Porch Pirate on Underhill Road

[Supercam]

I've just seen what I believe was a porch pirate looking for packages to steal on Underhill Road. Someone has just come and had a look and then spotted our ring camera and quickly shuffled off. Keep an eye for your packages, especially with Christmas coming up. 

[Happyme5]

TY very much 👍 

[IlonaM]

I saw her walking away from our porch earlier at Horninam/South  Circular end of Underhill and wondered whether she was delivering leaflets. She walked up road towards Melford looking at my neighbours' porch from pavement as she passed pretending? to be on phone. Very identifiable photo; I recognised her instantly. 

[Soylent Green]

A common face around here. He and his partner usually hang around Goose green area - lives very locally. usually rides a black mountain bike. keep an eye out for him

[Angelina]

Porch Pirate? 

How about "Cheap Low Life Thieving Skank"

[alice]

I do not understand why people leave valuable items out on the road and then are actually surprised when they go missing

[Sephiroth]

People don’t go out of their way to leave  their valuables out on the porch 

they are most likely at work when a delivery company decides on their behalf to just leave it on the doorstep.  They are the problem not “people being surprised when their items disappear” 

Edited Thursday at 18:50 by Sephiroth

[first mate]

@Sephiroth I agree and since most affordable courier companies now expect you to stay in for at least half a day for a delivery and even then have weasel-worded T&Cs that outline that half day 'window' as an aim not a guarantee, making it is moveable delivery 'feast', it is no wonder parcels go missing. 

[pablogrande]

1 hour ago, first mate said:

@Sephiroth I agree and since most affordable courier companies now expect you to stay in for at least half a day for a delivery and even then have weasel-worded T&Cs that outline that half day 'window' as an aim not a guarantee, making it is moveable delivery 'feast', it is no wonder parcels go missing. 

Almost all delivery companies now have default options in their apps instructing what to do if undeliverable e.g. leave at local affiliated shop, if you instruct not to leave on doorstep the sender is liable to replace. I have a lot of work deliveries and we have a very small unlocked storage box in front garden and have never had anything taken but neighbours have lost loads from doorstep

[Sephiroth]

5 minutes ago, pablogrande said:

Almost all delivery companies now have default options in their apps instructing what to do if undeliverable e.g. leave at local affiliated shop, if you instruct not to leave on doorstep the sender is liable to replace. I have a lot of work deliveries and we have a very small unlocked storage box in front garden and have never had anything taken but neighbours have lost loads from doorstep

yeah they do, and anecdotally my own experience shows them improving 

but they still ignore sometimes. Some are worse than other (evri are shocking) 

[Sue]

In my experience, many deliveries are just left on the doorstep without bothering to ring the bell, so you may be in but have no idea there has been a delivery.

And some couriers require you to state a "safe place". I don't have one.

[Spartacus]

One problem is that companies like the Big A, say arriving "Sunday" so you plan your week and without warming, normally when you are out, a few days before you get a notification saying "out for deluvery" 

You can't plan for that and often get home to find the package abandoned on your door or left elsewhere with no clue where. 

Maybe it is a sign that we should all return to shopping locally 😆

[PeterSeychelles]

We had such a problem with theft, with couriers denying responsibility and ignoring instructions not to leave things on the doorstep, that we installed a parcel safe.  It works well if people use it, but I am puzzled by the couriers that send me a photo of the packages they leave propped up against the side of the parcel safe.

[civilservant]

the Post office seems to be the outfit responsible for delivering stuff ordered on Amazon in the Dulwich area

Is anyone finding that their parcel delivery has become more unreliable than in the past e.g. not delivered because 'you were not in' or 'returned to sender as address incorrect'?

[Jenijenjen]

Many of the goods available on Amazon aren't dispatched from an Amazon facility but direct from the supplier who use their own couriers which can include the post office. This is indicated in the item's information by the 'fulfilled by' information.  Amazon themselves are certainly still delivering in Dulwich.

Don't want to jinx it but I'm finding RM tracked deliveries very reliable. Even DPD messed up one of my deliveries this week but all now resolved.

[Penguin68]

58 minutes ago, civilservant said:

the Post office seems to be the outfit responsible for delivering stuff ordered on Amazon in the Dulwich area

Not in my bit. It's also people in vans. Though on occasion it is the PO, but not exclusively. It may be based on the size of parcel, or the number. Or possibly whether you're a Prime Customer.