Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tucson

When I got an email telling me that their truck would be here between 7AM and 7PM the following day, I assumed that would happen. My donation was outside at 6:45AM. BBBS picked up my neighbor's donation about six months ago so I knew they could find my street. No one ever showed up.This is my first and last attempt to donate to this organization. I will take the clothes, many of them never worn, and other items to one of the several organizations I usually donate to and cross BBBS off my list as they don't appear to need my clothing, furniture, new toiletries or future monetary donation that badly.

For over 10 years, we have donated to BBBS. Whenever they would call to let us know what day they would be in our neighborhood, we would gather things together to donate. They recently called to let us know they would be in our area today, 5/28/2019. We told them we would have a lot of things for them. We are having new carpeting installed tomorrow, so we did a thorough cleaning out of out closets. We gathered, all in excellent condition, about 20 pairs of shoes, a lot of shirts, blouses, shorts, slacks, books, some suitcases, and an almost new comforter.They had told us they would be here between 7 AM and 5 PM. When they hadn't come by 4 PM, we called to ask when they would be here. We were told they had finished their route. The driver said he didn't pick up here because he "didn't have permission to drive up our driveway". So he just didn't bother to pick up our items and BBBS did not even have the courtesy to call us to let us know.We have lived here for 20 years and every single BBBS driver has driven up our long driveway to the house to pick up the items we had. I think the driver was just lazy and didn't want to bother. So, I have well over $500 worth of items that I will just take to Goodwill tomorrow. If the driver of this so-called charity can't take the time to drive 300 feet from the street to our house, we will no longer bother to support this agency. Please do us a favor and never again call to ask for donations.