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No more Mr Nice Guy

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rhino49
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No more Mr Nice Guy

Post by rhino49 »

So ... Amazon called today with a package for me and the driver asked if I would mind taking two packages for neighbours who weren't in. No problem, one family were friends of ours and the other was quite close by but unknown to me. I signed for the items and asked him if he would put a card in to let them know where the items were - I wasn't going out anywhere today so was happy to hold them until they came round. It's just past nine thirty pm now and I have just returned from delivering the packages to two people who had had no notification other than emails to say that their items could not be delivered. They were grateful to me but not too happy with Amazon .... and neither am I

I won't be helping him out again !!!!
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rhino49
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Haha - just realised - only been retired for a week and working for the competition already :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:
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Post by Glenno »

Rhino chill chill some more good boy ENJOY :wave :wave
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Post by arnold cheshire »

rhino49 wrote:So ... Amazon called today with a package for me and the driver asked if I would mind taking two packages for neighbours who weren't in. No problem, one family were friends of ours and the other was quite close by but unknown to me. I signed for the items and asked him if he would put a card in to let them know where the items were - I wasn't going out anywhere today so was happy to hold them until they came round. It's just past nine thirty pm now and I have just returned from delivering the packages to two people who had had no notification other than emails to say that their items could not be delivered. They were grateful to me but not too happy with Amazon .... and neither am I

I won't be helping him out again !!!!
tell the amazon guy no then in the first place :left:
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Post by Hitcher »

Why didn't you just wait until they came to collect them?
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Post by mickeymacca »

One of the courier drivers that delivers in her car, broke down yesterday with an estate car full of parcels. I did have a little smile as she had all her parcels strewn out on the side of the road waiting for someone to relieve her of them. This is the same woman that often has her baby grandchild strapped in on the front seat while she is doing her deliveries.
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rhino49
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Hitcher wrote:Why didn't you just wait until they came to collect them?
"I have just returned from delivering the packages to two people who had had no notification other than emails to say that their items could not be delivered" Because they would probably have still been with me a week later - he hadn't advised the customers where they had been left.
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saddlerposty
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mickeymacca wrote:One of the courier drivers that delivers in her car, broke down yesterday with an estate car full of parcels. I did have a little smile as she had all her parcels strewn out on the side of the road waiting for someone to relieve her of them. This is the same woman that often has her baby grandchild strapped in on the front seat while she is doing her deliveries.
the crazy bint up our way delivers her parcels from a little fiesta crammed with parcels and a small child, she leaves the door open keys in and engine running while she is at a door some 20 meters or so away.....just a matter of time before the obvious happens.
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Post by baldrick »

Come on rhino, don't get old and grumpy, you've got more time to be helpful to your neighbours now. The Amazon guy just helped you to get to know some of your neighbours. They might do the same for you one day. :Very Happy
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saddlerposty wrote:
mickeymacca wrote:One of the courier drivers that delivers in her car, broke down yesterday with an estate car full of parcels. I did have a little smile as she had all her parcels strewn out on the side of the road waiting for someone to relieve her of them. This is the same woman that often has her baby grandchild strapped in on the front seat while she is doing her deliveries.
the crazy bint up our way delivers her parcels from a little fiesta crammed with parcels and a small child, she leaves the door open keys in and engine running while she is at a door some 20 meters or so away.....just a matter of time before the obvious happens.

mental is n't it......Wonder if a Channel 4 Dispatches type expose would be helpful in alerting the public into how their cheap parcels are being delivered....
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rhino49
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baldrick wrote:Come on rhino, don't get old and grumpy, you've got more time to be helpful to your neighbours now. The Amazon guy just helped you to get to know some of your neighbours. They might do the same for you one day. :Very Happy
Bloody hell Baldrick - you've mellowed lol
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baldrick
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Yeah I'm more chilled out now without the stress of work. Relax, go with the flow, don't turn from Mr Nice Guy to Victor Meldrew! :Very Happy
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rhino49 wrote:
Hitcher wrote:Why didn't you just wait until they came to collect them?
"I have just returned from delivering the packages to two people who had had no notification other than emails to say that their items could not be delivered" Because they would probably have still been with me a week later - he hadn't advised the customers where they had been left.
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rhino49 wrote:
Hitcher wrote:Why didn't you just wait until they came to collect them?
"I have just returned from delivering the packages to two people who had had no notification other than emails to say that their items could not be delivered" Because they would probably have still been with me a week later - he hadn't advised the customers where they had been left.
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Post by NWpostie »

saddlerposty wrote:
mickeymacca wrote:One of the courier drivers that delivers in her car, broke down yesterday with an estate car full of parcels. I did have a little smile as she had all her parcels strewn out on the side of the road waiting for someone to relieve her of them. This is the same woman that often has her baby grandchild strapped in on the front seat while she is doing her deliveries.
the crazy bint up our way delivers her parcels from a little fiesta crammed with parcels and a small child, she leaves the door open keys in and engine running while she is at a door some 20 meters or so away.....just a matter of time before the obvious happens.
Look at it from another perspective, she is a young mother trying to make ends meet and is exploited by courier companies for pennies per parcel and using her own car at nil cost to the courier company, I have more sympathy for her than the company trying to drive down unit cost to the minimum.
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