Parcel left in my wheelie bin!!!!!!

[bustagasket]

I rarely have anything delived to the house cos i just dont know if i am gonna be here, so i always have it sent to the garage if i can as i know someone will be there mon-fri 8am -6pm which generally covers delivery attempts, so i am really lucky

[Dano]

i think the best one i ever got was when i ordered a couple of games off amazon, no sign of them after 3 weeks so i sent an e-mail to amazon and they were all "oh, very sorry, we'll send out new ones" and they did. thought that was the end of it until a month or so later.

i was doing a spot of gardening, cause the dark recesses of that corner of the garden always get a bit bad, right up against the 6 foot wall up against the path that goes round the outside of the property to where the front door and the letterbox are. the strimmer catches something in the long grass and i look to see what it is, and it's only a soggy amazon box.

both the games in it i ordered the first attempt, the postman* must have just been wandering past the property, though "**** it, i'm not walking another 10 yards" and just chucked the box over the wall, no card through the letterbox or anything

*i say postman but it was likely parcel farce, my regular postie is nice and very sympathetic to heavy cookson parcels!

[agent_44]

I hate to be 'party pooper' here peeps..as I have also had my run ins with delivery bods from all areas...but just think for a moment what they do do....and as those of you who are suffering by the strikes will tell you..having no postie at all to deliver your mail is a real problem! I would think the job of a postie is one where you are dammed if you do and dammed if you don't. If they put a card through - because you were in the loo or hanging out the washing one day, they are hopeless - because you have to make a trip to the sorting office to pick it up yourself....and if you haven't got a car and they stick a card through - then they are total 'morons'!.....and if they stick it in an 'inappropriate' place when you really aren't at home, to save you the journey - it's invariably in the wrong place (....is there a 'right' one??). You have to admit....most posties are very 'creative thnkers!!'

Most of everybody's post is delivered in time, in good condition and without us giving it a thought. My boys buy everything 'online', so most days I get a knock on the door and my postie hands me a stack of boxes (mostly dvds,cds, and books) - sometimes quite heavy - out of his bag...with a nice smile and a kind word. This is done in rain, snow and heatwave....and sometimes his bag is visibly empty when he offloads our stuff...and then has to go back somewhere to pick up the rest of the round's post! And he probably gets paid less that the people he delivers to.

It is easy to forget how much 'service providers' do for us and we do all moan about them but it is worth thinking...if that was me doing the job in that particular situation - what would I have done??

And there are folk on the forum, possibly even the odd postie, who do 'face the flack' from us, 'the public' on a daily basis and if you want to be reminded what it is like to be on the receiving end...ask Nic (Murano) about trying to apease the disgruntled customer!!!! ....she wrote a blow by blow description of events back in the early days of the forum!!!

I'm not necessarily suggesting you rush out and 'hug a postie today'....but.....

OK, that's me done!

....as you were girls and boys!!

Oh that's all true and I suppose this thread is giving a generalised attutude but really there are points when the only service being provided is to raise peoples blood pressure! Parcels in the Rabbit Hutch to me is just idiotic for so many reasons!

And in terms of missing the postie, I have the loudest doorbell known to man, and I know it works, I have specifically waited in for parcels many times (over 10) only to find a card shoved through the door. On going to the delivery office to complain after this happening with a parcel I needed urgently I was told I was free to drive around the area and see if I could spot the postman! At that point I was glad of the glass window separating us, I was so angry I could barely contain myself, and my poor boyfriend got the brunt of it when I got home!

[Kermit]

Just thought I'd add a note from the point of view of someone doing the delivering.....

I have been covering for a family member for a few weeks as a courier - for many different companies. It is a nightmare trying to get all your parcels delivered in a day. I do leave parcels, but always in a safe place and always leave a card.

My best suggestion would be to leave a plastic box, with a lid, somewhere that is easily found by the delivery person, but hopefully out of sight of passers by, and when you make your order, put in the notes that the parcel can be left here. (or leave a shed unlocked if poss)

This really helps - it means you get your parcel, the delivery person gets rid of it - and your things are safe and dry!

Just a thought......