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Bahia Feliz
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So,the item was delivered(but the receptionist had misplaced it) Now they are saying it wasn't scanned,so why has it taken a week for it to be flagged up,yeh right!
Decky Boy
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Bahia Feliz wrote:So,the item was delivered(but the receptionist had misplaced it) Now they are saying it wasn't scanned,so why has it taken a week for it to be flagged up,yeh right!
So ( I hate sentences that begin with "so") are we talking " hearsay" or did the receptionist ( seriously) misplace the item ?

It is never good when Special Deliveries go astray !

Looking to October and beyond ( when I.D. Required for SD items is introduced) this type of complaint won't exist. If I was under scrunity for a misplaced Special ... I wouldn't be say ing "yeah right " ! Loosing a Special is serious s**t chum ?
Bahia Feliz
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It was delivered,confirmed by the addressee,a complaint came in 6 days later saying not received as the woman who accepted it had put it somewhere and they thought it hadn't been delivered.
Then the fact finding changed to 'not scanned/signed for'. I said why 6 days later has this come up and only after the complaint of not received had come in,a non scanned special would apparently still be on the system the next morning?
yellowbelly
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Decky Boy wrote:.......

Looking to October and beyond ( when I.D. Required for SD items is introduced) this type of complaint won't exist......
From our WTLL IDV is not for ALL SD items, it is available (for SD 9am and 1pm)
but not compulsory, therefore it won't eliminate this type of mistake entirely.
Decky Boy
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yellowbelly wrote:
Decky Boy wrote:.......

Looking to October and beyond ( when I.D. Required for SD items is introduced) this type of complaint won't exist......
From our WTLL IDV is not for ALL SD items, it is available (for SD 9am and 1pm)
but not compulsory, therefore it won't eliminate this type of mistake entirely.
Fair comment. But it's likely, going forward, that more and more SD items WILL be IDV items and if so the above scenario will be less likely ? Indeed it is BECAUSE of the above that ID Verified items are being introduced !