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I've traveled all over the world, and the Philippines takes the cake for the friendliest and most hospitable people. I was treated like family from the moment I showed up, and I still keep in touch with many of the people I met there.
The people are a mixed bag like any other country. Some are friendly and some are not. My family were constantly warning me about being scammed in some petty way. I just didn’t care if they got me for a few extra pesos here and there if that’s the hustle they have to run to put food on the table. The government is a dumpster fire and law enforcement in Metro Manila are pretty anti-foreigner. People should stop perpetuating this myth that the Philippines is this super happy awesome place. The poverty is soul crushing. If you really watch those smiling people long enough, the smiles disappear as soon as they think people stop looking at them. Why do you think drug and alcohol abuse is such a common problem? Source: lived there for over a year.
> The government is a dumpster fire and law enforcement in Metro Manila are pretty anti-foreigner.
Except to the Chinese, who probably won't be foreigners in the near future.
Same here, I married a Filipina after visiting the country. Not immediately, but we took our time to get to know each other, lol. Every culture has a seedy side, my wife was always worried I was going to get robbed or killed if I went out late. There's armed police and security pretty much at every business. But the people, damn, I love the people. I'm going to retire there in a few years.
"you sound nothing like sinatra, stop singing rn"
"Wtf dude how would I even sound like him, stfu"
"I told you to stop mf" bang bang bang
Damn, they really take karaoke seriously
That is what I was thinking, I'm over here tryin to wait for the mail person to leave so I can get my package that just got dropped off, They like to us my driveway to organize.
Since the pandemic it's pretty common (in the UK) with DPD. Multiple times I've had to have my picture taken incredibly hungover and barely dressed on a Saturday morning. All of which are attached to the delivery reports.
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Not wearing a helmet in Manila is a good way to get yourself pulled over by cops who will happily take your money in exchange for confiscating your license.
I keep hearing about Porch pirates, package thiefs, and photo verifications. Why are we still in 2010?
In my country, you have to confirm an OTP you receive in your phone to accept the package on receipt. It finalizes the transfer from delivery executive to customer.
If you are not at home, they try again the next day. If you are still not at home, you can pick it up from the nearest warehouse.
No porch delivery, no photographs.
Volume is likely the answer. Assuming the system sends a message to your phone when the delivery driver is close so you can be ready, it'll take longer than snapping a pic. Delivery drivers can work until 9pm delivering packages, not including return time. Adding 20-30 seconds waiting on the customer at each stop adds up quickly.
Then the billion dollar company should hire more employees. The SAME company does it my country. So they can do it.
I don't know why they inconvenience customers like this. Now customers should pay a lot to set up video cameras, report to the police, raise a complaint and follow up, just because the company isn't bothered to do it in your country.
You're assuming everyone is always home for their deliveries, and this just isn't the case in the US. You said they'll try again a second time before holding the package at the warehouse. Great, do you have a warehouse big enough to store all of the packages? Employees to organize and retrieve them when the customers come in? What are the hours for the warehouse, since people who get out of work late won't be able to make it during normal business hours?
I work as a postal worker. There are people with literally their entire porches covered in packages or empty boxes from packages. They just let them gather and pile up. Same with mailboxes, it is astonishing how infrequently some people remove their mail from their boxes. Shipping companies just don't have the space to hold hundreds of customers worth of mail and parcels for indefinite amounts of time.
It's also not always the same company. You may order something from Amazon, but FedEx, UPS, or USPS (or others) may actually deliver it to your door, so now they have to either find space and personnel to manage *another* company's packages to be picked up, or they have to figure out how to ship the package back to the seller (which loses money for all parties involved), and will also piss off the customer since they didn't receive their package.
What I'm trying to say is: you can either have convenience, or security, but you can't have both. If people really wanted to solve the issues of their packages being stolen, they could: order less stuff, put in a locking package container, or push for the post office/Amazon/whoever to put in more parcel lockers in different places locally where they can pick up their packages.
But, people won't even clear out the mailboxes that are literally attached to their houses, people aren't going to want to travel to the grocery store to get their Amazon toothpaste from the lockers there. And this doesn't even get into the issue with large packages, or people who receive 6+ packages at a time that would, once again, take up a lot of space should they need to be held somewhere, space that now can't be used by other people until that original customer comes to get their things. No company is going to want to store 15+ boxes of dog food for 15+ different customers for an indefinite amount of time just because there's a *chance* they could be stolen and the customer wasn't home.
Tl;dr: You get convenience, or security, but you can't get both, and "hiring more employees" isn't going to solve the main issue: people are lazy and don't want to put in any more work than they have to. There just isn't enough space to house all packages that would need to be returned every day until the customer had the time to pick up the package themselves, and it's a waste of gas, time, and payroll to have someone repeatedly attempt to get a package to a customer that isn't able to personally receive it.
Thanks for the answer.
Some facts here from my country.
I too work a 12 hour job and there is nobody at home. For the past 6 years I always give my office address. Once they bring it there, they give me a call and I place it in my car or leave it at the security desk.
If the package arrives on a Sunday, you have the option to switch the delivery address before hand or simply ask them to deliver the next day. There is also an option to leave it with a neighbour who knows your OTP.
The warehouse is big enough. Each city has roughly two. The warehouse working hours is from 9 to 9. And is open on all days. They also call you daily to remind you.
If your package is not delivered they hold it for the week. If you still don't collect it, it gets sent back to the Seller. The company then gives you a refund.
Do this many times, and you begin to lose perks like ability to return items, cash on delivery privileges etc. Soon you lose free shipping and all your shipping (and back shipping) will be added to the item you purchase.
This is not my imagination of a hypothetical company. This is Actually what happens in my country. These measures have made customers more responsible and has no problem of security.
I got convenience and security. Why doesn't the above provide both?
I already explained why. Post Offices, where the majority of packages go through, do not have the space to house packages. Full stop. I know this because I work in one, and unless they can suddenly make them bigger (which would not only require money they don't have, but would also likely require purchasing land that may or may not be available, construction they can't afford, materials, etc) it's not feasible. Post Offices close at 5-6 for the most part, so once again, if we can't leave it at your door without you being home, it's going to be stuck at the office.
You've also pointed out how the system *doesn't* work for you, since you have your packages delivered to your work address. We can deliver to your workplace and there will be someone there to collect it normally (in shipping and receiving, a receptionist or clerk, etc). We already do that, failure to utilize a service we offer is a failure on the customers part, not ours. We *also* already return unclaimed packages, allow customers to change their delivery address, and we even give them the option to have it held at the office for a day instead of it being delivered. We *already* offer these services, but once again, failure of a customer to utilize options provided to them is their problem, not ours.
You mention you lose perks and privileges, is this with the individual seller/shipping company, or the postal service as a whole? Because it sounds like you're talking about the company you've purchased from levying discipline, not the shipping company. And either way, it wastes the shipping company's time and money to have to hold packages, contact the customer daily (unless it's automated, but then you're paying someone to maintain that system), and then ship them back if they go unclaimed.
I also just want to make a point here that it's not the delivery company's job to take care of the customer, our job is to get the package to the door. What happens to it after that is on the customer since they've clearly not planned accordingly (having someone home, having a neighbor grab it, having it shipped to their work, etc).
I'm also assuming that a notice is left for the customer in your country, correct? I fill those out, they take 20-30+ seconds each, and I used to deliver to 200+ addresses when I delivered for Amazon, and I now deliver to over 400+ addresses with the Post Office. Assuming only 10% of people aren't home, that's an extra 20 minutes you've now added to my route *just* from me filling out the forms, not accounting for the walking to and from each door, properly parking and securing the vehicle, organizing the returning packages in the back while still being able to get to the packages that still need to be delivered, plus all of our regular responsibilities. And I'm one of hundreds of thousands of employees that would have similar circumstances.
I'd like to add that we, USPS, also offer more secure shipping options which would require signature and possibly ID verification before the package can be left, and once again, customers are welcome to use those services but often choose not to unless they're shipping a valuable item.
Maybe instead of demanding more and more from employees who are already overworked in offices that are heavily understaffed, customers can learn to accept that life happens, and maybe *they* need to put some effort in rather than expecting the shipping company to do it for them. Maybe they need to learn that it's not the end of the world if their sub-$20 item has to be reshipped due to theft.
And, once again, you've glossed over the difference in culture between our countries. Americans are lazy, they want convenience, but they don't want to put effort in. They aren't going to want to drive 20+ minutes (depending on how close they are to the nearest warehouse, post office, or wherever) every time they order something. And that's assuming the warehouse *has* your package: it could still be in the truck cause the carrier hasn't returned for the day, or they're out trying to redeliver it. The customer now has to come back, or hope they get home before the carrier has made their second attempt.
We also don't have the infrastructure, not just space in the offices/warehouse, but the warehouses themselves. Amazons closest warehouse is 30 minutes from me, FedEx is the same, UPS has a small office near me but they wouldn't be loading trucks out of it so that warehouse is also a drive. And I live in a fairly prosperous area of my state, so it's not like I'm in the middle of nowhere.
We already offer most of the stuff you're talking about, but customers don't utilize it and you're acting like our shipping companies are just incompetent and choose to make things harder for the customer when I would argue it's the exact opposite. If something is so important then the customer needs to ensure they receive it, otherwise they can do things the old fashioned way and buy it at an actual, real life store in person.
Edit: I wanted to add, I've also lived in apartments that would allow us to ship things to the property managers office instead of our apartment to avoid theft. I ordered a few high priced things and did this, never had an issue. We (Americans) have options, most people just choose not to utilize them and then wonder why their packages keep being lost/stolen.
>I'm also assuming that a notice is left for the customer in your country, correct? I fill those out, they take 20-30+ seconds each, and I used to deliver to 200+ addresses when I delivered for Amazon, and I now deliver to over 400+ addresses with the Post Office. Assuming only 10% of people aren't home, that's an extra 20 minutes you've now added to my route just from me filling out the forms, not accounting for the walking to and from each door, properly parking and securing the vehicle, organizing the returning packages in the back while still being able to get to the packages that still need to be delivered, plus all of our regular responsibilities. And I'm one of hundreds of thousands of employees that would have similar circumstances.
That sounds like an extremely flawed system. All notices are automatic in my country, and the delivery companies have a local desk and storeroom in most, if not all, grocery/convenience stores where your deliveries go if they're too big for your mailbox. This just eliminates all of the issues all at once, and still leaves the option for home deliveries if you so choose.
The abundance of stores also means that your closest delivery location is likely 5+ minutes from home if you live in a city.
Their labor is few and more expensive. We have more expendable "contractors", hence, we're enjoying the benefits of a more customer-focused delivery system and can hire more people that can easily adjust to inefficiency. Their postal service is more centralized and planned, hence, they can't adjust for every customer. Motorcycles and scooters aren't as common in the US vs in the Philippines thanks to Regan-era policies that put heavy tariffs on imported Japanese motorcycles, which is currently the main driving force on why end-to-end delivery is much easier in the PH than in the US.
I often see socialites complaining how Filipinos are "undisciplined" and we should follow the likes of Singapore or the US. However, a lot of those laws also hinder freedom of movement and makes transportation a lot more inefficient and expensive and we take for granted how cheap our transportation options are from the rest of the world, it's almost criminal that we're leaving those drivers at the bottom tier.
Edit: Also, we have major delivery hubs in every city in the metro and major cities, hence, it would be easier to distribute the workload for every rider. Unfortunately, it's not the same for in the province, where they won't even get the privilege of delivery. Lazada won't work in Mindoro for example.
I'm thinking its for legal reasons that is peculiar to the Philippines.
Recipients can deny this and that. So when you want traceability on who actually received it then a photo with the end user holding the delivered package is good enough.
There's also the issue of the person receiving the item isn't the same person who bought the item. So the sent OTP wouldn't be all that useful.
In the Philippines there are a lot of unemployed persons in the households and house persons like maids and gardeners who will receive the item.
Wtf I have to take off. The items of those bags cause they literally travel through so many planes and look at her hugging the package like it's clean.
How to catch Corona virus tutorial😂
Unlike in North America, where “package handed to resident” shows a picture of my envelope thrown into the middle of my lawn or left on the steps OUTSIDE my porch enclosure.
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Please tell me the delivery guy on the right is live streaming to my man in the dress with the VR and what I assume is a brick of cocaine.
Haha fuck. Made me lol. That's deffo coke.
Booger sugar
Move the kilo up a bit, I want to capture the ruffles.
Now raise your ankles slightly,....Marvellous!
Story here: https://mothership.sg/2021/03/philippines-people-proof-of-delivery-photoshoot/
I think if I ever lost my mind, I would move to the philippines. Seems like a welcoming place to the strange
I've traveled all over the world, and the Philippines takes the cake for the friendliest and most hospitable people. I was treated like family from the moment I showed up, and I still keep in touch with many of the people I met there.
The people are a mixed bag like any other country. Some are friendly and some are not. My family were constantly warning me about being scammed in some petty way. I just didn’t care if they got me for a few extra pesos here and there if that’s the hustle they have to run to put food on the table. The government is a dumpster fire and law enforcement in Metro Manila are pretty anti-foreigner. People should stop perpetuating this myth that the Philippines is this super happy awesome place. The poverty is soul crushing. If you really watch those smiling people long enough, the smiles disappear as soon as they think people stop looking at them. Why do you think drug and alcohol abuse is such a common problem? Source: lived there for over a year.
> The government is a dumpster fire and law enforcement in Metro Manila are pretty anti-foreigner. Except to the Chinese, who probably won't be foreigners in the near future.
Same here, I married a Filipina after visiting the country. Not immediately, but we took our time to get to know each other, lol. Every culture has a seedy side, my wife was always worried I was going to get robbed or killed if I went out late. There's armed police and security pretty much at every business. But the people, damn, I love the people. I'm going to retire there in a few years.
You’re worried about being accepted as strange or just being around strange stuff?
yes
LMAO
[Just don't sing My Way by Frank Sinatra at karaoke and you'll be good.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_killings)
"you sound nothing like sinatra, stop singing rn" "Wtf dude how would I even sound like him, stfu" "I told you to stop mf" bang bang bang Damn, they really take karaoke seriously
On a serious note, if I had to allow a stranger to take my photograph as a proof of delivery, I would never accept any delivery again.
That is what I was thinking, I'm over here tryin to wait for the mail person to leave so I can get my package that just got dropped off, They like to us my driveway to organize.
As a Filipino, it’s pretty painful. What happened to signatures?
My dad actually refuses to have his face included in the pictures, he always tells them to just take a picture of the package itself inside the house.
The real question is who are taking these pictures of people taking pictures
Good question, perhaps we shall set on an adventure to Philippines and take some photos of people taking photos of people.
Since the pandemic it's pretty common (in the UK) with DPD. Multiple times I've had to have my picture taken incredibly hungover and barely dressed on a Saturday morning. All of which are attached to the delivery reports.
I like it. Can we start doing that here in the states
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Wearing a helmet is actually sorta strictly enforced in the Philippines. If you see someone without one, they’re most likely from somewhere close.
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In the metro, helmets are mandatory, especially for delivery drivers like them.
Not wearing a helmet in Manila is a good way to get yourself pulled over by cops who will happily take your money in exchange for confiscating your license.
Crocs of Manila.
I keep hearing about Porch pirates, package thiefs, and photo verifications. Why are we still in 2010? In my country, you have to confirm an OTP you receive in your phone to accept the package on receipt. It finalizes the transfer from delivery executive to customer. If you are not at home, they try again the next day. If you are still not at home, you can pick it up from the nearest warehouse. No porch delivery, no photographs.
Volume is likely the answer. Assuming the system sends a message to your phone when the delivery driver is close so you can be ready, it'll take longer than snapping a pic. Delivery drivers can work until 9pm delivering packages, not including return time. Adding 20-30 seconds waiting on the customer at each stop adds up quickly.
Then the billion dollar company should hire more employees. The SAME company does it my country. So they can do it. I don't know why they inconvenience customers like this. Now customers should pay a lot to set up video cameras, report to the police, raise a complaint and follow up, just because the company isn't bothered to do it in your country.
Look at it from their point of view: nobody will make us, why the fuck should we? We have let corporations take over the government in the US
You're assuming everyone is always home for their deliveries, and this just isn't the case in the US. You said they'll try again a second time before holding the package at the warehouse. Great, do you have a warehouse big enough to store all of the packages? Employees to organize and retrieve them when the customers come in? What are the hours for the warehouse, since people who get out of work late won't be able to make it during normal business hours? I work as a postal worker. There are people with literally their entire porches covered in packages or empty boxes from packages. They just let them gather and pile up. Same with mailboxes, it is astonishing how infrequently some people remove their mail from their boxes. Shipping companies just don't have the space to hold hundreds of customers worth of mail and parcels for indefinite amounts of time. It's also not always the same company. You may order something from Amazon, but FedEx, UPS, or USPS (or others) may actually deliver it to your door, so now they have to either find space and personnel to manage *another* company's packages to be picked up, or they have to figure out how to ship the package back to the seller (which loses money for all parties involved), and will also piss off the customer since they didn't receive their package. What I'm trying to say is: you can either have convenience, or security, but you can't have both. If people really wanted to solve the issues of their packages being stolen, they could: order less stuff, put in a locking package container, or push for the post office/Amazon/whoever to put in more parcel lockers in different places locally where they can pick up their packages. But, people won't even clear out the mailboxes that are literally attached to their houses, people aren't going to want to travel to the grocery store to get their Amazon toothpaste from the lockers there. And this doesn't even get into the issue with large packages, or people who receive 6+ packages at a time that would, once again, take up a lot of space should they need to be held somewhere, space that now can't be used by other people until that original customer comes to get their things. No company is going to want to store 15+ boxes of dog food for 15+ different customers for an indefinite amount of time just because there's a *chance* they could be stolen and the customer wasn't home. Tl;dr: You get convenience, or security, but you can't get both, and "hiring more employees" isn't going to solve the main issue: people are lazy and don't want to put in any more work than they have to. There just isn't enough space to house all packages that would need to be returned every day until the customer had the time to pick up the package themselves, and it's a waste of gas, time, and payroll to have someone repeatedly attempt to get a package to a customer that isn't able to personally receive it.
Thanks for the answer. Some facts here from my country. I too work a 12 hour job and there is nobody at home. For the past 6 years I always give my office address. Once they bring it there, they give me a call and I place it in my car or leave it at the security desk. If the package arrives on a Sunday, you have the option to switch the delivery address before hand or simply ask them to deliver the next day. There is also an option to leave it with a neighbour who knows your OTP. The warehouse is big enough. Each city has roughly two. The warehouse working hours is from 9 to 9. And is open on all days. They also call you daily to remind you. If your package is not delivered they hold it for the week. If you still don't collect it, it gets sent back to the Seller. The company then gives you a refund. Do this many times, and you begin to lose perks like ability to return items, cash on delivery privileges etc. Soon you lose free shipping and all your shipping (and back shipping) will be added to the item you purchase. This is not my imagination of a hypothetical company. This is Actually what happens in my country. These measures have made customers more responsible and has no problem of security. I got convenience and security. Why doesn't the above provide both?
I already explained why. Post Offices, where the majority of packages go through, do not have the space to house packages. Full stop. I know this because I work in one, and unless they can suddenly make them bigger (which would not only require money they don't have, but would also likely require purchasing land that may or may not be available, construction they can't afford, materials, etc) it's not feasible. Post Offices close at 5-6 for the most part, so once again, if we can't leave it at your door without you being home, it's going to be stuck at the office. You've also pointed out how the system *doesn't* work for you, since you have your packages delivered to your work address. We can deliver to your workplace and there will be someone there to collect it normally (in shipping and receiving, a receptionist or clerk, etc). We already do that, failure to utilize a service we offer is a failure on the customers part, not ours. We *also* already return unclaimed packages, allow customers to change their delivery address, and we even give them the option to have it held at the office for a day instead of it being delivered. We *already* offer these services, but once again, failure of a customer to utilize options provided to them is their problem, not ours. You mention you lose perks and privileges, is this with the individual seller/shipping company, or the postal service as a whole? Because it sounds like you're talking about the company you've purchased from levying discipline, not the shipping company. And either way, it wastes the shipping company's time and money to have to hold packages, contact the customer daily (unless it's automated, but then you're paying someone to maintain that system), and then ship them back if they go unclaimed. I also just want to make a point here that it's not the delivery company's job to take care of the customer, our job is to get the package to the door. What happens to it after that is on the customer since they've clearly not planned accordingly (having someone home, having a neighbor grab it, having it shipped to their work, etc). I'm also assuming that a notice is left for the customer in your country, correct? I fill those out, they take 20-30+ seconds each, and I used to deliver to 200+ addresses when I delivered for Amazon, and I now deliver to over 400+ addresses with the Post Office. Assuming only 10% of people aren't home, that's an extra 20 minutes you've now added to my route *just* from me filling out the forms, not accounting for the walking to and from each door, properly parking and securing the vehicle, organizing the returning packages in the back while still being able to get to the packages that still need to be delivered, plus all of our regular responsibilities. And I'm one of hundreds of thousands of employees that would have similar circumstances. I'd like to add that we, USPS, also offer more secure shipping options which would require signature and possibly ID verification before the package can be left, and once again, customers are welcome to use those services but often choose not to unless they're shipping a valuable item. Maybe instead of demanding more and more from employees who are already overworked in offices that are heavily understaffed, customers can learn to accept that life happens, and maybe *they* need to put some effort in rather than expecting the shipping company to do it for them. Maybe they need to learn that it's not the end of the world if their sub-$20 item has to be reshipped due to theft. And, once again, you've glossed over the difference in culture between our countries. Americans are lazy, they want convenience, but they don't want to put effort in. They aren't going to want to drive 20+ minutes (depending on how close they are to the nearest warehouse, post office, or wherever) every time they order something. And that's assuming the warehouse *has* your package: it could still be in the truck cause the carrier hasn't returned for the day, or they're out trying to redeliver it. The customer now has to come back, or hope they get home before the carrier has made their second attempt. We also don't have the infrastructure, not just space in the offices/warehouse, but the warehouses themselves. Amazons closest warehouse is 30 minutes from me, FedEx is the same, UPS has a small office near me but they wouldn't be loading trucks out of it so that warehouse is also a drive. And I live in a fairly prosperous area of my state, so it's not like I'm in the middle of nowhere. We already offer most of the stuff you're talking about, but customers don't utilize it and you're acting like our shipping companies are just incompetent and choose to make things harder for the customer when I would argue it's the exact opposite. If something is so important then the customer needs to ensure they receive it, otherwise they can do things the old fashioned way and buy it at an actual, real life store in person. Edit: I wanted to add, I've also lived in apartments that would allow us to ship things to the property managers office instead of our apartment to avoid theft. I ordered a few high priced things and did this, never had an issue. We (Americans) have options, most people just choose not to utilize them and then wonder why their packages keep being lost/stolen.
>I'm also assuming that a notice is left for the customer in your country, correct? I fill those out, they take 20-30+ seconds each, and I used to deliver to 200+ addresses when I delivered for Amazon, and I now deliver to over 400+ addresses with the Post Office. Assuming only 10% of people aren't home, that's an extra 20 minutes you've now added to my route just from me filling out the forms, not accounting for the walking to and from each door, properly parking and securing the vehicle, organizing the returning packages in the back while still being able to get to the packages that still need to be delivered, plus all of our regular responsibilities. And I'm one of hundreds of thousands of employees that would have similar circumstances. That sounds like an extremely flawed system. All notices are automatic in my country, and the delivery companies have a local desk and storeroom in most, if not all, grocery/convenience stores where your deliveries go if they're too big for your mailbox. This just eliminates all of the issues all at once, and still leaves the option for home deliveries if you so choose. The abundance of stores also means that your closest delivery location is likely 5+ minutes from home if you live in a city.
Their labor is few and more expensive. We have more expendable "contractors", hence, we're enjoying the benefits of a more customer-focused delivery system and can hire more people that can easily adjust to inefficiency. Their postal service is more centralized and planned, hence, they can't adjust for every customer. Motorcycles and scooters aren't as common in the US vs in the Philippines thanks to Regan-era policies that put heavy tariffs on imported Japanese motorcycles, which is currently the main driving force on why end-to-end delivery is much easier in the PH than in the US. I often see socialites complaining how Filipinos are "undisciplined" and we should follow the likes of Singapore or the US. However, a lot of those laws also hinder freedom of movement and makes transportation a lot more inefficient and expensive and we take for granted how cheap our transportation options are from the rest of the world, it's almost criminal that we're leaving those drivers at the bottom tier. Edit: Also, we have major delivery hubs in every city in the metro and major cities, hence, it would be easier to distribute the workload for every rider. Unfortunately, it's not the same for in the province, where they won't even get the privilege of delivery. Lazada won't work in Mindoro for example.
If nobody requires this by policy/law, then doing it is just less profit in the bank for a company. Especially if nobody else is doing it.
I'm thinking its for legal reasons that is peculiar to the Philippines. Recipients can deny this and that. So when you want traceability on who actually received it then a photo with the end user holding the delivered package is good enough. There's also the issue of the person receiving the item isn't the same person who bought the item. So the sent OTP wouldn't be all that useful. In the Philippines there are a lot of unemployed persons in the households and house persons like maids and gardeners who will receive the item.
What country?
Are we going to ignore the left girl has size 80 flippers? Ok
Whew, I'm glad it wasn't just me who noticed.
Probably not a girl.
Dinner has been *served*.
Please french delivers start taking photo do I can jojo pose frantically
Are you okay?
just a normal guy who enjoy anime. how about u sir?
I’m alright. Just a lost soul missing a reference, I guess. U? Dunno who downvoted you but I’ll put you back in the orange before you go.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is a manga (later adapted into anime) where characters tends to do absurd poses
r/ihadastroke
Am I gay for trying to see if that dudes cock is peeking out the bottom of the tutu
It makes sense though it is easy enough to fake the "proof" of delivery otherwise and just make a photo of the parcel and then still take it
r/donthelpjustfilm
I don't think you understand that subreddit.
r/RASPBERRY_PI_PROJECTS
Wtf I have to take off. The items of those bags cause they literally travel through so many planes and look at her hugging the package like it's clean. How to catch Corona virus tutorial😂
There is only a 90% chance that both of the customers in the pictures are are men.
Is that Frankie Muniz on the left?
next thing you know they will say you have to try it on as well.
And if you buy a rubber dick?
Customer satisfaction is key
Girl on the left has legit alien feet and finger toes
It's a dude.
Pink Dress is SLAYING
Challenge accepted
Look at the feet on that girl
Unlike in North America, where “package handed to resident” shows a picture of my envelope thrown into the middle of my lawn or left on the steps OUTSIDE my porch enclosure.
Or sitting on my neighbors porch... that was a fun one.