Gated Driveway Question

I don't have one, but I would give them the code unless you want all your shite just flung over the fence.

Most gate key pads can be coded for a unique "vendor" code to be given to Mail carriers and UPS/Fed Ex if you wish to. Also for landscape/pool people.

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our yard man opens the gate for them.

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You don't have a gatehouse with a full time gatekeeper?

LULZ at the poors.

Man I wish I had family land like that.

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Man I wish I had family land like that.

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I love it, I inherited it from my maternal grandfather and can document family ownership going back to 1902 for sure and supposedly it's been in the family since the Civil War, though I haven't seen documentation to prove that conclusively.

I have a gated driveway and they just leave it at the front of my house...

I guess my situation is different as my driveway is gated, but the front of my house is open to the street.

I have a gated driveway with a ten foot high wall around my entire property and I am right in the middle of Baton Rouge. That sounds like what you may be asking since it differs significantly from people that are rural and don't have to worry about package thieves as much.

My solution was to put a lockable box on the side of the gate against the wall. It's in the flower bed and you really don't notice it unless you are looking. I was going to have a metal box made but ended up using a Pelican case I ordered online. 100% waterproof and doesn't rust. I bike locked the case to an eyebolt I put in the brick wall and then I leave an open padlock in the case. When the drivers put a package in the box, they just snap the padlock on the case (all Pelican boxes accept padlocks) and I unlock it when I come home and retrieve the package. Throw the open padlock in the box and rinse/repeat.

FWIW, I was going to go with a wi-fi camera call box on the keypad pole where the driver could call me and I could open the gate remotely but realized the drivers won't frick with that. They don't want to waste the time. And if you are going to give them the code then you might as well not have the gate. No telling who they will give the code to once they have it.

Just put the gate code on the shipping address:

Cryptkeeper
123 Main Street
Gate Code: #1234
Baton Rouge, La 70801

This might not be a good idea in places like Louisiana though.