Royal Mail Rant

Armadillo said:
Recycle bin in a lot of places.

As for Royal Mail, they suck in my experience. Frequently have letters & parcels take ages to turn up, if they do at all. Meanwhile Yodel and Evri, supposedly the worst in the UK, are always on time and have never lost anything for me.
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Minusorange said:
Until the great unification of bin colours happens it depends on your region


Says blue is for paper but in my council blue is for plastic/cans/glass
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Thanks, my recycling bin is green.
 
I've just read that Posties do wear body cams on certain routes, which i didn't know.

But that explains the AI thing. I'm currently working on a project where we use AI to scan the body cam footage of employees to check for vulnerable customers or dangerous meters.

If RM are anything like our company though, the back end CRM is a completely different system and responsibility of a different part of the business to where the videos are stored. The 2 parts of the business aren't yet that joined up on AI use as it's still being tested and appraised.
 
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The words RM fill me with dread when I've ordered something and not checked beforehand who is delivering my stuff and then realise Its going to be late, instructions will be ignored and things like 'Video Doorbell' is a word not yet mastered by the part time delivery agents.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
The bin is behind a locked gate that's going nowhere and covered by 3 cameras, you give it a rest.
It's called using your brain :)

Turn the volume on.

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Irrelevant, he's obviously been given specific instructions and he's just following them for an easy life. He doesn't get paid to run a risk assessment every time he wants to leave something in a safe place.
 
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SexyGreyFox said:
The bin is behind a locked gate that's going nowhere and covered by 3 cameras, you give it a rest.
It's called using your brain
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But the postie isn't analysing your security setup, they have rounds to do and move at speed, they probably didn't even notice the lock or the 3 cameras.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
The bin is behind a locked gate that's going nowhere and covered by 3 cameras, you give it a rest.
It's called using your brain :)

Turn the volume on.

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As a couple of others have said, that's irrelevant given he's under strict instructions NOT to do that, and ignoring that could lead to him losing his job. Most people aren't going to risk their job by going against strict company policy for someone they probably don't know.

Also how does he know that the gate is locked and that it's not going to get put out without someone checking it before the bin is next due to be emptied.

I remember when people were absolutely outraged that Hermes were putting stuff in people's recycling bins and the like.
 
They're not meant to put it in the bin, he's probably been reminded of this recently given the news stories and it's not worth the potential disciplinary to ignore this.

If you want to carry receiving parcels from RM whilst you're not home, it's probably time to start thinking about a different safe delivery location.
 
Idiots here go around the back and put it in the tunnel for the cat flap so my cats can't get in or out. To get there they have to walk past a four foot long storage bunker!!
 
i had one last week and the card said Skoda on if, sure enough he had tried the doors and put in the back of my car , found it odd but at least i got it
 
Werewolf said:
As a couple of others have said, that's irrelevant given he's under strict instructions NOT to do that, and ignoring that could lead to him losing his job. Most people aren't going to risk their job by going against strict company policy for someone they probably don't know.

Also how does he know that the gate is locked and that it's not going to get put out without someone checking it before the bin is next due to be emptied.

I remember when people were absolutely outraged that Hermes were putting stuff in people's recycling bins and the like.
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Because I told him over the doorbell, I told him the gate is locked, the bin is going nowhere and there's 3 cameras.
That's when he came back and said "I can put it under the bin but not in the bin".
I told him to put it under and then he came back and said he'd put it behind the bin.
 
Vulcan said:
How is he going to put it under the bin if the gate is locked?
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Very easy, the parcel is small (single micro guitar pedal) which will go through the bars easily and under the bin.

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SexyGreyFox said:
Very easy, the parcel is small (single micro guitar pedal) which will go through the bars easily and under the bin.
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So he has to push the top of the bin to try and get the bottom to lift up? Then push the package underneath, leaving the bin resting on the one wheel, more susceptible to the wind blowing it over, or you being malicious and claiming it was damaged by the bin being on top of it. Yeah I can see why he just put it behind. It isn't worth his job.

Get a parcel box.
 
Vulcan said:
So he has to push the top of the bin to try and get the bottom to lift up? Then push the package underneath, leaving the bin resting on the one wheel, more susceptible to the wind blowing it over, or you being malicious and claiming it was damaged by the bin being on top of it. Yeah I can see why he just put it behind. It isn't worth his job.

Get a parcel box.
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I'm 67 and did it easy peasy.
Anyway, I'm not having a go at him for putting it behind the bin, seems like you've misread something.
You asked how could he get it under the bin, it was his original suggestion and then he decided not to.
 
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SexyGreyFox said:
I'm 67 and did it easy peasy.
Anyway, I'm not having a go at him for putting it behind the bin, seems like you've misread something.
You asked how could he get it under the bin, it was his original suggestion and then he decided not to.
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You could just answer the door? ;)
 
Anyway, my rant was answered on posts #5 & #6 with links.
Nobody has explained the AI bit of picking a parcel up in a bin and how the AI distinguishes between a cardboard/can bin compared to a Parcel Safe bin :)
 
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