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I received an email saying to expect a delivery between 2.00 and 3.00. Van pulls up outside about 2.45. No problems so far.
The man gets out, has a look at the house. Then instead of getting the parcel out and knocking on my door, he just takes a photo of the house, gets back in his van and drives off before I can go outside and stop him. No card, nothing!!
5 minutes later I receive an email from Amazon saying sorry we couldn't deliver your parcel as there was no-one home to sign for it, and when I track it using the delivery company there's a photo of my house to prove he's been there.
Now I've got to arrange another day for delivery. What is the matter with these idiots?
The man gets out, has a look at the house. Then instead of getting the parcel out and knocking on my door, he just takes a photo of the house, gets back in his van and drives off before I can go outside and stop him. No card, nothing!!
5 minutes later I receive an email from Amazon saying sorry we couldn't deliver your parcel as there was no-one home to sign for it, and when I track it using the delivery company there's a photo of my house to prove he's been there.
Now I've got to arrange another day for delivery. What is the matter with these idiots?
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Stock leftish comment citing low wages, greedy delivery companies, zero hours contracts and Iain Duncan Smith. For me.
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Its quite simple, nothing in Britain works and the vast majority of people are dishonest and shifty.
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and they are rioting in the streets of america
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What did you order? A framed picture of your house?
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i bought a dyson vac for a decent wedge, i saw the delivery man running up the path with it on his back! not exactly how i want my expensive thing handled if im honest. all to save what maybe 5 seconds?
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so in other words you where waiting at the window for your blow up doll for to show up for 45 minutes and the fkcer took of with it
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No unfortunately it was not a framed picture of my house.
 It was some probiotics for my gastritis and numerous digestive issues, which I've had for 4 years now, and they need to be kept in the fridge.So another day or two out on the road and they will be virtually useless. Think I'll wait until he delivers them, give him a piece of my mind if it's the same bloke, and tell him to send them back to Amazon. |
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the worst ones are the deliver drivers who deliver the delivery vans. you wait hours for the vans to turn up, then they turn around and say they tried to deliver em but you werent in cos you were out doing deliveries.
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I remember when I ordered my washing machine from Currys. The Currys van arrived at 8am (so lucky I got up early) and I opened the door to give the delivery driver a hand. Just as I was about to offer he rang my neighbours bell and proceeded to deliver a fridge freezer while I skulked back into the house. About 4pm my washing machine arrived on another van.
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We ordered two 6 feet rabbit hutches from Amazon about 7 years ago. Delivery date - Thursday, they couldn't give a time.
He turned up at 9-45 p.m.!! and I had to help him unload the whole lorry as our hutches were down the front. I asked him why he was so late. He said it was the route he was given by his transport office in Liverpool. His first drop was supposed to be 3 Bain-maries, which were on the arse end of the vehicle, to Bristol, but it was turned away as there was nobody to take them into the cafe. He had to keep moving them off the back to get to other stuff, and he was also doing collections. By the time he got here to west Norfolk, our rabbit hutches had been on a facking holiday to Bristol, Swindon, Aldershot and London. If I was the driver I'd have taken the facking things back to Liverpool. |
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don't take this lightly, complain and have them, make them pay.
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I emailed them earlier and they said their drivers wouldn't do this as they get paid per delivery, so she basically called me a liar even though I witnessed it with my own eyes. Then she said if I want it today, I can pick it up from their depot in Bridgwater, which is at least an hour and a half round trip. What a joke. I never really get angry about anything but this has really wound me up for some reason. I really hope it's the same driver when it does eventually arrive as he's going to get a right ear bashing.
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why would he come to your house and take a picture , why not just deliver it
how big ws the itme , maybe he left it at the depot by accident and thought ill sort this out |
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I feel sorry for the drivers. The companies they deliver for probably give them imposible workloads and they feel comelled to pull all sorts of stunt just to keep up.
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don't be a liberal ^^^ this bloke deserves no sympathy
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Had a cooker delivered, burly driver carried all 50kg up the driveway on his own, tripped on a step and dropped it, glass smashed all over the place. Dog cut his paw, total carnage.
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You're right. Buy a flame thrower and smoke the mothefrucker when he turns up next time.
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Crisp77 19 Aug 14 17:14 Joined: 08 Feb 02 | Topic/replies: 35,392 | Blogger: Crisp77's blog What did you order? A framed picture of your house? |
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This reminds me a little of the guy on here who sat on his arris as his mrs and kids went down the road to check on a cyclist who he'd witnessed from his armchair being wanged into the next life by a van driver.
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buccini be ready for him when he arrives next time and take a photo of him taking a photo of your house
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Did you not think of going out and getting your parcel as opposed to watching him take photo's of your house?
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ordered some new furniture from ebay (don't ask)
supposed to be next day with a timed slot 3 deliveries cancelled last minute, and 7 days later, some cnunt turns up at the door 2 hours late. "mate, any chance of a lift? this sofa is heavy!" . FFS I had to put me trainers on and handball the foooooking sofa into the house with a little help off this wimpy delivery driver. FOOOK knows what would have happened if I wasn't a strong tough man in good physical shape |
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^ Just then he noticed what I had playing on the laptop...
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Did it have Linda Lovelace in it???
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19 Aug 14 21:12 Joined: 03 Nov 11 | Topic/replies: 7,783 | Blogger: Hamsterdam's blog Did you not think of going out and getting your parcel as opposed to watching him take photo's of your house? he was too busy peeping out his window |
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Crisp77 • August 19, 2014 5:14 PM BST
What did you order? A framed picture of your house? Quality |
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The best I have encountered are DPD. Their tracking system is brilliant as you can see his previous drops
and where his at any moment. Useful for the company too but must be hell for the drivers. No small wonder that you see them so often being way over posted speed limits. It was looking as if he was twenty minutes behind, but arrived just seconds before the scheduled time. He did, however, skip the drop before mine, just around the corner. |
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Appalling behaviour by the driver in OP.
It's a two way street as customers not in at stated time of a delivery can ruin a courier's day - See Call a taxi's post as proof of the knock on chaos it causes. Yep, i'm an ex courier driver  |
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These new-fangled tracking gizmos must play havoc with their serial-killing endeavours, it's no wonder they're often grumpy.
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OP obviously having an Eartha Kitt or Tommy Tank when Driver knock/rang bell and never heard him.
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Then ran to the window without wiping , hence why he never ran out when teh gu was taking a picture he has jobbies running down his legs
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I don't believe it, it's happened again!!! I heard a van pull up, so I went over to my window to see if it was my delivery and saw a different driver walking to the gate, and he actually had a parcel in his hands this time. However to my amazement he then took a quick photo of my house, turned around and started jogging back to his van. So I ran downstairs and legged it out the front door as fast as I could, and shouted out to him a few times just before he got in his van, and he definitely heard me, but he completely blanked me and drove off. I can only assume that it was on record that I'd made a complaint and he decided to do it again just out of spite.
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you could try keeping the rottweiler out the back next time.
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buccini, is it a game that you've ordered from Amazon.
And do you have to catch a delivery driver to start (bit like throwing a 6 in ludo to start)? |
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Have you tried lowering the drawbridge, I find that helps.
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Buccini would it not make sense to have a camera so you can photograph the van and provide it to the company rather than being made a mug of?
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They take a photo themselves to prove that they tried to deliver it. So it's their word against mine. When I go onto their site and track it, the funny thing is that this driver was in such a hurry that he only got 1/4 of the house in the picture. At least yesterday's driver took a decent photo and got the whole house in :-)
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