I’m 99% sure this is fake or that it wasn’t UPS who delivered the package. I can see virtually the whole box in this image and it’s clear that the package is in pretty decent condition and not covered in mystery stains.
They said UPS, not FedEx.
That, and it’s in the side of the door with the deadbolt knob, aka, the inside.
Not to mention its clearly an Amazon package
UPS handles most of Amazon’s deliveries.
While that was true a number of years ago, I don’t think it is anymore. Amazon has their own shipping network. They’ve been working to replace UPS by shipping the packages themselves. At least that’s how it was last time I worked with them.
And as others have said all my Amazon purchases are delivered directly by Amazon either in a white van or an Amazon branded delivery truck similar to a UPS truck.
Sheesh. There will be no other companies except Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and a few social media companies in 20 years. Amazon is even doing health insurance now.
Everyone says that every decade but in every industry there are more companies than before.
I’ve never had that experience but I don’t know about anywhere other than my own area.
Amazon definitely does contract out the to other carriers, depends on volume and where you live.
Source: Sometimes they go through USPS who won’t deliver packages to my apartment and I get to make a trip to the USPS and force the poor old lady to lift a box of cat litter I’m subscribed to.
Edit: Car to cat lol
I don’t think vehicles are supposed to be using litter boxes normally.
Mine does But mine is a litter weird
Yeah sounds like a location thing for sure. I’ve only ever ordered to addresses that are within 100 miles of a warehouse
I think in my case it was due to peak times, there’s several warehouses near here, I used to work at one lol
I’ve never had ups deliver Amazon to me
therefore it must be false
All of ours are delivered by Amazon themselves
That means nothing. Amazon packages are delivered by any and all couriers.
I’ve only ever gotten them from Amazon drivers
You must be young
I fail to see the relevancy
Not FedEx.
Edit: Downvotes from people that don’t realize Amazon had a major falling-out with that carrier years ago
Downvotes from people that realize the post is about UPS.
The comment I replied to said all couriers.
Most levers you can lift up to pull the latch. Especially passage levers like that one.
I think most of these pictures are made up for internet points. This is a pull door. Amazon boxes don’t have incredible structural integrity.
It’s not about stopping the door from swinging, it’s about stopping the handle from turning.
That being said, they could probably have just turned the handle up instead of down.
Of course I know people who would absolutely just try pushing down a couple times, give up, and call maintenance.
With this style of doorhandles up/down movement isn’t transferred through the slab. They both serve the same function of retracting the plunger from the jamb, and don’t require the opposing handle to move AT ALL. Likely due to safety concerns/regulations in high occupancy buildings, I’m comfortable saying all legal apartments have doorhandles that function this way.
If your apartment doesn’t it’s time to call health and safety because your landlord is breaking the law.
This is a fake shitpost for internet clout, same as it was 5 years ago when it was posted.
My house came with door handle on my outside gate that has both handles directly connected and only turns downward and not upward.
They definitely exist and are still in use some places.
Like most of bloody Europe.
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Not quite a high occupancy building imo.
Codes are different (and actually enforced) when you have one property owner and dozens if not hundreds of tenants who all can sue the owner at a whim (in the US, anyhow).
Situations vary and as satisfying as it is to appear to know it all, one doesn’t due to the large variety of how things are throughout the world.
This post gives us a precise situation and the regulations are also very specific.
It’s not a hard conclusion to arrive at.
That’s also likely true, I was just commenting on if that’s the outside of door, and there’s no keyhole in the lever, it’s incredibly unlikely you have to press down to open it.
I would scale a 3 floor building by climbing down balconies before I call maintainence to let me out. Or toss some rope out the window and climb down I guess.
But I think I would even try taking the entire handle off before calling maintenance. Or even straight up texting a family member and waiting a few hours.
My wife, on the other hand, is the “I tried to wiggle it lightly a few times so now I am giving up”. Installed a new light last week, and it takes a split second to actually turn on. In the literal 600-800ms it takes to charge up, she flipped the switch 3 or 4 times, and loudly yelled about how the piece of shit we bought doesn’t work. I simply went over and flipped the switch up and left it there to actually power up.
People like that 100% exist.
tbf I would definitely consider an 800ms delay on a light bulb as that light bulb not working and needing to be replaced
Taking the handle off is exactly what I’d do, no need to scale the side of a building lmao.
Unless this handle is ancient or was originally for an interior door, then this is just for Internet points.
Pretty much all modern exterior door knobs can turn from one side, even if the knob on the other side is being held in place. On older doors or doors made for interiors you can still find a spindle that connects one knob to the other.
However, in modern door knobs each knob is connected to the tumbler cylinder via independent shanks. So blocking one or destroying the outside knob doesn’t trap the occupant inside.
Unless this handle is ancient.
Those types of loocks, where the handles are fixed together, are fairly common where I live and are still sold. The world is a big place.
For exterior doors…? More than likely those are meant for interior use, and someone is being cheap and installing them for exterior use.
Either that or they just appear to be affixed together, but will still operate the tumbler even if one is being held in place.
The reason they don’t really use a single spindle anymore is because it makes them extremely easy to brute force. You can literally just knock the handle off and access and operate the latch assembly.
They are for whichever use the customer wants. When used in outside facing doors (or doors you want to actually lock down) it should be paired with a deadbolt, as it is here. You are not wrong in saying that the main reason to use this solution is cost tho.
The reason they don’t really use a single spindle anymore is because it makes them extremely easy to brute force. You can literally just knock the handle off and access and operate the latch assembly.
Those locks dont have a locking mechanism (hence the deadbolt) they are just meant to keep the door shut
There are some that do lock the latch. In those cases removing the handless wont do you any favours since the assembly itself is locked in place. And there are others that dont lock the latch but have a deadbolt as part of the lock.
To be fair, the lever handles on my apartment door do not lift up and both handles turn at the same time. For whatever reason :/ so there is reasonable chance this post is real.
How old is your building, and does your handle lock? I would look at getting that replaced, regardless of your awnsers.
Not that old for the area. I’m not too worried about it, as I mentioned in another comment, easy to just remove the handle if this ever happened. There isn’t really any kind of emergency that could happen here where an extra 30 seconds to remove a door handle would be life or death. If it’s that bad, death would be certain.
A fire? Do you walk around with a screwdriver ready to go? It takes 30 seconds to take the handle off in normal conditions, how long will it take you when you are blinding by and choking on smoke?
That’s why I keep my fire drill handy
Almost all of the comments below this are incorrect in assuming how lever handles operate.
In cheaper or lower grade lever handles, both handles operate together and operate the latch. When it’s locked, the lever stays rigid and does not move. It is very easy to stand with your own bodyweight on the lever and break it, therefore getting in.
Only in higher grade lever handles do both handles operate independently while also not engaging the latch, preventing the handle from staying rigid and less likely of being broken.
So assuming this is a shitty or lower grade lever handle, getting locked into your apt this way is 100% plausible.
Not all. The safety doors for roof access at our building only work in one direction, up. I’ve been told you can set any of them up to only work in one direction. Just like some can not be unlocked and require to key to open every time. Same doorknob different setup. But I agree that picture is from the inside.
The outside of those kind of doors pretty much universally, operate from the outside with a key. There may be some edge cases I’m not thinking about but they wouldn’t apply to a living space.
That specific type of lock doesnt use a key, they just have a spring loaded bolt (? sorry, dont know terminology in english) and no real locking mechanism. Thats what the deadbolt on top is for
Yes, that was my original point, I was responding to the roof door example.
Apologies. I was having to much fun replying to the experts I didnt noticed.
I seriously don’t understand what you mean by that statement. I agreed with you that the picture was from the inside. All I’ve talked about is how they can be set where they only open if the handle is moved one direction. We have several of every configuration in our building.
Most handles have a part that is the “outside” which goes on the unsecure side of the door. Due to safety the outside of the handle has a way to operate it if it locks. Keys for keyed locks, or a bypass for privacy handles. I was saying if that was the outside of the door, it’s not a locking handle it’s a passage handle.
The “inside” of a handle is the side that’s installed on the secure side of the door, and it’s the side you can access the screws that hold the handle on the door. On classroom and storage function handles, they can’t control the doors locking state from the inside, but they can always operate the handle to get out.
By unsecured I generally mean the side of the door with the least restricted access. Like the outside of your house when thinking about a front door.
Even if you can’t lift the handle up , the door can probably be shimmed from the inside - especially if the latch plate is improperly sized.
this guy opsecs
Me: Heh, that's pretty funny Others ITT: *detailed analysis of door handle traps and mechanisms*Where did you buy the fuckin handle? Temu? I challenge you to find a handle from a major legitimate brand that works this way. Smells like a plea for Internet points.
what? I’ve never seen a handle that doesnt…
What? Plenty of door handles turn on both sides. If the handle on one side is stuck, you can’t turn the other handle too.
They are not connected. Both sides can open the door but they’re not connected straight through like some stick doorhandle from the fuckin Flintstones
No, I am literally speaking from experience. I have seen way more door handles where both sides are connected than the opposite.
You guys need better building codes, wherever you are
WHAT DO YOU MEAN? HAVE YOU NEVER USED A DOOR?
Somebody hates their job.
Deadbolt locking mechanism is in the picture. This looks like it was taken from the interior not exterior. Especially with the door being a push to open.
that’s definitely the physical master at the bottom of a keypad. this is the outside of a door.
Looks like a reader or keypad above. Many of the electronic locks look like this, you can put the key in or electronically unlock and turn from the outside. My in-laws have a similar one, if you don’t enter the code that part just spins.
Yep, I had an extremely similar one on a previous apartment. Looks like you’re right to me.
This is how mine works. You have the deadbolt lever on both sides, and can spin the exterior one to lock after you scan your key fob. Mine doesn’t have a master lock on it though; I got locked out once and they had a special electronics team dedicated to the system show up in like 15 mins and open the door through their computers
I think that’s the keyway? I bet there’s a number pad above. I have a deadbolt on my garage that looks very similar from the outside
Guessing they recreated the pic after they were released from their house arrest
Common sense here checking in: thats now how that works
Nobody asking the important question: if you were trapped inside, how did you take this photo? Schrödinger’s package.
Here’s how it went down:
- Ups leaves package as shown in photo.
- Open door, handle stuck
- Call maintenance
- Maintenance removes package, let’s you out
- Maintenance explains to you why you couldn’t open the door
- Maintenance leaves
- Now, outside your apartment, you put the package into the position as maintenance explained it was
- You take photo and post it on the internet
- You remove the package and enter your apartment
Why do you have handles on the outside of the apartment? Weird design choice.
Huh? How else would you open the door?
Edit: although this photo is definitely the interior of a front door.
With the key. You turn it in the lock to release the latch, then push it inwards.
That makes sense if the door opens inwards, I only just realised that the apartments I’ve lived in are adapted so I probably haven’t had a normal apartment door before and never really paid attention, this has been fascinating.
(I have palsies so I can’t turn a key anyway without a tool, which I’ve locked inside my house on too many occasions in my youth so I’ve always had my front door locks replaced with lever handles if they initially came with knobs or deadlock dials/latches)
In your specific case, I’d suggest installing an electronic door opener that you can trigger with a button on the wall from the inside, and with fingerprint or facial recognition from the outside. Fingerprint activated locks are fairly cheap these days, just not sure if your fine motor skills work sufficiently well to operate them.
That sounds like I’d be locked out during a power outage? I’m a bit of a luddite when it comes to basic necessities, I’ve had so many issues in recent years with the enshitification of the internet and digital devices in general, removing, changing, patching out accessibility, or just making something so bloated and cumbersome/ad riddled to use it becomes inaccessible.
I also make $28K a year (working while disabled really hinders your earning potential) and live in a rented share house with other people. So I’m not even sure where to begin on anything that requires that level of installation. I can swap a doorknob for a lever latch myself (takes me 5 hours, but it’s a $50 DIY job)
But that’s a really good suggestion for a long term solution.
One thing that surprises me about America is how many automated doors you have there, and the low buttons for opening doors that you can push from a wheelchair. I’ve never seen one of those buttons on any door in my country, except on some of the newest built accessible bathrooms, and they feel so futuristic compared to everything else around.
Exterior doors swing inward so firemen can break them more easily. This is a metal door that swings in; pictured from the outside. I assume this is a door to a dorm/apartment.
In the second photo you can see the bottom dial for an electronic lock. That portion is the exterior piece. It free spins unless you press the correct combination prior.
although this photo is definitely the interior of a front door.
A front door which opens outside? Never seen that before tbh (Europe).
Welcome to the rest of the world that is outside of North America
not in north America, never seen a door handle outside a house. people just use the key to open the door from the outside.
It’s a matter of safety. Their apartment has the only fire escape in the building.
It looks like a lot of people seem to think the handle is weird, but I’ve never seen a residential door with only a deadbolt. The only deadbolt only door I have seen was just a shed too.
UPS won’t even deliver to my apartment. They will my money though
Time to find a new lawyer
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Mine works both ways. I assume this is some sort of Third World Country with poor safety regs and/or corruption.
assumption is the mother of all fuck ups
I can’t think of a single door to any home, apartment, etc. that I’ve ever seen that opens out instead of in.
Gonna go ahead and say this is fake.
Door opens inwards, look at the frame. The box is not blocking the door from moving but blocking the handle from turning and opening the door. Dont know if it real but its possible.
You’re gonna need to think about what is preventing them from opening the door my friend.
You’re absolutely correct though, the door opens in so it isn’t just acting like a door stop.
My… my door opens out.
Me too. Because it was owned by a police officer previously. Door can’t be kicked in. Bad for fire safety though.
restarted?
It’s fake, but that’s not why. The package is blocking the door handle from turning, so it doesn’t matter which way the door opens, trying to will jam the handle up on the package.
It’s fake because this is the inside of the door, not the outside. Notice the lock for the deadbolt.
I was about to reply that the reason they were trapped was because the door handle was blocked by the package, not because it was holding the door shut… but you’re right, this photo was taken inside the dwelling.
(As also evidenced by the deadbolt mechanism another poster noted)
