Parcel left in 'safe' place by hdnl - yeah right!

SophieLO_2

I got a parcel delivered when they knocked on the door i had just got out of the shower so i ignored and assumed i would either get a note or they would pop it in the garden. I stood in the kitchen and watched my brand new lamp get thrown to the end of the garden over the fence... Parcel in a safe place indeed.

hoogervaaner

My hubby took a wine box delivery in after being told it was for next door (HDN courier). Cue me arriving home looking at the top of the box and realising we live on aaaa road and the delivery was for aaaa avenue across the other side of town. Lucky we are honest and drove it round to the lady it was intended for!

laurel7172

Amazon just throw parcels over my fence. If I'm lucky, they drop them over the six foot gate onto the concrete slabs below. If not, they're lobbed over the fence between the garage and the greenhouse. I'm not down at that end of the garden much at this time of year.

But the crowning glory was last year, on a dark winter's night, when I heard prolonged, creepy movement and rustling outside the front door. By the time it finished, I was sufficiently panicked to be standing in the hall with a le Creuset saucepan in hand.

After it went quiet, I pulled back the door curtain.

SORRY YOU WERE OUT. YOUR DIGITAL CAMERA HAS BEEN THROWN OVER YOUR FENCE.

Or words to that effect.

Pound

alisonannk wrote: »

The courier hdnl decided that it was a safe place to leave the parcel underneath my external doormat. ... How is this secure? Anyone could have lifted the parcel!

But you got the parcel so what's the problem? If someone had stolen it Amazon would have sent another or given your money back.

Harry_Flashman

I guess the other side of this is .............. why do people order stuff to be delivered to their houses when they're out at work (or wherever)?

I used to work as a courier and private addresses were a real nightmare and waste of time (bearing in mind my bonus depended on how fast I got round). Why not get your stuff delivered to work, or the pub, or somewhere that there's someone to accept it?

dawyldthing

when i used to work on the phones for a well known chocolate retailer when anyone used the 'free delivery' it used to be parcelnet. Now parcelnet had a very similar pattern as these - ie things over hedges, left in the rain, in the bin (which chocolates in a bin= no go area really). If they didn't do this then they must jump on the boxes as more often than not boxes were broke or damaged. I lost count how many redeliveries we had to do! But it all was reclaimed off the company apparently! Don't know how they made money in the end!

jake2010

Some time delivery drivers don't think, i had one ring my bell, by the time i got to the door he was walking of and told me he had put it through the window. it was actually next doors he put it through

custardy

dawyldthing wrote: »

when i used to work on the phones for a well known chocolate retailer when anyone used the 'free delivery' it used to be parcelnet. Now parcelnet had a very similar pattern as these - ie things over hedges, left in the rain, in the bin (which chocolates in a bin= no go area really). If they didn't do this then they must jump on the boxes as more often than not boxes were broke or damaged. I lost count how many redeliveries we had to do! But it all was reclaimed off the company apparently! Don't know how they made money in the end!

he are now my hermes

shellsuit

Harry_Flashman wrote: »

I guess the other side of this is .............. why do people order stuff to be delivered to their houses when they're out at work (or wherever)?

I used to work as a courier and private addresses were a real nightmare and waste of time (bearing in mind my bonus depended on how fast I got round). Why not get your stuff delivered to work, or the pub, or somewhere that there's someone to accept it?

Because some companies will only deliver to the address which the card used for payment is registered at.

skiddlydiddly

~daisy~ wrote: »

we had a parcel thrown in through an open window once - we disputed delivery on principle....

On the principle that you didn't like how they delivered so lied about it being delivered?That's fraud however you look at it.