General Chat

Only last week, the postman asked us if we would take a parcel for next door, which we happily did.
They didnt have a note i'm certain, as have only been there four a couple of months.
On the other hand, we had ordered a delivery of stationery, a large one of half a dozen big boxes. We arrived home one day, to find the whole lot in our porch. Good job it was not raining, as it is an open porch.!!!

Sue

We have a parcel box below the letter box on the wall and our postman even signs for things if we are out.

I suppose a perk for living in a rural area. However I sometimes think that he saves up post to deliver as it can arrive in big batches.

Ann, I suspect they sometimes don't bring the parcels with them in the first place - in case there is no-one home and they have to take them back.

I've had a card through the door more than once when I was actually home - postman hadn't bothered to knock which makes me believe he only brought a card and not the parcel.

Our postman has an infuriating habit of pushing a note through the door to say we weren´t in when he hasn´t even knocked. This has happened 3 times recently.
We then have to collect the post the following day. Nothing to do with the fact it won´t go through the letter box. We have a letter box, but most houses here don´t so the postie just assumes there isn´t one without looking, so if the post can´t be pushed under the door, it´s taken away.
Conversely we have found that if the front window is open, the post is thrown onto the living room floor.

I had one parcel put in my wheelie bin by the postman.

At least he put a note through the door telling me about it.

if I'm expecting a parcel I leave a note on the door asking that any parcel be put over the back fnce - garden is secure

I take lots of parcels for my next door neighbour but these are not delivered by Royal Mail

I understand and accept that if a packet is too large for the letter box, and I am not there, I will have to go to the depot and collect it. No problem as the depot is near Tesco so we combine it with shopping.

However, this morning we collected 2 packets from the depot, tied together with elastic bands. Neither needed signing for and at least one of them would go through the letter box on its own. Do the postmen not realise that, as they have each got an individual address label on it they are individual items and can be treated separately?

Also, somebody asked why they couldn't leave the packet with a neighbour. (Bearing in mind that it was recently in the paper that they now can.) The answer was, they can if they have a note naming a particular neighbour willing to take packets in. I suppose that means leaving the note stuck on the door as we never have the same postman two days running.