Postman!!

John_Jizzle

another - sorry we missed you cards through the door - except you didn't miss me as I was in the house.

Is there anything more I can do - this is 3 times in a row it has happened - I've complained the 2 previous times but obviously its not working

Now I've got to wait 48 hours until its ready for me to collect - 250 metres from my house

LisaSimpson

This infuritates me! I've seen a postman tiptoe up the path and carefully slide a 'sorry you were out' card silently through my letterbox and then leg it up the path to get away before I opened the door!

A friend whose a postman told me that it's common to take the 'sorry you were out' cards out with them instead of the packages to save carrying the extra weight.

Azari

John_Jizzle wrote: »

another - sorry we missed you cards through the door - except you didn't miss me as I was in the house.

Is there anything more I can do - this is 3 times in a row it has happened - I've complained the 2 previous times but obviously its not working

Now I've got to wait 48 hours until its ready for me to collect - 250 metres from my house

I know one reason why you can legitimately get one of these cards even when you have been in the whole time.

For some reason, certain people are either too stupid to ring, or have some religious aversion to ringing, a doorbell. (Why they want to bang their knuckles on a rock hard door (there is no knocker) when the can just gently push a button I'll never know.)

My regular postman always knocks. If I'm in certain parts of the house this is inaudible. It's just fortunate that I can see him (and other non ringers) arrive from my office where I am usually to be found during the delivery window.

John_Jizzle

its another kick in the face having to wait 2 days to collect - i usually ring the next day to check and its never there.

peachyprice

48 hours? that's outrageous, I can collect after 4 hours and I don't even live that close to the sorting office, it's a good 4 miles away.

Mista_C

peachyprice wrote: »

48 hours? that's outrageous, I can collect after 4 hours and I don't even live that close to the sorting office, it's a good 4 miles away.

I'm another of those who usually get the 48 hours message even though I only live a 5 minute drive from the depot.

I posted in on here some time back about how I chased one postman up the street while wearing only my bathroom. I was walking down the stairs as he walked up my path. I'd had several of those cards through previously even though I'd been in the house.
Well this particular day I stood on the stairs while he made his way to the door, gently lifted the letterbox and popped a card in. I ran down the stairs, opened the door and called him back but he didn't hear me (I think he was wearing earphones) so I chased him down.

On catching him I asked where my parcel was and after a bit of him playing dumb he admitted he didn't want to carry the extra weight so left it at the depot.

At that time I'd have preferred not to have to carry 40+ 19" CRT monitors up and downstairs on a daily basis but hey ho, that was part of the IT services role I worked in.

Azari

peachyprice wrote: »

48 hours? that's outrageous, I can collect after 4 hours and I don't even live that close to the sorting office, it's a good 4 miles away.

Mista_C wrote: »

I'm another of those who usually get the 48 hours message even though I only live a 5 minute drive from the depot.

It isn't the distance you live from the sorting office, it's the length of the postman's round remaining after s/he has delivered to you.

Although why you would ever need to wait longer than the start of business the next day is a bit of a mystery.

No doubt custardy will be along shortly to explain.

Abbafan1972

Mista_C wrote: »

I'm another of those who usually get the 48 hours message even though I only live a 5 minute drive from the depot.

I posted in on here some time back about how I chased one postman up the street while wearing only my bathroom. I was walking down the stairs as he walked up my path. I'd had several of those cards through previously even though I'd been in the house.
Well this particular day I stood on the stairs while he made his way to the door, gently lifted the letterbox and popped a card in. I ran down the stairs, opened the door and called him back but he didn't hear me (I think he was wearing earphones) so I chased him down.

On catching him I asked where my parcel was and after a bit of him playing dumb he admitted he didn't want to carry the extra weight so left it at the depot.

At that time I'd have preferred not to have to carry 40+ 19" CRT monitors up and downstairs on a daily basis but hey ho, that was part of the IT services role I worked in.

Must've been very heavy!

peachyprice

Mista_C wrote: »

I posted in on here some time back about how I chased one postman up the street while wearing only my bathroom.

Now that I would like to have seen

redskyatnight_2

Mista_C wrote: »

I'm another of those who usually get the 48 hours message even though I only live a 5 minute drive from the depot.

I posted in on here some time back about how I chased one postman up the street while wearing only my bathroom. I was walking down the stairs as he walked up my path. I'd had several of those cards through previously even though I'd been in the house.

On catching him I asked where my parcel was and after a bit of him playing dumb he admitted he didn't want to carry the extra weight so left it at the depot.

At that time I'd have preferred not to have to carry 40+ 19" CRT monitors up and downstairs on a daily basis but hey ho, that was part of the IT services role I worked in.

:eek: Why complain about carrying a monitor when you're strong enough to carry a bathroom???

LOL, I'm guessing you mean bathrobe.

Re; the OP; not gonna lie, this hasn't happened to me. But I know a few people it 'has' happened to.

It is annoying though, when I go out for 10 minutes and come back, and the blasted postie has been and I missed him, and have to go to the sorting office 7 miles away! :mad:

John_Jizzle

it's annoying knowing there is nothing that be done about it

When I first went to the sorting office I told the guy there what had happened he said you can complain but there is no point. All the postman has to say is that he knocked and there was no answer