Parcel update

[sally_maria]

The bad news is: I still haven't got my parcel. :-(

The good news is that I came back home to find a message from PF on the answer phone, apologising for not delivering - they went to the back door too late for there to be anyone around to answer it. And since the front is more or less pedestrianised, they didn't come round that way. We get parcels via them almost every day anyway, so tomorrow they are going to include the parcel in their standard delivery and I should get it then.

Still annoying, but at least they were being active about resolving the issue, rather than just ignoring it. When the parcel didn't arrive I was expecting to have to come in from work and fight the issue again, but was pleasantly surprised by that at least.

Thank you everyone for the kind thoughts and fellow feeling, obviously this happens far too often - are there any couriers out there that don't have these problems?

Comments

[sally_maria]

They could have left it with the dentists next door, that's definitely something to bear in mind for the future.

I think a lot of people these days don't know or trust their neighbours in the way they used to, so the couriers are much less likely to think of that solution.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oh, you are right, and I realise weare very lucky to have a very helpful, very friendly, retired lady for our next door neighbour. The only snags are (a) her social life is so vast that, even though she's retired, the odds are that she will be out anyway, and (b) she's so talkative that when she passes the parcel onto us, we need to steel ourselves for a full run-down of what she, her family, her friends and the rest of the village have been up to ;-)