Page 5 | Stupidest place a courier has left your parcel?

Mavericksaviators · 2023-01-20T15:32:51+00:00

I had a delivery today of barking heads puppy food, order was £50. Not money I can afford to loose ( like everyone else) I never heard them knock, I got an email to say it was delivered it to a ‘safe space’ I went outside, where was this safe space do you ask? On the pavement outside my house in full view of everyone walking past! ( my house has steps going up to the house, they’d obviously just dumped it there) Luckily only been out 5 minutes and hadn’t been stolen. Where have the genius’s left your parcels??

cheeseislife8 · 20/01/2023 18:11

In the wheelie bin. On bin day

Mumofboyss · 20/01/2023 18:11

I once had a parcel delivered, they didnt knock, just left it on the front mat. But what made it worse is it was huge and they stood it upright, right against the door handle, so when i noticed something was up against the door, i couldnt pull the door handle down to open the door!! I was trapped in the house by a box!!

illiterato · 20/01/2023 18:13

My instructions: leave behind wheelie bin.
What they did: dragged the wheelie bin in front of the front door. Put parcel behind it. Literally no idea why.

CatNutsRoastingByAnOpenFire · 20/01/2023 18:26

Package marked as delivered, checked with sender. A couple of days later a man arrives and hands me my parcel, he lives in the next road at a different house no and the road name is nothing like mine.

I opened the door one day and took a package in, put it on the side without looking at the address as I shop online a lot. A few hours later same man turns up in a panic, it was his birthday present from his daughter, a new phone, and they had tracked it down from the photo. I felt bad about that one and always check now before leaving things on the side.

Daydreamer12345 · 20/01/2023 18:29

‘In a safe place’

Safe place was just on the floor right outside my front door - thankfully we have nice neighbours!

CatNutsRoastingByAnOpenFire · 20/01/2023 18:31

Was handed a box one day, I was walking home and the Royal Mail van slowed down next to me, postman said his partner (they used work in pairs) had asked him to drop it off on his way past. I thanked him and took it home.

It wasn't for me, it was for someone in the next road with a similar name so I spent the next hour on Facebook finding out who they were as I didn't want to walk all the way round with a huge box knocking on doors, lady came and collected it.

We have got to know the various family members quite well in the last few years while swapping mail, gardener's bills, notes etc.

CatNutsRoastingByAnOpenFire · 20/01/2023 18:37

Scotland. I am in London. No package left just a card with a date and reference which was apparently somewhere in Scotland. I suspect the package went home with the courier who probably enjoyed the replacement toilet brush and didn't have a partner on MN who refused to use it.

SinnerBoy · 20/01/2023 18:38

CatNutsRoastingByAnOpenFire · Today 18:37

Ah hah hah! Sorry...

Ponderingwindow · 20/01/2023 18:42

in Front of my garage door while I was home because they didn’t bother to knock, perfectly placed to be run over when leaving in the car. Thankfully we noticed in time.

SinnerBoy · 20/01/2023 18:44

I did a few months for an Amazon subcontractor, during the 2020 lockdown. Loads of people say to put it under the car, in the bin, or on the step. Our boss told us to use our common sense.

We had plastic bags, in case it was raining, but they're too small for a lot of the parcels, so I'd put a couple on the ground, then a couple on to, with a brick, or whatever. People would say leave it in the garage, when they didn't have a garage!

I had one lady complain, because I posted a card and sent a text, telling her I'd be back later. She lived on a terraced street and said to leave it on the doorstep - her door opened onto the pavement and there were loads of people walking by.

Other people were just plain rude, one woman finally came down as I was leaving, after the third knock. She had a phone headset and told me off for knocking, saying, "Some of us are working." I said, "Aye, me too, pet! If you don't want to come to the door, don't waste my time ordering a parcel."

Everyonehasavoice · 20/01/2023 18:50

SinnerBoy · 20/01/2023 18:44

I did a few months for an Amazon subcontractor, during the 2020 lockdown. Loads of people say to put it under the car, in the bin, or on the step. Our boss told us to use our common sense.

We had plastic bags, in case it was raining, but they're too small for a lot of the parcels, so I'd put a couple on the ground, then a couple on to, with a brick, or whatever. People would say leave it in the garage, when they didn't have a garage!

I had one lady complain, because I posted a card and sent a text, telling her I'd be back later. She lived on a terraced street and said to leave it on the doorstep - her door opened onto the pavement and there were loads of people walking by.

Other people were just plain rude, one woman finally came down as I was leaving, after the third knock. She had a phone headset and told me off for knocking, saying, "Some of us are working." I said, "Aye, me too, pet! If you don't want to come to the door, don't waste my time ordering a parcel."

I’ve been reading these posts with interest and I’m glad you’ve posted ( I’m not being sarcastic).

I had no idea some people tell you to deliver to ridiculous places.
I can understand why you’d get totally fed up.

CoachBeard · 20/01/2023 18:55

A set of wine glasses, marked fragile all over, lobbed over the back gate. It had landed a long way from the gate so they must have thrown it with considerable force. All smashed to smithereens.

A dressing gown, ordered for Christmas, never arrived. It was duly replaced and we thought no more about it. In about June I was cutting back a bush right at the end if the garden and found this slug eaten lump of cardboard right in the middle. Pulled it out and it contained the first dressing gown. It was still in it’s plastic bag but that had holes in it so it was wet and mouldy.

SinnerBoy · 20/01/2023 18:56

Some drivers are bloody useless, as well. Amazon keeps stats on complaints and at the place I was at, if you got 20 in a month, it was a final warning.

I got wise to people refusing to show ID for over 18 products. As soon as I was back in the van, I phoned the boss with their details and reported them for being abusive. We were told to explain that it's in the T&C when they make the purchase.

There was one guy of 88 and I couldn't give him his whisky. I tried all sorts, did he have a neighbour who could come round and "receive" the parcel (it has to be the exact address and a certified over 18). The thing is, Amazon have mystery shoppers and they report you, it's instant dismissal, do not finish the round, return to base and never work for them again.

CoffeandTiaMaria · 20/01/2023 18:59

Hermes left a stack of undelivered parcels ( including one for me) on a random driveway in the pouring rain 8 miles away (no car, I’m ill in bed). Apparently he was going to return the next day to pick them up and deliver them, he was ‘running late’ 🙄😳.
Same delivery man lobbed a parcel over the fence next door, into their pond.
Ditto chucked one up on top of our garden shed - he’ walked down the side of the house to do so - why not just ring the bell because I was in?!
Several dumped in green bin on refuse collection day….that’s why the bin was on the pavement….luckily bin men have learned to look in the bins around here before emptying them!

Idratherbepaddleboarding · 20/01/2023 19:03

I don’t mind them leaving parcels by the front door as we live rurally and no one bothers them but the delivery driver that went to the trouble of putting the door mat on top of the Hello Fresh box was a bit 🤨.

So far under our van that I had to slide under on my stomach to retrieve it.

One driver just opened our front door and put it in the house, which gave me a shock as I was walking through the hall.

bakewellbride · 20/01/2023 19:05

I had a fairly lightweight parcel just lobbed in my front garden on a horrible, windy, stormy day. I'm amazed it didn't blow away! Why Evri couldn't just leave it with a neighbour us beyond me.

gravyriceandchips · 20/01/2023 19:05

Perfume shop. £400 of presents that I'd bought in the sale in the refuse bin. No note to say delivered. Discovered a week later luckily before the bin men had came.

itswednesdayy · 20/01/2023 19:08

Don’t know if this counts but one of my parcels (with my address) was delivered to a random warehouse on the other end of the country.

I had to frantically contact the retailer who tried to contact DPD…who delivered the parcel to a warehouse the middle of nowhere. The delivery GPS and photos were concrete evidence it wasn’t delivered to me.

PuttingDownRoots · 20/01/2023 19:17

In the garden shed of an unoccupied house down the street.

Once, under a storm warning, heavy wind and rain. Shockingly, Amazon made it to our house. And left the parcel on the bbq.

soupey1 · 20/01/2023 20:05

Majestic Wine, told not to leave in a safe place but must be signed for and they were supposed to tell us when they were coming. Got back from lunch out to see a large box of wine next to our car on the drive, opened the front door to find a card on the mat saying left in safe place - that would be in full view of anyone walking past then!

Thesonglastslonger · 20/01/2023 20:08

Under a parked vehicle, several houses away. No idea why.

scoobydoo1971 · 20/01/2023 20:11

Hermes courier karate kicked garden door off its hinges by running and throwing entire body weight at it. I arrived back home and assumed we had been robbed from the damage. It took several attempts to knock 8ft chained, locked wooden door off its frame. Then he left parcel and remains of the door in my garden skip. He dumped teapot parcel marked fragile on a pile of rubble. It duly fell off and smashed against the bricks and mortar stacked up in the skip. All recorded on our CCTV, and presented to Hermes for a property damage claim.

FictionalCharacter · 20/01/2023 20:15

Wheelie bin
Balcony - they’d thrown it up there (first floor IIRC) - it was ages before we spotted it
Slotted behind a hedge when we were on holiday. Found it a couple of days after we got back. It was rather damp. That was when I discovered that slugs and snails like eating cardboard.

ReformedWaywardTeen · 20/01/2023 20:53

scoobydoo1971 · 20/01/2023 20:11

Hermes courier karate kicked garden door off its hinges by running and throwing entire body weight at it. I arrived back home and assumed we had been robbed from the damage. It took several attempts to knock 8ft chained, locked wooden door off its frame. Then he left parcel and remains of the door in my garden skip. He dumped teapot parcel marked fragile on a pile of rubble. It duly fell off and smashed against the bricks and mortar stacked up in the skip. All recorded on our CCTV, and presented to Hermes for a property damage claim.

Did they actually pay you though?

When I tried to contact them I've never got through, not once been able to speak to a human.

autienotnaughty · 20/01/2023 21:00

In the recycling with all the other cardboard boxes.
Dumped in the garden in the rain.
Down the side of the garage with all the moss, spiders etc

And once a delivery man who was delivering extending ladders didn't knock just pushed a note through. I happened to spot him driving away with the ladders obviously not delivered. He claimed he left them with a neighbour.