Delivery guy refuses to climb two flights of stairs to deliver a package, instead claims no one was home, only to be forced to climb to the 8th floor the next day: ‘Enjoy the stairs’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Aug 14, 2025 6:00 AM EDT

If you think you find it annoying to walk into a building and see an 'out of order' sign on the only elevator, imagine being a delivery person and seeing this sign when you're supposed to deliver something to a high floor.

We understand that it must be extremely frustrating. But just like you must do with any other job, that is simply something delivery people have to deal with when doing theirs–climbing the stairs and delivering the package. What else is there to do?

Well, if you asked the delivery guy in the story below, he would say that you could avoid climbing those stairs by claiming no one was home and the delivery was unsuccessful. But take into consideration that the resident who was waiting by the door for their package might see through these lies. Not only that, they might want to get back at you for pulling this kind of stunt, and do so by asking for a redelivery and forcing you to climb even more flights of stairs to make it successful this time.

Is all this drama really worth the two flights of stairs the delivery guy avoided? Keep scrolling to read the full story and let us know what you think in the comments below.

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    Don't want to do two flights of stairs? Enjoy six.

    I was supposed to get a delivery today from DHL, requires a signature. It was a gift for my wife: a new clothing item she'd been wanting for a while. Tracking
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    Smiling delivery guy holding two packages
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    told us today, this morning, updated to say between 1 and 3pm. Perfect! We work out together and my wife heads to work, I'm off today
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    and home. I jump in the shower around 12:30, only to hear the doorbell at 12:40. Cp, he's early. I run to the doorbell and buzz him in, throw on a bathrobe
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    soaking wet, and wait by the door. I just have to sign and then I can go finish my shower and stick the bathrobe in the dryer.
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    Except nobody knocks on my door. I stand there waiting for about ten minutes: maybe he has other deliveries in the building, maybe he can't
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    find my unit. No big deal. Until my phone goes off with another text update: "couldn't deliver package because you weren't home."
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    flights of stairs
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    I lit up. Run downstairs in flip flops and a bathrobe. Truck already gone. Call the call center. Fortunately get to speak to a human
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    immediately, and he's very helpful. He says he's going to try to have them redeliver it, because that's bulls but if they can't, he gave me
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    a list of options. I decide to wait to see if they can redeliver. Long story short and several hours later, they can't. No one knows why this dude
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    didn't come upstairs, he made it into the building and mine was the only package. But i know why. The elevator is down right now. So this dude walks into
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    the lobby, sees the crew working on the disabled elevator, and decides the two flights of stairs from the lobby to the third floor is just too much for him, turns
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    around, and walks out. And now he's not coming back. My wife is really sad, she's been having a rough time lately and she was really
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    looking forward to feeling pretty. So now I'm even angrier. The petty revenge: one option for redelivery is to
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    come back the next day and leave it with a neighbor. So I texted around and found someone who could be home all day tomorrow to take the package... on the
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    8th floor. Management sent out another email this morning that we shouldn't expect the elevator to be fixed until next week.
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    Enjoy the stairs, ah_le. Edit to add context: I live in an apartment building in a major city. Apartment buildings are the norms, and
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    probably only half of the buildings have elevators. If you can't come up for whatever reason, say so at
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    the intercom, I'll be right down with a bottle of water too. The bait and switch? Not cool.
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    CoderJoe1 Quite often these delivery drivers are being tracked too tightly so they will regularly choose a few deliveries to claim wasn't home.
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    Soccer_Ref127 Sadly, it's probable that another person is doing the next day's route.
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    will822 If they're not doing 2 flights what makes you think they're going to the 8th floor?
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