A boards.ie poster says that he lost his parcel when the courier company left package in the bin. Now, this points at a big problem with home delivery. You aren’t always home to receive. But imagine if your courier (or tesco delivery guy or whatver) could let himself or herself in, under controlled, observed conditions? Would that make life easier?
If you give a lot of couriers the key to your house, then you’re asking to be robbed. Would make more sense to have a big locked post box on the wall of every house.
I’ve had trouble with couriers dumping parcels behind the wall, in the bushes (and they get soaked by the rain), in through an open bedroom window once (nobody knew it was delivered and didn’t find it till months later), in the porch, behind the counter at Centra 5 miles away, just about anywhere they feel like it. I’d rather they left a “while you were out” note instructing me to pick it up at the depot. There must be official procedures for these guys to follow when nobody is home, and putting the parcel in the bin is definitely not in the rulebook.
We used to address things to ensure they arrive on an unlocked front porch by adding the floor to the second line of the address element. Something like, “Richard Nixon, The floor of the porch, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC 20202” and the stuff seemed to land on the unlocked porch just like that.
It helps to have a porch or a garage or a lodge house if you want to use this method.
Yoy people order this stuff and 90% of the time you know it is going to be delivered by courier who by the way needs a signature for the goods unless requested by YOU to your supplier that it is ok for the courier to leave the goods without a signature.
The majority of the time a telephone no is not even supplied to the courier via YOUR supplier so he spends wasted time looking for your house to start with and if he does find you and there is no one home and you are in the middle of no where he is going to leave the parcel there AND RIGHTLY SO because if he doesn’t leave he will have to make second attempt the following day.
TO SUM UP IF YOU ORDER STUFF ON A REGULAR BASIS IT IS UP TO YOU TO 1.BE AT DELIVERY ADDRESS TO RECIEVE IT 2.PROVIDE YOUR SUPPLIER WITH PHONE NO SO HE CAN IN TURN SUPPLY IT TO COURIER 3.AND FINALLY STOP MOANING IF YOU GOT THE GOODS ANYWAY.
By the way a courier is not born with the knowledge of knowing where you live.