If you leave a note the next time you get something, your driver will probably be just as happy to leave it were you ask them to, now and in the future.
UPS Ground is not trucked cross country. It is trucked to a UPS Rail facility, trained, in a sorted container, to the UPS railhub nearest to the destination facility, trucked to that facility, then deliverd by a brown step van.
No problem, Jason. Many times I try to be clever, but wind up just communicating something besides what I mean. If no one points it out, I'll never get any better.
So go ahead and :D
OK, here's another Amazon Prime horror story.
Last Thursday (May 15) I ordered some flower seeds from a vendor that uses "Shipped by Amazon" and the Prime service.
They almost immediately showed as "Shipping Now", and were scheduled for delivery on Saturday, May 17. Saturday came and went...
I LOVE Prime. I had one, count 'em, one, bad shipping experience. (Over 200 Prime purchases.) It involved Moron SmartPost. I called Amazon, and informed them, very clearly, that I would no longer accept SmartPost shipments. They have not used it since.
UPS and FedEx, to my door, every time...