“The driver will not knock, so make sure you are looking out the window and prepared for the 4 second timeframe when the driver will stand near the truck looking at your property, wherein you may run out and scream ‘wait!’. If unsuccessful, a delivery will be reattempted on an unspecified date within the next 8 months.”
And then you have some ridiculous retailers that don't allow you to hold a package for pickup anymore. What the hell happened to that? I feel like it used to be when I had a package that needed a signature I could just request for it to be held at the parcel service center for me to pick it up later.
But the last two times I had a package with a signature required, it wouldn't allow me to do that. The package was going to be returned to the sender for ridiculous reasons. One was an age restricted item which I can kind of get, but the other wasn't. Both times I had to beg and plead with the delivery company to hold the parcel even though it was not something they were supposed to do.
And people wonder why Amazon gets so much business. They don't make me take days off from work so I can hopefully receive a fucking package of the delivery person actually feels like ringing my doorbell.
Never again with packages requiring a signature for me. I don't work from home and my workplace is not in a location that can receive packages.
Hah, I had the exact reverse experience. For years when I had a delivery they would come by once (of course not staying nearly long enough to allow me to answer the door) and leave a notice saying the package would be at their warehouse the following day starting at 17:00.
The warehouse was pretty far. The round trip would take nearly 2 hours by bus. And since they opening hours weren't ideal, if I happened to have a class or be otherwise busy the one night of the week they're open late, well I guess I'd better find a solution, because they'll only keep it for a week.
I would plead with them. Can you come back? Can you leave it at my door? It's not even worth that much! I'll take the risk! No. At least one thing they did agree to do was keep my package a bit longer once when I realized I had absolutely no way of retrieving it in time. But they only gave me two days.
It was only when COVID hit that delivery companies started just leaving packages. Sometimes they just wouldn't tell you at all about it, and you'd have a surprise when you'd open the door and hit your foot on a surprise package, if you hadn't kept up with the tracking.
Some people complained, because they were scared someone would steal their stuff, but I was so glad they were careless. I've worked from home ever since COVID.
Finally, I can order a thing and actually receive it at home.
why is this so accurate? 😭😭😭😭
That’s PostNord for you. Reminder that the CEO earns ~700k a month for doing helpful things like… introducing every other day delivery of post. Hmmm.
Never forget who ruined the beautifully working Swedish postal service. Maud Olofsson screwed us over by taking on one of the worst deals in history. The Danish must have laughed their asses off when they offloaded their failing postal service onto the Swedish people.
Gotta make some changes to maintain that salary though right
"Your delivery will arrive on a day between a point in time and a different point in time. You better be there when the driver pretends to check if someone's at home and leaves without ringing anyway - not like you have anything better to do you lazy fuck."
Next thing, I take the day off to wait for the package (or work from home) and I get a message in the afternoon saying "you weren't home, your package is delivered at such and such drop off point"... always
Amazon is always telling me my packages will arrive between 8 and 10pm but if it ever actually gets that late, it gets moved to the next day. Do they ever actually deliver that late?
I believe it's because they hope a driver will pick it up for you. Those late night packages are delivered by contractors and they might just not pick yours on a whim probably depending on several factors.
Yes. Packages have been delivered that late here (USA).
Probably depends on the delivery service partner. They have slightly different hours from company to company.
Reminds me of my Telus internet.
"A technician will come to fix your internet problem Tuesday and they will be there sometime between 8am to 5pm. They will give you a 15 minute call before they arrive. If there is no one home when they come by, you will be given a $150 no show fee."
15 minute call? That's one long conversation beforehand.
To keep you busy so they can show up during the call and claim no one was there.
I meant a call 15 minutes before there were there.
and you decide to stay home all day. Nobody shows up. You go out to the mailbox and there's a note saying the driver tried ringing the bell but nobody answered.
Either that or they show up right as you sit down to take a shit, or while you're in the middle of your shower
Or you get a message at 3 am the next day, where they apologize that they didn't made it, but that they will deliver sometime between 8 and 22 that day.
There is an old anecdote about this kind of situation; Postman (P), Recipient (R):
R: what are you doing? P: I left a notice that I tried delivering a package and you weren't home. R: But I clearly was! P: <shrugs> R: <bashes postman's face in> P: WTF, MAN!? R: It wasn't me, I wasn't home.
All too common, until I installed a camera doorbell.
That’s just the standard here, and it’s infuriating
I once worked for them. AMA!
Were you horribly understaffed and overworked then or did you get out before that started happening?
It just about started and also the fired most of the veterans as well.
Did you drift with the packages?
Their cars are FWD :/
Yea, on the electric bicycle though :D
PostMord for the win
If it makes you feel any better,over here,in Spain , I get 09:00 AM - 11 PM delivery intervals,with deliveries sometimes arriving at 10:30 PM,so yeah...
What?? No nap time delivery blackout window? That's the most un-Spanish thing ever!
That goes without saying. Siesta is sacred!
For a while Amazon would estimate a time range and the delivery guy would never show up during that window. But sometimes it would do something like this: original estimate was 11am - 4pm, 4pm would pass with no delivery, then at 6pm, it would update to like 2pm - 5pm. Then it would show up at like 8pm.
They seem to have gotten better lately though.
The Amazon equivalent of my country gives somewhat similar estimates, but they always end up showing up at 22:30 or straight up call me at such hours telling me they'll come by tomorrow morning
Next time change the delivery to a postnord delivery box. Most of then are pretty close to housing, and you can pick it up any time you want
I usually use those, but it wasn't an option because the package (containing 24 liters of cat litter. It was on special lol) was both too big and too heavy for those boxes..
