Postmen signing for parcels and just leaving them?

missile

My postie signs and leaves parcels for me as a favour. I am pleased he does = saves me a trip to the colloection office.:j

LisaB85

missile wrote: »

My postie signs and leaves parcels for me as a favour. I am pleased he does = saves me a trip to the colloection office.:j

Which is fine if you have said it is ok, I have not said it is ok. I order petfood which is delivered by a courier I have agreed for them to leave it in a safe place.

custardy

LisaB85 wrote: »

Which is fine if you have said it is ok, I have not said it is ok. I order petfood which is delivered by a courier I have agreed for them to leave it in a safe place.

well its not really
the sender paid and chose the service
they didnt say it was okay

shaun_from_Africa

Not being pedantic, but surely in a lot of cases it is the buyer who has paid for the service and it was simply arranged by the seller.

pmduk

missile wrote: »

My postie signs and leaves parcels for me as a favour. I am pleased he does = saves me a trip to the colloection office.

It's a favour that could cost him his job and a criminal record if Royal Mail ever got serious about quality issues.

toadyfrog

Last week I had to go to the sorting office 3 times to collect things, because they always come at lunchtime. Have a delivery on a saturday and they are banging on the door at 7.30am.

custardy

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Not being pedantic, but surely in a lot of cases it is the buyer who has paid for the service and it was simply arranged by the seller.

from RMs point of viewthe sender is the customer
as such it is their wishes that matter
eg if they paid fro recorded delivery
they want a sig to show it was delivered,not just left somewhere

custardy

toadyfrog wrote: »

Last week I had to go to the sorting office 3 times to collect things, because they always come at lunchtime. Have a delivery on a saturday and they are banging on the door at 7.30am.

whats you complaint?
they are too late or too early
or both?
lunchtime will be quite early soon enough
Saturdays are often earlier days in delivery offices(theres an old agreement in place they will be "significantly earlier finishes" but that is going)
also many firms are closed so it changes the way duties are covered and the staffing levels

thelurch

The postal service in my area is shocking, a different post person everyday, post often comes at 5.30pm!

The 2 things that really grip my **** are:

1) Recorded items get shoved through letterbox without knocking and Im only in the kitchen! or they just leave the recorded package on the doorstep or worse behind a bin and dont even bother to put a card in the letterbox! We once ordered a DVD and it was sent recorded but never turned up, contacted the seller and they sent another, this never turned up so got a refund from the seller.
Then to my horror I moved the bin a day later to find two identical packages completely soaked and stacked on top of each other!!

I registered a complaint with the sorting office and they put a note on my address to say any parcels must not be left if I wasnt in but it still happens, and anyway they dont even bother knocking anyway!

2) We constantly get post for the same number in the next road to ours, its happened for the past 10 years. Ive complained so many times.

We used to drive round to post the letters through the door but now we just put it back in the mail box, and sometimes it gets delivered back to us again!

I wouldnt mind so much but the two road names couldnt be any differerent and the postcodes are very different. The only thing the same is the house number!

How they can still be called "Royal" mail is beyond me.
It should be privatised, cut out the deadwood and start again.

chuckley

WOW u can commit sum SERIOUS fleabay fraud with that.