"Delivery left in porch". I don't have a porch, you left it out in the rain...

Gra76

I buy a lot online, and generally speaking the delivery service is fine but just recently things have been going downhill....

Firstly, as per the thread title, I recently came home to find a soggy cardboard box sitting at my front door. Wondering what it was I attempted to pick it up but the box fell to pieces in my hands it was so wet. Turns out it was lucky that the contents had plastic packaging and were undamaged but when I opened the front door there was a delivery card pushed through which said "Delivery left in porch". Now unless we had a porch built and then taken down again whilst I was at work I can promise you I don't have a porch attached to my house. There's a front door and that's it. Worse still, I'm glad the contents weren't high value because the package wasn't even hidden. It was sitting in plain sight for everyone on the street to see. Fortunately I live at the end of a cul-de-sac with good neighbours...

Recently I've had two other packages 'delivered' which haven't exactly been delivered in the manner I'd expect. The first time was similar to the last one in that the package was at least hidden behind a bin next door but it'd rained all day and the packaging was like mush when I went to pick it up.

Slightly more disturbing though was a package that was delivered and a note popped through the door that said it had been left in my shed. In my shed? How did the package end up in there? The 6ft garden gate is locked. There's no way there can be a package in my shed as there's literally no other way to access it. So I take a wonder out to the shed where I can see the door is partially open. There's the package. In the shed. Wow. We can only assume this delivery was done in a Mission Impossible style where the driver climbed up and over my 6ft gate/fence, which isn't an easy thing to do I can assure you. Then there's how they got the package over, I'm guessing it was thrown over first and then the delivery driver climbed over after it as there's nothing it could have been balanced on while the driver was climbing over. Had the delivery driver just knocked on our neighbours door they could have taken the package for us as they were in all day and it would have saved them a few splinters...

merlin68

I found a parcel in my garden once, months after it had been delivered and i had got a refund. He'd put it in a box and no delivery note was put through. I'm not psychic.
Only found it as we were having a clear out.

denise_h_2

My daughter once ordered a book, from Amazon I think, but put in a claim as she didn't receive it. She subsequently received another copy and thought no more about it. This was during the winter sometime prior to Xmas. The next summer when the sun was shining she decided to have a barbecue, having a little portable one that had spent the winter in her back yard. When she opened it up to her surprise there was the missing book, still in perfect condition having survived wind, rain, snow and any other weather the NE of England could throw at it. She reported finding the book to the company, but was told just to keep it as it wasn't worth returning it