Delivery Driver Nightmares!!!

mpg

I have a window above our front door with the numbers etched onto it in big numbers easily visible from the road and with the hall light on its illuminated.

It can shave 2 mins off my pizza delivery getting here:rotfl:

blued

Almost all companies ask for a mobile number for the delivery driver to call should they have problems. If the company you work for doesn't then maybe you could suggest that they start asking for one? Either that or ask in a local shop or at a neighbours house etc.

savemoney

It isnt just problem in sticks but I know what you mean. Some houses dont even have numbers in due to new doors etc which is a pain during day but on a night is a lot worse

scbk

Numbers wouldn't really work in a rural area as new houses are always being built. Names can be usfeul if it's something like "the old schoolhouse" or "the gatehouse" or "auchtermuchty farm cottage" as you know what to look for.

What's annoying is when people on a normal residential street take down their number and put up a house name instead!

computershack

If you think names instead of numbers is bad, try delivering to a building site. Typically not even a postcode and when you get there, you need to find the particular contractor which can take 1/2hr in itself tramping around the site.

Forris

Its what makes the job such fun, and sorts the men from the boys!!

The really good ones are when they have both a name and a number, but the parcel has the name and the house just displays the number (or visa versa)!

custardy

blued wrote: »

Almost all companies ask for a mobile number for the delivery driver to call should they have problems. If the company you work for doesn't then maybe you could suggest that they start asking for one? Either that or ask in a local shop or at a neighbours house etc.

and supply a mobile?

custardy

computershack wrote: »

If you think names instead of numbers is bad, try delivering to a building site. Typically not even a postcode and when you get there, you need to find the particular contractor which can take 1/2hr in itself tramping around the site.

we have a new build of flats where after eventually actually putting numbers on the doors they realised they got them all wrong
so now people get mail to both versions of addresses

david29dpo

Why do people call there 3 bed semi Rose Cottage? (formerly 465 high street) Its neither rosy or a cottage.

custardy

david29dpo wrote: »

Why do people call there 3 bed semi Rose Cottage? (formerly 465 high street) Its neither rosy or a cottage.

how about someone is a social housing tenement calling their flat the penthouse flat? :rotfl: