postman...seriously!

Hedgehog99

Today, I was waiting for the electricity engineer. The earliest possible time was 0800, so I made sure I was out of the shower by 0755, decent by 0757, all the time within earshot of the doorbell. Downstairs 0803, card timed "0800" on doormat - ahrgh! There is no way s/he rang the bell - I would have heard it. Must have just posted card & scarpered. Rang the call centre straight back, but they couldn't re-call the engineer for me. Their loss. But it's ridiculous.

Kim_kim

Poppie68 wrote: »

What would of been best at the time.....would of been to knock on the correct door....surely, or am I missing something?.

If I didn't have a car on the drive, would it of been logical to pick another and again not even attempt to deliver at the correct address... all because they didn't have a car on the drive?

Did be actually tell you he didn't knock next door?

If so, why didn't you tell him to. Instead of taking the parcel.

Poppie68

Kim_kim wrote: »

Did be actually tell you he didn't knock next door?

If so, why didn't you tell him to. Instead of taking the parcel.

He told me he knocked at mine because there was a car on the drive and it didn't look like anyone was in next door.....and I didn't take the parcel...main reason is because none of the neighbours take in for them as we have all took them in in the past and been accused of opening and stealing from their parcels...so none of us do it anymore...

B_G_B

Hedgehog99 wrote: »

...then the pizza leaflets returned with a vengeance - sometimes several copies of the same one!

Saves ordering a pizza though. The leaflets taste about the same.:)

NobodysChild

Poppie68 wrote: »

What would of been best at the time.....would of been to knock on the correct door....surely, or am I missing something?.

If I didn't have a car on the drive, would it of been logical to pick another and again not even attempt to deliver at the correct address... all because they didn't have a car on the drive?

I am with you here. And 7.13am is early for most people, and isn't an acceptable time to be banging on peoples doors when the parcel is not for that person. I would be livid.

Also, not that many people would be on their way to work at 7.13am. Maybe people starting at 8am, or people who take 2 hours to get to work, but quite a number of people are not on their way to work at that time. (Very few people I know anyway.) I leave the house at 8.30am for work (to start at 9) I walk; it's about 2/3 of a mile.

Luckily we have a garage and the car is usually put in there at night, so it looks like we are not in when someone calls.

But yes, your rant is justified. I doubt if the postie meant any harm, and I think maybe he does think subconsciously that 7am is not particularity early, but for many, it is very early. I have a friend who thinks nothing of ringing me at 11pm and rattling for an hour! To me, that is unreasonable, but because she doesn't work, she does not need to get up at 7.30am like I do! Some people do have different ideas of what is early and late, but I think most people would not want to be woken at 7am by the postie banging on the door to give them a neighbour's parcel!

hcb42

It's 90 minutes after my get up/go to work time

However if it wasnt, as it was my day off and I wasnt expecting a parcel, I just wouldnt get up!

mgdavid

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Worth getting a small CCTV camera and a screen upstairs ......... Or an intercom so you can speak to them?........

really? how about opening a window and leaning out, works for us.

korky69

must admit just gone 7 is early, but like all parcel delivery services, they are under pressure to deliver,
it was probably the excess of the the day before parcels,
i did the same last xmas, fill van up and go.
but i only knocked on doors with a light on in the house.
rules are you must try a neighbour, though at that time?
ask this Q xmas eve when you manage to get hold of your next door neighbours kids prezzy instead of them waiting til sat/mon
personally i'd take 99 groans if it meant 1 kid happy