If you are delivering a parcel trying ringing the doorbell! So, boyfriend is at home, has been all day getting ready for work. He goes to leave only to see one of those GOSH DARN ‘sorry we missed you’ slips. He was home. All morning. The car is in front of the townhouse. You have to navigate AROUND the car to get to the door. There is ZERO confusion to which tenant’s car goes to which townhouse. Yet they didn’t ring the doorbell!!!! Now I have to track the package down…if it’s Canada Post it’s the corner post office (easy), if it’s any of the courier services I’ll have to go across the city for it (not so easy). The whole point of ordering online is that I’d like to have it come to my door (and also that the stores here don’t carry that exact item but whatever). Between my shedule, my bf’s schedule and my daughter’s schedule someone is usually at home during the day….so why the ‘we missed you’ slip???? You didn’t miss us, you were lazy and didn’t ring the bell!! Grrrr!!! —Junebug
This article appears in Nov 13-19, 2014.
Well Mama June, looks like ole Sugarbear may NOT have been home after all… “gee Honeypot, I don’t know why they didn’t ring the bell”
This is a totally valid bitch. The building I live wires it’s buzzers through tenants’ phones. It’s common for me to come home to a pickup notification and have no call logged on my cell phone from the lobby. More often than not it’s Canada Post most guilty of it. I even noticed a Canada Post truck drive away one day while I was home and went down to check my mail to find a pickup notification.
Still laughing Mr Meaty, well done…
Interesting. Our parcel delivery guy (canada post) always rings us when we have a parcel. Usually between 9 and 10am. He’s a super friendly guy, too.
Your CP deluvery person sounds lame, ob.
At least it wasn’t this “deluvery” person…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC6po8dEXc8
Dear OB,
Most – if not ALL – delivery companies offer something called “Customer’s Authorization to Waive Delivery Signature” form.
You print it, post it on the door and they will leave the parcel there. No signature required.
Obviously the decision whether it’s safe to leave a package unattended on your doorstep is one that you have to make yourself, but at the very least, the option to eradicate your first world problem exists.
I ran into the postal carrier in my lobby one morning putting up a slip on my mail box. I asked why he didn’t buzz and he told me that 95% of people don’t answer and he simply doesn’t have the time to wait for people who may or may not be home.
I’m in a townhouse complex with community mail boxes. So these idiots show up and put a slip in the box saying “does not fit” and I can pick our parcels up anytime tomorrow after 5pm. Hmmm, so the parcel is in my neighbourhood, on my lane in the back of a truck but because I have a CMB they will not knock at the door.
So last christmas I had three parcels to pick up in a matter of two days. I go over to Shoppers and the backroom is overflowing, the counter has 20+ parcels on it and then theres another 20-30 parcels sitting outside of the Canada Post area, completely unsecure. Guess its self serve, lol. It even took the poor girl almost ten minutes to find all three while the lineup kept getting bigger and bigger with people looking for their parcels.
I hate you Canada Post and you make me not even want to get Christmas presents which is horrible because I fuckin’ love Christmas.
Fuck off, Zed.
Fuck off, Christmas.
Lol, you thought that you were going to get good service from a bunch of union employees that are all going to lose their jobs?
IS THIS A THOUGHT?
“The whole point of ordering online is that I’d like to have it come to my door (and also the stores here don’t carry that exact item but whatever).” Junebug
“thought (n): idea, conception, chain of reasoning, etc. produced by thinking.” The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English
In what way does Junebug’s “whole point” constitute a thought? Junebug orders online, she reveals, because she likes to have what she ordered come to her door. Also she claims that the stores here don’t carry that exact item, or whatever. But where is the idea here? Where is the conception embodying that concept which is crucial to the act of understanding itself? Where is that chain of reasoning, that structure without which no concept can acquire any substantive validity?
The answer can only be: “There is none. There is no thought here.” The logical consequence is that the title of the bitch, “Here’s a thought,” was both misconceived and misleading. It was conceptually empty.
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A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
Gosh darn, golly gee!
lol, happens at my place too. the private delivery guys always come up to the door – they are regulars on the route and come with dog cookies. but that damn Canada post leaves a notice in the community mail box saying ‘no answer at the door’ even though my desk faces the bay window overlooking the front verandah and a mouse couldn’t sneak past without me (and the pack of baying hounds) noticing.