Conygree Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Just had a call from my wife to say, she came home to find a royal mail note posted through the front door to say," I have lift a parcel for you in your blue wheelie bin". on further inspection it was the deeds for our house - great, paying a morgage for 35 yrs and Pat puts the deeds in our wheelie bin!!!. I'm glad he didn't deliver this on Friday as the good people around here put each others bins out. Has anybody else had post/parcels left in 'funny' places:- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNAKEBITE Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Not parcel related but I do know a dyslexic postman from Seven Oaks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 I have had parcels left at my neighbours, they are a bit funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunganick Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Not parcel related but I do know a dyslexic postman from Seven Oaks. would that be Sevenoaks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claypop Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Just had a call from my wife to say, she came home to find a royal mail note posted through the front door to say," I have lift a parcel for you in your blue wheelie bin". on further inspection it was the deeds for our house - great, paying a morgage for 35 yrs and Pat puts the deeds in our wheelie bin!!!. I'm glad he didn't deliver this on Friday as the good people around here put each others bins out. Has anybody else had post/parcels left in 'funny' places:- I think this is new Royal Mail cost cutting policy as I got a parcel today which was left in my wheelie bin. It could have been worse - it was the grey bin (for plastics, paper etc) not the black one (stinking food). In return & in order to save the planet, I will assist Royal Mail, my local council & the whales & deposit items I am unable to fit in my bin/s (due to 2 weekly rubbish collecting now) in any available postbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Our office is nextdoor to an older semi detached property. This property has a basement with windows subterrain. So to enable light through, they have an area about 3 feet out, dug from the ground, all around the windows. Parcel Farce left a box containg a £2000 pound touch screen at the bottom of this dug out infront of the windows. It was there for 3 weeks before the nextdoor owner went to his basement and noticed the box out the window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Not parcel related but I do know a dyslexic postman from Seven Oaks. would that be Sevenoaks? Quick pass the landing net he's hooked a WHOPPER LG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGalway Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Not really the post but got my Viper scope sent over from England. Delivery guy left the box outside our frontdoor, which is literally on the public footpath when no one was home Anyone could've walked off with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 I find it more annoying when they won't leave stuff for you and you have to go the post office or wherever to collect it. But they are only covering themselves, they are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Luckily we see our posty when out on the morning dog walk so he hands any packages to us then Here is a posty story for you though. My work colleague was sent out to the States a couple of months ago, his host had guns (of course) and asked if my colleague would like to have a go, so he jumped at the chance. When they got back from the office on the first day his host said 'oh great the postmans been' and there left on the front doorstep was 1,000 rounds of .223 ammo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulos Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 i ordered a guitar pedal off ebay a few years ago and got home from to school to find that the postman, unable to fit it through the letterbox, had jammed it through an open living room window, smashing a vase on the window sil still, it saved me a trip to the post office Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkBoy Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Here is a posty story for you though.My work colleague was sent out to the States a couple of months ago, his host had guns (of course) and asked if my colleague would like to have a go, so he jumped at the chance. When they got back from the office on the first day his host said 'oh great the postmans been' and there left on the front doorstep was 1,000 rounds of .223 ammo We're lucky over here in that there doesn't seem to be the same culture of opportunistic thievery that I remember in the UK - obviously it depends on the neighbourhood - but I have stuff delivered that would be gone in minutes back home - tyres,shottie cartridges, large Cabelas parcels- and this is in the surburbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNAKEBITE Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Not parcel related but I do know a dyslexic postman from Seven Oaks. would that be Sevenoaks? Poss ibly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Libertyandlivelihood Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Well i have not got any compliants to make about postmen/women. But do know quite a few and its funny to hear you complain that they have left a parcel for you. chances are this postman is local, would know if the rubbish was going out that day and was just trying to save you a trip to the post office!! Think about how you would react if you didnt have any postmen!! EXACTLY!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham M Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 We had an eastern European (asylum seeker I think) for a postie a couple of years ago. He couldn’t speak much English and I don’t think he could read any either judging by the amount of mail that went missing through other peoples letter boxes. G.M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john deere Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Just had a call from my wife to say, she came home to find a royal mail note posted through the front door to say," I have lift a parcel for you in your blue wheelie bin". on further inspection it was the deeds for our house - great, paying a morgage for 35 yrs and Pat puts the deeds in our wheelie bin!!!. I'm glad he didn't deliver this on Friday as the good people around here put each others bins out. :yp: Has anybody else had post/parcels left in 'funny' places:- cuts the middle man out for junk mail :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobt Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Our postie Ken makes a fuss of the dogs, and if we are not in leaves parcels hidden in the carport and a note, I often see him elsewhere on his rounds, and if he has something for us He flags me down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlander Posted May 23, 2007 Report Share Posted May 23, 2007 Case in Ipswich a week or so ago of a whole bag of mail that was stolen and then found in a local park with all the mail opened and rifled through. Apparently it's common practice (and has been for some time) for the delivery people to leave these bags on street corners and other very accessible places for postie to collect on his round, saves the poor sod having to lift/carry too much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browning GTS Posted May 23, 2007 Report Share Posted May 23, 2007 I have had parcels left at my neighbours, they are a bit funny What ? The parcels or the neighbours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naddan28 Posted May 23, 2007 Report Share Posted May 23, 2007 Lol, well my dad's dog is a rescued cocker spaniel and really has protection issues over the house. She will bark madly at anyone and growl but as soon as she see's they are friendly rolls over. Unfortunately one day the postman left the door open (stupid step sister had already let the dog out of the kitchen) walked 2 steps up the drive and the dog managed to bite him on the bottom although he was fine about it and said he should have shut the door. We did apologise and brought him chocolates etc and now the step sister is told to LEAVE the dog locked up when asked. Although my friend had a parcel delivered from parcel force and saw the van drive up his coldersack on a council estate. Then got a phone call 30 mins later saying he couldn't find the house so returned the package! Would have been understandable but being its a council estate built in the 80's with clear road sign and house numbers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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