Deliver to Neighbour... Across the Street!

[Dorset Plodder]

Sometimes you win....... Today I asked the neighbour if he minded taking a parcel for next door... "No, I can't stand the bastard and hate his guts"! So I 739d him and on the card wrote "Neighbour says he hates your guts, so won't take your parcel"!

I thought that was an adequate explanation if the DOM needed one...normally I'll write No Answer on the line about leaving it with neighbours....It's just turning into an ass covering exercise .

[postslippete]

Your lino sounds like a jobs worth

Probably making a fancy chart of the number of slip lefts that posties have brought back and pinning it on the board ( i dont want to give them ideas!!)


Just stick to trying to deliver the item first time and bringing it back if you can't deliver. If a postie does a different round every week how can he/she know who the trusted neighbours are??

[Surreypostie]

When all this delivery to neighbour started I was asked by one customer to leave with a particular neighbour and not the one the other side. No problem as the old girl was always in and makes it easier for me and the customer. A few days after leaving a parcel or packet whatever we call them with said neighbour I was informed the old girl who has dementia put it out with her rubbish for the binmen. Needless to say no more went to that particular neighbour. I don't know what the outcome was but I would think the company sending the item can claim for it's loss as they have the P739 informing them that we didn't deliiver as addressed. I'd go livid if I sent something and it got delivered elsewhere and got lost, breach of contract I'd call it. I put the address on and that is where I expect it to end up, not wherever a postman wants to drop it off.

[pj2001]

Next time just say you tried every house in the street but no one was in!

Just say this , never give them a reason to have a pop

[Tuffers1875]

It'll all go full circle, it always does with this shower, you watch

[billy44]

Came back today to be greeted by a manager checking every single parcel that had been returned and questioned on whether we had tried to deliver them to a neighbour.
Told her that I wouldn't trust anyone on our two walks as it's a rough area,just looked at me gone out.
Said that we have to put on the bottom of the form left sticker two addresses we had attempted to deliver to but as I said I wouldn't trust 99% of the people on our walks so what's the answer to that?

[Brain Fury]

Just 739 em and sling it in the cage when you've finished, then go home and forget about the poxy job for 16 hours until you have to do it all again

Does my head in all this bollocks does. A few years back it was a total no no to try and leave stuff with a neighbour. I wish this stupid company would make a piggin rule and stick to it

Ever heard of the saying "times change"? I've heard of being resistant to change but that is just ridiculous.

And you've been in the job 5 minutes son? Still wet behind the ears.

A bit longer than 5 minutes. Not that it matters. I don't expect things to stay the same as the day I started.

Does that mean anything "son"?

[Burnleyfc]

What don't you lads get about trying neighbours do it the finish times the same cut off provide overtime for others durrrrrrr

[janitor]

The bit people don't get, is if a parcel goes missing who's going to get shafted, probably the postie, some of the areas I used to deliver parcels to if you left an item with a neibour it would be in the local money shop before you got to the end of the road.

[Postie45]

Came back today to be greeted by a manager checking every single parcel that had been returned and questioned on whether we had tried to deliver them to a neighbour.
Told her that I wouldn't trust anyone on our two walks as it's a rough area,just looked at me gone out.
Said that we have to put on the bottom of the form left sticker two addresses we had attempted to deliver to but as I said I wouldn't trust 99% of the people on our walks so what's the answer to that?

I assume you were coming back to the office early.
If not, then you clearly dont have time to check neighbours or you would end up cutting off.
If the manager insists you still do it, then you`ll probably have to cut off.
Its a shame that the only way managers learn is the hard way

[sean3838]

Next time knock on every door tell it took 4 hour to get a reply and take the whole walk. Back

[billy44]

The point I am trying to make is that I was told that the security of all mail and parcels is very important so leaving a parcel with someone I wouldn't trust surely goes against that?
I know that if parcels go "missing" and it's on my walk the s**t will come back to me and it's not a risk I am prepared to take to satisfy a manager.