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Original poster

To expect the delivery man not to leave 4 boxes and 2 parcels outside my frontdoor for all the world to see, whilst I am out!

59 replies

pinkbubble · 14/12/2007 16:21

I am so cross, not only did it show that there was no one in my house, but anybody could have taken my shopping! What if I had gone away? They were not small boxes either!

(mind you they would have had a bit of a shock if they had taken the boxes!- 9 packs of Tena lady pads!!!!!) Which also made me a bit more cross, as one of the boxes were open and so you could see what was being delivered to me!!

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MrsGuyOfGisbourne · 14/12/2007 16:27

YANBU. I am so paranoid about parcels being left, or delivered tp the neighbours we hate that I get everything delvivered to DH's office.
Howver, recently Amazon we advertising a kind of large delvery box that you screw to the wall of our house, you leave open for postmen, then he can put parcels inside and shut lid whih locks it.

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pinkbubble · 14/12/2007 16:29

They could have at least popped it over my garden wall, and left a note telling me where they had left it.

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critterjitter · 18/12/2007 22:04

Yep. The delivery man has done that to me 3 times this week. All DDs presents. Despite leaving a note on my door reading "Postman. Please could you leave any parcels in the box to the right of the door and then take down this note. Thank you"

macdoodle · 18/12/2007 22:24

Yup me too see my amazon thread - only mine where left in the pouring rain
I ranted and ranted at amazon - they finally resent the order for free and asked me to return the damaged ones - I am not going to and will say I left them outside the post office why didn't you get them ????
hahahahaha

hellsbells76 · 19/12/2007 11:44

I do understand how annoying it is and of course YANBU to be angry but I was talking to a friend's husband the other day who's a delivery driver for various companies (inc. amazon) and he told me they sometimes have to deliver over 200 parcels a day and they simply don't have time to ring neighbours' bells or try to find a secure place to leave parcels if someone is out. They literally have a window of a few seconds to make each delivery. He wasn't happy about the situation at all. So it does seem to me the blame lies more with the companies which are so desperate to squeeze out every penny of profit they expect their delivery drivers work under impossible conditions

maisykins · 19/12/2007 11:54

Lately I am just happy to find that something has actually been delivered at all.

Alambil · 19/12/2007 12:49

YANBU!

I have had to rescue THREE packages from neighbours houses due to inconsiderate post-people abandoning them.

One person hung the catalogue order (a dress) on the door knob and drove off!!

I ran up the road and rescued it and the other packages he left before they blew away in those gales we had recently. Utterly insane behaviour from the postal service.

mustsleep · 19/12/2007 12:54

yanbu

our old postman was known to out things in the wheely bin

what if you were on hols or just didnlt think to look ( he never left a card!)

XAliceInWonderlandX · 19/12/2007 12:57

none of my parcels have turned up!!!!

but here the post is always left outside

as most will not fit in the silly box

is very silly on a rainy day

JodieG1 · 19/12/2007 13:01

Lol macdoodle, that would be funny.

discoverlife · 19/12/2007 13:01

We have given negative feedback on ebay because the postie has left the parcels in improbable places and not left a note saying where. Once he left the parcels in an old banger(car) we had on the drive, we only noticed parcels the day the scrap man came to take it away for crushing!!!!. All it needed was a card through the slot.

ComeOVenReadyturkey · 19/12/2007 13:04

YANBU. However here the postman/couriers often don't even bother to ring the door bell to see if you are in they simply dump it on the doorstep!

flowerytaleofNewYork · 19/12/2007 13:07

YANBU

I had a really big box from Boden [extravagant] a while ago and it was left on the doorstep without the bell being rung or a card through the door. And my front door opens directly on to the pavement on a main-ish road with shops, so loads of people walking past. It was only not nicked because I had a plumber arriving who saw it and brought it in for me.

coppertop · 19/12/2007 13:09

I found a huge parcel in my garden the other day. It wasn't even for us. The delivery driver had got the right house number but the wrong street. Fortunately the person it was intended for only lived a couple of streets away so I was able to take it to them (no car).

Blu · 19/12/2007 13:10

YANBU - but how do you know he left 4 and 6? Maybe there were more......

On saturday our postman delivered a package and I signed for it.

Yesterday a neighbour came round with a card saying package at sorting office, blah blah, DP went to collect it - was the same package already delivered.

Law unto themselves.

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pinkbubble · 19/12/2007 13:14

There were no cars on the drive way, slight indication that no one was in!( I guess not everyone has cars!)

Guess my thought was, what if!!!!!and there are a lot of what ifs too!

I have to give the postman several years back in the midst of winter and snow on the ground, a jobs worthy hat to where he left my parcel when it did not fit through the letter box - At the end of my garden(which is easily seen because of the side access) I had a shed that was near to falling down - hole in the roof etc. (we kept it padlocked etc!) Postman threw 2 small parcels in the hole of the roof and then on the back of a letter - so not even left a card wrote that he had left the parcels in the shed! I was so not happy, I had my foot in plaster, DH was away and I had to go down the end of the garden to rescue the parcels!

Flipping cheek!

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willow · 19/12/2007 13:14

Ok, think I can top this. In a previous life I was involved in a programme about wedding lists that had gone terribly wrong. Not long afterwards I met up with a friend who had links to a very well known store. She fessed up that said store had been bricking it that we would hear about how their delivery driver had left a load of wedding gifts by the newlywed's back door. Only problem was that they were on honeymoon... and the gifts obscured the cat flap. Cat was outside. Cat food feeder thing on timer was inside. Couple arrived home to soggy gifts and one very dead cat. Not just any old delivery driver...

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pinkbubble · 19/12/2007 13:15

I know that the correct parcels were there as there was a delivery note stuck in side of the bag!

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puccaupunderthemistletoe · 19/12/2007 13:16

A courier once did something similar to me, i had ordered some books for the dc, no note through the door or nothing i found them a week later, the box was stuffed down the back of my shed and soggy (as been rained on all week!).

Haylstones · 19/12/2007 13:28

My postie often leaves parcels outside the front of my house. He once left a 3ft high box when we were on holiday but luckily our neighbour used his key and left it in our hallway- it could have been there for a week! I have been waiting for a parcel for a while and found it yesterday at the back of the house against the patio doors into the dining room- we only use this room in the morning when it's chaos and in the evenings when it's dark (and back garden is full of 'stuff' waiting to go to the tip so am amazed I spotte it) so who knows how long it had been there for? Our garden is only accessed through a side gate, which is locked from our side so I have no idea how he got in the back garden- think he might have jumped over it (it's about 6 ft high fgs!

willow · 19/12/2007 13:30

Oh come on, the cat story is a cracker - surely it deserves recognition!

SelfishMrsClaus · 19/12/2007 13:35

I had ordered some books off Amazon & they didn't appear!

I contacted them & they said they should have been delivered...

I said I wanted a refund & they said they needed some sort of proof that I didn't receive the goods...

about 2 weeks later our sheep started to lamb & in the cold weather we lay them in the sheds.. where do you think the 4 brown parels full of books were??? Yup.. in the lambing shed down the yard!!

If we hadn't had a lamb we never in a million years would have looked there!

SelfishMrsClaus · 19/12/2007 13:36

Poor kitty cat

willow · 19/12/2007 13:42

Indeed. Never ceases to amaze me how stupid some people are.

handlemecarefully · 19/12/2007 13:43

YANBU - complain!