Sounds like semantics. All we get out here are personal vehicles and enterprise rental vans.
Who is paying the third party services to deliver Amazon packages? Amazon. I don't care what their employment status is, they should fucking stop. If their contractors can't do the job right use employees or find new contractors.
That's literally my point. If it's an Amazon van with an Amazon-branded drone delivering your packages, it's Amazon. If it's not, it's not, then they're assholes, and you should shoot them for trespassing. It's not semantics. It's literally the difference between a company-branded fleet and crew versus random assholes. If Amazon wants their packages delivered without being interrupted by lethal self-defense, they need to stop hiring shit-tier delivery goons.
Fucking
tell them that. They do actually listen. Complain about shitty deliveries when you receive them. They do actually pay attention to complaint count (and the nature of complaints -- rude driver, unlabeled car or driver -- as well), and they adjust accordingly. I'm out in the boonies too (in a very, erm, strange and unique rural town with some dubious things that make it infamous, even here because it's chewed up a handful of lolcows over the years), and up towards the end of 2025 they used (or could only get) shady unmarked cars and drivers to deliver here. Enough people complained about the shit job they were doing that Amazon took the hint and ponied up to either expand their own logistics network enough to get proper vans & employees out here directly, or hire a third party amenable to leasing Amazon vans and uniforms. Delivery quality has drastically improved.
It's weird. Amazon is a big faggy company full of assholes all doing strange, greedy things in the pursuit of making lots of money, killing self-hosted datacenters, and spreading "The Message™" via their entertainment division, but they're rare in the sense they actually pay attention to what their paying customers tell them. Bizarrely, they've gotten the message at some level that "oh hey yeah those people giving us money to do stuff? They stop doing that if they become unhappy with how we do it."
Shipping cheap products to eager consumers is their second-biggest moneymaker (after AWS). Third parties fucking with the "shipping" part of that process do so at their own peril. Enough complaints and Amazon
will reshuffle the deck and try something else in a given area.