Important documents delivered to some other flat... but no idea who

arknor said:
if google thinks your house is somewhere else, maybe that's where your documents got delivered. you can edit your house number location on google maps to fix it.
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I didn't know this, so cheers for the tip. Indeed Google Maps had my address as being out by a couple of houses, so I have relocated the red pin. Hopefully the change will get registered in a few days time.

Royal Mail probably got their own system as they have never mistaken my address, but Amazon drivers can be a nightmare sometimes! One of my neighbours is adamant that I'm using her house as my shipping address ;p
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
I didn't know this, so cheers for the tip. Indeed Google Maps had my address as being out by a couple of houses, so I have relocated the red pin. Hopefully the change will get registered in a few days time.

Royal Mail probably got their own system as they have never mistaken my address, but Amazon drivers can be a nightmare sometimes! One of my neighbours is adamant that I'm using her house as my shipping address ;p
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google accepted my request within 1-2 days for house numbers, I tried to update a street that has completely the wrong name.... you can even see from street view the correct road sign, but it's been a full week already and no one confirmed it yet :S

The good couriers probably use their own system, or have their own system that updates based on where the delivery drivers pad is at the time of delivery.

seems googles house number locations for a bunch of areas is just a mess though... I'm guessing the cheaper couriers, taxi drivers, ubereats/deliveroo etc just go on what google maps says.

often I see them around here struggling to find peoples addresses.
 
I just recently sent something in the post and upon checking the tracking number it was also signed with this "CV 19". When I looked it appears to have been signed for at the DO? :confused:

Very weird.

EDIT: Found this

“We knock on the door and place parcel/items down on the door step and take a step away, when the person comes to the door we tell them the parcel is on the step then ask the name, then we sign it as C V 19, there is to be no personal contact whatsoever.
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Interesting the signature was also upside down as per the OP.
 
arknor said:
type your address the actual house number + streetname in google maps.

see where google thinks your house is, it used to think mine was 3 streets away, I think that's why some couriers fail to find where I live, the cheap nasty ones people avoid.

if google thinks your house is somewhere else, maybe that's where your documents got delivered. you can edit your house number location on google maps to fix it.
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How can this be a thing when letters/parcels all have a handy sticker/label on the front that shows useful information like the recipient's address?
 
Malevolence said:
How can this be a thing when letters/parcels all have a handy sticker/label on the front that shows useful information like the recipient's address?
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time pressure for the schedule, often not English etc.

if your getting a lot of "unable to access" or whatever excuses and misses parcels it's highly likely the system they use is relying on google maps and the red dot for your house number isn't where it should be.

it's also possible they just knock on someone elses door and ask if they can take a parcel in for a neighbour.

you think people are reading the parcel addresses and then wandering around to find the correct number in the age of efficiency ? they will do exactly as they are told, oh the numbers not right, lol who cares? I have 60 seconds to find it...

how is following sat nav into a river etc a thing?

next time you get deliveries, taxi, uber eats, deliveroo etc ask if they know what maps the system uses.

anything that's based on an app surely must be using google maps or apple maps
 
We are going to the police about this. Somebody has those documents [original marriage cert + driving license] and is not returning them. It's been a week now since they were "confirmed" delivered. This is now an identity theft concern.

We have posted notes on all the the block doors, put flyers through peoples' letterboxes [with permission from the management company] posted in the block FB group, the management company has even sent an email to all residents. Nothing.
 
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