Ignorant Parcelforce Driver!

[Sandra6]

Cycling home from tesco this morning, I used the underpass to go under castleway and rejoined the road on Castle Street in front of Tullie house (this information is for those of you who may wish to google map it) The road is really narrow and oncoming traffic must give way to those travelling in my direction.
Parcelforce van is coming straight at me, on the same side of the road as me!! I slow right down expecting him to pull across and wait at the give way point. Instead he parks up, in the middle of the road!!!! Looks straight at me, then gets out and heads to the BBC studio. FFS!!
I ask him if he's really going to do that, and he says yes.
I squeeze round the side of him and there are now four cars stuck behind him!
Ridiculous.

 

[cd365]

I'd have took a picture and reported him

 

[colly]

You didn't offer to help carry the parcels then??



Just asking like.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Hedcam.

 

[Sandra6]

I feel like all van drivers are out to upset me today.
On the way to work there's a pinch point just before I make a right turn and a van is behind me and another coming towards me, I signal my turn and slow down . The van slows down and I think he's going to let me turn but no, he's stopping to let the van behind out as he can't fit passed. But he stops blocking my turn completely, so nobody could go anywhere. Feckwit!
Then a plumber's van nearly took me out in his hurry to get to the junction before me so he could wait for the traffic to pass!
On the way home a red van stopped dead in front of me on the carpark, and another one tried to pass me on the corner.
It's clearly a conspiracy!

 

[BigonaBianchi]

White van man is a breed of idiot beneath all other idiots.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

It's all this on line shopping us cyclists do: increases van traffic

 

[Lonestar]

What is it with this lot? Try to deliver a parcel and leave a card as surprise surprise I'm not in due to the necessity of having to go to work...Not a lot on the card only the route number and the drivers name whatever that is.Going to deliver tomorrow which may be another waste of time due to the fact.....surprise surprise I'm due at work again and my neighbour is in and out all day so may miss it...Plus no idea of time they may deliver anyway meaning I can wait in all day if I had the time.

So ring them up and get nowhere.So frustrating.Driver will probably come around again for yet another wasted visit.Would be nice if they could actually put the tracking number down.Baffling that they prefer another visit as they are in such an effing hurry.

Now they think I've got all night to hang round the phone which is handy as im up at 3am.

 

[Drago]

Grass him up.

 

[biggs682]

Our local parcel force guy is fantastic and deserves a medal and i am being serious

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Why any idiot would order something to be delivered at home when they know they are at work is beyond me.

 

[vickster]

Why any idiot would order something to be delivered at home when they know they are at work is beyond me.

Indeed. Use Collect+, Amazon Locker or similar

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Sounds foreign to me.....coming over here, taking our jobs, taking our benefits

It'll all be much better soon. Local posties nicking our parcels like what it used to be. Gawd bless 'em.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I can't wait to get back to the 1950s when we all knew our place. The class system was so comforting.

You up for butlering for @Markymark ?

 

[winjim]

He's not still parked there is he? The queue must be massive by now.