I took today off work because I had ordered a new graphics card so I could enjoy Oblivion this weekend. Shipping info specified delivery between 08.00 and 12.30 so I sat by the window the entire morning. Then, the shipping info changed to “12.30-15.30” so I continued waiting. And I felt a bowel movement coming on.
Knowing my luck, I tried to postpone it as much as I could, but I eventually had to relent to the power of my colon.
And wouldn’t you know it - in that 4-5 minute window, they ‘attempted delivery’ and I now got a message saying I can pick it up after the weekend.
Which is when I start a new work regimen of 6/7. So no Oblivion for me in the foreseeable future.
Thanks Belgian post services! Always ready to disappoint. Never change!
Meanwhile in Estonia, most couriers will call you ahead of time to make sure you’re home, tell you an ETA, and then call 1-10 minutes before arriving. If you’re not home, you can arrange for a different location to meet if it has to be signed, ask them to put the package somewhere if it doesn’t need to be signed, or since these very same couriers are also the people stocking the package machines near stores, they might be able to leave the package at one of those, depending on the company.
For some companies you even get a rough ETA range the day before AND the driver will call you before delivery.
At least they didn’t huck it onto your driveway from the truck 🤷🏻♂️
Today usps just stuck the “no one available to sign”. They didn’t even try to get me to sign. I somewhat understand as I live in condo. But let’s just skip the song and dance and just have me pick up at post office. I’d rather have done that today than wait until Monday.
In Australia you don’t even need to have a bowel movement to miss a delivery. Here Australia Post just drops the “Sorry we missed you!” card straight into the letterbox, without even ringing the doorbell, let alone actually having the parcel with them.
As a result, we no longer accept mail to our house and get it delivered to a post office box instead. Pick-up is at our convenience.
We have that with Purolator, guy didn’t knock just sticker, didn’t even have package out of the truck. I was yelling trying to get his attention as he walked off, he did not even bother looking back. Another time work shipped me a $4000 workstation with signature request. They didn’t bother walking up the 3 steps to the house, just left it on the path at bottom of steps near the main road sidewalk. I only saw it because I kept checking if they had arrived yet…had I been 5-10 minutes later somebody would have seen it and could have walked off with it.
I’d heard Australia Post is looking to improve this by experimenting with flying drone technology. Drones will be able to place the “Sorry we missed you!” card straight into the letterbox from a central dispatch location without having to do the expensive and time consuming step of sending a driver to put the note there by hand.
This got a chuckle out of me man, thanks.
Given their past performance and processes … it’s entirely possible for this to actually happen.
I lived in Australia for a few years and this baffled me for the longest time. I kept missing deliveries even though I was home, and it was only when I queried it with the local post office that they told me that the posties don’t even bother carrying parcels around. They just leave them at the post office and card everyone as standard.
If they do that because of efficiency, why bother with the cards at all? Just set up an auto email when it’s at the post office for pickup.
Same for Germany - quite often at lest.
Australia Post blames the increase in online shopping and have done so for decades.
They keep making “normal” mail more expensive, keep reducing delivery routes and increase time for post to arrive.
Parcels regularly travel across the globe in hours, sit at Australia Post for a week, get shipped across the country in a process that takes days, then sits in a warehouse 17 km away for 10 business days before a delivery is even attempted.
As far as I can tell, they’re in a self induced death spiral and they managed to get the one person who was actually turning it around, fired.
She now runs Team Global Express (formerly known as Toll Global Express), you might have heard of her, the first female CEO of the Year in 2015, Christine Holgate.
I thought you were joking but this is actually true?!
That’s bananas but I really shouldn’t throw stones as an American.
Happens to me in Canada. Get home after work to a UPS package, a FedEx package, and a Purolator package in the lobby, and a card from CanadaPost saying they couldn’t deliver.
It really depends on volume of deliveries, area, etc. but yes I’ve experienced the sorry we missed you cards many times knowing for a fact I was home all day and checking the mailbox. Nobody rings. I don’t think they have the parcel. I bet they just say okay, we don’t have time/we can’t be bothered with these ones so let’s just drop the card.
Exact same thing happened to me with usps today. UPS is just as bad, if I have a Saturday delivery scheduled, I’m 100% getting it on Monday due to “business closed”. I don’t live at a business.
This is how it works all over the world. They wait around the corner until the global bathroom camera system shows you taking a dump, then they zoom up to your door, knock quietly and leave. But if you don’t take a dump they don’t knock and just leave the “sorry we missed you” card instead.
Same thing happened to me. Specifically waited for something expensive, FedEx “attempted” delivery (did not knock or ring the doorbell). I called them to complain, so the delivery driver redelivered and was apparently irritated that I did so because the box and contents were now mysteriously damaged…
Surprising, bpost usually yeets it in front of my door here
Looks like you may be in market for a potty 😁
I avoid post when i can, they are almost always a bad experience. Do you have delivery lockers in Belgium?
Delivery lockers are the way.
We have a system here by the blueBox people. In form and function it closely resembles an Amazon locker system; but this is for anyone. My wife’s Desky setup was largely delivered over the course of a few days into these lockers for me to grab when I had a moment.
But they under-planned for capacity, and access to that vestibule is open to the public 8x5. So when the amazon driver sees the lockers are near full, he seems to upend his cart and peace out, and it’s a ‘blue-light special’.
I hope inpost invades your country too, they’re excellently organized
Honestly, what are you supposed to do if you’re showering or doing your business and someone’s at the door. Hide and hope they think you’re not home?
Rich people problems
