If you work from home, what happens with the post?

[remotecontrolowls]

I run my own business and would like to send something in the post to some target clients.

Initial thoughts are some biscuits and a hand written card.

But what happens when everyone works from home. If I send it to head office do they get forwarded on? Or do they just sit on a desk until the next team meeting? Or opened by someone else?

This is a long winded way of asking whether I should go to the trouble.

In my place, the fee earners and admin staff work from home. Post room staff don't and all post is emailed to the appropriate recipient the day it's received

I wouldn't post stuff like that to an office. I assume we can receive letters at my current employer, but I don't know how. Deliveries of tech kit come in okay, though. But I think things aimed at individuals might just sit around for weeks.

If hybrid - it sits on a desk until the person next goes into the office.

If completely wfh/they are using a "virtual office" address - it would get forwarded or scanned and emailed.
The biscuits would be fair game for anyone else in the office in a wfh scenario or alternatively sit there going slowly mouldy?
If it is a virtual office, they'd have x days to arrange a pickup or pay for parcel forwarding (If the virtual office address even accepts the parcel at all - some of them don't)

These would all be big companies rather than smaller ones using a virtual office.

I would have no idea who works from home and who doesn't though, so maybe it's not a good idea.

@remotecontrolowls can you call up and ask when X is next in the office to receive a parcel??

There's always someone on my team in the office but I'd never eat something that's been sent in the post by a random company.

In our office, it would sit and wait until the person was in.

When I was in a very large office, parcels were left in the basement until I collected them so perishables would not be a good idea. Biscuits would have been fine though

I work for a large company. I wfh up North and very very rarely go to head office in London.

If post or parcels turn up for me at head office, the post room will email me and ask what they should do with them. I always ask them to forward to me at home, which they do with no issues.

We've had a couple of people looking for business mail in biscuits. We are a mix of hybrid and wfh. I'm the admin. If I see from me or someone else opening one of the envelopes that it's just someone touting for business I open up the ones for wfh people and we eat the biscuits.

I'm not spending time and stamps forwarding biscuits on.

I agree with PP, I would not eat random biscuits sent to me.

I do something similar with all my clients at Christmas. I send an advance e-mail to say I have a little something to send them and would they like it to go to the office or a home address if WFH. Most tend to be WFH especially in the run up to Christmas and are happy to give me their address and have it send there. It’s saved a lot of wasted packages.