'While you were out...'

[rusky]

I had one a week ago, they couldn't use the "we will call back between 6 & 9PM" could they, no, it was collect from the depot but leave 48 hours!

 

[marinyork]

I had one a week ago, they couldn't use the "we will call back between 6 & 9PM" could they, no, it was collect from the depot but leave 48 hours!

I'm not aware of such a luxury service existing elsewhere? I've never heard of posties calling back in the evening, seems rather unreasonable to me.

 

[Noodley]

Here's a nice story...I ordered a new TV on 29th December and got an e-mail confirmation of dispatch on 30th...

...I arrived home today to find a note from delivery company saying: "sorry I missed you, I left your new TV at.<enter neighbour address and description as we are in the middle of nowhere>...I hope you enjoy it and wish you all a Happy New Year."

I am now watching my new TV

 

[hackbike 666]

That's happened to me...what has happened to the OP but at one time so much stuff didn't turn up and I was always having disputes on ebay.Im just happy that my stuff actually turns up even if I get a time travelling you were out card...Perhaps I went temporarily deaf.

 

[dudi]

Here's a nice story...I ordered a new TV on 29th December and got an e-mail confirmation of dispatch on 30th...

...I arrived home today to find a note from delivery company saying: "sorry I missed you, I left your new TV at.<enter neighbour address and description as we are in the middle of nowhere>...I hope you enjoy it and wish you all a Happy New Year."

I am now watching my new TV

Very nice indeed! would be lucky to get as much as an 'eff off' from our local couriers... at least there are some cheery ones!

Thankfully, the posties seem to know we keep the porch unlocked, so any parcels can go in there.

 

[Beardie]

Thankfully, the posties seem to know we keep the porch unlocked, so any parcels can go in there.

I used to do deliveries for Royal Mail, and often tried to leave packets in garages if people were out. Thing is, after using a garage once, I never found it unlocked on subsequent occasions.

 

[Lisa21]

Remimds me of a few months ago, I was sitting at the computer,which is on a desk in the hall, the front door about 3 feet behind me. Someone pushed something through the letterbox and on looking, It was a card from our gas+elec suppliers-"we tried to read your meter but you were out" I opened the door and went out to see him just stepping off the drive
Cue a loud "OY" from me And as he sheepishly came back I said next time if he tried ringing the doorbell or, god forbid, tried knocking, hed be far more likely to get an answer, the skiving toerag.

 

[Dan B]

Here's a nice story...I ordered a new TV on 29th December and got an e-mail confirmation of dispatch on 30th...

...I arrived home today to find a note from delivery company saying: "sorry I missed you, I left your new TV at.<enter neighbour address and description as we are in the middle of nowhere>...I hope you enjoy it and wish you all a Happy New Year."

I am now watching my new TV

See, that might work in some areas but not all. Some parts, the neighbours would have flogged the TV by the time you'd got home and then pretended not to speak English when you go round to see them

 

[Night Train]

Many years ago, when my ex wife was still living here, she needed a replacement bank card sending though. The bank promised to send it immediately.
It didn't arrive so she contacted the bank who checked with the post office who said it was delivered and signed for.

Further investigation showed that the card was delivered and signed for but the postie, having got no reply at our house, looked around and saw a man outside one of the neighbouring houses (all the other houses are converted into 5 flats each). He asked the man to sign for the card and then gave it to him.

The postie admitted that he didn't know which house the man was from or who he was so we went door knocking.
We eventually found a neighbour who said their friend called around a couple of weeks earlier when no one was in and the postie gave him a letter to sign for.
Apparently he didn't want to just stick it through a letter box as he saw it was from the bank so he held onto it meaning to knock on when he next came over.
And sure enough he did do. The envelope was intact and the card was still there.

By that time the card had been stopped and a replacement picked up at the bank.

So, an honest neighbour's friend but another stupid postie.


OK, I'm not going to knock posties too much. 90% of the time they are fine, or at least I don't know that they are not, but the rest of the time is just silly.

 

[hackbike 666]

Yeah I won't knock posties either.I work for the railway so I do know the basics.

 

[sheva]

They often just write the cards up in the depot and bring them out with them, leaving the parcels behind.

Willfull delay leading to instant dismissal.

 

[Arch]

So, an honest neighbour's friend but another stupid postie.

Honest maybe, but he could have told the postie he wasn't a resident!