Unprofessional?

As well as CDs, DVDs and books, I've had a knife block full of knives, a sat-nav, clothing and a five foot tall sand-filled punchbag delivered to work. Was fun dragging that to my car. Wrapped in a tarp it looked very much like a dead body though.
 
Work in a large office complex with ~800 people and get stuff delivered here all the time. Hell I even got a big air conditioning unit delivered to work once :p Sure there's a cost to the company post room for "homers" (as they call them), but look at it this way - it'd cost the company a helluva lot more if we waited at home for our morning deliveries, or left early to get to the depot to pick them up before closing time.
 
It's not unprofessional. Infact if the company allows it then its perfectly fine.
 
i've seen one of our company directors pick up a fat amazon package so if it's ok for him...

on another note slightly related, a guy at work (now one of the senior managers) bought a tv from macro (the card was registered to the company), the next thing was that the tv licence people were round threatening to take the company to court becasue we didn't have a tv licence! was quite amusing.
 
Yeah I have had loads of things delivered to work. From DVD's, to PC cases, to tyres.

We once mistakenly took delivery of a huge box of coffee that was meant for a local pub!
 
Get stuff delivered here all the time, I have too. If I buy stuff and have it delivered to my home address, 9 times out of 10 I'll have to go out of my way and time to pick it up from the local depot.
 
We have items delivered to our office all the time. In fact only yesterday one of the lads had a 61 key musical keyboard delivered that turned up in a huge box.
 
I get things ordered to work. Was furious when the post dept opened my ipod, but on the whole it wasn't a problem. Used to get everything delivered there, although on reflection hacing my guitar and amp delivered at work was possibly taking it a little too far!
 
I guess it depends.

if i was incharge of a compnay i'd rather have my staff at work and reicieve things than be at home all day for something which takes 5 mins.
 
We do it all the time at work and it's not seen as unprofessional, aslong as you don't let it interfere with your work, a package gets delivered, i sign for it, then leave it be until i get home.
 
We're tenants in a communal building, with post coming to us via main reception, and get much less post than most. I feel that I'm helping us to get our moneys worth our rent with the odd xbox game coming in the post :p

I wouldn't have done it in my last job though.
 
We do it at our office with no problems. You just have to get the boxes out of reception before the receptionist gets grumpy about it looking untidy.

One of the HR girls here had a table delivered to the office from argos. She'd checked the description and seen that the width of the table was just wide enough to fit in the back of her car. When it turned up she found that the box was bigger than the table inside it...

PK!
 
I get everything of mine delivered to work including Monitors and cases etc. Seen as I handle all the post for the office anyway, I don't think it causes too much trouble lol.
 
We get loads of personal items delivered to our post room at work and they don't mind as it means people don't have to take time off to wait in for things.

If you get a large amount or something large then you'll get an email asking for you to collect it when you can but if its just a small package, (e.g. DVD), they drop it round on the normal post rounds.

If some gets delivered which needs signing for then the post room sign for it and then have a form you sign when you pick it up.
 
Getting personal stuff delivered here is quite simply not an option. As part of production control we have a strict goods in procedure where all deliveries go to goods in and they're not released from there without supporting paperwork (We even have to fill out a nil value purchase request if a supplier sends us something FoC.)
 
manveruppd said:
A friend of mine's always having trouble getting stuff he orders online, always out of the house when they're delivered and then having to drive to his local RM depot which is open awkward hours, so I asked him "Why don't you get them delivered at work?" He said "That'd be unprofessional" I asked him why but he sort of dodged the question, so now I'm left wondering: we're not talking fridges or 40" TVs here, just the occasional book or dvd, so why would any of his colleagues mind or consider it unprofessional? Would you frown upon someone receiving personal mail in your office?
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Having a fridge freezer or washing machine delivered to work is pushing the boundaries a bit but your usual run of the mill cd's, DvD's etc, is all part of working life. Especailly with a lot of companies asking for more of people's time.

Edit: Someone needs to leane me coorekt grammar and spwelling.
 
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Belmit said:
Was fun dragging that to my car. Wrapped in a tarp it looked very much like a dead body though.
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"Of course it was a punchbag officer". ;) Admit it, which one of your co-workers never returned to work. :p

It would depend on the company but I've had stuff delivered to my work(s) before, my most recent job involved me signing for deliveries most of the day so me getting a phone delivered made no odds whatsoever. Normally I'd check with the manager though, just as a matter of courtesy if nothing else. :)
 
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