We’re all traveling more than ever, but are still getting all sorts of things delivered to our homes. That means there’s a greater chance that deliveries will be scheduled when you’re not there. That’s why I previously wrote about how to delay or hold shipments from USPS, UPS, FedEx and Amazon.
Most delivery services allow you to change a scheduled delivery without any extra cost. However, whereas UPS used to offer this service for free to UPS My Choice account holders, they’ve since changed their policy. Now, if you want to change a scheduled delivery with UPS, you have to pay a fee.
With a basic account, you can track deliveries and receive notifications when they’re delivered. You’re also supposed to be able to tell the driver to leave a package with your neighbor. But what if you want to change the delivery date? That’ll cost you $9.99. Want to deliver a package to a different address? That one will cost $14.99.
Oh, and every package UPS delivered to a UPS location while you’re away will cost $5.99.
Jeesh!
Otherwise, you’ll have to wait until UPS attempts to make a delivery and leaves one of those sticky notes on your door. You can input that bar-code number into the UPS website to tell them to hold the delivery. But if you’re not home, how can you get the number from the sticky note????
There is a way to not have to pay for rerouting each package, though. By upgrading to the UPS My Choice Premium package for $19.99 per year, you control how your packages get shipped.
If you frequently travel and get packages delivered to your house while you’re away, the price might be worth it. However, I can’t see how it’s cost-effective for UPS to send drivers to houses where the people are not home to leave sticky notes on their front doors instead of dropping off a package at its company stores.
We’re traveling enough where it makes sense for us to pay the $20/year so that we can direct packages to the local UPS Store and pick them up when we get home
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