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[–] 158 points 2 years ago (3 children)

β€œThe driver will not knock, so make sure you are looking out the window and prepared for the 4 second timeframe when the driver will stand near the truck looking at your property, wherein you may run out and scream β€˜wait!’. If unsuccessful, a delivery will be reattempted on an unspecified date within the next 8 months.”

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And then you have some ridiculous retailers that don't allow you to hold a package for pickup anymore. What the hell happened to that? I feel like it used to be when I had a package that needed a signature I could just request for it to be held at the parcel service center for me to pick it up later.

    But the last two times I had a package with a signature required, it wouldn't allow me to do that. The package was going to be returned to the sender for ridiculous reasons. One was an age restricted item which I can kind of get, but the other wasn't. Both times I had to beg and plead with the delivery company to hold the parcel even though it was not something they were supposed to do.

    And people wonder why Amazon gets so much business. They don't make me take days off from work so I can hopefully receive a fucking package of the delivery person actually feels like ringing my doorbell.

    Never again with packages requiring a signature for me. I don't work from home and my workplace is not in a location that can receive packages.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Hah, I had the exact reverse experience. For years when I had a delivery they would come by once (of course not staying nearly long enough to allow me to answer the door) and leave a notice saying the package would be at their warehouse the following day starting at 17:00.

    The warehouse was pretty far. The round trip would take nearly 2 hours by bus. And since they opening hours weren't ideal, if I happened to have a class or be otherwise busy the one night of the week they're open late, well I guess I'd better find a solution, because they'll only keep it for a week.

    I would plead with them. Can you come back? Can you leave it at my door? It's not even worth that much! I'll take the risk! No. At least one thing they did agree to do was keep my package a bit longer once when I realized I had absolutely no way of retrieving it in time. But they only gave me two days.

    It was only when COVID hit that delivery companies started just leaving packages. Sometimes they just wouldn't tell you at all about it, and you'd have a surprise when you'd open the door and hit your foot on a surprise package, if you hadn't kept up with the tracking.

    Some people complained, because they were scared someone would steal their stuff, but I was so glad they were careless. I've worked from home ever since COVID.

    Finally, I can order a thing and actually receive it at home.

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  • [–] 93 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    That’s PostNord for you. Reminder that the CEO earns ~700k a month for doing helpful things like… introducing every other day delivery of post. Hmmm.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hold up. 700k of what currency?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    SEK. I make 38k a month! Thus, she makes about ~18 times more than me and then a nurse's salary on top of that.

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    [–] 68 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    "Your delivery will arrive on a day between a point in time and a different point in time. You better be there when the driver pretends to check if someone's at home and leaves without ringing anyway - not like you have anything better to do you lazy fuck."

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Amazon is always telling me my packages will arrive between 8 and 10pm but if it ever actually gets that late, it gets moved to the next day. Do they ever actually deliver that late?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I believe it's because they hope a driver will pick it up for you. Those late night packages are delivered by contractors and they might just not pick yours on a whim probably depending on several factors.

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    [+] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    and you decide to stay home all day. Nobody shows up. You go out to the mailbox and there's a note saying the driver tried ringing the bell but nobody answered.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    There is an old anecdote about this kind of situation; Postman (P), Recipient (R):

    R: what are you doing? P: I left a notice that I tried delivering a package and you weren't home. R: But I clearly was! P: R: <bashes postman's face in> P: WTF, MAN!? R: It wasn't me, I wasn't home.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    And of course you know they're gonna show up when you're taking a poop.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I once worked for them. AMA!

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    PostMord for the win

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If it makes you feel any better,over here,in Spain , I get 09:00 AM - 11 PM delivery intervals,with deliveries sometimes arriving at 10:30 PM,so yeah...

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    For a while Amazon would estimate a time range and the delivery guy would never show up during that window. But sometimes it would do something like this: original estimate was 11am - 4pm, 4pm would pass with no delivery, then at 6pm, it would update to like 2pm - 5pm. Then it would show up at like 8pm.

    They seem to have gotten better lately though.

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