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ladyofastolat) wrote2009-03-26 08:16 am
ladyofastolat) wrote2009-03-26 08:16 am
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Parcel delivery
I do sometimes wonder if the Post Office has changed its performance targets so it's measured by the number of parcels it fails to deliver.
Almost everyone seems to have stories of being in all day, only to find a "you weren't in when we called, so we've taken your parcel back to the Post Office" note stuck through their door. Our local postal people are currently going too far the other way, and working on the assumption that a parcel leaving their hands equals a parcel safely delivered. There was one situation last autumn when a large parcel was dumped in our back garden, tucked in a corner and not visible from any window, with no note going through the door to tell us it was there. Total chance led us to go outside and find it some days later, and fortunately it hadn't rained in that time, but we don't normally go out into the back garden at all over the winter, so it could easily have sat there for months, with us complaining to the seller about its non-appearance.
We very often have packages appearing on the front door, just left there in full view of anyone who passes. I don't think anyone's stolen any of them, but they could. (Although I'm torn, because coming home to find a package on the doorstep is more convenient than coming home to find a note saying I have to go into town to pick it up. Also, to be fair to them, it's possible that they only do this because we have a big bush that shields our doorstep from casual view, are are in a small Close, without any real passers-by.)
However, yesterday I came home from work to find a small flat-packed chest of drawers sitting on my door-step, clearly labelled for a house four doors away. I took it round, of course, but I could easily have just appropriated it, and no-one would ever have found out. At least this was done by mistake, but I once had a package deliberately delivered by the postman into the care of next door, but no note was put through the door to tell me it was there, and next door forgot about it for several days.
Almost everyone seems to have stories of being in all day, only to find a "you weren't in when we called, so we've taken your parcel back to the Post Office" note stuck through their door. Our local postal people are currently going too far the other way, and working on the assumption that a parcel leaving their hands equals a parcel safely delivered. There was one situation last autumn when a large parcel was dumped in our back garden, tucked in a corner and not visible from any window, with no note going through the door to tell us it was there. Total chance led us to go outside and find it some days later, and fortunately it hadn't rained in that time, but we don't normally go out into the back garden at all over the winter, so it could easily have sat there for months, with us complaining to the seller about its non-appearance.
We very often have packages appearing on the front door, just left there in full view of anyone who passes. I don't think anyone's stolen any of them, but they could. (Although I'm torn, because coming home to find a package on the doorstep is more convenient than coming home to find a note saying I have to go into town to pick it up. Also, to be fair to them, it's possible that they only do this because we have a big bush that shields our doorstep from casual view, are are in a small Close, without any real passers-by.)
However, yesterday I came home from work to find a small flat-packed chest of drawers sitting on my door-step, clearly labelled for a house four doors away. I took it round, of course, but I could easily have just appropriated it, and no-one would ever have found out. At least this was done by mistake, but I once had a package deliberately delivered by the postman into the care of next door, but no note was put through the door to tell me it was there, and next door forgot about it for several days.