Royal Mail

[hazydaisy]

Why not allow time for people to walk down the stairs from a first floor flat?
Now I have a 10 minute walk to a bus stop then a 20 minute bus ride to collect a parcel
Should imagine the postage was unfairly hefty
Cost me £1.01p to send 2 pages of a local tabloid to my family

[Maydup]

How frustrating, can you opt for redelivery Daisy?

[hazydaisy]

Why? I was in when the first delivery failed
How is the next attempt going to be any different?

[DarceyK123]

They do that to my elderly Mother as well. It takes her a minute or so to rise from her chair and get to the front door and by then they've gone.

I think they are under so much pressure to get X amount of parcels delivered that they won't wait a second longer than they have to.

[rowanwitch]

A friend has a sign by her doorbell it just says 'disabled please allow extra time' it seems to work. I have a similar phrase on my delivery instructions to my mum's address when I order from Amazon. Although I have told her to shout from the window at them to hold on.

[waterboatman]

That's good thinking rowan!

[woofgang]

Yes, when my back is really bad I put a similar sign on the door and it works well.

[bednobs]

you can get it redelivered for free

[diddlydo]

I live in a normal house in a quiet village . I have a door with a bell and a knocker. On several occasions I've had a "sorry you were out" card shoved through the door when I and my husband have definitely been in. It's infuriating.

[sunny-dave]

I'm convinced that there is some scam where the postie gets a bonus for carrying undelivered parcels back to the depot.

Mine is an expert in the "card without knocking" game - I caught him doing it the other week & pointed out that he was on my security camera & I could prove he hadn't tried to knock/ring - hopefully that will concentrate his mind in future ...