My helpful postman

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Once a courier left a note saying that my parcel had been left in a safe place, by the back door. Odd, I thought, there's no access to the back door. I checked around the back gate but there was nothing there, then realised that he must have thrown it over the wall. I ran to check the bloody big pond we have in our garden, right by the wall, but couldn't see a floating Amazon parcel, or indeed a sunken one. As a last resort, I got the ladder out - it was on the roof of the shed.

We have a similar issue - normally I have parcels delivered to work - couriers quite frequently don't want to or can't find our house or leave a parcel at the gate 1/2 mile from our house on a public road, but from time to time, if it is a big or heavy parcel I will post them directly home instead of work.

Just before I went on holiday in June, I took delivery of a 45kg box (I knew it would be large and heavy). I had addressed it to home, but the courier driver, knowing where I work and it being on his route thought he would be helpful and delivered it to work instead. The result was that I ended up cycling home to pick up the car, so I could collect the parcel from work!

 

[Plax]

Thanks for the tips with multi quote, I was trying it in quick reply which probably explains my difficulty.

I'm still deprived of my parcel. Sob, sob.

I've got a little out house thing attached to the back of me so I might leave that door open and ask them to pop it in there.

I've had couriers leave parcels in the wheelie bin before now too. Mail man never done anything like that though, he usually expects me not to be home and has a card pre-done as I found one day when I was off work and he just popped the card through.

 

[summerdays]

This morning we received another parcel ... and I heard the porch door opening and he was just leaving it in there... nice postie ... I hope we keep him for ages ... last one was good too - he would stop me even a mile from my house and let me know he had a parcel for me in his car.