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Delivery left in bin instead of per my instructions

39 replies

WanderingTrolley1 · 04/10/2014 15:00

I left instructions to leave a parcel, if no answer, over our back fence.

Return to find card stating parcel is in brown bin, to the side of the property. Anyone could have seen him place it there and taken it.

AIBU to be slightly miffed?

OP posts:
theonlygothinthevillage · 04/10/2014 15:04

Idiot. I suggest telling the delivery company that it got taken away with the rubbish and making them pay compensation. I've heard of deliveries left in bins before. Apparently some people are too stupid even to have a job delivering stuff!

OwlCapone · 04/10/2014 15:16

I suggest telling the delivery company that it got taken away with the rubbish and making them pay compensation

Really? You'd suggest fraud would you? Nice.

The parcel was fine, no one stole it. Does it really matter?

OwlCapone · 04/10/2014 15:17

Out of interest, was he meant to just throw it over your back fence? Confused

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 04/10/2014 15:33

You got your parcel, stop worrying about something that didn't happenSmile

SamiBE · 04/10/2014 15:36

Call the company and give feedback.

BookABooSue · 04/10/2014 15:39

Perhaps their company policy is that they can't just leave a parcel lying in an open back-garden, you know, in case someone steals it Confused

So yes YABU to think lying out in the open is safer than being in a bin.

Tamisara · 04/10/2014 15:42

Where are you OP? If you were in North Bucks, your parcel would be very soggy indeed!

Anyone who saw the parcel being put in the bin, would also have seen him throw it over the fence surely? Then they would have been alerted to the fact the property was empty, and, if able to navigate the fence, they could have taken more than just the parcel.

Not good they didn't follow instructions, but at least your parcel is dry, and unbroken.

FunkyZebraHat · 04/10/2014 15:59

I think my postman finally figured out not to leave parcels in my bin after he did it approx 5 times and I made a formal complaint to royal mail each time. Because being a wheelchair user I couldn't reach down into the bin to get it and had to ask my parents to call in just to get it.
OP - YANBU

AmIthatHot · 04/10/2014 16:56

I always get parcels left in the bin. I'm happy that I don't have to trail all the way to the depot in a lunch break

dun1urkin · 04/10/2014 16:59

My parcels get left in the bin, too. I am also grateful not to have to trek to the depot to collect.
The postman always puts them in the 'right' bin as well (being the cardboard and paper bin) as the other three are liable to be stinky at times.

theonlygothinthevillage · 04/10/2014 17:32

LOL owlcapone. Any more earnest and you'll implode. But sweet of you to look out for the interests of a delivery company that employs lazy half wits.

Astonished by the people who don't think it's a big deal if delivery people chuck your purchases in the bin. The sensible option (used by any vaguely reputable company) is to leave a card so you can arrange for redelivery or collect from the depot. But I guess it's too much to ask for the company not to get the parcel off their hands as fast as possible ...

theonlygothinthevillage · 04/10/2014 17:33

Does the name of the company in question begin with Y, by any chance?

SevenZarkSeven · 04/10/2014 17:40

I don't understand why they leave stuff in the bin.

We came this close to accidentally recycling a purchase once. The recycling box had gone out and it was only because one of us went to put something a bit big in which needed some rummaging to fit, that we saw there was a package in there Confused

It's bizarre, IMO.

OP give them some feedback or complain if you feel strongly about it.

If you wanted them to lob it over a fence though TBH not surprised the delivery person didn't go for it.

BluePop · 04/10/2014 19:44

All the decorations I had carefully chosen for my PFB's 1st birthday got taken away by the bin men because of an idiot delivery person. I had to buy them again and pay extra for express delivery to get them in time.
Unless they specifically know it won't be accidentally collected, it's an imbecilic thing to do and you are most definitely NBU.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 04/10/2014 20:21

Why didn't you complain to the company and say it hadn't been delivered?Confused

Curiouslygrumpycola · 04/10/2014 21:22

I prefer them to be put in the empty brown recycle bin, rather than having to go to the delivery office.

Everyone seems to have different preferences. Just give feedback or put a little note up. I don't think it makes them lazy or useless.

NCforAye · 04/10/2014 21:24

I had a parcel - a load of new bedding - left in the bin once, it was very strange. How do they know you aren't away for a couple of days and that the parcel will end up getting thrown out? Hmm

theonlygothinthevillage · 04/10/2014 21:32

Those saying it's convenient to have a parcel left in the bin: absolutely fine if you have said to do this on the delivery instructions. For everyone else, absolutely unacceptable.

SevenZarkSeven · 04/10/2014 22:10

Well it is useless to leave someone's delivery in the bin and not mention that it's there!

munchkin2902 · 04/10/2014 22:15

Someone I know was on holiday and a parcel was delivered unexpectedly. Postman left a note saying it was in the recycling bin. Of course when he got back the bin had been emptied!

OwlCapone · 04/10/2014 22:19

LOL owlcapone. Any more earnest and you'll implode. But sweet of you to look out for the interests of a delivery company that employs lazy half wits

I'm not earnest, I'm honest. Do you not know the difference?

The delivery driver let it somewhere dry and sheltered and told the OP where it was. Hardly lazy and half witted.

OwlCapone · 04/10/2014 22:20

And I've just noticed who the OP is.

I believe someone called them two letters and one number to many on a goady thread the OP started this week.

ilovepowerhoop · 04/10/2014 22:22

I dont mind mine being put in the bin and a card left. Our bins are at the back of the house and wont be emptied unless they are taken round to the pavement at the front of the house.

Iwantmyparcel · 04/10/2014 22:45

Is the courier myhermes by any chance ?

MidniteScribbler · 05/10/2014 00:09

Get a parcel safe then you won't have a problem.