postie not ringing bell

[sandyman]

Was in lounge ten minutes ago and saw red mail van outside - assumed they were delivering nearby. Walked out of lounge and "nobody-in" card left on doormat.

There is no way they rang the bell or I would have heard it.

Anybody else had this problem?

[KidKruger]

everyone has this problem bro.

[DulwichFox]

Were you expecting a Delivery

No --- Ignore card.

Yes --- Follow any instructions on card.

Check Doorbell is working..

Foxy

[Sue]

Yes, complain to Royal Mail, no point complaining on here!

It's not just Royal Mail, it's all of them.

Mostly they don't bother to ring the bell, they flap the letterbox a bit in a half-hearted sort of way.

In one case the bell did ring, I went to answer it and got there to see the van driving off and a parcel dumped on my wall (not even on the mat) by somebody who couldn't even have known I was in.

[JohnL]

Yet when I work from home I get 2 or 3 ringing to leave my neighbours parcels - how do they know I'm in (I'm not that noisy).

I then end up being delivery boy if they don't pop over before I go out :)

[Mick Mac]

JohnL Wrote:

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> Yet when I work from home I get 2 or 3 ringing to

> leave my neighbours parcels - how do they know I'm

> in (I'm not that noisy).

>

> I then end up being delivery boy if they don't pop

> over before I go out :)

WFHomers have to do their bit for society. A WFH neighbour is a very handy thing.

[sandyman]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> everyone has this problem bro.

We used to have a dodgy bell but replaced it with wireless bells in various rooms so that we wouldn't miss postie. Hasn't done much good.

[Loz]

I had an email from Amazon a few weeks ago, saying "we'd tried to deliver, but no one was in". As the delivery address was a business, there was someone in and available all day. I assumed the driver decided it was time to knock off and just marked everyone as out.

But to the OP, you would probably find that, had you actually seen the postie, he probably didn't have your parcel anyway... just the card.

[ianr]

I had one from RM for a parcel last Friday, but couldn't swear for certain that the bell wasn't rung, given that it was timed at 7.34 am. But I did notice that the postie's name/id part had just a slightly diagonal dash in it. I've no idea if that's the identifier used by one particular postie, or just an anonymous dash. What's on yours?

[singalto]

I was once at my son's house when the postie left a card through his letter box. I rushed out and caught him asking why he hadn't rung the bell. He said he didn't actually have the parcel with him, just a card to say it was at the Highshore road office!

[Sue]

singalto Wrote:

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> I was once at my son's house when the postie left

> a card through his letter box. I rushed out and

> caught him asking why he hadn't rung the bell. He

> said he didn't actually have the parcel with him,

> just a card to say it was at the Highshore road

> office!

:)) or possibly :(

[Abe_froeman]

Isnt that defruading the sender who presumably paid for it to actually be delivered to the specified address?

[Dog duck]

Abe_froeman Wrote:

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> Isnt that defruading the sender who presumably

> paid for it to actually be delivered to the

> specified address?

...good post