Does a UPS scanner use GPS to find houses with shared addresses?

[red324]

Sometimes they leave the house number off and then they dont know where the leave the package. Somehow this isn't discovered until it's out for delivery. Like my house with say something like 6022 and then it will have lot #1-4 as four houses all share the same 6022 number and just have a different lot number. Kind of like a unit number on an apartment complex. It really confuses the ups driver.. sometimes they just send the package back. My question is what is on that little scanner thing they always have in their hand? isn't it a gps map showing where each property is?

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Also, why dont they just call me? That's what fedex does. Seems way faster than driving to the same place two or three times before finally delivering the package

[unfaltering]

The scanners read bar codes. There are different types of bar codes. The more advanced bar codes have country, state, city, and zip information embedded in them to get the package to the right region via automatic routing. After that it comes down to the address label. If there is missing data, some carriers will try to figure it out through address databases or contacting the seller for an address correction and others will just return to sender. As a result sometimes they deliver packages to your old addresses if they get confused because that is the last address they have on record for example if you moved, but the package has your name on it.

[NoDecision]

All you need is to put #1 #2, #3, and #4 after 6002 and it should solve the problem. Every delivery driver will thank you.

[red324]

No half the time it still goes to the neighbors house.

[Anonymous]

Not if it doesn’t know which number you are. Don’t you put it in your address when you order?

[red324]

Yes, but another human has to type up the shipping label.

[red324]

Im asking abiut when the address is correct doesn't their little electronic device show where the property is. Even wheb the address is correct, they sometimes can't find it

[Anonymous]

I am not sure