A couple of months ago, I was expecting delivery of a large box (postal supplies). I got the usual email updates, and then finally the 'your parcel has been delivered' one. I hadn't seen or heard them pull up, and when I opened my door to bring it in there was no parcel on the porch (I live in a block of units, my porch is really the only place to leave a package when delivering).
I called them immediately and asked them to check into whether the delivered status was correct, and where it had been delivered to if it was. They emailed me the photo of where it was left while I was on the phone with them and I dunno where they delivered it, but it was definitely not my porch (or anyone else's in my block of units).
The driver went back to the location, picked up the parcel and I had it not long after. While I was chatting to him he said "I wish they were all this easy". I'm not really sure what he meant by that (didn't ask for clarification), so he could have been referring to how quickly I picked up on the error, making it that much easier to sort out, or that the package hadn't been taken in by the person at the other place, opened etc, or he could have just meant I was being friendly and such, not berating him over the situation (I didn't even mention that it had been misdelivered, was just happy to get my package without too much drama 
) - either way, the phrase indicates misdelivery happens often enough, and perhaps these kinds of situations are why they decided to do it. If you get an email at work to say your package has been delivered, you're not going to question it, you're just going to expect it to be there somewhere when you get home. If you get a photo attached to that email and can see it's not your place, you have a better opportunity to call them up and try to sort it out.
Plus, we're now approaching the Christmas season, and that means parcel theft is going to increase - if recipients can see the package was actually delivered to their home but can't find it, at least they'll know for sure it wasn't AP error.
@*tippy*toes* wrote:
Why can't I be one of those people mentioned in another thread where someone was complaining that all their parcels were carded and sent to the PO? I WANT TO BE THAT PERSON!!!
Luxury !!!!.............you've got a postie, I've only got a little square box at the local PO - and new residents in town can't even get that.......
Still, the view over the valley kinda makes up for that.
Spoiler
............As do the Giraffe Sheep, the Bat-dogs and the swarms of birdlife................
