Some customers are just either bored or weird

apple · Post by **apple** » 06 Mar 2011, 15:35

had one once when i was training someone, block of flats only 3 flights of steps, was the last day of training him and he had been a postie a lot longer than me, there was xx road and xx court, the court ones were flats just 3 flights of steps, me thinking well i can't be arsed and he won't get lost as it's flats, well laid out, so i stay outside, i reminded him that sometimes they get mis prepped and to be careful, off he goes, i'm outside, next thing the top flat window opens, this guy says "this isn't mine" and lobs the letter out of the 3rd floor window, then slams it shut before the letter has reached the floor!
sorry but i was laughing too much to say out to him!

enzio · Post by **enzio** » 06 Mar 2011, 16:44

we all make mistakes but do think i make more now then ever and care less about it as there now seem like there is not enough time now to do ever thing properly.

BELIAL · Post by **BELIAL** » 06 Mar 2011, 18:27

Nice lady comes to the door and hands me a letter
"I got this a couple of weeks ago, it's for one of my neighbours "

"my sincere apologies for my error madam , since I have already passed that customers delivery point I will ensure she gets the letter tomorrow . Oh what the hell lets get it to her today"

Without shifting my feet one inch I somehow manage to deftly avoid a six inch wall and successfully accomplish delivery of errant letter to the correct delivery point some 24 inches distant in this well appointed terrace.
"thanks for your help , sorry again for any inconvenience caused "

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 06 Mar 2011, 18:36

We only get 2 seconds to lift, read, digest and then put it in the appropriate slot on the frame - it's no wonder we make a few mistakes (and tbh I'm surprised we don't make many more) .

Post by **calpsy** » 06 Mar 2011, 21:06

This old goat in some 3 up flats stopped me on the way down .

He shouts down at me that he doesnt want the piece of s**t leaftlets i just put through .

I tell him to through them in the bin but NO ......... He throws them down the stairs to my feet .

EH ???? I told him they will stay there cos im not picking them up . He said well they will stay there .

Told him i would be here tomorrow and have a nice day . ( just gets em madder )

No leaflets on the floor next day . HA HA . idiot .

Post by **protect us** » 06 Mar 2011, 21:17

the problem is the customers (public) are getting such a shoddy service (thanks to the you know whats ) etc etc they just always take it out on us - THE WORKERS , we have no powers in this mess created and sadly the more of a rush we are in ( i for one dont RUN we are paid to WALK ) the more mistakes and sadly accidents will happen ! keep ya chin up and keep looking for a decent job where you get spoken to like a human and not a robot/pair of legs .

Post by **TeeferTiger** » 06 Mar 2011, 21:31

calpsy wrote:This old goat in some 3 up flats stopped me on the way down .

He shouts down at me that he doesnt want the piece of s**t leaftlets i just put through .

I tell him to through them in the bin but NO ......... He throws them down the stairs to my feet .

EH ???? I told him they will stay there cos im not picking them up . He said well they will stay there .

Told him i would be here tomorrow and have a nice day . ( just gets em madder )

No leaflets on the floor next day . HA HA . idiot .

I had someone shout the same to me and throw the leaflets outside his door. I just gave him a look and walked off. He never had a go at me again. I'm not sure whether it was the look I gave him, or he'd phoned up to complain about the look I gave him and was told all about D2Ds by whoever answered the phone.

BettySwollocks · Post by **BettySwollocks** » 07 Mar 2011, 14:34

Going back a few years when i was on delivery,
i knocked on at this guys house, and in fairness, i've been told a few times i knock on like a copper, i guess that means quite loudly,
it was a saturday morning, i gave it half a minute or so and knocked on again,
i immediatley hear this "FOR F***S SAKE, U F***ING IDIOT, I'M COMING" (or something along those lines),
the door gets flung open and i'm greeted by this very aggressive guy who is a similar age to myself,
when i say he was aggressive, that lasted for about 0.5 of a second, as soon as he could wipe the sleep from his eyes,
he realised that i was 6' 2" about 14 stone and could easily tear him a new arsehole if i chose to,
he looked more than a little sheepish.

glass joe · Post by **glass joe** » 23 Jun 2020, 09:49

I got this guy on my round who will keep driving around looking to see where i am. He doesn't get much mail either, Pretty sure he is retired, Just got back from 2 weeks off and didn't have anything for him yesterday, I was on my last loop, thinking good i haven't seen him today and was delivering down a side rd (so you would have to go out of your way to see me) yet with 20 minutes left he pulls up in his car and asks if i been down his road yet, he's so strange all he does is drive around in his car all day (or seems like it)

Another old lady on my round, as soon as i pass her house opposite she opens her front door and waits for me, (probably another 6 calls before i get to hers, she lives in a bungalow so she must sit by her window waiting for me (maybe she's lonely) when i get to hers she asks me to leave it at the bottom of her steps, then she struggles down the steps to get her mail (i say to her she doesn't have to open the door and wait for me but she can't help herself.

A month ago an old guy accused a postman of hoarding his mail, he said someone delivered 5 letters from the same company to his address, so the postman must be hoarding his mail, i said there was probably a printing error or admin from the sender but he said no its our fault and he said im going to put a complaint in, i said good luck with that.

xPandabear1992x · Post by **xPandabear1992x** » 23 Jun 2020, 11:32

guy has one of them horrible letterboxes where you can't get anything through despite bending a letter to get leverage.

comes out the door. flags me down. "Alright mate, what's the problem?" awkward silence. Shows me a letter which is a bit bent and scuffed but not ripped or damaged in any way. Just looks like it's gone through a crap letterbox. What seems like 5 minutes later i get: "Don't bend my letters. It could be important."

So you stopped me in my round to make a nothing point?

Jesus.

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 23 Jun 2020, 12:21

xPandabear1992x wrote:guy has one of them horrible letterboxes where you can't get anything through despite bending a letter to get leverage.

comes out the door. flags me down. "Alright mate, what's the problem?" awkward silence. Shows me a letter which is a bit bent and scuffed but not ripped or damaged in any way. Just looks like it's gone through a crap letterbox. What seems like 5 minutes later i get: "Don't bend my letters. It could be important."

So you stopped me in my round to make a nothing point?

Jesus.

Just start 739'ing them if they can't get through the letterbox without being bent. A few trips to the DO to collect them and hopefully it'll sink in that the letterbox is crap

clashcityrocker · Post by **clashcityrocker** » 23 Jun 2020, 13:19

If I have something that won't fit through a letterbox I knock on the door.
I thought everyone did that.

Post by **blue1873** » 23 Jun 2020, 13:36

clashcityrocker wrote:If I have something that won't fit through a letterbox I knock on the door.
I thought everyone did that.

Oh your so "old school " Clash

Cedar_Room · Post by **Cedar_Room** » 23 Jun 2020, 14:08

Street I deliver to on the rougher side of town gets their door to door allocation every Tuesday. Guaranteed that when I empty the post box at the end of that street on Wednesday morning,someone will have taken the time to walk from their house to aforementioned post box,& popped their leaflets in there. This has been going on for over 3yrs. Weird behaviour,just put them in the recycling bin like everyone else!!

1560loopsayear · Post by **1560loopsayear** » 23 Jun 2020, 16:38

I'm sure some customer's think we only deliver to them... like a private service and the whole world revolves around their little house. They don't allow themselves to think outside the box and out of many hundreds of delivery points we deliver to each week, the law of averages would dictate that a few 'human' errors are likely to happen. Until they get robots to deliver the mail.

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