An Post "Sorry we missed you note"

Lemmewinks

... except you didn't - I was in, and I was upstairs working and saw you on my CCTV.

They posted a "Sorry we missed you" note - apparently I wasn't in when they tried to deliver my parcel and now I've to go to the depot on Monday.

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Depot only around the corner so not pissed or anything, but seriously - why bother calling around to drop off the note? Just drop off the parcel instead!

mkegvn

Ha. That's gas. Make sure and send that to An Post. Lazy bunch eh?

Owen

Search on boards, this regularly happens with An Post, I've had it happen several times.

MagicMarker

Don't just send it to An Post, send it to the media.

It's ****ing sickening when that shít happens. If that gobshíte doesn't want to do his job then he can stay at home and let someone more deserving do it.

I mean ffs, two cars in the driveway and he still doesn't knock!! :mad:

Basq

Superb!

OT - one CCTV camera is fair game... but two? :pac:

Lemmewinks

MagicMarker wrote: »

I mean ffs, two cars in the driveway and he still doesn't knock!! :mad:

It's worse than that - think about it - he hopped out of his van with the slip in his hand & already filled in - he didn't even have a package with him to deliver!

I was going to go down to him, but I was on the phone & distracted - I also half assumed he was maybe delivering a letter, as I noticed something in his hand. Madness!

JohnK

I feel your pain, I get the same thing all the time where they keep leaving those notes in the postbox but I work from home so I'm always here. Cant get over them doing it to you in that video though as there are two cars in the drive so obviously someone home. Seriously, why not just ring the damn bell?!

padraig_f

mkegvn wrote: »

Ha. That's gas. Make sure and send that to An Post. Lazy bunch eh?

It's not gas, it's ****ing annoying. You pay for postage to have something delivered, and then you have to spend extra time and fuel costs yourself to go and collect it because An Post are cutting corners. Nice one OP for catching it, I suspected it happened to me a few times as well but had no proof.

The Mad Hatter

"Your world. Available for collection between 10:00am and 5:00pm."

DarylH

Two words, ****ing Delighted.

afatbollix

This happened to me before, I chased after him with it, his response was that it was too heavy to carry around on his bike, and said to ring the depot to organise a redelivery. Anyway I rang his boss and he was fine with the guy not bringing around a 1 kg package.

Anyway I made them redeliver the next day and the post man made a huge deal of how he had to redeliver it. loads of gasping at the front door lifting the package out of his bag! Its just a stupid practice and I hope this goes to the media.

Do your shaggin job!

All it would take for a rumour to go around an post that this guy lost his job and most of them will pull up there socks!

Pablod

what a chancer!! lovely camera footage

An post have changed things in Kildare over the past few months too.
becuase they have a new distribution centre in Athy, they have taken the option to collect your parcel from the local post office

So now if you miss your delivery,
You can only go to the distribution centre between 10-4 Mon to Fri,
So in most cases leaves you screwed if you work 9-5 Mon to Fri and if its not collected within 3 days its returned to the sender

Rew

****ers, they did this to me recently, and did it again to someone else in the office this week. Depot is miles away. Had the same grief with Nightline recently except it was a pickup. He pushed the slip though the letter box while ringing the door bell and walked off back to the van. Driver drove off while one of the lads stood at the door waving at him!!

Then he had the cheek to ring and leave a snotty voicemail on my missus phone. She rang him back read him the riot act he was at the door 5 mins later and not so smart.

Straight to the media with that, An Phost whining about the drop in biz and there pulling this ****. Missed a registered letter recently. Instead of leaving it in the local post office they left it in one half an hour way....

pistolpetes11

I Throw my postie an aul niffty(€50) in the Christmas card every year , never had a problem missing parcels !

He will even leave them with the neighbor for me .

MagicMarker

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

I Throw my postie an aul niffty(€50) in the Christmas card every year , never had a problem missing parcels !

He will even leave them with the neighbor for me .

Sucker.

pistolpetes11

MagicMarker wrote: »

Sucker.

The ol boy done the same thing at home , I appreciate a good service when I get it , and it has paid me back on many the occasion .

I run my own business from home and he has looked after a few bits for me over the years

Rew

Parcels are delivered by separate crowd to the regular postie. A very unsurpised An Phost guy explained it to me when I asked him how to complain about this exact issue.

Was pissing myself laughing at the postman carelessly strolling in the second video. his facial expression said it all - HA!HA! f*cker!

hdowney

féckers used to do this to us. few years ago the parcel postie came around at like 6am. so the bugger decided he wasn't gonna ring or knock, he'd pre-write the slip and just stick it thru the door (course we were home). only thing is he carefully puts it through the letterbox with a small clatter, thinking he won't disturb us - queue the two dogs going ape****e, so we have been woken, but the postie buggers back in his van and driving off. so we get woken at 6am and can't even have our parcel :mad: oh and back in them days parcels could be collected next day never same day.

they did this to us several times. we complained. parcel postie comes after 10 these days, sometimes afternoon

Ken.

I can't view the videos. they've been moved or deleted asccording to photobucket

MOH

Weird, I just watched it?

Brilliant catch OP, they've done that to us more than once. And the usual excuse of the poor overloaded postie on his bike doesn't wash here. You should ring them up and complain first, see what bull excuse they come back with, then send them the video.

And misdelivering stuff to the same number but wrong street - which reminds me, I've another official looking A4 envelope to deliver to some random stranger tomorrow because our postman can't read.

Basq

lucyfur09 wrote: »

I can't view the videos. they've been moved or deleted asccording to photobucket

Both showing up fine for me!

guppy

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

I Throw my postie an aul niffty(€50) in the Christmas card every year , never had a problem missing parcels !

He will even leave them with the neighbor for me .

I don't, we seem to have a new postman every few months. That said, they'll leave packages/registered post with neighbours before bringing it back to the depot.

gbee

I've reported this behaviour in the past myself.

I actually caught one postie as I was descending the stairs just putting the note in the door. "What are you doing I challenged" I was positive he came with the note and now your video proves it.

I've many of these and the times are premade ~ now there are a few genuine ones and we are noting some differences ~ this seems to be an An Post policy for some reason.

I'm sure you'll get more collaboration.

dazberry

My 5' GF was collecting a heavy package from an An Post depot, the first thing the guy behind the counter said... "I'm not lifting it - I've a bad back". She had to in behind the counter and lift it out herself. Beyond that incredible level of customer service, the bit we couldn't figure out was what was a guy with a bad back doing in a job that involves some level of manual lifting and handling...

D.

perfectisthe

Unreal stuff, thanks for posting.

I've been suspecting that they've been doing this to me for ages. My OH buys loads of stuff off ebay, and while I'm upstairs doing work in total silence almost every morning, I never hear the doorbell ring, yet I always find one of those notes waiting for me.

Nonoperational

Lazy fecker. In fairness I've never experienced anything like this but it's very annoying waiting for something and it doesn't come when you expect it.

Shane-KornSpace

That is brilliant, OP!

Send that to news!

therecklessone

My old postie in my previous abode was the business, he'd always try to deliver even coming back after his round to see if I was in.

Now it is hit and miss, a few years of always getting the slip which has been replaced by a lad who delivers everything but if I'm not there he'll leave it on the doorstep. Eh, can you stop doing that please?

hoodwinked

you really cannot win with An Post,

we ordered stuff online which "luckily" for us was delivered, at 10am (usual delivery time for our area).

the catch?


he left the parcel on our path in plain view of anyone else in our park. anyone could have taken it, we were "lucky" there was torrential rain all that day, so no-one would want to take it,

and when we both got home after 6pm (so it was also left there for hours) that evening to find a soggy cardboard mess waiting there for us, needless to say we were not impressed :mad: again lucky for us what we ordered was plastic and waterproof but had it been a book it would have been destroyed!

Shane-KornSpace

I must say though. My old Postie in Ballinteer used to hammer on the door bell to wake me up. I was regularly ordering items from ebay and he would normally be delivering it before 7am.
So i would be awoken by the door beel going crazy.
That was very nice of him.

mgbgt1978

Gotta love the "you surf, we deliver" logo's on their vans.
Should be changed to "you surf, you collect"....................

Davy

From their FAQ :pac:

Why did the postperson not knock on the door?

The driver should always knock, is it possible you didn’t hear him? In fact it is easier for our drivers to deliver an item rather than bring it back to the depot.

http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/GeneralTemplates/FAQ.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID={6947AB34-1C54-478A-912C-90392E98C21F}&NRORIGINALURL=%2fAnPost%2fFAQs%2fPostalFAQs.htm&NRCACHEHINT=Guest#notknockDIB

losthorizon

Incredible

foggy_lad

afatbollix wrote: »

Do your shaggin job!

All it would take for a rumour to go around an post that this guy lost his job and most of them will pull up there socks!

Has any an post employee ever been sacked for this type of laziness? It must also be remembered that the management know ordinary postmen and women are in a lot of cases unable to deliver all their post so this type of activity may not be a priority for them, it keeps the postmen happy.

They all know full well that nobody would ever be sacked over this so it would not even be a rumour unfortunately.

Why did the postperson not knock on the door?

The driver should always knock, is it possible you didn’t hear him? In fact it is easier for our drivers to deliver an item rather than bring it back to the depot.

Only if they have brought the parcel with them to begin with!

Berberis

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

I Throw my postie an aul niffty(€50) in the Christmas card every year , never had a problem missing parcels !

He will even leave them with the neighbor for me .

Howya Pat

finfinfin

is far easier for a driver to deliver the parcel than to bring it back to the depot.going back to the depot is a pain in the hole.this postie was just a clown,very rare that crap happens.

Adyx

finfinfin wrote: »

is far easier for a driver to deliver the parcel than to bring it back to the depot.going back to the depot is a pain in the hole.this postie was just a clown,very rare that crap happens.

Far easier again if he doesn't even bring it with him. It's not that rare in my experience.

finfinfin

it is very rare.there's nothing left in mail depots.nothing at all.that postie needs a kick up the hole.its probably in his van and he just didn't bother bringing it to the door.why didn't he park outside the house he was delivering to either?very weird.he gives good posties a bad name.

nava

Lemmewinks wrote: »

... except you didn't - I was in, and I was upstairs working and saw you on my CCTV.

They posted a "Sorry we missed you" note - apparently I wasn't in when they tried to deliver my parcel and now I've to go to the depot on Monday.

Depot only around the corner so not pissed or anything, but seriously - why bother calling around to drop off the note? Just drop off the parcel instead!

Was the date for collection on the same day or next working day? I had 1 left on the house for collection on the same day so must be that he didn't have the package with him, went to collect it about 1 hour after left and was in depot.


Nice security system there, any info on it? love to get myself a kit like that so I don't need to open the door to sales people or any trouble at nite I can see who causes it.

Tabnabs

To add my An Post delivery story.

Last week we got a note through the door - "sorry we missed you" etc.

Mrs Tabnabs with two young children in tow headed off to a distant depot. Arrived in to the front desk, "oh no, your parcels aren't here they're in your local depot". But the leaflet clearly said this particular depot with an address and map on it. "Ah yeah" he says "the driver probably ran out of that depots slips so just filled this one in..."

fcuking twats :mad:

Thoie

finfinfin wrote: »

it is very rare.there's nothing left in mail depots.nothing at all. ... .he gives good posties a bad name.

Rubbish, I've complained constantly to An Post about this. On one occasion I met the postman as he put the (pre-written slip) in the door.
I went to the office to collect it, and despite the fact that I could see the package (it was quite distinctive, and I could make out my name), the guy on the desk said "That won't be here till tomorrow, it's out in the van". Even when I told him I'd run into the guy posting the slip, he still maintained it was out on the van. I went back the next day and collected the same package I'd been staring at the day before.

My parents' postman is excellent and goes out of his way to ensure delivery, but I've found the service in Dublin to be absolutely abysmal.

Unrealistic

Rew wrote: »

Parcels are delivered by separate crowd to the regular postie. A very unsurpised An Phost guy explained it to me when I asked him how to complain about this exact issue.

My parcels get delivered by my regular post man and he goes out of his way to make sure I get them.

Paparazzo

Postman where I used to live used to pull up with the form filled out, hop out with the car still running and the door still open, stick the thing in the letterbox and actually ring the doorbell and head off. You had about a 10 second chance to get to the door before he drove off.

Great video OP, you should email the link to a few newspapers.

Supraman

As a postman I can only speak for my own office when I say every postpersons bench is checked every morning to see nothing is left behind . If you happen to miss a letter the bosses will ring you to come back and collect it . There are checks in place to make sure the service is as efficient as possible , Without a doubt there should be more done .

As regards the missed delivery notices I had a customer complain I never rang her doorbell , I went back with the packet the next morning as she was just after having a baby . Accused me at the door of not ringing the bell previous day, I had rang 3 times and pounded the door , waited a good 5 mins at her door .

I had another customer accuse me of breaking her porch door despite the fact I didn't open her porch and left mail in a side slot of porch frame glass .
The posties aren't 100% and sometimes they do take the easy option but christ the public are from innocent in what they tell ya .


Let her know she was completely wrong and either lying or she must have been out at that time the previous morning. Eventually she said she may have been across at the shop while I was there

nava

Unrealistic wrote: »

My parcels get delivered by my regular post man and he goes out of his way to make sure I get them.

Even big parcels? in my case regular postman delivers small parcels on his rounds if not home he txt me to let me know he has it and I can drop over to his house on way back from work, when on holidays he keeps them till we get back, but he does get a tip at Xmas, big parcels are deliver by a van Unrealistic do you live in Dublin or other part? Maybe around the country big parcels get deliver by regular postman.

cruizer101

I'd love you to go to the meida with these. This has happened me on numerous occasions, no effort at all made to actually deliver the packages that have been paid to be delivered to my house. I mean surely this is not supplying the service they have been paid for, its a disgrace.

Rodin

What is wrong with people?

The postie just being a lazy ****
Other people thinking this is funny

It is true. the Irish have lost their fight. If that was my house, I'd have made an unmerciful row over this disgraceful behaviour. When there's people crying out for jobs, this type of crap still goes on.
Stand up for yourselves folks.

homerjay2005

this should make the news. that postie is in alot of trouble. what is the point of that, makes no sense at all.

no doubt the union will protect him, he should be sacked, but virtually every public sector is unsackable.

Unrealistic

nava wrote: »

Even big parcels? in my case regular postman delivers small parcels on his rounds if not home he txt me to let me know he has it and I can drop over to his house on way back from work, when on holidays he keeps them till we get back, but he does get a tip at Xmas, big parcels are deliver by a van Unrealistic do you live in Dublin or other part? Maybe around the country big parcels get deliver by regular postman.

In Galway city but a route served by a small van.

Lemmewinks

Rodin wrote: »

What is wrong with people?

The postie just being a lazy ****
Other people thinking this is funny

It is true. the Irish have lost their fight. If that was my house, I'd have made an unmerciful row over this disgraceful behaviour. When there's people crying out for jobs, this type of crap still goes on.
Stand up for yourselves folks.

Here's the thing. I did send off a complaint - but I didn't give my address. I just sent the video and asked for an explanation.

I order lots of stuff from Amazon & eBay. I also work from home - my Revenue & Bank letters arrive here, clearly marked, as well as cheques from clients.
I can't afford to p*ss off the postmen. If I made a huge deal of this, they tracked the guy down, and he got in trouble, or there was a huge fuss, etc; I'm sure I'd be "duly noted" pretty quick by all of his co-workers.
I can't risk there suddenly being "issues" with my post, etc. My main/daily postman is sound - and I always get my deliveries - this has never happened to me before, so it's not an ongoing thing.
I just can't risk making an enemy out of the local posties. It's a sad but hard fact.

It's like complaining in a restaurant - I can never go back there afterwards, because I'll be "that guy". Trust me - I complain all the time about shoddy service. I can never go back to my local pub again, and I refuse to use my local Dominoes and around 5 local restaurants... I'll also never use UPC, GLS or O2 again. And I never use hotels (or any companies) that send me spam & marketing e-mails after I stay there, despite requesting them not to.
^^ They all have competitors, so avoiding them still leaves me with lots of options. But my Postman, I need.