Cornelius, North Carolina (WJZY) – Residents of one area of North Carolina say they are experiencing a delivery dilemma.
Several residents of Cornelius, a suburb of Charlotte, said the problem has been going on for about two weeks. Locals who spoke to his WJZY at Nexstar say it usually happens on rainy days and goes something like this: Neighbors get notifications that Amazon packages have been delivered, but , When I go outside, my luggage is not in the porch.
Video captured by a Ring doorbell shows an Amazon delivery driver tossing a package out of a truck window. Those packages fell in the middle of the road and were scattered across the lawn.
“I’m looking down the street and everyone’s luggage is in the grass,” said Jennifer Corkhorst. “And they’re not just small packages. They’re small packages and big packages.”
One neighbor said on Facebook that he found a $500 laptop on the curb next to his mailbox.
“We also found a package thrown onto the front lawn, soaked in the rain and strewn about,” said one commenter.
Not only were the packages wet and often damaged, drivers reported that the packages were either delivered to a safe location or delivered directly to the homeowner, according to neighbors.
“I called Amazon and that’s when they said,” Virginia Murray said.
Catherine Armitage is one of the locals whose packages are shown in the Ring video. The video appears to have been filmed at her neighbor’s house, two down her door. She said four or five packages were thrown out the driver’s window and only one or two actually belonged to her recipient.
“We were literally in the middle of a tire-track street in pouring rain,” Armitage said.
Armitage said Amazon offered her a refund and told her in an email that they had filed a formal complaint against the driver.
“It’s important because it’s easy and convenient. That’s what they sell to us,” Armitage said of Amazon’s service. It’s just a delay for me.”
WJZY later discovered that the same delivery driver was in the neighborhood a few days earlier. This time she handed each package to her recipient’s pouch.
“I hope it’s just burnout and not someone trying to do it all the time,” Murray said.
