Ah, the joys of working from home.
... except when it's the wife getting deliveries multiple times a day and interrupting my workflow.
When it's stuff for me, I'm all "Yaaaaay!" *skip to the door*
More stuff for her? Gorilla rage down the hallway.
Working from home doesn't help if they don't even bother to ring/knock :S
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Had one yesterday with FedEx - was in the front room and not doing anything particular so would have heard a ring at the door or knock for definite when I heard the letter box go - went out to find a "sorry we missed you" card. As the driver was still sitting in the van outside my drive writing something I went out to try and find out why he hadn't delivered the item (half thinking it wasn't on the van) he did everything possible to avoid me getting his attention but when he could no longer ignore me muttered something about "left it with <house number that doesn't even exist on my street>" and drove off. I then notice the number he said was hand written on the back of the card (with no other notation).
Mum happened to be walking down the road at the time and said she'd seen him delivering to another house further up the road so went up and knocked on a couple of doors and found it had been left with one of them (who were equally bemused but fortunately understanding).
We can only assume from the fact that he didn't try to leave it with either of the immediate neighbours (who are both retired and almost always in) that he'd accidentally delivered it to the wrong house, then was too lazy or wasn't sure which house he'd left it at and just reversed the number system of the houses around ours back to get the house number he'd left it at as that
would have worked with the number he left only the houses on that side of the street are on a different sequence to the ones at our end and also offset due to some houses being a and b of the same number.
EDIT: Oh and I've mostly solved the problem as per the topic by using DPD as much as possible as so far they managed to get it right 99% of the time. Unfortunately not always an option.