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“The driver will not knock, so make sure you are looking out the window and prepared for the 4 second timeframe when the driver will stand near the truck looking at your property, wherein you may run out and scream ‘wait!’. If unsuccessful, a delivery will be reattempted on an unspecified date within the next 8 months.”
And then you have some ridiculous retailers that don't allow you to hold a package for pickup anymore. What the hell happened to that? I feel like it used to be when I had a package that needed a signature I could just request for it to be held at the parcel service center for me to pick it up later.
But the last two times I had a package with a signature required, it wouldn't allow me to do that. The package was going to be returned to the sender for ridiculous reasons. One was an age restricted item which I can kind of get, but the other wasn't. Both times I had to beg and plead with the delivery company to hold the parcel even though it was not something they were supposed to do.
And people wonder why Amazon gets so much business. They don't make me take days off from work so I can hopefully receive a fucking package of the delivery person actually feels like ringing my doorbell.
Never again with packages requiring a signature for me. I don't work from home and my workplace is not in a location that can receive packages.
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Hah, I had the exact reverse experience. For years when I had a delivery they would come by once (of course not staying nearly long enough to allow me to answer the door) and leave a notice saying the package would be at their warehouse the following day starting at 17:00.
The warehouse was pretty far. The round trip would take nearly 2 hours by bus. And since they opening hours weren't ideal, if I happened to have a class or be otherwise busy the one night of the week they're open late, well I guess I'd better find a solution, because they'll only keep it for a week.
I would plead with them. Can you come back? Can you leave it at my door? It's not even worth that much! I'll take the risk! No. At least one thing they did agree to do was keep my package a bit longer once when I realized I had absolutely no way of retrieving it in time. But they only gave me two days.
It was only when COVID hit that delivery companies started just leaving packages. Sometimes they just wouldn't tell you at all about it, and you'd have a surprise when you'd open the door and hit your foot on a surprise package, if you hadn't kept up with the tracking.
Some people complained, because they were scared someone would steal their stuff, but I was so glad they were careless. I've worked from home ever since COVID.
Finally, I can order a thing and actually receive it at home.
That’s PostNord for you. Reminder that the CEO earns ~700k a month for doing helpful things like… introducing every other day delivery of post. Hmmm.
SEK. I make 38k a month! Thus, she makes about ~18 times more than me and then a nurse's salary on top of that.
Funnily enough, the CEO of PostNord Denmark also earns ~700k, but DKK, so that is around 1.5 time that, but for running the part of the company with more losses
Never forget who ruined the beautifully working Swedish postal service. Maud Olofsson screwed us over by taking on one of the worst deals in history. The Danish must have laughed their asses off when they offloaded their failing postal service onto the Swedish people.
I'm sure Denmark has hurt you greatly and will do so again, but the ownership is 60/40 between Sweden and Denmark. PostNord operates the same in Denmark as it does in Sweden.
It's a shame that Sweden had to lower their standards to the Danish level. PostNord gotten a lot worse in Sweden since the deal with Denmark
I think you might be misunderstanding me. I’m not trying to attack the danish people in any way.
What I’m trying to say is this.
- Sweden had a great postal service and Denmark not so much
- A incompetent Swedish politician got us into a crap deal
- Now both Sweden and Denmark has crappy postal service
- And just as you point out, Sweden is now stuck paying for 60% percent of this clusterfuck while Denmark only pays for 40%.
No wonder the Danish people often is considered some of the happiest in the world.
I’m also trying to remind people that things like this is what happens when you elect politicians that don’t have the peoples interests in mind. And looking at the current people in charge such a reminder is unfortunately highly relevant.
Post Danmark actually wasn't that bad. It was a bit old school, but the prices were decent and the service was high quality. A year after the merger and absolutely everything was shit.
Now you are forgetting the part where the Danish postal service was bleeding money. This is partly due to their severance/retirement packages.
After the merger the economic troubles have continued. Where the danish part have been responsible for the losses and the Swedish part for the profits. So in effect the Swedish people are subsidizing the irresponsible economic decisions of the danish postal service.
But we are starting to lose focus on the person that the Swedes should hold responsible for this, Maud Olofsson.
I don't think she should be earning so much, but varannandagsutdelning does actually make sense with how few letters get sent (even though I'd also prefer daily delivery). But crazy that stamp prices have also basically doubled.
But just like with so many other public service things and agencies, Sweden is determined to make a paper profit. Vinstkrav. Would be cool if SJ for example was allowed to sell their train tickets for cheaper prices, but nope, they need to make at least 10% profit or something around that.
I don’t think she should be earning so much, but varannandagsutdelning does actually make sense with how few letters get sent (even though I’d also prefer daily delivery). But crazy that stamp prices have also basically doubled.
I think the main issue I have is that this also applies to time critical post, and thus post can arrive too late.
But just like with so many other public service things and agencies, Sweden is determined to make a paper profit. Vinstkrav. Would be cool if SJ for example was allowed to sell their train tickets for cheaper prices, but nope, they need to make at least 10% profit or something around that.
When it comes to essential infrastructure it makes no sense to me that they need to operate on a profit.
I can't think of many examples where a postal letter will be so time-critical that it will make a big difference if it's delayed 1 day (or until Monday if delivery was on Thursday)?
But I agree, it shouldn't have to be like that. And how much paper-profit they make would probably be nothing compared to the benefits society gets (and thus benefits the country's economy regardless).
"Your delivery will arrive on a day between a point in time and a different point in time. You better be there when the driver pretends to check if someone's at home and leaves without ringing anyway - not like you have anything better to do you lazy fuck."
Next thing, I take the day off to wait for the package (or work from home) and I get a message in the afternoon saying "you weren't home, your package is delivered at such and such drop off point"... always
I wish more businesses would use Canada Post to deliver in Canada. They've got these great community mailboxes with larger ones for secure package delivery. They just drop the key to the big one in your smaller mailbox that works similarly to locked apartment complex mailboxes. It's way better than worrying if someone will grab the box in front of my door or if the delivery guy will even drop it at the right door.
In Denmark Postnord (which is what OP is using) has drop boxes that you open with the app itself through Bluetooth. Almost everything about Postnord is terrible but getting your parcels delivered to your local Lidl and being able to open the parcel box with the app is pretty neat.
Amazon is always telling me my packages will arrive between 8 and 10pm but if it ever actually gets that late, it gets moved to the next day. Do they ever actually deliver that late?
100% of my amazon deliveries for the past two years have been at least a day later than promised.
They used to have excellent shipping. Now they just lie about every delivery time.
I noticed that too. Sometimes the orders are time sensitive (like when I have to fly out of country and need to take the item with me). So I prefer honesty, most of time I will still order anyways because it doesnt matter, when it matters, at least I dont have to return it.
but thats not how amazon is operating.
So I just buy from temu now
I'm guessing it depends on location activity. Around Boston, MA (U.S.). Amazon delivers 24hrs a day. I've had drops during 2 hour blocks after Midnight.
I believe it's because they hope a driver will pick it up for you. Those late night packages are delivered by contractors and they might just not pick yours on a whim probably depending on several factors.
Probably depends on the delivery service partner. They have slightly different hours from company to company.
Reminds me of my Telus internet.
"A technician will come to fix your internet problem Tuesday and they will be there sometime between 8am to 5pm. They will give you a 15 minute call before they arrive. If there is no one home when they come by, you will be given a $150 no show fee."
and you decide to stay home all day. Nobody shows up. You go out to the mailbox and there's a note saying the driver tried ringing the bell but nobody answered.
Either that or they show up right as you sit down to take a shit, or while you're in the middle of your shower
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Or you get a message at 3 am the next day, where they apologize that they didn't made it, but that they will deliver sometime between 8 and 22 that day.
There is an old anecdote about this kind of situation; Postman (P), Recipient (R):
R: what are you doing? P: I left a notice that I tried delivering a package and you weren't home. R: But I clearly was! P: <shrugs> R: <bashes postman's face in> P: WTF, MAN!? R: It wasn't me, I wasn't home.
Were you horribly understaffed and overworked then or did you get out before that started happening?
1)How many years did you work there? 2)How old were you when you started? 3)Are there any benefits long term?
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About half a year
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Early 20's
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Mostly the work life experience, but also the fact that I get to tell people we did, in fact, toss many packages.
If it makes you feel any better,over here,in Spain , I get 09:00 AM - 11 PM delivery intervals,with deliveries sometimes arriving at 10:30 PM,so yeah...
For a while Amazon would estimate a time range and the delivery guy would never show up during that window. But sometimes it would do something like this: original estimate was 11am - 4pm, 4pm would pass with no delivery, then at 6pm, it would update to like 2pm - 5pm. Then it would show up at like 8pm.
They seem to have gotten better lately though.
Can't you just get a delivery to box-o-mat (or whatever the name of it is in english), or is it just a big delivery?
Yeah, that's it: it's 24 liters of cat litter (it was on special lol), so it's too big and heavy for those..
Why does someone need to be home for that? Can't they leave it outside or around the back somewhere?
Nah, I live on the third floor of an apartment building.
None of the outdoors is on my property and as such they're not allowed to leave it there even if I ask them to 😮💨
None of the outdoors is on my property and as such they're not allowed to leave it there even if I ask them to
Is that their explanation, or what you assume? The problem is usually that the seller specifically requested it be signed for. They even have keys to most apartment buildings, so they can even leave it outside your door or the actual building. I've had many PostNord home deliveries left outside my building's door; just need to see that the package allows FlexChange and then request it.
(Or maybe you're Danish? No idea how they do it there)
Or maybe you're Danish? No idea how they do it there
Yeah, I am. With PostNord Denmark, you have to have a subscription (called Post Plus or something obnoxious like that) for them to be allowed to put it anywhere else than directly to you and even then, it's a specific list, none of which are applicable to anyone who doesn't live in a house 😮💨
So y'all have less services by default, and yet your side of the company is also losing the largest amounts of money? For helvede Mads 🫠 haha. Though on the bright side, I assume they're still probably better than UPS or FedEx? If I have some home delivery from UPS/FedEx, I don't even attempt to be at home... I already know that that their tracking will say "we tried to deliver you, but you weren't home" despite them not even attempting to drive into my neighborhood.
So y'all have less services by default, and yet your side of the company is also losing the largest amounts of money? For helvede Mads
Spot on lol. Maybe them insisting on taking over every delivery sent from or even through Germany no matter who, what, and when explains some of the money hemorrhaging lol.
If I had a sandwich for every time a package of mine has been delayed several days because PostNord insisted on taking over from a more competent international carrier at the southern border, I'd have lunch for a week, maybe two 🤦
Okay. Second question: where are you going to keep 24 liters of cat litter? Granted I'm no expert in communist units (and I'm way too fucking tired to look it up) but I imagine that's a lot, both in terms of volume and weight.
I have a small spare room that I use for stuff I don't know where else to put or that I can't fit elsewhere. Litter goes in that room lol
The Amazon equivalent of my country gives somewhat similar estimates, but they always end up showing up at 22:30 or straight up call me at such hours telling me they'll come by tomorrow morning
I work for the phone delivery company. I've had a lot of experience with semantics, so don't try to lure me into some maze of circular logic.
Next time change the delivery to a postnord delivery box. Most of then are pretty close to housing, and you can pick it up any time you want
I usually use those, but it wasn't an option because the package (containing 24 liters of cat litter. It was on special lol) was both too big and too heavy for those boxes..
I think OP is upset that it says he has to be there when it arrives. Makes me wonder if it’s related to what they ordered, or if there’s been a lot of deliveries stolen from the neighborhood recently.
It's standard practice unless you pay for a "service" that lets them put it by the curb or your garage or designated package box.
Since I live in an apartment on the third floor, I usually have packages delivered to a nearby package point, but there was a special on cat litter and the package is too big to fit so I have to be home.
Which wouldn't have been a problem if it had shipped yesterday like it was supposed to, thus arriving today where I'm home all day anyway, but I have to leave tomorrow afternoon and won't be back again within the time window so HOORAY! 😮💨
unless you pay for a "service" that lets them put it by the curb or your garage or designated package box.
Here it's cheaper to get it delivered to a pick-up place near my home. I'll just pick it up on the way home from work, almost as easy as getting stuff from my own mailbox.
Same here, but my package is too big for that to be an option this time, so has to be home delivery this time..