Why my postie isn't getting a tip this year...
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I have had the same sort of thing with City-Link, they claimed to re-delivered my parcel at 7pm on an evening when the full family was at home, after leaving an earlier card with the wrong parcel on it and with tracking information saying it had be delivered and signed forby someone else. LIARS!! Will they return my calls? Will they hell.
Perrari
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Bob
There has been a shake up recently with the sorting office, my postman used to leave things in my porch , but 3-4 months ago he has stopped doing that as they were all told to stop doing it due to a few parcels going missing. I see you are in Gwynedd as well, it could be the same sorting office.
I am saying this as I assume the parcel needed to be signed for.
There has been a shake up recently with the sorting office, my postman used to leave things in my porch , but 3-4 months ago he has stopped doing that as they were all told to stop doing it due to a few parcels going missing. I see you are in Gwynedd as well, it could be the same sorting office.
I am saying this as I assume the parcel needed to be signed for.
I think the problem lies with the mobile POD scanners they now use. They can't copy the paper signature to the electronics. When I worked there years ago, we would have just stuck your sig from the note to the POD signature sheet with Sellotape.
I suspect its to save postie/ back office from extra paperwork or cluttering his pristine PO van cab with the behemoth piece of paper
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Damned annoying though. My postie will leave stuff but only because he knows me well. He wouldn't leave a special delivery though the other day. One day, the Post Office will once again realise that needlessly carrying parcels that could have been delivered, costs them extra money and upsets their customers.
I suspect its to save postie/ back office from extra paperwork or cluttering his pristine PO van cab with the behemoth piece of paper
. Damned annoying though. My postie will leave stuff but only because he knows me well. He wouldn't leave a special delivery though the other day. One day, the Post Office will once again realise that needlessly carrying parcels that could have been delivered, costs them extra money and upsets their customers.
have the same problem here,one day i was at the sorting office 11 miles away to pick it up and when i got home i found another card for another parcel! blood irate i was! dont know why the Royal Fail are being like it,they make it impossible to make a claim anyhow! i had one claim just fizzle out after 14 months.
print one of these to laminate and put on the door!:
print one of these to laminate and put on the door!:
There was something on the radio a few weeks back stating that RM were trying to change their rules so they could leave parcels with a neighbour.
Their currently rules do not allow this unlike all the other carriers.
Had my own little argument with them today as I too received a note through the door which is fair enough as I was out. My argument was the fact the postie had written on the note saying please leave 48! hours before I collect it my self! didn't take that long to get here in the first place.
Quick phone call to the office and they confirmed it would be there that afternoon.
Their currently rules do not allow this unlike all the other carriers.
Had my own little argument with them today as I too received a note through the door which is fair enough as I was out. My argument was the fact the postie had written on the note saying please leave 48! hours before I collect it my self! didn't take that long to get here in the first place.
Quick phone call to the office and they confirmed it would be there that afternoon.
Talk to your postie/s and arrange something face to face, notes could have been stuck up by any one.
Sorry mate, but coming from an ex posty.. there's nothing wrong with that.
Unless you know people personally or very well I never left things on porches. It's strictly AGAINST the rules.
I'd rather leave a note for someone than risk losing my job.
That said, you can ring up your sorting office and let them know of a pre-arranged secure place to leave packets.
I'm not having a go, I just think it's a bit unfair when they have a job to do and rules to follow. And consequences when they don't follow them....
Unless you know people personally or very well I never left things on porches. It's strictly AGAINST the rules.
I'd rather leave a note for someone than risk losing my job.
That said, you can ring up your sorting office and let them know of a pre-arranged secure place to leave packets.
I'm not having a go, I just think it's a bit unfair when they have a job to do and rules to follow. And consequences when they don't follow them....
Oh. Well..
Looks like a beauty. Handle looks super comfy.
Edit, by the way. Is your name Bob Geldof?
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maybe, trouble is i expect most posties would prefer to be at home in the evenings as well.
as would all the other shift workers,hes got a point an evening delivery for residential would be very good,if the bloke from tesco can deliver til 11pm why shouldnt they?
I think the RM are looking at customer defined time slots as a potential way forward. As already mentioned, others do it and perhaps RM are aiming to implement something prior to the privatisation ???
Locally, we went through a phase of being knocked up at stupid o'clock* to accept parcels with normal 'goes quietly through the letter box' post being delivered sometime between 10:30 and 13:30.
* And bless the posties for knocking quietly so's not to annoy sleeping neighbours
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