I am still using the delivery arrangements I found on purchasing the property. Having no letter box, post is delivered to a box on the gatepost, and small parcels can be put in an old just about weatherproof picnic box also on mounted on the gatepost. I ordered something via Amazon earliear this week, and the day before yesterday noted that it had reached the nearest city, but that delivery was still scheduled for Monday. Also the day before yesterday, I went down to the local tip with some junk, and called in at the local shop on the way back. Yesterday, having slept badly, I fell asleep during the morning. Yesterday afternoon, I noticed that the shed door was banging in the wind, which was particularly surprising, because I keep it locked. When I went out to investigate, I found that the bolt retainer had been ripped off the doorframe, and found my delivery from Amazon inside the shed, which, possibly thanks to this damage, possibly not, was now awash. I have had some pretty bad experiences with deliveries at times, which have included finding stuff under bushes or hedgrerows (twice), under a caravan (once), and even in the dustbin (twice), having stuff lobbed over the back wall (lost count), but I think this is the first case of intentional damage to property that I have encountered. It was UPS, in case you're wondering.

I found Parcelforce were fairly useless. They left a package in the public alleyway leading to the rear of my property once. Needless to say it didn't stay too long! The number of "drops" some delivery drivers are expected to make seems farcicle though. It can't be easy. I wouldn't want the job for any money! AB

A New Low In Delivery Practice?

Apr 20, 2013 24 Replies

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Owain 13 years ago

You think that's bad, you should try working out Scottish tenement flat numbering.

Your guess whether 1/6 is Flat 1 at No.6 or Flat 6 at No. 1. Or flat 6 on the first floor (or the ground floor) and the building doesn't have a number. Or whether 21/2 is Flat 2 at No. 21, Flat 21 at No. 2, or the first flat on the second floor at No. 2, or the second flat on the first floor at No. 2. Or 2-and-a-half (which is likely to be at the rear of the building) and there isn't a flat number. Or there is a flat number but you don't know it.

Or in Edinburgh, where everything's Listed, the name of the person living in the flat in 1850 because the door bell-pulls haven't been re- engraved since then.

Owain

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Frank Erskine 13 years ago

ISTR that here in Sunderland there's a street (Clifford Street?) where the only houses are 1, 1A and 13. The street cuts across several streets of terraced cottages (*) and most of the intervening houses "belong" to those streets.

(*) Typically like this:

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polygonum 13 years ago

I lived in a small road which had three houses. Two were called Rock House.

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Man at B&Q 13 years ago

Official policy is that it goes back to the depot. You can arrange a re-delivery to your local PO for a small fee.

One PF driver refused and delivered to a different PO due to some personal differences with the staff at the local one.

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SteveW 13 years ago

I don't mind it going back to the depot if no-one is in, although I would prefer it left with a neighbour. What I really object to is them quietly pushing a note through when they haven't even brought the package out from the depot and inconveniencing me in making me pick it up!

I could arrange for re-delivery, but that would generally mean delivery on a day when my wife is working (I arrange the first delivery to co-incide with her days off) or the same scenario repeating itself.

The last time I tried to arrange re-direction to the post-office (which is next-door to the depot), they failed to transfer it from the depot to the post-office, meaning I lost over an hour of work (hourly paid) only to find that the package was still locked in the depot!

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