Grrrrr to Aus Post posties

[wardy079]

I was just sitting here, funnily enough reading this forum, when I could hear a motorbike outside. I thought awesome, mail man is here.

I wait, for a knock or for him to take off, but he is taking too long so I peer out the window.....and what do I find?

Postman writing out a card for me to pick up item from post office!

What the? He didn't even attempt to come to my front door to see if I was home to sign for it!

Well didn't he just cop of mouthful from me!

[*new2vintage]

Maybe Aus Post are too busy counting their millions to train their staff.

It has happened to me and it's very annoying and frustrating - especially when you need to collect things 2 days or more in a row.

[janeababe]

Yep, happened to me last week... its so bleeding frustrating.  X-(

What did you postie have to say for himself?

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

What the? He didn't even attempt to come to my front door to see if I was home to sign for it! Well didn't he just cop of mouthful from me!

oh dear, might not have been a good idea.  You may have just p'd off the guy that will be delivering ALL future eBay items to you 😮

[leannegemini]

what did the postie say???

[travelling_agoraphobic]

Ours did that ALL the time until I complained to our local PO. His excuse was that we get too many small parcels and he can't fit them on his bike. Which is absolute rubbish - now that posties aren't delivering as many letters and more small parcels, their bikes are being modified so they can carry more parcels.

He now delivers our parcels, but if there are too many to fit in the letterbox, he chucks them onto our front verandah. And if we get anything damaged, that will be another complaint to AP.

[*new2vintage]

I can't understand why they are in such a hurry. I think they are given all day to deliver in. I've seen one local idiot driving through a stop sign once.

[wardy079]

Hmmmm didn't think about my future deliveries!

He didn't say anything...... He just kind of mumbled at me.

I have a bike deliver mail and a van that delivers most of my parcels so usually my parcels from ebay are delivered by the van man.  He knows that I'm on maternity leave and home most mornings when he comes.  But my round is a contracted post round, so the bike and the van man should be working together.....apparently not!

I have a PO Box for our business which I use if I don't want to risk something being left at my postie but it he postie knows that I prefer my home address since I hate going to the PO Box with two small kids.  If I wanted to go to the post office everyday I would send them there!

funnily enough, it is usually the parcels that get carded at my home that the post office then say they never received from the postie and the search begins.

Hopeless

[happyroo_bunji]

parcel and letter delivery are tendered out separately, so quite often its two different people/companies that have the contracts.

Traveling I suggest you get a bigger mailbox, being a former parcel delivery person nothing annoyed me more than some fool who ordered tons of parcels but couldn't be bothered getting a decent mailbox to hold them.  Then they'd be the ones that would biatch about the parcels being left on the verandah or being carded.

And for everyone, please make sure there is a clear pathway to your door, it wasn't much fun getting rose thorns stuck in your face or tripping on dangers steps etc.

[gamezanstuf]

parcel and letter delivery are tendered out separately, so quite often its two different people/companies that have the contracts.

Traveling I suggest you get a bigger mailbox, being a former parcel delivery person nothing annoyed me more than some fool who ordered tons of parcels but couldn't be bothered getting a decent mailbox to hold them.  Then they'd be the ones that would biatch about the parcels being left on the verandah or being carded.

And for everyone, please make sure there is a clear pathway to your door, it wasn't much fun getting rose thorns stuck in your face or tripping on dangers steps etc.

As a former postie. THIS!!! ^

Have a go at one of the most thankless jobs anyone will ever do before you spray your postie for no real reason. I can assure you that they don't knock on your door because they simply don't have time, well I didn't anyway. And no they don't have all day to deliver. doh!! I never knocked on doors either, but I would beep my horn a couple of time to attract homeowners attention. If they didn't respond, they got a card, fair enough.