Waiting for a delivery

Is there anything more annoying especially the ones that have a 5 hour window to deliver. You
can’t go anywhere you
Dash about checking outside and you can’t go for a pee in case you miss the man. And if you’re on the 8am to 1pm wait you
know he’ll turn up with a couple of minutes left .
Do you hug him or give him
a thump

I spy totally agree with you about hanging about waiting for a delivery. I am waiting for a small delivery which can be put through the letterbox but the item is not for me it should have been delivered yesterday. Hope it comes today otherwise the person who it is for will have to wait till Sunday.Not seen a postie for 3 days in our street

Depending on which courier it is you can track the vans location to see how near or how far it is from your house.

It also tells you what delivery number you are in the queue, and what delivery number the driver is up to. Some even text you when you are the next drop off. Pity they don't all do that.
Evri delivery drivers tend to have the same area delivery round every day, a bit like a paper round. If I get a parcel delivered by Evri I can usually pin it down to around the same time everyday as he always delivers in our lane approx the same time.

The tracking only works if the van driver is competent though! I waited for my parcel by tracking it then I got a txt saying it had been delivered,I can see the street from my couch and thought why have I not seen him so I went to front no sign of parcel then I looked at the txt again and there was a photo of my parcel behind a blue bin, I knew it wasn't my bin as all mine are lined up but this blue bin was on its own, with a lattice frame on the wall behind it,anyway I was just about to phone yodel up to bollock um,but i thought i would walk up the street to see a house with the lattice frame,I found it at no16 and retrieved my parcel,I live at no6!!!

It happend only last week to me that eggbeater.

The usual photo on the step, but the alarm bells started ringing when I realised my drive must have had a makeover as it was totally different from 24 hours previously Also there was a small wooden box next to the step which serves as a parcel container. So off I went looking for a doorstep with a wooden box adjacent to it in the vicinity. Luckily I found it as there are not many houses.

To be honest they try their best...most are on job and finish....they don't want to be hanging about.

Cheshire Puss said:

"I can usually pin it down to around the same time everyday as he always delivers in our lane approx. the same time"

Does he like cats

At least we have something in common Cheshire gardens that change by themselves!

The way we live now people expect to get everything straight away and get upset when it doesn't happen. If your not satisfied with the delivery system just get in the car and drive to the shops and get it yourself over the counter problem solved.

I'm not complaining about a delivery time. I knew the delivery date beforehand.
I'm merely stating a fact that my parcel was delivered to the wrong house with no notification card through my door informing me where it has been left! All the driver needs is a photo of the delivered item on a doorstep. It could be anyones doorstep? That is his job done as that covers him in the event that the intended recipient claims their parcel has not been received.
Surely they can pop a card through the door and give you a bit of a clue to where it has been delivered! Royal mail adopt that procedure as do most private couriers, but at the end of the day, it depends on the delivery driver as whether he can be bothered, or not.

The worst ones for delivery are royal mail.I buy regularly on ebay and the ones who use royal mail invariably are late

If you are purchasing goods on Ebay, It all depends on what time the seller posts the item, Sonlyme..

For instance. I bought an item last Sunday evening on Ebay at 10pm at night and got a message via ebay 45 minutes later saying it had been dispatched!
Ive sold items on ebay and all you have to do is buy a postage label, print it off and provide a tracking / label number which is on the label.

You can then post it whenever you want. Even 2/3/4 days later! But as soon as you add a tracking number to the recipient it shows as dispatched on your order regardless of whether the vendor has actually posted it or not..

Peebee if you are waiting for a parcel would you agree it should be delivered to the right address?

A good way is, have it delivered to a local post office near you,

To Tom Plum, CO/ Bryn PO
Wigan road Bryn

The courier drops it there and you go there in your own time to collect,

a friend of mine was waiting for a delivery He left a note to leave it in the porch as he had to go out When he got back home he checked and found he had an email saying it had been delivered He rang them to tell them he hadn't got it. They sent him a photograph of the parcel in his porch. Fortunately he had a camera in his porch When he checked it he saw the driver deliver the parcel Then take a photo of it. THEN pick it up and walk off with it!!!

A while back I was parked up outside of a block of flats, chilling out, doing nothing, just watching the world and Scholes go by, when a delivery man pulled up in a van and took a parcel out of the back, and went to the intercom on the flats and pushed a number, and then after getting no reply, he tried calling other flats in the block, but no one answered, so he just left the parcel propped up against the brickwork of the door entrance to the flats, and then he buggered off, a few minutes later a couple walked up to the flats, and the female said excitedly as she observed the parcel, "LOOK a Parcel" and she had a greedy look on her face, along with a grin, and she picked the parcel up looking at who it was addressed too, and then she shrieked "IT'S MY PARCEL, ANYONE COULD'VE NICKED THAT, THE B*STARD" and I thought well that would have been poetic justice you thieving bitch, because she was on for pinching it

a bit like this one

put it in the letter box

I was replying to i-spy . There are plenty of videos of 'Porch Pirates' in the the good ol US of A on you tube , and the measures some people go to to stop them, even using automatic rifles.

The reason non parcel deliveries by Royal Mail are late is because there are no longer a regular daily deliveries due to a constant shortage and turn over of staff and unlike the time in the past, employees like in many other low paid jobs are not as dedicated and in the case of the postal service will not put up with delivering mail on foot in inclement weather!

Van parcel deliveries are now the priorty at Royal Mail and not letterbox deliveries because of the competition of other parcel delivery companies like Evri, UPS, Yodel etc.

And if the above is not bad enough, the private company who are running Royal Mail are again raising the price of stamps on what is now an infearior service to what it was when in the days of the civil service and public ownership.

Owd Codger

But do we need a postal service operating on the scale as it once did ?

By that I mean that in this country and indeed throughout the developed world, the post office has always been the point of delivery for many goods and services through the now mostly defunct post office branch network.

At a post office you could send and receive parcels, pick up your benefits and pensions in cash, what we now call 'online shopping' has always been there as 'mail order shopping' from the likes of the old Exchange & Mart weekly mail order rag, to the newspapers being full of ads on the back few pages, you would use a post office to 'send off' for something by converting your cash into a 'postal order' and have the parcel containing your purchase either delivered to your house or left at the post office if that was more convenient, 'postal orders' were used by the public to send money around the country, a postal order would placed inside a birthday card and sent by mail, in the days when only the affluent had bank accounts, and the infrastructure of the country was run using the postal service has a communications medium, by administering everything by letter.

So Owd Codger, we know that most of the things I have just described have moved 'online' now, and when me and you started out on this 'mortal coil' of a journey, we were not to know that what was science fiction in the 1940s and 50s would actually become 'reality' in our lifetimes, and new words would be invented to describe what became known as IT (information technology) or existing words would be repurposed to describe the new technology, with mainly Americanised words, such as 'online' 'laptop' 'smart' 'virus' 'worms' 'cookies' 'internet' 'streaming' etc etc

I have said that older folk should embrace this new technology, because who wants to queue up in a bank or post office when you don't need to anymore ?

I will say this though, and that is that if you are getting older and your eyes are not as good has they once were, then don't use smart phones to do online stuff, because up to everything going online, organisations such has the DWP were sending out A3 sized forms to people, A3 is far larger than the standard A4 size documents, and that was to help people who's eyesight wasn't that good to fill in the forms, but now such people are expected to fill in forms on smart phones and laptops, that to me is going backwards and making older people hate the new technologies, because the screen size is so small and they cannot see it properly, I would say to people as I have done so on previous occasions, to purchase a good laptop, and then add to that laptop a separate large monitor, of at least 24inches in size and separate full sized keyboard and moose, so you have effectively a desktop sized system, and you can still take the laptop away with you on holiday, and if you use a full sized monitor, keyboard, mouse and maybe even separate speakers, then your online experience will be so much better, and if you have a smart TV you can connect it to your laptop and play things from your computer on your TV.

Would I go back in time if I could do ?

No, I bloody well wouldn't, the past can stop in the past where it belongs

Tommy Two Stroke

Now you queue on a telephone number for ages, number crunching and listening to c*** music if you need to speak to a human being about a problem which cannot be done by a email or text in today's wonderful and utopia world of ever increasing technology!

Gone have the days when you rang up a number and straight away, a voice in clear and proper English said "can I help you".

And if you need to have a large amount of cash for a reason and there is no branch of your bank in Wigan and not allowed to order the cash on the telephone etc, you have to travel miles to the nearest branch still open and on reaching the branch only allowed to order the cash, go home and on receiving a notification, travel back to the branch to collect the cash. Something you could do at a local branch when it was open.

The use of paying by cards has become a excuse by banks to close branches irrespective of how busy they were in order to cut overheads and make make more profit, but as a result of account holders being not being happy about not being able to do any business at a local level with a human being, a example of which I have given above, they are now opening hubs in other business premises as a result of the their folly.

No wonder, town centres are dying when they are taking the personel touch out of businesses and we are becoming a nation of smart phone zombies!