rover49 wrote:
Postal deliveries are usually ok, if we are out they leave a card to say a parcel had been left at a neighbours or taken back to the sorting office, but we did have an odd one just before christmas when we were left a card to say that it had been left with the neighbour (we have only the one) but when we knocked they new nothing about it. We chased it up with the courier and was told it was delivered by a sub contractor and to ring them direct. They said they had definately left it next door, but no one could find it. About an hour later we got a call from the sub contractor (local car owner doing a bit on side) to say that it was in fact his daughter who had dropped it off and put it in the 'green bin', luckily enough the bins had not been emptied and my wifes new boots were found safe in 'next doors' bin.
Thats another thing that I take into consideration when posting out stuff to customers who live anywhere in the UK - if they are not in when the delivery is attempted then what happens ?
At least with the Post Office you have a good chance that they won't be too far away from their local sorting office which is normally where the parcel is returned to, my sorting office is about 1 mile away. If its a courier then their collection office might not even be in your town or city, in Leeds for instance I've had to collect parcels addressed to me from City Link across the other side of the city, if I didn't live in Leeds then christ knows how far I'd have to go to collect and not all couriers will make limitless re-visits.