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We have left your item in your safe place - epic fails

76 replies

Failingatthemoment · 07/07/2023 07:24

Nope- I don't have a 'designated safe place, you just dumped it wherever. Hers my 'designated safe space' photo ( chucked over gate)- feel free to share yours - how ridiculous can you get?

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Toothiepegg · 07/07/2023 09:06

Amazon left a parcel for me on a neighbours compost heap. It wasn't discovered for a couple of weeks. They brought it round, it was soaking wet and slimy.

Also had a parcel left in my car. I'm not sure what made the delivery person think to see if the car was unlocked, which it was.

Hadalifeonce · 07/07/2023 09:08

Got a message to say parcel left in a safe space DS at home all day! Couldn't find it, called the supplier, who said she had a photo, I asked if it was a blue door, she said yes. I asked to get the photo, it was left by a black building in a field. No idea...

GettingStuffed · 07/07/2023 09:09

I had my sister's Christmas present sent to my dad's as they still live in the same town. It said it had been delivered, handed to resident. Dad hadn't received it so ordered another one (refunded the first). In April my dad started doing the garden and when he opened the compost heap he found the present on top.

magicstar1 · 07/07/2023 09:10

I reported a delivery as lost once, as I was sitting in the back garden when they said it was delivered, but a van hadn’t pulled up at all in the driveway, and there was no sign of a parcel.
DH found it weeks later where the courier had walked down the road, up to the front window and thrown it in. The parcel was wedged between the sofa and the wall under the window.

OutDamnedSpot · 07/07/2023 09:11

Mine are generally pretty sensible and leave them on the back step, but often place boxes right across the cat flap.

I frequently have to text my neighbour to ask her to go free the cat.

Afterdinnerchocs · 07/07/2023 09:11

Next to my garage and not locked shed in the snow. By the time they told me it had been delivered it was covered in snow and I had to go digging around to try and find it

TallulahBetty · 07/07/2023 09:13

I've told this before. We had one 'left with your receptionist' but clearly we are merely but a house.

The picture they took (of it dumped on the doormat) had the tip of my cat's tail in the corner - we like to assume they thought he was the receptionist 😂(and I guess they'd be right, as he is in charge)

BitOutOfPractice · 07/07/2023 09:14

Mine was left in “my” designated “safe” place yesterday. The porch apparently. Except I live in a flat and don’t have a porch. What they meant was that they’d chucked it on top of the communal mail box in the lobby. Which is neither designated, safe, nor indeed, a porch.

LulooLemon · 07/07/2023 09:15

I had a parcel 'delivered' with no further detail. We said we hadn't received it and (with a lot of fuss from the company) had another one sent to us.

Months later we were pruning in the garden and found it disintegrating behind a bush. 🤦‍♀️

happyfoot · 07/07/2023 09:16

Ours left a parcel underneath our car, just behind the wheel but didnt specify where it was left. Luckily we spotted it before we accidently drove over it.

Seeline · 07/07/2023 09:18

We ordered a roof box for the car.
It came in a large cardboard package - probably 7' long and 4' square.
It was delivered by chucking it over our 7' high back gate into our narrow side passage where it squashed the neighbours fence.
It was pouring with rain so by the time we found it, the packaging had disintegrated.
Still not entirely sure how they managed to lob it over the gate!

MyHusbandisRonWeasley · 07/07/2023 09:19

Helpful 🙄

We have left your item in your safe place - epic fails
ahunf · 07/07/2023 09:20

I've just had a notification to say a parcel
has been delivered. It's a large plant.

I'm in. No knock or a ring of the doorbell.

I checked tracking info. The person in the photo accepting it isn't me and that isn't my dog. I don't have a dog.

Mygrandadwasmywingman · 07/07/2023 09:21

My mother once ordered a large order of clothes-£300ish of ladies clothes which was a lot in the late 90's

Nothing showed up,the company swore they had been delivered-she swore she hadn't had anything

They ended up refunding her after a lot of phone calls

a year later,she was clearing out some kids bikes in the garden (about 20+ bikes)

She finally got to the back of all these bikes and opened the gas box

There was her order-god only knows why they'd put it there-dad was in (like he is every morning),they have a full street of neighbours that would have taken it in,the postie had to walk past 3 sheds,4 bins and the back door to get to the gas box and he hadn't written 'gas box' on the note shoved through the door

She kept the order and her mouth shut

Wrongsideofpennines · 07/07/2023 09:25

Not a parcel but keys for the rental van they had dropped off. They posted them through the same door number of the street parallel to mine. In an unoccupied house where the resident had died and her next of kin lived hundreds of miles away.

PollyAmour · 07/07/2023 09:25

Someone once told me if you have a lot of household rubbish to get rid of, pack it in a large Amazon box and leave it in full view of passers by. Saves booking a slot at the recycling centre. 😂

Toothiepegg · 07/07/2023 09:26

PollyAmour · 07/07/2023 09:25

Someone once told me if you have a lot of household rubbish to get rid of, pack it in a large Amazon box and leave it in full view of passers by. Saves booking a slot at the recycling centre. 😂

Love that 🤣

Pudmyboy · 07/07/2023 09:34

MyHusbandisRonWeasley · 07/07/2023 09:19

Helpful 🙄

Did you order a balloon?😄

loislovesstewie · 07/07/2023 09:37

My son bought a mobile phone years ago, it was left in our safe space with a photo, trouble was the phone was left in the safe space of street with the same address but in a town about 200 miles away! The courier company could not explain it , the address /post code were right but it goes to the wrong town. And no one noticed!!!!

Dontcallmescarface · 07/07/2023 09:55

DD lives above a golf-pro shop on a golf course. I sent her a package and gave detailed instructions where the building was and how to access the front door. When the "proof of delivery" photo arrived it was clear that it was not where it should be. DD had no idea what door it was or even what building the door belonged to. I had to email the secretary of the golf course to see if they recognised it. It turned out to be the door at the back of the clubhouse which, in order to get to, the driver would have had to walk right past DD's front door.

Leapintothelightning · 07/07/2023 09:59

General waste bin. Which had just been emptied.

Fleur405 · 07/07/2023 09:59

Wheelie bin in the back garden. Despite us having a woodshed that they had to walk past which is our actual designated safe space.

Lellochip · 07/07/2023 10:09

OutDamnedSpot · 07/07/2023 09:11

Mine are generally pretty sensible and leave them on the back step, but often place boxes right across the cat flap.

I frequently have to text my neighbour to ask her to go free the cat.

You can solve this by asking your cat to accept the parcel. I once came home to find a box inside my kitchen by the back door. Must've come through the catflap, which the cat must've unlocked for the delivery person. She even apparently signed for it...

LadyEloise1 · 07/07/2023 10:17

There's a large flowerpot pot on my doorstep. A safe place to hide a parcel behind you'd think.
But no.
The delivery driver just dumps a parcel on the doormat on the doorstep.
A very unsafe place to leave a parcel I have paid for. Sad

And no DPD I didn't sign for the parcel as your driver stated.
I didn't get to open the door to him. He was gone by the time I got to the door.

starfishmummy · 07/07/2023 10:20

An elderly lady's house about 3 miles away. Completely different postcode but both streets began with a B. I didn't know this, but the lady's carer had rung the company who relayed the info to me when I called about non arrival.

I got the feeling that they thought I was unreasonable not to go and get it; kept stressing the elderly lady bit, but I was on crutches and 2 buses (that didn't connect ) plus a considerable walk each way was not do-able.

They said they'd get the courier to collect and deliver to me . It still didn't arrive so reluctantly they sent a replacement and continued to harass me for weeks to see if I'd had the original. I never did get it.