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Apr 2018
8:02am, 9 Apr 2018
36,675 posts
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purps
I don't mind taking parcels in, but what wound me up in Birmingham was our neighbours leaving a note on their door telling delivery drivers to try our house as they had an important parcel, said note was up frequently and they hadn't even asked us if that was OK. I stopped taking parcels for them after that. They did a new note with the other neighbour's number on it.
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Apr 2018
12:00pm, 9 Apr 2018
4,336 posts
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Wine Legs
Yep, that's a bit shitty! It's not hard to ask is it? And no doubt you'd have been fine about it if you were home.
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Apr 2018
12:03pm, 9 Apr 2018
15,453 posts
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Nicholls595
"Can I get..."
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Apr 2018
1:30pm, 9 Apr 2018
2,382 posts
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Surrey Phil
Now and again isn't a problem. It's when someone assumes that you'll do it without bothering to check especially when it becomes too frequent.
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Apr 2018
1:44pm, 9 Apr 2018
36,679 posts
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purps
One day we took in a royal mail sack full of stuff for them. They also didn't come round when they got home so invariably we'd have something for a day or two (the very important things don't forget) or we'd drop it to them. Anyhow, it's much more civilised here!
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Apr 2018
2:28pm, 9 Apr 2018
38,077 posts
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Velociraptor
Actually hearing one of the senior reception staff going, "Aw. We don't have any appointments with any of the doctors this week. 'Phone back tomorrow when we open next week's appointments." "Aw, you don't want to wait that long? Tell you what, I'll just put you down for a telephone call from the doctor this afternoon to see what they can do about an appointment for you."
[The reception staff are supposed to have had specific training around the issue of NOT DOING THAT.]
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Apr 2018
3:28pm, 9 Apr 2018
14,108 posts
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Carpathius
Even worse than that was the guy who lived at the same number but in the next road.
We started getting post addressed to a random man at our address so of course just wrote "not known at this address" and put them back in the post box.
One day, a really cross man turned up on our doorstep to have a go at me for it. According to him we "knew perfectly well" where he lived and should have been dropping the letters round there (never heard of him before) and he was all pissed off that we kept sending them back. From now on, we were to bring them round.
Apart from assuming we knew who he was and where he lived, I'm not a fucking extension of the postal service and why the actual fuck had he not corrected the sender upon learning that his post was going to the wrong address?
The return postbox number was apparently the CSA. We thought he was using our address deliberately. Mr Carp went round to his house to tell him to never come round again and to make sure whoever it was had the right address. He wasn't in... but his mama was. Haven't heard a peep since!
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Apr 2018
3:30pm, 9 Apr 2018
48,117 posts
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swittle
[Mr Carp = not to be trifled with :-o]
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Apr 2018
4:12pm, 9 Apr 2018
1,036 posts
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beebop
Having an unsecured unidentifiable but fairly large object roll off the flat-bed truck in front of me, BOUNCE off the motorway and into my windscreen so hard I thought it had to shatter. Ringing up the company concerned to tell them about it, talking to a friendly woman who told me that she was very sorry and of course they’d cover any costs, then being rung later by a man who told me that ‘the lad’ wasn’t missing anything off the back of his truck and it must’ve have been just a stone kicked up - nope. Then asking me to describe the vehicle!
Also, autoglass can’t get out to look at the damage until the 19th.
Hmm.
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Apr 2018
6:06pm, 9 Apr 2018
18,206 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I had exactly the same conversation with the dickhead who owns my current house before I did. He knocked at the door one day and asked why his mail was. I asked him where he lived, he told me, I Pointed out that was a different different address to MINE!
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