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I see on my orders there is a spot to put in special instructions. Never paid much attention to it but if you do not want them delivering late maybe try putting that in there? Not sure if it would work but give it a try.
I could try that but my confidence that it would be effective is pretty low. I think I will go ahead and do it just to see what happens.
Packages showing up after dark (in the PNW winter especially) is not anything new or different. Especially during the Christmas season.
It's not so much the condition of darkness as the lateness of hour.
the USPS "last-mile" program and pass the parcel off to the Post Office who, you guessed it, typically will use private carriers for this type of delivery.
You may be confusing Amazon's "Last Mile Program" (their name for it) with the USPS drop shipment system. Special interests in the mailing business lobbied the Postal Rate Commission years ago to get parcel drop shipments done by the USPS. Commercial mailers would move pallets of parcels in bulk cheaply by common carrier. These would be delivered to post offices where postal employees would take them out with regular mail delivery, which was cheaper than having UPS (for example) deliver them to homes. The USPS never used "private carriers" to do the final delivery. That was the whole idea, to get these packages in the regular mail stream at the point where the most savings would be realized. Amazon still does this, but they are moving away from USPS drop shipments and more toward their own "Last Mile Program."