I used to live out in the country too. Fedex driver was too fucking lazy to get their fat ass out of the truck and set the packages on my protected front porch. They would drive up the driveway, toss the package on the ground by the garage door and leave.
I had ordered some nice cloth furniture covers one time ($350). 3 weeks go by, no package. I call the company, and they said tracking showed delivered. I argued with them saying I never received them, so they reluctantly sent out another set. That next winter day, I looked out of my back doors leading to the back deck, and saw a big lump in the snow. I was thinking, "shit, a dead animal on my back deck". I get out there with a shovel and low and behold it was my furniture covers sitting in a rotted box soaking wet and completely ruined.
What the thought pattern or lack of common sense of this Fedex driver is, I'll never know. When pulling up the driveway, the driver was 50 feet closer to the covered front porch, than having to walk all away around the back of the house, climb the steps , and set a cardboard package in the snow on a corner of the deck where nobody would see it..
I called Fedex to file another complaint, and they said the driver wanted to make sure nobody stole the package. I said, "the driver sure as hell doesn't care about my packages being stolen when she dumps them out on the driveway in front of the house". No amount of filing complaints or talking to the driver ever got them to put my packages on the covered front porch.
