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parcel in the bin?

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zazA09Jane · 19/08/2014 19:18

so I ordered a new coat offline and I wasnt in for the delivery man this morning (id been to the shop at the bottom of the street and missed him, typical)

when I got in the card through the door said 'in bin'..
so I looked in my rubbish filled bin and the parcel was under a few rubbish bags!

im sure there not allowed to do that? plus today is bin day thank god the bin men didn't come until later!

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zazA09Jane · 20/08/2014 15:11

randomfemale well even though they left the card im just saying what if I didnt get home in time before the bins got taken and didnt see the card until it was too late? fair enough they didn't get taken this time but they could of, and im just saying this is why they shouldnt have left it in the bin..

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cherrybombxo · 20/08/2014 15:38

My DP is a postman and it would be more than his job's worth to leave a parcel in a bin/thrown over a wall! They are disciplined for delivering a special delivery after 1pm without proof of extreme circumstances!

SistersOfPercy · 20/08/2014 15:50

Not everyone's bins go onto the pavement. Ours don't - the bin men come and get them. If they were on the pavement, the pavements would be completely blocked.

Thats just how it is in most cities for bin collections, regardless of pavement width. Bins are required to be on the pavements with the handle facing the road. If they aren't they won't take them.
The only exception is for elderly and disabled who can contact the council and request the bin be collected directly from their property.

JulietBravoJuliet · 20/08/2014 16:37

Yodel have left parcels:

Under the car, with a card through the door telling me this. Great, except I didn't go in the house to see the card, just got back from the shop and jumped in the car to go to work. Yep, parcel got squished!

A large parcel (4ft long by 2ft wide) across the pavement outside my gates. Fortunately, a neighbour spotted it and took it in.

At the wrong house, after they'd knocked, been told it was the wrong house and directed to my actual house, they waited til my neighbour shut the door and dumped the parcel behind her bin!

A rolled up rug from Laura Ashley thrown like a javelin over my gates, which was correctly addressed and should've been delivered to the shop at the top of the street.

I now flatly refuse to have anything delivered by Yodel and will shop elsewhere if they are the only courier available. In contrast, I had a delivery brought by DPD today, which arrived at the time they specified, the courier managed to locate the correct address, and read the instructions on the label with the gate code on. He also carried it upstairs for me as it was heavy :)

Moulesvinrouge1 · 20/08/2014 17:17

I live in zone 2 in central London and the bins are collected from our gardens, not the pavement, as is the same for everyone round here. So we can't 'put the bins out' - they're just taken at collection time, full of yodel parcels or not!

carlywurly · 20/08/2014 17:27

My new iPad got left in the bin last week (ordered from amazon). On the night before collection.

I wasn't due to be home that evening so it was flukey that I caught it. Doesn't give you much faith..

TobyZiegler · 20/08/2014 17:39

We had one left 'in back garden'. Could we find it in back garden, could we hell... Until 2 years later when a fence blew down in the wind pushing a bush thing down with it. It was some books in standard Amazon styley packaging, it was all rotten and horrible. I'm guessing they threw it over the gate and it landed in the bush.

We also often have parcels just left by the front door for anyone to come and pick up should they feel they want to. Although I must live in a very honest town because I haven't had any sat by the front door stolen to date.

Teddybeau1988 · 20/08/2014 17:40

Yodel regularly put small parcels through my window, and they fall straight into my downstairs loo

blobbles · 20/08/2014 17:41

I've had a parcel from Yodel thrown over the garden gate before! They are terrible...

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 20/08/2014 17:46

We've got three wheelie bins and one small metal bin, the old fashioned type about 2ft high which we use for hot ash in the winter ........

I am howling at the pic of a parcel "hidden" under a bucket. FFS!

I don't understand why small local newsagents don't set themselves up as small depots for people to have stuff delivered to. There must be a way to set them up as agents if people have registered with them, and it would give a lot of small businesses an income stream.

Alicebannedit · 20/08/2014 17:48

I had a delivery once from I can't remember which company, but it was trackable and the courier had left it as requested in the cupboard by the front door - and I received an email with a photo of my front door and also the door of the cupboard it had been left in.

I hope I was grateful to be reminded of how long it was since the cupboard door was last painted Grin

NorbertDentressangle · 20/08/2014 17:52

We had a case of wine delivered by Yodel last week - very kind of them ..........especially as it wasn't for us but for someone a few roads away!

Wondering how long it will be before they collect it (if at all)

mausmaus · 20/08/2014 18:08

tbhi think it's mord down to the delivery person than company.
yodel and hermes are fine in my area while parcelfarce are utter shit.
we only once had a parcel in the bin, but that was a plant delivery that shouldn't get warm (in winter). so that was fine and wr got card and text messages to say where it was.

Topseyt · 20/08/2014 18:18

Some years ago I had a new tumble dryer delivered. I was out on the school run at the time, and only gone for 15 minutes.

They simply left it right at the top of my drive, virtually on the street, and drove off. That was Comet. I had arranged for them to take the old one away too. I phoned to complain and was given my delivery charge back.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 20/08/2014 18:28

The amount of deliveries I've had go missing where the carrier has insisted it's been signed for

After seeing the evidence of my signature it's obvious shit loads of people think my name is porch,odd really seen as its not and I don't have a porch

GemmaTeller · 20/08/2014 18:38

In our previous house, when we had a german shephard dog, we also had a courier who was scared of dogs.

Even though the dog was only looking out of the kitchen window and had no way of getting to him unless I physically let her out, the courier used to run half way down the drive and practically caber toss the parcel a further 20ft in the general direction of over the side gate.

I luffs my DPD man and my DPD man luffs my boxers Smile

QueenStromba · 20/08/2014 19:52

I love DPD - I've paid extra in the past when I've been given a choice of having them be the courier. The fact that they text you to let you know the hour window they'll deliver in and are normally bang in the middle is fantastic, especially since DP's work is close enough to home that he can come home for that hour.

I'm also really impressed with Amazon's own delivery service. They really make an effort to find someone to leave your parcel with and then text and email you with the details. Just before Christmas they left a parcel with the restaurant two doors down from us.

I hate Yodel with a passion though - I won't order from anyone if I know that's who they use.

PeterGriffinsPenisBeaker · 20/08/2014 20:22

I think I'm going to change careers, being a binman sounds like it has a few parcel perks Grin

IneedAwittierNickname · 20/08/2014 20:37

TreadSoftly

I've had clothes delivered to my local newsagent before. From very.co.uk iirc. I think I had to pay to have it delivered to the house (and then try and be in) or have it sent to the shop for free and pick it up at my convenience. Brilliant idea imo.

ShadowStar · 20/08/2014 20:43

We've had a parcel in the bin on bin day from Yodel before.

Luckily in our case it was recycling week and DH got there before the binmen....

ilovepowerhoop · 20/08/2014 21:19

it doesnt bother me that they put them in the recycling bin as they do tend to tell me where it is and the bin is round in the back garden. I had one delivered into it today - saved me picking it up from elsewhere or having to organise a redelivery

OhTheDrama · 20/08/2014 22:13

I ordered a rug in the next sale a few weeks back, they said it was on back order and would be with me in 2 weeks, that was OK as I was on holiday. It arrived 3 days later and was delivered by Hermes. We got back to find a card through letterbox saying "left on doorstep". A 6ft wide rug!!!! But it was nowhere to be seen. Luckily about an hour later NDN knocked to say he'd taken it in. Now who would think leaving it in full view was a good idea???

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zazA09Jane · 20/08/2014 23:43

damn yodel in their garish green and red van..

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WaxyBean · 21/08/2014 06:48

I dont have a problem with them being left in the paper or tins/glass/plastic recycling as long as its not collection day (yes that has happened here!) but I draw the line at the wheelie bin for landfill waste and the food waste bin. I've had parcels left in all of those places.

catsmother · 21/08/2014 07:07

Years ago I lived in a 1st floor maisonette with stairs up to a small balcony - on which I kept a covered litter tray rather than have it in the house. I had small parcels left, according to the card, "in the cat basket" Hmm twice - and the ridiculous thing was I had a cat flap in my front door which the parcels could have been posted through instead.