Don't you just love it when...

[BingBong]

you have a debate/argument with someone over the fact you didn't (even though you know you definatly did) ring their door bell and knock several times before leaving them a card.

Also love the fact the guy tried to get his parcel off of me 3 hours after i left the card. he just spotted me and thought he'd try his luck i guess but the parcel was long gone back in the van to the office.

called me a dirty liar and everything then dropped his card in a puddle lol!!!

[demon]

better when they say you didnt ring bell and they say why did you knock so you say the bell dont work mate he says it dose and trys it and it dosnt i love it makes my day sad eh

[fishtank]

I had a packet today,knocked the door,no answer so i wrote out the card and was just about to shove it through the letterbox when young ned,all trackies and baseball cap opens the door and says..."you didn't knock"...
Must of been feckin psychic then.

[Mr Blonde]

Sometimes I think they won't answer the door as they're trying to avoid someone, then when the mail and the card comes through thats a sign to open the door. That pisses me off.

[BingBong]

better when they say you didnt ring bell and they say why did you knock so you say the bell dont work mate he says it dose and trys it and it dosnt i love it makes my day sad eh

granted im sure there are people that dont knock or ring but when you know you did you just think, really am I having this argument!! he was just peed he had to get off his lazy arse and collect his parcel.

and no its not sad mate.

[BingBong]

Sometimes I think they won't answer the door as they're trying to avoid someone, then when the mail and the card comes through thats a sign to open the door. That pisses me off.

yeap had that one...some christian activists were going about same day i was delivering...they knocked no answer...i knocked no answer...card thru letterbox...ta da door opens...the activists pounced...awesome!!!

[wandle]

yeap had that one...some christian activists were going about same day i was delivering...they knocked no answer...i knocked no answer...card thru letterbox...ta da door opens...the activists pounced...awesome!!!

Thats what I call ....

D E L I V E R A N C E

[steven100]

The best is when you see on their door "Bell not working". Its always the bloody people who get lots of packets.

[clewsy01]

I always now ring the bell then knock straight away afterwards, at least i know that if the bell dosent work then the knock will, luckily now everyone who lives on my delivery knows i do this and know its me, but Ive been there before being told i didnt knock, or ring when you know you have.

the only thing that annoys is why dosen't the public realize that if we have a packet why wouldn't we knock or ring the bell whats the point???

[wiganpostie]

Sometimes I think they won't answer the door as they're trying to avoid someone, then when the mail and the card comes through thats a sign to open the door. That pisses me off.

Debt collectors swarm round the sink estate where I deliver like a horde of locusts (or should that be parasites trying to feast on the parasites?). You've never seen so many curtain twitchers in one area (unless you've attended a gynaecologists' convention).

[redruby00]

i had someone come out to me and say, 'did u ring the bell'.. i said no.. he looked at me like i was lying.. i didnt ring his ruddy bell, i had no reason to.. so days later wen i was delivering his letters and because of a plant pot in the way and the angle at which i had to lean over.... i heard his doorbell... it was ME.. my helmet had pushed it.. hahaha... oops !! i did knock and i explained to him wat prolly happened lol.. he thinking he was goin insane or thinking i was a liar haha.. made me chuckle :)

[happyhippo]

i had a funny incident the other day on my lapsing just delivered a letter when no sooner had it hit the mat the old git came running "oi dont leave parcels near the back door someone could nick it!" i said i hadnt "right i will show you he says" goes inside to get the packaging remains and it turns out a courier like DHL or someone had left it, stupid old git got a bit apologetic after that " i thought it wasnt you your normally quite good" like i said a bit. I huffed and then had a giggle behind his back. I hate couriers giving us a bad name. but i hate lapsing more people now think we are christmas temps and cause they dont know us well we get treated like crap.

[Indy]

Sometimes I think they won't answer the door as they're trying to avoid someone, then when the mail and the card comes through thats a sign to open the door.

Nail on the head.... for me they leave it a good few minutes BEFORE opening the doors. Most posties round here think its coz they thinks its the police of immigration or both.

Me I know them and have headphones so if they want the item they can come after me and ask politely. I'm not playing silly buggers with anybody.

[realitybites]

I always now ring the bell then knock straight away afterwards, at least i know that if the bell dosent work then the knock will, luckily now everyone who lives on my delivery knows i do this and know its me, but Ive been there before being told i didnt knock, or ring when you know you have.

the only thing that annoys is why dosen't the public realize that if we have a packet why wouldn't we knock or ring the bell whats the point???

Exactly. For me, if I have a parcel left it means a trek back to the office which is miles away. Time taken to write out the card, what do they think, we earn money for every parcel we bring back?

[robg]

Guy called the manager to say I didn't knock when I did (along with ringing the bell, standing around, knocking, ringing the bell, knocking, writing out card, ringing the bell and knocking), manager called near the end of shift saying to redliver tha parcel which makes me late and then delays a whole streets worth of mail which had to wait until tomorrow.

No more requests since then

I always try to get their attention somehow, then push the letters half way through, then they somehow wake up and open the door.