What is it with delivery drivers not even attempting to knock on the door?!

Royal Fail have put parcels in the recycling bag before now. Evri don't even come to the door, they drop it the other side of the gate by the pavement, 20 meters away from the door.

At least Amazon guy tries, if Im not in, he helpfully put it in the porch at least.

Im glad they have gone now, but when I used to live in Cardiff, City Link were the absolute worst as their drivers were of shall we say the romany variety. I once signed for £1500 worth of computer gear when I was abroad in France at the time and had been for a few days. Then we had packages covered in Diesel, then when glass cases were a new thing, we had almost all shattered.

Don't get me started on Parcel Farce who could manage to lose pallets with 500Kg hydraulic rams on them.
 
Check the amazon thread its full of it they used to at least knock before disappearing now they don't even do that the first you hear is an email stating its been delivered you go open the door and its sitting on the doormat. RM are the only people who bother leaving a card if you're out had to go out for a dentist appointment and missed the thing I'd been waiting all week for he came back the next day at least

mejinks said:
Evri don't even come to the door, they drop it the other side of the gate by the pavement, 20 meters away from the door.
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Nothing new there Hermes/Evri toss it over the garden fence if you're lucky if you're unlucky they just "disappear" it
 
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Race to the bottom, innit. We all want free delivery, so now they need to provide that to us for the absolute bare minimum cost.
 
A few years ago I had a DPD driver post a failed delivery card through my door without knocking. For a parcel I had paid to have delivered within 24hrs and then taken the day off work to receive. I had to chase it around depots to find it.

That was annoying. I heard the card come through the door and thought it was just post.
 
ChocAndGray said:
Ok it’s very irrational but this is happening more and more and it’s driving me crazy.

“Your parcel has been delivered” notification appears, yet no attempt to knock the door or press the doorbell.

I thought well I could have missed it, but recently on any deliveries with live tracking I’ve been at the window and seen them not even attempt to knock.

Why are they doing this? Purely to save time? And maybe I’m paranoid but taking a picture of a parcel on the floor isn’t proof of delivery.

What’s to stop a driver take a picture of the parcel and then pick it up?

I thought it had to be a picture of say the parcel in the open doorway as evidence.

Anyone else experience the no knocking phenomenon? Maybe you’re a driver that does it, if so why?
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Used to be quite regular for me but seemingly less often since our CCTV went up.
 
radderfire said:
Most deliveries I've had recently you can track online the progress of the courier, so you can look out for them and be ready to answer the door.
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Largely depends on what courier you get. Some give you basic tracking online and usually that's enough. But some want you to use "their app" before even allowing you to have map tracking, those I refuse to install and use. (Evri is one such company)
 
I don’t have a safe place setup with any delivery company and yet I often get the notification that parcels have been left in my imaginary safe space.
 
This is happening all the time recently, with every courier! Yodel being the worst - often not bothering to mark it delivered for upwards of an hour sometimes!
All of which are boxes/big parcels that cant fit through a letterbox!

What is the point of it stating "cannot be left, requires signature"!

Yeah, just leave hundreds of pounds worth of stuff on the driveway/doorstep for anyone from the roadside to see/steal, despite cars being in the driveway/people in the house or garden?
Not everyone has their phone on them all the time, to read an email letting them know it's been left outside unattended?

The worst ones, are the jobsworths, that don't even mark it as delivered, so you don't even get the email, and it's always sods law, the courier that doesn't give you a time window - I'll just keep opening my front door every 5 minutes and checking to see if it's been left and you've ran off, shall I?

You could also argue, that just because a car is in the drive, does not mean mean they're home? What if you've gone out on foot/been picked up by friends etc? Means nothing. KNOCK!
 
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It's the reason I got a camera, they all just leave parcels in full view of the street. I've had parcels costing £1000+ destroyed because they left it out in the rain, they signed for it with my name, luckily once I sent them CCTV they admitted fault.
 
Only have this experience with Amazon drivers, with every other service we always get a knock on the door with most times them wanting to snap a picture with it in my hands.
 
We had a local Amazon guy in NE London who was great, but he gave up 3-4 years before we moved and I just got stuff delivered to my work address from then on (always look after the folks in the post room and on reception at work).
 
robj20 said:
It's the reason I got a camera, they all just leave parcels in full view of the street. I've had parcels costing £1000+ destroyed because they left it out in the rain, they signed for it with my name, luckily once I sent them CCTV they admitted fault.
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Surely this could be solved by constructing some sort of basic shelter and marking it for parcels? Or getting a proper parcel receipt box?
 
Hagar said:
Everything is too cheap. Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
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There's a lot of random agency workers doing it too, I spoke to one from RM not long ago, and they pretty much put him straight out on his own - he however did knock the door and wait ;)
Once he's got the hang of it, he'll be able to run away without knocking.
 
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Hagar said:
Everything is too cheap. Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
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I sometimes pay more and it still happens. If delivery companies had hand to hand service I would pay for it. It is the delivery companies business model that's the problem.
 
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