Red carded while home !

gizmobenny · 20 March 2017 at 2:15PM

Arrgghh ! Red carded while I'm here again ! It seems impossible for the driver to read the note on the letterbox and walk the ten steps to the side door to ring the bell ! :mad:
Not expecting any prizes but just arranged re-delivery and it is for me from Scarlett Ward ? Just had a quick check and am baffled. nothing on Mse search under that title.

custardy · 20 March 2017 at 2:22PM

gizmobenny wrote: »

Arrgghh ! Red carded while I'm here again ! It seems impossible for the driver to read the note on the letterbox and walk the ten steps to the side door to ring the bell ! :mad:
Not expecting any prizes but just arranged re-delivery and it is for me from Scarlett Ward ? Just had a quick check and am baffled. nothing on Mse search under that title.

Why dont you fit the bell at the same door as the letterbox?

gizmobenny · 20 March 2017 at 3:30PM

custardy wrote: »

Why dont you fit the bell at the same door as the letterbox?

The front (where the letterbox is) is only a wheelchair access for our Daughter in law

custardy · 20 March 2017 at 4:24PM

gizmobenny wrote: »

The front (where the letterbox is) is only a wheelchair access for our Daughter in law

Im not sure of the relevance to having a bell fitted?
You have your letterbox there,so its natural to assume thats the delivery point,no?
So fit the bell there.
You hear it and walk the 'ten steps' from the side door.

OneYorkshireLass · 20 March 2017 at 8:48PM

I'm curious as to whether custardy has a buzzer go off or something whenever anyone on MSE mentions Royal Mail ....?

brownhandbag · 20 March 2017 at 9:50PM

Sorry I agree with custardy, why not fit a bell at your front door? I would presume a door with a letter box was the place to deliver to

everyseptember · 21 March 2017 at 12:17PM

Just a thought, but do you enter comps on goodreads at all? I googled Scarlett Ward and there seems to be an author with that name on there. Maybe a book win?

renegadia · 28 March 2017 at 5:17PM

You can write whatever you like on a note, protocol is to ignore them. If postie knocks the delivery point, gets no answer and writes the card out, he's merely doing his job.

Either move your doorbell to the front door, or move your delivery point to the side door. Alternatively, next time you see him, just ask him if he can ring the bell or knock really loudly? If you're nice about it he's more inclined to do you the favour. I've similar arrangements with customers on my rounds, on the other hand I've also got customers that get absoultely no favours from me nowadays.

gizmobenny · 28 March 2017 at 5:23PM

There is no front door. The metal USA style letterbox is mounted on a wall with a metal plaque showing the way to the side door and bell.
Yes it was a prize from Sparkle magazine .. A dancing Barbie and horse

The_3rd_Zebu · 28 March 2017 at 9:18PM

Here is a tip which can help if you have only missed the postman's knock by a few minutes or so.

The other day the postman tried to deliver my Crosse & Blackwell prize microwaveable soup-mug. Either I failed to hear the doorbell or I was out in the back garden. When I went into the hall I noticed I had been 'Red-Carded but the time on the card was only 8 minutes prior to this.

I quickly ran down the road with the Red-Card plus my ID. I couldn't find the postman but I found his Royal Mail van parked at the end of the street. I knew all I had to do was just wait for him and after about another 15 minutes he returned to the van having delivered to the adjacent streets. He then gave me my soup-mug in exchange for the Red-Card.

It was a bit of hassle but at least it saved me waiting till the next day and a trip across town to the sorting office to claim my parcel.

So if you get Red-Carded just go and look if the Royal Mail van is still in the neighbourhood.

Blueyez · 28 March 2017 at 10:50PM

The_3rd_Zebu wrote: »

Here is a tip which can help if you have only missed the postman's knock by a few minutes or so.

The other day the postman tried to deliver my Crosse & Blackwell prize microwaveable soup-mug. Either I failed to hear the doorbell or I was out in the back garden. When I went into the hall I noticed I had been 'Red-Carded but the time on the card was only 8 minutes prior to this.

I quickly ran down the road with the Red-Card plus my ID. I couldn't find the postman but I found his Royal Mail van parked at the end of the street. I knew all I had to do was just wait for him and after about another 15 minutes he returned to the van having delivered to the adjacent streets. He then gave me my soup-mug in exchange for the Red-Card.

It was a bit of hassle but at least it saved me waiting till the next day and a trip across town to the sorting office to claim my parcel.

So if you get Red-Carded just go and look if the Royal Mail van is still in the neighbourhood.

I was Red-carded on Monday, I was upstairs and by the time I got to the door he'd gone- I popped my head out of the door and he was at nextdoor but one trying to off load it there.:)

Red carded while home !

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