Just after a recent snow storm, I was outside running the snow blower when the Amazon driver showed up. I idled down the machine and walked halfway up the driveway to meet him, thinking I could save him a few steps and a few seconds. Nope -- he wasn't allowed to just hand me my package. He had to physically place it somewhere and then take his photo.
I ran into similar a couple of weeks ago. I was doing some road patching at my entryway, 1/4mile from the house. I knew the driver was a few stops away, so figured I would wait there for him and save him the trip all the way down my drive. Nope, he had to take it to the house because of the GPS tracking. So he followed me down to the house. I parked by my shop and went to get the package, but nope he had to walk to the front door.
For the first instance, it's understandable. A 1/4 mile from my house, I could be anybody looking to steal a package, and it IS a good ways from my door. On the second, I was kinda thinking that he thought I was a package thief, because my shop is only like 200' from my front door, and I have plenty of times in the past grabbed a package from the driver there.
I have never had that issue with UPS, in fact I HAVE been handed a package from them all the way out at my entryway.
Another interesting Amazon delivery was seeing the driver a couple of stops away on the app. I was out in a pasture, and started walking back to the house. I saw the guy pull into my driveway, and I was distracted by something so didn't see him get out, but assumed with the truck sitting so long he had, and watched him drive off. When I got back to the house, no package. Checking the app, it had changed to, "driver needs to make a couple more stops first." I tracked that until around 8PM, when I saw his truck sitting in the Boise distribution center lot 60 miles away. I ended up getting the package two days later. Still have no idea what that was about.