Re: Post office yet again
Originally Posted by
realspeed
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Yes again the item via royal mail is shown as delivered but not to this address. The service is terrible I am sure they can't read, so lodged a complaint yet again.
Got so bad that I only get 2 out of 3 parcels now
Our Royal Mail postman, a very nice chap, is no problem at all. Of course, we give him a card with £10 every Christmas, so perhaps we get preferential service!
As for house numbers, we have one at the bottom of the steps - you can't go past without seeing it, another on the side of the house and, of course, one on the front door.
Our real problem is with couriers from delivery companies and, of course, some are worse than others.
The thing we find most is that we get deliveries (and curries, etc.) for no. 38A (we are 38). It's not exactly rocket science, is it? Then again, I find that some courier workers are rather like re-usable condoms - they are a little thick.
Only the other day, after a ring of the doorbell, I went to the front door to see an enormous slab of some sort fastened on top of a pallet. The courier, all smiles waved and was just about to run off, when I called him back and pointed to the clearly marked label - 38A.
"Oh," he said, "I have to take all way back down steps?"
"Yes." I replied, with a small smile.
Well I wasn't going to carry it round to next door!