Permission requested to seethe?

[royalmarriage]

My mum, out of the goodness of my heart, agreed to my request to pop round to my house and check whether the expected parcel from Amazon containing Sarah's redelivered Christmas present had arrived.

It had.

It had, as I feared, been left on the crukking doorstep.

I'm willing to bet good money that that was how the last one went missing - left on the doorstep, someone made off with it. If my mum hadn't gone round to check, who knows whether I'd have had a present to give to Sarah?

This may be a daft question, but whatever happened to popping a card through the letterbox of the "we tried to deliver but you were out" variety?

Honestly, the post office hasn't been the same since my grandfather left. If he hadn't been cremated, he'd be spinning in his grave.

I think I may have to write a sternly worded letter to the post office about this one. I don't often get really angry, but this is too much.

OTOH - my mum's brilliant.

David.

Comments

[missratbat.livejournal.com]

The last few houses I've lived at, the post-people were inconsistent about the leaving of packages on doorsteps. Sometimes things were left on the doorstep, sometimes we got the note. I was generally a mixture of grateful that I didn't have to chase it up and annoyed that it could have been stolen. (Lately, the postal delivery hours seem to be when I am home, bypassing the issue entirely.)

[amberb-uk.livejournal.com]

We had similar frustrations with post this morning, though they are otherwise pretty good in our village.

I couldn't hear the postie knocking at the door because of a rather deaf elderly gent talking very loudly to him. I just managed to catch him after the red cards telling me the parcels had been sent back to the depot in Sheffield came through the door. So I did get a couple of our Amazon/Play deliveries that form presents for our loved ones, but only just.

It wasn't our normal postie - he knocked at the wrong door and I don't know his face (the house is double-fronted with two doors, one of which is false but that one carries the house number so strangers tend to knock on that door).

Relieved you got the pressie though, that's excellent news and really pleased to hear it after the hassle you've had before xxxxx

[xandutch.livejournal.com]

That's lousy.

But?

You do have Sarah's present now. In time for the holiday.

[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

sweetheartwhale here, hijacking Dave's journal just to say appreciate that Mum of yours because they ARE brilliant. Mine just rang, having worked out by intuition somehow that I'd run completely out of cash having got all the christmas stuff and have now run out of bread and milk and offered to meet me in town with £20.

Bless em. I dont have any kids so I dont know if I'd be as good. Id have to ask the cats...

[emperor-zhark.livejournal.com]

I've had that before. I've been told they're actually not allowed to leave a parcel in an insecure or exposed location. I think they're allowed to leave it in a porch or another sheltered location, providing it's hidden. In my experience, Royal Mail are pretty good about it if you complain to the delivery office (not the Post Office - they have nothing to do with deliveries). It's usually a temp that's responsible.

OTOH, if it was supersaver, then you're probably dealing with a local part-time courier working directly for Amazon.

In any case, if it doesn't arrive, then legally it's the seller's responsibility to make sure it's replaced or refunded. It never ceases to amaze me how many eBay sellers don't get this!

[ophe1ia-in-red.livejournal.com]

Today, not only was a package left on the doorstep, but despite having FRAGILE GLASS - ^ THIS WAY UP ^ all over it, it was upside down.

Silly posties.

[cmc42.livejournal.com]

It seems to be Parcelnet that leave packages on the doorstep.

Amazon use a mixture of them and Parcelforce and I know that parcelforce will try and leave with a neighbour first but then put a 'we called but you were out' thingy through the door.

Luckily here Parcelnet left something on the back doorstep. (Geez don't leave iPods on doorsteps for **** sake!). Still it didn't go missing which is something.

EDIT: I'd also like to add that Royal Mail always put the sorry we missed you things through the door. Amazon are usually parcel post so isn't usually anything to do with them, but there are a couple of small items that can come via Royal Mail I think. (I think it used to say by your order which delivery service they were coming by, but not sure whether that is still there).


EDIT AGAIN: Okay so it would appear that my last few items have come via Royal Mail, but I've not had a problem. (I'm sure we were out for at least one - Royal Mail definitely used their card thingys for my Play orders here a couple of days ago!). If you go to the open and recently replaced orders section of your amazon account it should say which company that package was delivered by.

For example, one of mine:-


Items dispatched on 1 Nov 2008:
Delivery estimate: 7 Nov 2008
1 package via Royal Mail
* 1 of: Bleach - Series 2 Vol.2