...though, these days, delivery drivers often take a pic of where they left the delivery. I'm set to get delivery notices by e-mail, and a verifying pic is attached.
Off the top of my head, I think that big-river company does that, and UPS, and maybe USPS (the US postal service).
...though, these days, delivery drivers often take a pic of where they left the delivery. I'm set to get delivery notices by e-mail, and a verifying pic is attached.
Off the top of my head, I think that big-river company does that, and UPS, and maybe USPS (the US postal service).
If all else fails, send a stroppy letter to the relevant depot copied to their headquarters.
I have no way of knowing what or where the relevant depot is. If I knew any way of notifying the people responsible, I would have done it years ago.
Is there really no branding on the wrapping as to who the item is from or who delivered it? Is there a delivery note - possibly in a plastic pouch?
If there are any of these, then they are likely to include contact details - an address, phone number or web address. If there are none of those, then there should be something that you can Google to find contact details.
Once you have contact details, follow up with a complaint to the contact.
Internet service companies who admit they are wrong but still want to charge you. I had been with the same internet service for 15 years. When they moved I canceled the service because it was not available in my new area. I mailed them back the Modem as per instructed. They admit they received the modem, however they say that I have a second modem, that I am being charged $175.00 for failing to return. I said, " No I had just one why would I want two modems? " Their answer well yes that does not make sense but, we have it recorded that we installed two modems. Then they said if we can not find it in our inventory we are charging you for the missing modem. They also had two different phone numbers for me and I only had one of those numbers. Clearly, they are screwing up somehow but trying to charge me for it.
Aarrgghh. Tell them you'll be delighted to see them in small claims court. Alternately, that you're sure the good people at (local newshounds here) will be delighted to hear all about your experience, and will they mind if you give the reporters their personal contact info? It's the sort of thing I've had to say lo these 30 years on behalf of vulnerable people in our Vietnamese community. IMHO they're just trying it on in the hopes that you're too frightened / conflict averse that you'll just pay up and spare them the hassle of correcting the error--particularly if some low level flunky thinks the error might get him a reprimand.
I ve gotta kinda feeling that @Moo has exhausted all options.And all patience!
I did once have a way of contacting the sender. It was Amazon. I went to their website and found a page for problems/complaints. However,it did not let me state the problem; it asked whether the problem was A,B,C,D,etc. One choice they offered was complaints of packages not arriving. The didn't mention packages being delivered to the wrong address.
I'm convinced that the companies have decided it's cheaper to replace lost packages without making any effort to find out what happened to them
My problem, aside from the fact that getting rid if these unordered items is a nuisance, is that even though it's not my fault, I feel responsible.
Binning them seems wasteful, couldn’t stuff be donated - but I really just don’t get why it is so impossible to have some kind of communication with your neighbour ? A letter perhaps - after all, you know their address - could address it to whom I may concern if you can’t find their name on the parcels.
I'm also concerned whether the present situation puts you in danger of "porch pirates" showing up to relieve you of the misdirected packages. From clips I've seen, they can be pretty brazen.
Granted, that would take the packages off your hands, but also bring desperate or criminal people right up to your home.
The plot thickens: Yesterday afternoon, the internet service company sent me a bill for $276.00. When I called to tell them they first sent it to an incomplete address( thank you post office for figuring it out.) and to tell them I was not paying it. They told me my account number printed on the bill was wrong and they were mailing me a check for $170.00. They do not owe me any money??? However, having now spent three days on the phone with them I am not going to argue with them about how they are overpaying me for whatever. So I just corrected the address and I am waiting for the check in the mail.
Whoever is responsible for the UK government covid site. Every day I have been starting by accessing it to find out how safe , or not, we are round here. How many cases there have been the previous day. I have a spreadsheet and graphs.
Today, there are no operational links. I am bereft.
Whoever is responsible for the UK government covid site. Every day I have been starting by accessing it to find out how safe , or not, we are round here. How many cases there have been the previous day. I have a spreadsheet and graphs.
Today, there are no operational links. I am bereft.
I think there may be some sort of problem in that the Guardian summary (which I think feeds directly off the gov.uk feed) disappeared yesterday afternoon, but is now back. The Grauniad did have a problem a few weeks back - so maybe they now have a workround but the origin site doesn't...
Different computer. A notice about new, additional cookies. I click accept, and all the liinks go nowhere. I go back to the home page, click to reject, and back come the other pages! go back to the first computer. No cookie message. and this time the links work.
And on some of the places I track, cases are up again.
Yeah, according to the Zoe Covid study, cases are back up in this area, again. It tends to give results earlier than the ONS and other surveys from the way it works.
TICTH the bank which holds most of my money. They silently upgraded their site so that I can no longer access any of the ways to pay bills from my account. I now have to telephone them, listen to endless waiting messages and horrid music, and then - when I do get through to a real person - answer umpteen identifying questions, get passed to another person, who asks many of the same questions again , and eventually get them to process the payment.
Then they have the cheek to suggest I should buy a new computer!
Whatever is holing my merino sweaters. It doesn't go for lambswool, or yet cashmere. Just the fine, thin merino. Little holes. Just a couple of stitches. But no evidence of moth, no parents flying around, no larvae, and definitely no frass. Just hole after hole after hole.
TICTH four teenagers, none of them wearing masks, who got on my bus. When challenged by the driver, one claimed to be exempt but had "forgotten his lanyard". I didn't believe a word of it. They then moved to the back of the bus, sat on seats Upon Which You Are Not Supposed To Sit, and talked loudly. Fortunately I was at the front, and several windows were open.
Wish the driver had put them off the bus. I am glad you were sitting near the front.
Very difficult for him to do so, hearsay is that they've been told not to try.
Yes, the risk of violence is very great. Wasn't there a case involving a bus driver in France, a while ago, killed by a passenger under similar circumstances?
Bishop's Finger, for a few years of my life I had dealings with an organisation that were responsible for compensating me for an injury. To say the were incompetent would be a vast understatement. They sent me other people's private information, one year they didn't pay me in February and, because the days and dates were the same as those for March, no one picked it up until I cried down the phone at them because I could pay my mortgage. It was an absolute nightmare.
So many things went wrong I began to wonder if they were targeting me for some reason. That's when a good friend introduced me to the idea of the fuck up fairy. These people weren't actually out to get me, there was no personal animus, they were simply being visited by the fuck up fairy.
It sounds silly, but it it gave me the perspective of not being bullied, merely being the recipient of incompetence, which in turn gave me the personal strength to challenge their blunders.
Bishop's Finger, for a few years of my life I had dealings with an organisation that were responsible for compensating me for an injury. To say the were incompetent would be a vast understatement. They sent me other people's private information, one year they didn't pay me in February and, because the days and dates were the same as those for March, no one picked it up until I cried down the phone at them because I could pay my mortgage. It was an absolute nightmare.
So many things went wrong I began to wonder if they were targeting me for some reason. That's when a good friend introduced me to the idea of the fuck up fairy. These people weren't actually out to get me, there was no personal animus, they were simply being visited by the fuck up fairy.
It sounds silly, but it it gave me the perspective of not being bullied, merely being the recipient of incompetence, which in turn gave me the personal strength to challenge their blunders.
Wish the driver had put them off the bus. I am glad you were sitting near the front.
Very difficult for him to do so, hearsay is that they've been told not to try.
I guess I was thinking back too many years, since I was riding buses. Off you went, but I can understand it may not be safe for the driver now. So sad.
The last two times someone without a mask got on a bus I was travelling on the driver handed them one.
It's weird here - a face covering is said to be compulsory on all forms of public transport, yet no proof is required if someone claims that they can't wear one for some reason, (and I know some people do have legitimate reasons). I think the bus drivers have been told not to demand the wearing of face coverings because of the possibility of violence.
I hate wearing them because of the risk to my hearing aids when I remove them, but I would hate getting or spreading COVID even more, beside which most of my bus rides are only for 20 minutes to half an hour.
The last two times someone without a mask got on a bus I was travelling on the driver handed them one.
Wow, never seen that. Though I was given one at the supermarket when I arrived and realised I'd forgotten to bring one. I did Ask Nicely!
It's weird here - a face covering is said to be compulsory on all forms of public transport, yet no proof is required if someone claims that they can't wear one for some reason, (and I know some people do have legitimate reasons).
Exactly. And would one even know if an exemption certificate was genuine or homemade?
The additional convenience is that, pulled down, it sits round my neck, instantly accessible for when I need it.
You do know pulling masks up and down between your mouth and chin renders them ineffective to useless? Very much against WHO / CDC / PHE guidance.
As is a fellow youth worker's pet hate of a colleague pulling the mask away from their mouth to talk to anyone.
Much relaxation of rules in the air / locality / neighbourhood, and online - lockdown's over on Monday, innit? We don't have to bother now. The trip to my jab earlier this week was enlivened by counting the numbers of fellow passengers wearing masks to through the tube gates, then sliding them round their chins to chat, eat, phone or otherwise spray their germs across carriages.
Who else is predicting a spike in cases for Easter?
Reading all this & as we are both retired, I think maybe it is easier to just not mix n mingle outwith our village?
Can’t remember the last time I visited a town. But if it is anything like stuff mentioned here, my swearing ratio would be very quickly exceeded.
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Off the top of my head, I think that big-river company does that, and UPS, and maybe USPS (the US postal service).
Not around here they don't.
I would do that if I had a way of contacting the delivery company. My problem ids that I have no way of contacting anyone.
If the delivery drivers took pictures, my neighbor would realize that her packages are outside the door of my side porch.
I have no way of knowing what or where the relevant depot is. If I knew any way of notifying the people responsible, I would have done it years ago.
Is there really no branding on the wrapping as to who the item is from or who delivered it? Is there a delivery note - possibly in a plastic pouch?
If there are any of these, then they are likely to include contact details - an address, phone number or web address. If there are none of those, then there should be something that you can Google to find contact details.
Once you have contact details, follow up with a complaint to the contact.
If the wretched parcels could be drop kicked into the bowels of hell itself that would be ideal?
I did once have a way of contacting the sender. It was Amazon. I went to their website and found a page for problems/complaints. However,it did not let me state the problem; it asked whether the problem was A,B,C,D,etc. One choice they offered was complaints of packages not arriving. The didn't mention packages being delivered to the wrong address.
I'm convinced that the companies have decided it's cheaper to replace lost packages without making any effort to find out what happened to them
My problem, aside from the fact that getting rid if these unordered items is a nuisance, is that even though it's not my fault, I feel responsible.
I'm also concerned whether the present situation puts you in danger of "porch pirates" showing up to relieve you of the misdirected packages. From clips I've seen, they can be pretty brazen.
Granted, that would take the packages off your hands, but also bring desperate or criminal people right up to your home.
Today, there are no operational links. I am bereft.
I think there may be some sort of problem in that the Guardian summary (which I think feeds directly off the gov.uk feed) disappeared yesterday afternoon, but is now back. The Grauniad did have a problem a few weeks back - so maybe they now have a workround but the origin site doesn't...
And on some of the places I track, cases are up again.
The truth perhaps? <paranoid>
Who knew?
Then they have the cheek to suggest I should buy a new computer!
Maybe mice? Sometimes they take very small bites of something.
Discovered it was the washing machine, even in the Hardly Even Proper Washing cycle☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️
Yes, the risk of violence is very great. Wasn't there a case involving a bus driver in France, a while ago, killed by a passenger under similar circumstances?
So many things went wrong I began to wonder if they were targeting me for some reason. That's when a good friend introduced me to the idea of the fuck up fairy. These people weren't actually out to get me, there was no personal animus, they were simply being visited by the fuck up fairy.
It sounds silly, but it it gave me the perspective of not being bullied, merely being the recipient of incompetence, which in turn gave me the personal strength to challenge their blunders.
So many things went wrong I began to wonder if they were targeting me for some reason. That's when a good friend introduced me to the idea of the fuck up fairy. These people weren't actually out to get me, there was no personal animus, they were simply being visited by the fuck up fairy.
It sounds silly, but it it gave me the perspective of not being bullied, merely being the recipient of incompetence, which in turn gave me the personal strength to challenge their blunders.
It's weird here - a face covering is said to be compulsory on all forms of public transport, yet no proof is required if someone claims that they can't wear one for some reason, (and I know some people do have legitimate reasons). I think the bus drivers have been told not to demand the wearing of face coverings because of the possibility of violence.
I hate wearing them because of the risk to my hearing aids when I remove them, but I would hate getting or spreading COVID even more, beside which most of my bus rides are only for 20 minutes to half an hour.
Exactly. And would one even know if an exemption certificate was genuine or homemade?
Which is why I make ones with round-the-head elastic. You can even take an ordinary mask and thread a piece of elastic between the earpieces.
The additional convenience is that, pulled down, it sits round my neck, instantly accessible for when I need it.
As is a fellow youth worker's pet hate of a colleague pulling the mask away from their mouth to talk to anyone.
Much relaxation of rules in the air / locality / neighbourhood, and online - lockdown's over on Monday, innit? We don't have to bother now. The trip to my jab earlier this week was enlivened by counting the numbers of fellow passengers wearing masks to through the tube gates, then sliding them round their chins to chat, eat, phone or otherwise spray their germs across carriages.
Who else is predicting a spike in cases for Easter?
Can’t remember the last time I visited a town. But if it is anything like stuff mentioned here, my swearing ratio would be very quickly exceeded.
... but only ever one at a time.
I have heard it stated as "never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
It was an excellent post, and worth reading twice!