In the wheelie bin

[tobyaw]

A parcel arrived at home today. kateaw was out, so the courier, Yodel, put a card through the door, and put the parcel in one of our wheelie bins.

How insane is that?

We live on a road where we often put wheelie bins out for our neighbours, as they as only here at weekends. Likewise, qidane puts our bins out for us when we are away. It would be so easy for a parcel delivered to a wheelie bin to be taken away with the rubbish.

I’ve noticed several couriers doing this, over a number of years. I assume they must deliver to a bin as a matter of policy, and I’m not sure how one would opt out, other than perhaps to place stickers on the bins saying “No hawkers! No circulars! No courier deliveries!”

When Kate got back, she retrieved the parcel from the bottom of the bin, which was a bit of a struggle with the combination of the weight of the parcel and her frozen shoulder. I suppose it is my fault for ordering tinned tomatoes, tinned sweetcorn, and pasta, online. Isn’t it the modern thing, to buy one’s groceries with Amazon subscriptions?

Comments

[lewis-p-bear.livejournal.com]

This happened to The Bloke about a year ago and we did not get the card until the bins had gone.
After much thought we decided that we had lost an advent calendar but it could have been much worse as, along with a fair chunk of the population, we have a large number of parcels arriving in the run up to Christmas.

[tobyaw]

Maybe I should lock our wheelie bins in a cage, so Yodel can’t get to them.

Missing parcels

[houstonjames.livejournal.com]

My mother once had a "we tried to deliver ... come and get it tomorrow" card from Royal Mail. The next day, along she went ... "sorry, we can't find it. Do you know what it looks like?"

It never turned up; we never identified what it was supposed to be, or who sent it, making contacting the sender impossible.

CityLink are particularly bad. I had to collect my printer from Glenrothes (quite a trek from Perth!) - fortunately, as it happened, my mother was working in Glenrothes at the time, so she collected ... a laptop. Yes, they gave a laptop to completely the wrong person, by mistake. On the bright side, they suddenly became much more cooperative about delivering the printer once they needed to get the laptop back...