to expect [some] delivery people not to be such massive liars?

11 replies

jumpjockey · 26/02/2009 20:14

Large delivery due today, Home Delivery Network, between 8am and 7pm. Nothing had arrived by 2 and I had to pop out with dd for an hour so left a sign in the window saying "Please leave delivery with neighbours" - having checked first that they were going to be in the whole time. Get back home, nothing has come. By 6.30 no sign of anything so checked the online tracking and apparently they tried to deliver while I was out and left a card with contact details. Like bollocks they did - no card, no trying next door. No contact phone no on their website, just says they'll try to deliver again the following day - so I have to sit in all of tomorrow now waiting.

Why say they've left a card if they haven't? If I'd known they'd supposedly tried to deliver I could have gone out and done other stuff, instead of waiting in.

And while I'm moaning, I also detest with all my heart the person who claimed to have left a parcel of Christmas presents in our porch because I was out. We don't have a porch, our doorstep goes direct onto the pavement. Why bother making up a lie like that? If you just left it on the step, at least say that...

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Nightcrawly · 26/02/2009 20:20

YABU. I have similar feelings about the delivery person who flung a parcel of christmas presents over my back wall on the concrete yard without leaving a card. As it was the middle of December I didn't go into the yard and I didn't know they were there for ages. They were pretty soggy and horrible by the time I found them.

Also the twit who hung my huge Next order bag on my front door knocker on the street and the one who put a parcel in the wheely bin and no card.

Kimi · 26/02/2009 20:24

Maybe it was the same one who threw a box over my back gate that was full of Glasses for my sisters wedding I think he/she now works for the wine society as a box of very expensive wine was delivered via the over the back gate method

AMumInScotland · 26/02/2009 20:25

We've had the package in the wheely-bin too. But usually we just watch the website change from "on the van" to "couldn't deliver, they were out" when DH works from home in an office overlooking the driveway...

I reckon we just live somewhere which takes a separate trip and we're an easy one to not bother with if they're running out of time, or being lazy.

Geetar · 26/02/2009 20:25

Our catalogue delivery man used to put parcels in the wheelie bin. It used to drive me nuts as I have a total bin phobia and would freak out about the germs on the bag etc.

altagloria · 26/02/2009 20:28

YABU. You should also expect (some of) them to be vandals. Like the one who rammed a parcel through our locked cat flap resulting in the whole thing having to be taken out the door and replaced with a new one.

Grrr (rage of the wronged customer)

Nabster · 26/02/2009 20:33

I waited in for ten hours for british gas to come and rang them at 5.50.

They knocked but i wasn't there.

Yep, that's right. I can see my drive from my lounge window where I was sat most of the day waiting.

End of day and they could't be arsed.

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 27/02/2009 00:03

I had one last week where I happened to be standing where I could see the van, driveway and driver. He was writing the card as he came up the drive, and didn't ring just started shoving the card through. He at least had the grace to look like this when I opened the door as he was about to leg it back down the drive. Cheeky arse.

Nabster · 27/02/2009 08:02

Why would they do that though? Makes more work for them surely as they have to come back.

FourArms · 27/02/2009 08:07

Perhaps they get a 2nd payment for that?

alicecrail · 27/02/2009 08:09

at Ali Cheeky fecker! I mean surely if you are going to the hassle of posting a card through the door, you may as well knock

louloulouise · 27/02/2009 13:49

[quote]I had one last week where I happened to be standing where I could see the van, driveway and driver. He was writing the card as he came up the drive, and didn't ring just started shoving the card through. He at least had the grace to look like this when I opened the door as he was about to leg it back down the drive. Cheeky arse.[/quote]

A ticketmaster guy did this with my Bon Jovi tickets - stood at the window and watched him write the card out and shove it through the letterbox. He then went and sat in his car to sort stuff out, presumably writing out the card for the next address . So I went out and knocked on his car window and said 'you didn't knock did you?' whilst waving the card in my hand - he looked suitably embarrassed!

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