25T22:27:42Z")
A cleaning service ripped off a number of CDs. Now I have no cleaning service. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-the-wisdom-of-allowing-amazon-and-others-to-access-your-home-while-you-are-not-present/947064/46 "2021-07-25T22:38:29Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > Do none of you have cleaning services? It seems like the idea of letting people into your place is pretty well established. Aren’t cleaning services bonded? ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-the-wisdom-of-allowing-amazon-and-others-to-access-your-home-while-you-are-not-present/947064/47 "2021-07-25T22:39:43Z")
But the point remains that cleaning services exist and many people have them. The argument that it’s a logistical and logical nightmare to give people access, that they would have to have a camera on them every minute, or are likely to get shot, is settled. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-the-wisdom-of-allowing-amazon-and-others-to-access-your-home-while-you-are-not-present/947064/48 "2021-07-25T22:48:51Z")
Yeah, but when your gold watch or Monet is missing and the cleaning lady swears up and down that she didn’t take it, what then? ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-the-wisdom-of-allowing-amazon-and-others-to-access-your-home-while-you-are-not-present/947064/49 "2021-07-25T22:51:43Z")
With a cleaning service, don’t most people get recommendations from a friend or a friend of a friend? Then you have some assurance that the same single person will not steal your stuff. With Amazon, you will have different people all of the time coming inside your home unvetted by you or anyone you know, and it only takes one dishonest one to rip you off. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-the-wisdom-of-allowing-amazon-and-others-to-access-your-home-while-you-are-not-present/947064/50 "2021-07-25T22:53:21Z")
Actually, I think the opposite point has been made. Whether or not their worries are justified, enough people who get deliveries from Amazon won’t let a delivery person into their house for this to be a viable option. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-the-wisdom-of-allowing-amazon-and-others-to-access-your-home-while-you-are-not-present/947064/51 "2021-07-25T22:57:13Z")
That makes no sense. It’s not like there are a different set of drivers doing in home deliveries and porch deliveries. The same driver will be doing both. It’s perfectly viable even if only a small number of people use it at first. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-the-wisdom-of-allowing-amazon-and-others-to-access-your-home-while-you-are-not-present/947064.md?page=2)