Courier left parcel in the bin!!!

maytaurus

Problem wrote: »

Sorry to resurrect this thread, it just made me chuckle as it appeared in my search results :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I saw this in the new posts and just wanted to say
I had a card through my door from Parcelnet
'sorry we missed you,your parcel has been left at back'
I do have outbuildings just by the side gate to my house,
but I'm presming they just left it on the ground
as there's no parcel to be found :mad:

sickparrot

Last week my wife was in the garden having a crafty fag, and didn't hear the door knock. Next minute the parcel comes flying over the fence! It had books in it so it wasn't light, and could have caused somebody a serious injury if they just happen to have been standing there.
Courier companies: Employ people with at least 1 brain cell please.

Pound

Retailers usually decide whether their courier companies can leave items without a signature. They pick up the cost when things like this happens because the extra money they make from sales from people who can't be in and prefer the item to be left somewhere makes up for it.

scottishminnie

Earlier last year I was missing a delivery from Laithwaites Wine. When I called them they got on to the courier company and then came back to advise there was no-one in when it was delivered and it had been left in a shed.

The only problem was the delivery address is my parents farm and there are more than 20 "sheds" so we began a little game of hunt the case of wine. There are a number of shed realtively near to the house such as a car garage, tool shed, old milk house etc but no sign of the wine - we finally found the case in one of the furthest sheds from the house which was home to approx 50 or so cattle at the time, a host of farm cats and some pigeons who hang around to eat any spare grain which may be left.

You can imagine the state of it - covered in paw prints, bird droppings and sitting in something unmentionable and to top it all off, one of the cats had taken up residence on top of it. The good thing was the wine was unscathed and we had a good laugh about it but what possessed a courier driver to either drive through or walk through some serious farmyard muck to get to this particular shed we will never know. It takes all sorts!

Kavanne

Pound wrote: »

Retailers usually decide whether their courier companies can leave items without a signature. They pick up the cost when things like this happens because the extra money they make from sales from people who can't be in and prefer the item to be left somewhere makes up for it.

Yeah I got a 2nd slip through my door today with an angry 'LAST DELIVERY ATTEMPT TOMORROW' scrawled on it by the driver with a big arrow pointing to 'ADULT SIGNATURE REQUIRED'. Would be much happier if my retailer had said it was OK to leave with neighbours etc! Now have to drive 15 miles to pick it up next tues as they won't deliver on Sat and I can't take any time off work Boo hoo

viktory

My courier often leaves stuff in my black recycling bin. They also leave a note (pushed right through the letterbox) stating where the item is. I am always really pleased, if they didn't do this they would have to take the item back the sorting office and I would then have to collect it the next day.

However, I have never have the problem of the bins being emptied with an item in it. This is because my bins are in my (open) porch and on collection day I put them at the boundary of my property. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that this would happen to me.

Becles

viktory wrote: »

However, I have never have the problem of the bins being emptied with an item in it. This is because my bins are in my (open) porch and on collection day I put them at the boundary of my property. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that this would happen to me.

It happened to my Dad! His wheelie bin was on the footpath on the end of the drive along with everyone elses in the street. A courier delivered something and wrote on the card that it was in the wheelie bin. Sadly Dad got home after the bin men had been.

Viking were good and replaced the stuff he had ordered and said they would take it up with the courier.

kittycatty

PN are the worst. They leave parcles on the doorstep in view of the road or they throw them over a back gate, I say A back gate as most of the time it's not my back gate and I have to play hunt the parcel.
When checking their online tracking they have put "left in secure location".

I have spoken with their HO many times asking them not to leave parcels if I am not at home as people have had things go missing from their doorseps.

PC claim that a doorstep is accectable as a safe location but will inform my local drive not to leave anything if I am not home.

2 days later I come home to find a parcel thrown over the back fence. And on another occasion I opened my front door to go on the school run and a parcel was sitting there, no knock on the door, ring of the bell.

Can't be bothered calling them again.

Common sense is not their strong point.

Sorry rant over

DCFC79

kittycatty wrote: »

PC claim that a doorstep is accectable as a safe location but will inform my local drive not to leave anything if I am not home.

how is a doorstep safe to leave a parcel, its the worst place to leave 1,

DSI

How odd is it that as I was in the middle of answering this topic a Parcel Net minion showed up at my doorstep, looked through the front window and then went and threw my package over the side gate and then wandered off.

When I went and challenged him he replied with "it didn't look like anyone was in"

Morons.