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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to think this is the stupidest place ever to leave a parcel?

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PurpleStorm · 14/03/2013 21:09

This morning, a Hermes delivery man called round with a parcel for us.

DH & I were both out, so no-one in to accept the parcel. Because it's bin day and recycling week, our recycling wheelie bin was at the end of the drive, waiting for the binmen to come along and empty it.

For whatever crazy reason, the Hermes man decided that the best thing to do with our parcel was to leave it in the as yet unemptied wheelie bin. And then he helpfully posted one of those cards through the door. "Sorry I missed you - your parcel was left in the..... Bin"

Luckily for the parcel, DH went home early because he was feeling very ill (not lucky for DH), and rescued the parcel before the bin men turned up - they get to our house quite late on, also luckily.

But really. Surely most delivery people would think "Hmm. There's a bin at the end of almost every driveway on this road. Perhaps it's bin day? Better not leave the parcel in the bin, just in case."

AIBU to think that this deliveryman is completely brainless?

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GoatBongosAnonymous · 15/03/2013 07:14

Ah, myhermes... We are still waiting for a parcel after 10 days (3-5 day working service) that apparently has been 'delivered with signature' Clever of them since we don't have it. Oh, and after it was delivered, the website says it is back in the depot. Um?...
We are a new estate (3 years old). Apparently the courier couldn't find us cos the satnav didn't think we exist. Poor diddums, I guess maps are too difficult a challenge.

BlueyDragon · 15/03/2013 07:15

YANBU. We live on a main road and have gates blocking access to the back garden that are sometimes locked. Royal Mail, Yodel, Hermes and now DX have all committed epic fails on the delivery front: leaving it outside the front door in full view, saying it's by the back door when it's tucked in by the bins, leaving parcels outside in the rain and throwing them over the 6 ft back gate to be left outside in the rain. Admittedly they've not actually left them in the bin yet but it can only be a matter if time. Sometimes they don't even leave a card so how I'm supposed to know it's there is beyond me. And when I complain I get the usual "Sorry, we'll investigate" crap that leads to precisely nothing.

Honestly, I don't mind if they leave a card asking me to pick it up from a depot. Just please could they engage brain sometimes.

GwendolineMaryLacey · 15/03/2013 07:25

I bought something from ebay yesterday and got a message from the seller last night to say was it ok if she sent by Royal Mail as FuckingHermes were proving difficult to contact. I was fucking delighted.

Storminacoffeecup · 15/03/2013 07:27

As my kitchen is too small my freezer is kept in the outhouse. So when the parcel company brought a parcel round when I wasn't in guess where he left it? Yep, INSIDE the freezer!

Luckily it wasn't an electrical item!

HorryIsUpduffed · 15/03/2013 07:28

The delivery companies who rely on self-employed people in their own cars (Hermes, Yodel, etc) are cheaper, which is why companies choose them, but the actual delivery chap gets about 30-50p per delivery. He doesn't have time to engage brain discover the best possible solution.

I have sympathy for the delivery dudes. But I avoid buying from companies that use them.

wonkylegs · 15/03/2013 07:28

We live in a terraced house with postage stamp sized garden with only a 1' high wall across the front. We once had a wine delivery left on the bench in full view of the road. Our road is one of the main school run routes for the high school.
Funnily enough by the time we got home it had been opened and one or two bottles were missing. I suspect the local teenagers might have upgraded from drinking cheap cider in the park that wkend.

WidowWadman · 15/03/2013 07:35

FuckingYodel lost my parcel. I wasn't at home on the delivery attempt, so left card, and I waited at home the next day. No delivery attempt. So I booked a collection slot for the following monday, depot is a good 35 miles from where I live, but vaguely into work direction.

After waiting 45 minutes FuckingYodel-man cheerfully informs me that itprobaly was alread lost the previous thursday, and that's the reason why there was no further delivery attempt.

Why the fucking fuck did you bloody let me book a fecking collection slot? Why did you neither inform me or the seller that you fucking lost my parcel? Where is the fucking point in scanning the parcels daily (as you claim), but not reconciling against what you should have in your high value cage?

Oh, and ebuyer - when I say "cancel my order unless you use a more able courier", I do not mean 'send another one out with those kings of inaptitude'. With a fucking tracking reference that doesn't work! Arses.

NK2b1f2 · 15/03/2013 09:48

Just had a delivery a few minutes ago. Doorbell rings, I go to answer it only to see the delivery driver pulling out of our road - he left two boxes of wine on the doorstep. Just as well I was in.

GregBishopsBottomBitch · 15/03/2013 09:52

NK Yodel do that to me, knock once and walk off.

GalaxyDefender · 15/03/2013 11:36

Hermes did exactly the same thing to me a few weeks ago. I even made a thread about it somewhere
Lucky for me, my bin was nice and empty. Not so lucky for me, they didn't bother to leave a bastarding note and it was the day before bin day - if I hadn't seen the package and hooked it out with a hanger (I'm too short to reach!) I'd have never even known

poshme · 15/03/2013 11:48

I had a Boden delivery once which according to the online tracking was left in a secure location at my house- no card through door and I couldn't find it anywhere. When you phone the number to complain, you have to enter the ref from the card through the door- which obv I didn't have. I tweeted at Boden about it and they got back to me very quickly.
It was delivered 2 days later. I do wonder if someone is going to find a Boden parcel somewhere near their house...

Convert · 15/03/2013 16:15

Yodel once delivered a parcel and refused to accept that we hadn't received it because it had been signed for.
Yes it had been signed for, by a stranger, who just happened to be in the car park of our pub at 9am. I bet they were gutted that it was a baby sleeping bag.

LunaticFringe · 15/03/2013 18:11

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HorryIsUpduffed · 15/03/2013 18:15

Today I took delivery of a neighbour's new Corby Trousers Press. She is elderly and lives alone. The delivery amuses and intrigues me in equal measure.

She hasn't called round though which makes me think Shitty Link didn't leave her a card.

GregBishopsBottomBitch · 15/03/2013 18:19

I've had them try and deliver to me, leave a card, then i find out its for 2 houses along.

stripeyjimjams · 15/03/2013 19:06

YANBU x 10. I got a parcel delivered to my parents' house, Royal Mail postman left it on the wall outside their house, in full view. My folks got home, found it lying in their garden, having been opened. It was a Longchamp tote bag. Thankfully, whoever opened it thought it was a flimsy wee cheap thing and obviously not expensive enough to keep/punt. I never complained about those Longchamp bags not being worth the money ever again.

SnotMeReally · 15/03/2013 19:17

OMG - I hate it when they put things in the empty bin and drag the bin right up to the front door as a clue- often there is water/gunge in the bottom and as for the germs, urgh!

But who puts parcels in full bins, and in food bins that's total madness!!

DesiderataHollow · 15/03/2013 19:58

Has anyone else got an advert for handy delivery-friendly wheelie bins at the top of the page?

FryOneFatManic · 15/03/2013 20:25

I have had a delivery not turn up (yodel) and when I contacted the company I'm told parcel was left by back door. I told them this was physically impossible as no access to back door except via locked garage or over a 10 foot wall (6 foot on our side, the house next door is built on a lower level). No parcel there.

And once I was told a non-appearing parcel had been delivered and signed for. I asked for a copy of signature and having finally managed to get it, was able to tell them it was not mine, had evidence to prove my signature was different (it was over my name) and I categorically denied signing. Got a replacement both times.

FriggFRIGG · 15/03/2013 20:31

Yip.
This has happened to me twice I mean, WTAF is that about

LayMizzRarb · 15/03/2013 20:32

Royal Mail shoved an envelope with £3000 of Mauritian Rupees through my door without even knocking to get a signature. When I looked at the tracking website to see the 'signature' the person signing it had totally Mis spelt my name, with two G's instead of one ( common mastike with my name).
I was in all morning, waiting for it but they obviously couldn't be arsed to knock and wait for a signature.
It was not evident what it was from the outside, but I dread to think what would have happened if I lived in a shared bedsit house with dodgy neighbours!

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PurpleStorm · 15/03/2013 20:33

Yes, I'm getting the wheelie bin advert too

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VirtuallyHere · 15/03/2013 20:34

I think the best I had was left under our front door mat. Our front garden is about three metres and highly visible from a street that lots of people walk down. The parcel was about six inches high so the door mat was literally floating on top of it. Not exactly a great hiding place. Still it did at least survive the delivery unlike another one the guy chose to throw over our six foot back garden fence .. and contained a crystal glass.

NK2b1f2 · 15/03/2013 20:37

lay got something of some value through the door, first class recorded, with a note scrawled on the envelope 'I signed 4 u, THE POSTMAN'

thegreylady · 15/03/2013 20:49

My funniest was a 3 month wait for some curtains ordered on Amazon.
They didnt come and didnt come even though the tracker said they had been delivered.
Eventually I received an email to say they were 'in the shed'.Now our shed is in the back garden with access only through the house or via a padlocked wrought iron gate.The shed was locked as it was Winter and we weren't using the garden furniture,lawn mower etc.
When I checked the curtains were indeed 'in the shed'. I emailed and was told:
"Your delivery man was able to scale the gate and remove/replace the perspex window in order to leave your goods in a safe,dry location.Unfortunately he forgot to leave a card.Our apologies for any inconvenience."

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