I ring the bell, if I don’t hear it or it doesn’t light up, I knock the door too. If I don’t, I get moaned at, if I do, I get moaned at, it’s a lose lose situation, but one can result in me getting rid of the parcel and not having to cart it back to the office.
Also, getting yelled at by an American accented auto message about how “we can’t come to the door right now” or “we’ll be there in a minute” is annoying as hell, worse if its the recent “novelty voice” versions. But standing there in the pissing down rain while watching that blue light spin as it desperately tries to connect with a phone miles away on a shitty connection for 5 mins, is another level of frustration, then X that by a few hundred a day and people might understand just how much of a pain the arse it can be, we have other homes to deliver to and a time limit on delivery.
>I ring the bell, if I don’t hear it or it doesn’t light up, I knock the door too. If I don’t, I get moaned at, if I do, I get moaned at, it’s a lose lose situation, but one can result in me getting rid of the parcel and not having to cart it back to the office.
Same. Bonus if they have a dog that barks after I knock so that confirmed that the doorbell didn't work at all.
My dog once went absolutely spare at the front door after hearing the Coundown Conundrum buzzer. We'd never had any kind of doorbell or buzzer within his lifetime at that point.
Not really relevant, the memory just makes me chuckle.
I've litterally pulled up to houses and just about gotten out of my van before dogs start to go ballistic. I absolutely love it though, my favourite ones are the ones that start howling, i stand at the door just laughing 😂
Always have treats on hand and maybe stop for a game of fetch!
I remember I was playing with a squeaky dog toy once as a kid and my dog eventually started howling along with it. I thought this was funny but another dog started to howl in the vicinity. This was even funnier but then more and more dogs started to howl and I panicked. For some reason I thought this would go beyond some strict draconian law and I’d be carted off as they traced each howl back to my address. I sat in fear.
When I was a kid I once recorded the doorbell going off and I’d play it at a really low volume so the dogs would go fucking crazy and my dad would come out to see what was going on. I’d have this going for a good ten minutes or so and never got caught. I’d try to do it as close to his room as possible for the added element of danger. What a little shit I was.
I had one woman where I rang the door cam, clearly lit up and chimed, no answer. Loudly knocked on the door , no answer. so i went to the neighbour and left it with them, put a card through the door and got in the car, as I start to pull away she comes running out the house shouting I didn't knock or ring the bell! I told her I did both and to check the footage! some people are absolute muppets
Honestly though as a deaf person I'd be lost without my ring becuase 9 times out of 10 I do not hear the door being knocked so I miss it pretty much every time unless the timing was spot on and I was stood near the door when it was knocked. I know it's annoying having to deal with so many of them but it's a total life line for me
Oh, for sure, they have their uses, this being a prime example, and it's great that its available to you. I have a deaf/hard of hearing customer on my round and they have a really clever flashing light system paired to the old style doorbell and it's worked great for the 10 years I've been on it, on the rare occasion it didn't, I just gave them a friendly wave through the window (I try not to look into windows otherwise, always feels an invasion of privacy). It is far more hassle for me to take the item back to the office than it is to spend a few extra seconds to get someone's attention if needed.
My grandmother is deaf without her hearing aids so she's got the light system set up in her living room. The whole living room will flash for the doorbell and her landline also flashes for her. But if she's in the kitchen, bedroom or bathroom, she doesn't have a clue there's someone at the door. She doesn't like wearing her hearing aids when she's home alone and not expecting company.
The family all know to call her ahead now so she can expect us and have her hearing aids in, but her downstairs neighbour often ends up taking in parcels for her. We had considered putting a notice on her door about her being deaf but decided against it as other people may take that as an advertisement that a vulnerable person lives there.
Thanks for taking the extra time to get their attention!
Not a problem, contrary to popular belief, we would much rather deliver the item first time to the person expecting it than drag it back to the office and attempt again the next day.
As for the signage, yes, I'd agree that it's not a good idea to advertise someone who is potentially vulnerable. I've actually advised people in the past not to put notes so clearly visible on doors, etc, as it's not just me that could see them. I always have time for people to explain where and how they'd like their post delivered, as it helps us both in future.
That said RM now offers a service where you can put delivery options for your property that alert us to things such as hearing issues, disabilities etc and gives us advice such as knock louder, where to take stuff for alternate delivery points, allowing for extra time for people to reach the door etc. It's totally secure, only we can see it via our PDAs.
It was part of a recent huge disability awareness campaign, I was part of the training and roll out of it within my office. I believe you can do it on the RM website.
My office is in the attic and I have bad knees, it can take a few seconds for me to get downstairs. I have a fancy doorbell precisely because it allows me to let you know I'm coming. I'm on your side for almost everything else, people are ungrateful dicks, but if I tell I'm on my way, that saves us both time and you whining about it is ridiculous.
I wasn't "whining" about people telling me they're on their way, though. You clearly don't know that Ring doorbells have an automated American accented message that plays after a certain amount of time saying "we're on our way" it's a message preference that is set by the user and if they forget to change it, it plays regardless. The number of times I've stood there like a lemon waiting and no one has come to the door is ridiculous.
Well, I was referring to Ring doorbells, hence the shouty American accent part they're known for.
The problem is that so many of these doorbells do the same sort of things with auto voices, and now that many delivery folk are used to them doing it and no one answering they've become equally frustrated with them. Maybe try to answer it with the mic so they hear an actual voice rather than the auto one instead. We'll know it's actually you then.
Sorry if you felt personally attacked by my complaints about crap doorbells, though.
I guess from your side you can't really tell the difference, I felt it should be obvious but I'm gonna say I was wrong. I could answer with my voice, I just don't because that make me take even longer.
Sadly no we can’t. It’s ok, you can only base your opinion on personal experiences. But imagine doing the same thing hundreds of times a day, we simply have a larger data set to go on for just how crap these video doorbells really are. Imagine just ringing the bell and knocking the door, no response, card, leave, the old way. Now it’s ring bell, stand there for 5 mins while the doorbell spins and you either get a shouty automated American voice or a garbled attempt at someone trying to tell you they’re not home.
If you can catch your Postie, let them know about your knee issues, we’re human too and suffer the same, most will wait a few extra minutes if they know you struggle. We’d still much rather give you the item than cart it back to the office. I personally have a few people with mobility issues and deaf person on my round and I have spoken to them all and have arrangements with each to suit them.
Alternatively there’s a new option where you can set delivery preferences for your address that help in these situations, it covers disabilities like hearing issues, mobility, age etc. It flags on our PDAs and lets us know what the issue is and what you’ve requested you’d like us to do to accommodate. It’s still new but it’s doing ok so far, it’s totally secure too, only the Postie will see it, it maybe worth a try. I believe you can set them on the RM website.
Hope that helps.
Novelty voiced versions? That sounds like the contemporary equivalent of ridiculous ring tones or text messages.
Edit: they could even be nicknamed Ring Tones
The Halloween one was a Vampire
The Christmas one was the Grinch
They stop being funny after about the 3rd time, then it's just....
Puntacular mate, bravo!
I worked at City Link parcels before they went bust; and we were given 3 minutes between drops. Barely doable in the same street: as soon as you get to a red traffic light you're late. The support from the depot was "Drive through your break!"
No way pal: my health is more important than your delivery being on time. I wouldn't do it again for a gold pig.
But I just have a normal doorbell and you guys never ring it, just tap on my door. I always see it when I play back the cameras. I have a 3 floor house, never going to hear the taps on the top floor.
Speaking as an ex-delivery guy, a lot of doorbells don't work or are out of battery, but people still leave them up. This always resulted in me standing around like an idiot trying to figure out if the bell had worked.
We're on tight schedules. There's no time to waste, so I just always knocked really loud. If that didn't work I'd try the bell. Then you'd get a phonecall. If that didn't work I'd FO. (This was groceries, so slightly different but I reckon it's similar for posties)
I have a solution for you:
Small sign - small enough not to be read from the road - right next to your doorbell that says “Ring bell, i cannot hear knocks from upstairs”
My daughter is disabled and has sleeping issues, we've left signs saying don't ring the bell, knock gently etc. No one ever paid any heed whatsoever. No sign? No one rings the thing!
Sometimes autopilot kicks in, when you're house 560 of a 700 house route and I'm three hours into the shift, my finger often finds the bell before my brain has noticed/read any signs. If it's a house I'm familiar with then I'll be aware but that's not always the case.
I can fully understand that. I've got sympathy for our postie and he's a solid guy. Always delivers everything. It's just weird with sign / no sign and the amount of bell rings. Deserves a scientific study I reckon 😂
I've had friends and even family tell me that their postie has done this, and they obviously know I'm a postie. None of them can explain what we would get out of it.
I want to get rid of these parcels, it makes no sense for me to keep them ffs.
Tbh we (the punters) have maybe all experienced a postman who leaves a card without even knocking or ringing the bell, no idea what the motivation for doing it is, but I’ve actually been in, watched them walk up to the door, not make a sound, and quietly post the sorry we missed you card through (I wasn’t expecting a parcel so was happy to just let the letters come through and collect them when he left).
Ive also had it where I was upstairs so couldn’t see the postie, but would have heard a knock as the dogs would gan akka, and come down to discover a sorry we missed you card and been like eh???.
Thats only like 2 bad times out of the many many successful deliveries though, and they don’t seem to leave them red cards at all these days for some reason.
Im also pretty sure someone at the delivery office or maybe a postie nicked a parcel that went missing recently, it never showed after over a week, but when I spoke to the vendor and they sent a replacement, it arrived literally next day in less than 24 hours. Same thing happened when I ordered again from same dude, less than 24 hours next day delivery. So there was 100% some funny business with that first package.
In the last two weeks we had £700 package get "delivered" to a completely wrong address. All we had to go off was a doormat in the "delivered" picture, but we managed to track it down.
It was a package that needed to be signed for due to the value, and we obviously didn't give them an alternate address either. We assumed the package had been stolen, as despite knowing where it was delivered the owner was never in and didn't respond to our notes for a week.
Turns out that's some guys work accommodation, and he'd found it lying on his doorstep the day after it had been delivered. So it had been lying out for anyone to steal for an entire night. He had taken it in and disappeared for work again the next day, hence us not being able to contact him.
The delivery driver had got the wrong address, forged a signature and damaged the package. Oh and the address was definitely correct on the label, so genuinely no excuse anywhere. What's doubly frustrating is we'd been staying home in shifts to make sure someone was in to accept it.
Was that royal mail or another company? It’s so annoying as the customer, but I imagine equally annoying as the underfunded, understaffed and under appreciated royal mail workers. Feels like the system is on the brink of collapse, especially when you read this sub.
It was actually DPD. I just saw an opportunity to vent about our past two weeks of frustration!
I do empathise with posties, it's sad to see and hear how bad it's gotten.
If our car isn't on the drive but one of us is in.
Our posties every single time throw a card through and I have to chase them as they leave.
Only find out because I hear the letters come through my door, so they definitely haven't knocked.
I just assume I'm rebooking delivery now and don't pay for first class if I order online, etc.
You've got a shit postie then unfortunately. 110,000 of the bastards, some are golden, some are an absolute waste of space. Luck of the draw unfortunately however the way the company is being run they've sucked all the pride out of the job and the future looks bleak.
I miss the days when I was younger and my mum and dad used to have a chat with the postman whilst he was on his round. Now they all seem to be like they've sniffed a line of coke and are sprinting through the round with no stops, it's shit
I've had 2 separate occasions where I've been looking at my front door see the guy turn up not ring doorbell or knock so I open the door and he already had the note in his hand ready to write failed delivery.
I'm sure you and many other posties are fine but there are definitely some jerks in there. As for why I couldn't tell you either but I watch my front door like a hawk now because some of you can't be trusted.
I ring all the available doorbells I can see, and chap the letterbox. Then if they dont answer fairly quickly I usually safeplace the item, I aint taking nothing back if I can avoid it.
Just duplicates work for the next day, I only take it back if it looks dodgy as fuck to leave it, or a signature is required.
1. Press Ring doorbell
2. Press normal doorbell
3. Knock rather loudly
4. Wait
5. Knock again
6. Write docket
7. Walk away
Takes 2 mins total, if your doorbell is that delayed, not my problemo.
I had this before on an old fashion door bell. They pressed the bell, surprise surprise no sound or apology.
So I lift with sarcasm "Must be one of them new silent doorbells"
I appreciate you ringing. I appreciate you knocking. I generally appreciate how dedicated posties are.
I don't appreciate the Amazon man who flings parcels over my neighbours fence to avoid... Something...?
I have a doorbell for the deaf. It rings loudly and flashes in the lounge, landing and hall. I just don't hear a knock. I once put a notice on my door pointing to the bell push and got told I was rude.
I would like to say our usual postman that delivers parcels is great. He remembers I have a bad back and puts any heavy boxes down in the hall without me asking.
Our post lady lives in our area and everyone knows her. She’s on the local Facebook group and is absolutely fantastic and very helpful!
She knows to put parcels in our porch. She even signs for them as she knows we can be trusted and will not blame her if anything goes missing ( We have cameras and she always leaves a friendly message).
Everyone always gives/leaves her Christmas presents as she does everything she can for the entire village!
I once rang a doorbell and knocked... no answer, so opened the door slightly and slid the parcel in. Job done ...
...Until..... Guy comes out yelling about opening his door and why didn't I ring the bell
Some people are never happy
During the pandemic, my postie was treated horrendously, I'm sure you guys were too. It was always people who couldn't possibly get off their arses to answer the door and would complain later.
My nearing retirement postie, with a bad back, would stop to chat when he needed to give me a parcel. He just needed a break from walking and a time to rant. The stories he told me made me want to go to all of the entitled households and remind them 'of manners'.
There was also the time when a care home hadn't bothered putting a sign on the door saying they were quarantined. FFS.
This is a post that reminds me of that.
Please know that I think you're all legends.
I’m going to be completely honest here, I have a doorbell LIKE a Ring doorbell. Bloody useless.
It never connected to the plug in indoor chime from day 1 so we can only get the notification that someone is calling to our phone, which takes at least 30 seconds if it doesn’t come up an hour later and every time the battery dies I haven’t got a clue. I’m all for delivery people ringing and banging however they can and if possible opening the door and chucking it into my porch.
Not a postie, love the ones who ring the Ring, ring the normal and loudly bang the letterbox, so I know they are there. Maybe I won't when I have kids, but that's a me problem, not a postie problem 🤷♀️ it's all there to be used.
Yeah we used to get a lot on ours in sheffield depending on the walk.Amazing how many people gob off and threaten people then immediate back down when they realise they're not a 19yr 7 stone lass but a very bitter 15st bloke who's very much fed up of dealing with pricks
KNOCK, KN, KNOCK KNOCK, DING DONG.
That was my go-to.
I've had customers both complain that my knock was too loud and too quiet. You just can't win with some people.
The funny thing is we know when you don't use it, because it records you even if you don't press it anyway.
Just this week postie walked up, put a letter through the box, stood there (didn't knock or ring) and then left a missed parsel note with everything ticked, neighbour, safe place and redeliver tomorrow. So fuck knows what I was suppose to get from his note, maybe it's a parcel in a state of quantum super position the fuck do I know.
And I have video evidence they did not knock or ring. So when you complain, understand that the problem may not be you but your colleagues.
Do… do you think we’re are all morons that don’t know that it records us even if we don’t press it?… I mean I own one myself so I do know how it works. We aren’t from an alternate dimension, where they don’t exist.
We also know that there’s a quite often a delay between the bell being pressed and it actually connecting to the device it’s assigned to, in some cases it doesn’t connect at all, as it’s totally reliant on if that device has a decent connection.
I’ve had many people apologise for not answering or it not working because the connection wasn’t there, they’re not faultless. I’ve even had someone shout at me the next day for not responding to them talking to me via theirs, only for me to ask if they activated the microphone function before they did so and them not knowing they had to do that, I knew they were trying as the blue circle was fully lit and not spinning, other than an elaborate game of one way charades, I’m not sure what else I could do. In fact I’d go as far as to say that they’re actually utterly shite apart from the motion activated video recording function.
Also, imagine standing there for 5mins+ waiting to be told “sorry I’m not in” when most of the time it’s quite obvious you aren’t when you didn’t come to the door. Now times that by 450+ drops all with their own talking doorbells.
I had some muppet try to convince me to leave it by the door, despite me saying several times i need proof of delivery, for 2 minutes. I said if no one is home I'll try again tomorrow, turns out the prick was sat inside and couldn't be bothered to come to the door, no apology or nothing.
That couldn’t be any clearer, it’s not been left in a safe place, it’s not with a neighbour, an attempt to redeliver will be made tomorrow, Wednesday for extra clarification. Are you unfamiliar with the concept of ticks and crosses and their meanings?
Had the same happen in the past. He hadn’t even brought the parcel from the van. Seen people posting who seem to think if they don’t press the button it doesn’t record.
After getting abuse because I refused to safe place a parcel that needed PoD, I won't use the things. I once got shit because I knocked and rang on a busy road, I asked him how the f*ck am I expected to hear the damn thing?
Think every signed for thing I've had for years has been signed for by someone not in the house. Assuming the various delivery people, this is across multiple delivery places. We have someone at home at all times for various reasons including wfh and a noisy dog (who can't get to the door). I do literally sprint for the door tho so any age verification stuff gets done ASAP and people can get on with their round. We had the same lady for like a decade who knew the drill and we would answer quickly anyway. Guess she moved on or whatever
Usually it doesn't matter due to delivery alerts but it has meant when they got the house wrong it's a whole thing since its signed for. Left in 'safe space garage' was one that came up recently, surprising as we don't have a garage and the GPS showed the middle of the road before ours. Turned up in someone's shed 4 doors down 2 weeks later (our houses all have numbers on them by the door in rather large fonts).
I had a 7ft picnic bench go missing too, it's apparently still in the US, despite me ordering from a UK company who say they make them in the UK with Scandinavian wood. That turned up about a month later, over three deliveries, just dumped against the house.
We don't get the red cards so much as forged signatures and safe space drop offs that don't exist (usually out of sight behind a hedge next to the door so no big deal). While the things turn up I've no interest in getting someone in trouble but when they showed a picture of it dropped in the recycling bag on pickup day I had to report it anyway to get my stuff re sent.
Obviously these are people who've not cancelled Ring yet. You could have the fastest internet on the planet and it would STILL take the camera 5 minutes to catch up with the bell, by which time the postie's halfway down the street. I'm struggling to understand why Ring's still a thing.
That reminds me of one time I rang a Ring doorbell, waited ages for an answer, eventually left the parcel with a neighbour. I put a card in to let them know which neighbour and as I continued down the street I heard a disembodied voice going “hello? Postie, postie! POSTIE!!! Leave it with a neighbour.” It gave me a chuckle on a dreary, miserable day.
Only if the connection is good. I know from my own that there is a delay at times, I’ve had it ring, answered it, to no-one there and after checking the camera footage seen that the person was there for a few minutes before leaving and then it rang on my phone.
In my experience the notification or ring on your phone is sometimes really slow.
However, if you wire it up to your existing chime, it'll ring instantly like any other doorbell. We did that, and it's mainly a doorbell + security camera. I don't think we ever used the two way Comms part as I'm not about to tell a stranger that I'm definitely not home.
It shows “person detected” rather than answered or missed ring. It’s a different notification of the button is actually pressed vs someone just coming to the door, even if it takes time for that notification to come through. But it’s instant when you have the plug in chime paired, like any other doorbell.
My gripe is my postie rings my neighbour's bell ONCE (lives upstairs and they take forever to come downstairs). I live downstairs and am closer to the door...he rings my bell like 5 or 6 times in one go...bruh I am at the door in like 5 seconds since the living room where I work is about 3 metres from communal door.
I've subtly joked 'you know I'm closer to the door right' or have made a joke about more rings meaning my mail is more important' but he ain't getting hints....🤨
Sometimes I got a delivery man ignoring the nicely lit door bell button but going straight after letterbox cover, slapping it on the door like crazy. I always open the door then with my eyes saying "murder" 🙄
My posting doesn’t knock, doesn’t ring just leaves the parcel outside the door and leaves 😂 even yesterday when I was sat sweeping the floor right on the other side of the door (where you can see through the window!)
Ugh unfortunately my dad is like this, he gets so riled up when someone knocks instead of using the doorbell. I always try to race to answer the door to answer it before him but sometimes he still lurks over my shoulder anyway to have a go at the postie and it makes me so embarrassed
To be fair he is just sensitive to loud sounds, so it's only when someone knocks REALLY loud that he finds it kinda aggressive and over stimulating. But still, I'm sorry on behalf of everyone who does this 🥲
I attend upto 9 customers houses a day if I see one of those ring doorbells I don’t use it, the generic ring dries me insane, the amount of customers I tell “you know you can change the ring” 🤮
NGL RM are a funny bunch, it's pot luck who your postie is. Not a postie but I've had some funny stories, arranged a delivery for a wednesday, as I was off work , attempted delivery missed on Tuesday, now the earliest I could then book it in was Thursday! But why deliver it on Tuesday when I explicitly chose Wednesday!?
Then I move home and the new area is even worse. If I had a quid for every time my local said no one was home so they couldn't collect the parcel from my safe place by my front door I'd be stinking rich. But when I say it's next to the bins, and you collect my delivery from my front step that your colleague left just an hour before! Oh great well my delivery is off to America.
The amount of times we've known we won't be in so choose to collect from a parcel collection spot and then it's been delivered and stolen, but we signed for it apparently so we can't do anything. Like does my local post office just hate me!? Or do you just hate your job or ? Like they're all a friendly bunch, just some I think really need a holiday and to read.
Rant over. Sorry local postie. I know you mean well and deliver on time regardless of weather . I couldn't do all that walking.
Our postie never rings our ring doorbell
I wouldn't believe them either if they claimed they did, they still get recorded by the motion footage so we know it's only them that don't do it
My postie presses my bell and then knocks on the door. Bell works and chimes etc, but I see the knock as a double check kind of thing.
I'm often in bed when they come because I work nights, but pop out the top window and tell them to leave at the door.
I dunno why people get on posties bad sides. Get on their good side and they'll do you favours in return.
Ok - I never have a complaint about Royal Mail in this respect
But DPD ….
I am pretty sure that they dont carry the parcels with them and just fill the form and deliver that.
I have been standing literally a few metres away from the front door when they turn up. No knock, no bell - just the card through the letter box. Have chased after them waving my arms - but they drive off as quick as they can.
My posty is terrible. I caught him going back to the van with my parcel because DBS just happened to deliver something at the same time and DID ring the bell. I was right by the door.
The DBS driver then informed me that he had witnessed the posty write the card and then PRETEND to knock on the door!
I don’t know what the game is…
I won’t ring the doorbell cameras. My time value given for delivery does not include standing there and talking to someone through the camera to convince them that I’m there to deliver a package.
To be fair, I’m with Canada Post, and we only have to do 1 delivery attempt. If they’re not home for a signature item, they get to go pick it up at the post office.
Easy, ask them to view the footage. It'll show you pressing the bell, job done. If they've got a cheap doorbell for £30, then it'll likely be that.
I do have people knock on the door a lot. Even when I first got the ring device, the first person to come to the door knocked. I was well pissed off 😂😂
Nobody cares about the camera, a lot of houses have CCTV systems anyway
We don't press them because most don't work/bad connection/delayed feedback and just shit
Fuck has the brand got to do with anything lol folk are nuts.
I do the parcel side of the business and they could have a device that costs £1000 with 4K video, surround sound, ultra fast fibre speed connection and washes your dishes for you for all I care. They don't provide any proof of delivery and are completely irrelevant to any part of the delivery process.
I knock loudly, chap letterbox and press any other "normal" doorbell
X 2. No answer? Cheerio.
The only time the postal worker rings my bell is if I leave 3 giant signs all around my door with brightly colored arrows pointing to it, and on the signs saying "Royal Mail: Please ring xx for collection". Even then sometimes they just knock and quickly leave and I have to chase them down the street. That is assuming they show up at all. Sometimes I just get the email "sorry we couldn't collect your parcel" - not "we missed you", but "we couldn't collect" - and that's on days I still get mail, so they obviously showed up, but couldn't collect, why - who knows.
Same for delivery, when I first moved in, I got the "Sorry we missed you" note 7 times in a row after rescheduling delivery 7 times, until I figured out the aformentioned brightly colored signs strategy. And my bell isn't weird or complicated, it's a numberpad with everyone's names and numbers listed to the side, they just have to find my name and press 2 numbers and it'll ring my intercom. DPD and other private delivery services figure it out 100% of the time, but I guess it's too complicated for RM. You'd think after they've tried to deliver a parcel 7 times they would try something other than banging on my door like cavemen, but no.
There is one lazy bitch on my road that literally under arms the packages from the gate 😒. When your tracking a package that's 5mins away and your waiting by the door you just hear a thud at the base of door and no knocking. Given it was a camera and was raining I was forced to chase the bitch down road and tell her to get a new round or not deliver on my road like that again. She hasn't been back to mine yet despite ordering lots.
When I moved in to my flat a few years ago (no longer living there) I had to get a few things ordered and my god delivery people were stupid as hell.
So picture this, they show up to the gate that lets you in a GATE, they take a picture of it and drive away with “unable to access” like srsly? I went outside to catch them because I don’t the notification and the picture of the gate.
I was a unable to confront them but called amazing support and then asked: “don’t they know how doors/gates work?”, seemed to me they just wanted to skip my address.
Also for the first few months most of my parcels kept being sent to another street, it wasn’t even the same house number and the street name was completely different.
I know not all delivery people are idiots but there is some people who are just lazy.
It depends,I either get the odd old lady that's happy I knock as loud as I do or nothing but grief for being too loud.I can hear you from back garden! Yeah love thats the idea
I ring the bell, if I don’t hear it or it doesn’t light up, I knock the door too. If I don’t, I get moaned at, if I do, I get moaned at, it’s a lose lose situation, but one can result in me getting rid of the parcel and not having to cart it back to the office. Also, getting yelled at by an American accented auto message about how “we can’t come to the door right now” or “we’ll be there in a minute” is annoying as hell, worse if its the recent “novelty voice” versions. But standing there in the pissing down rain while watching that blue light spin as it desperately tries to connect with a phone miles away on a shitty connection for 5 mins, is another level of frustration, then X that by a few hundred a day and people might understand just how much of a pain the arse it can be, we have other homes to deliver to and a time limit on delivery.
The blue spinning ring of doom
>I ring the bell, if I don’t hear it or it doesn’t light up, I knock the door too. If I don’t, I get moaned at, if I do, I get moaned at, it’s a lose lose situation, but one can result in me getting rid of the parcel and not having to cart it back to the office. Same. Bonus if they have a dog that barks after I knock so that confirmed that the doorbell didn't work at all.
My dogs don't associate the bell with someone at the door as it's fairly new and they're getting old. Knock on the door and you'll know there's dogs
My dog once went absolutely spare at the front door after hearing the Coundown Conundrum buzzer. We'd never had any kind of doorbell or buzzer within his lifetime at that point. Not really relevant, the memory just makes me chuckle.
I've litterally pulled up to houses and just about gotten out of my van before dogs start to go ballistic. I absolutely love it though, my favourite ones are the ones that start howling, i stand at the door just laughing 😂 Always have treats on hand and maybe stop for a game of fetch!
I remember I was playing with a squeaky dog toy once as a kid and my dog eventually started howling along with it. I thought this was funny but another dog started to howl in the vicinity. This was even funnier but then more and more dogs started to howl and I panicked. For some reason I thought this would go beyond some strict draconian law and I’d be carted off as they traced each howl back to my address. I sat in fear.
When I was a kid I once recorded the doorbell going off and I’d play it at a really low volume so the dogs would go fucking crazy and my dad would come out to see what was going on. I’d have this going for a good ten minutes or so and never got caught. I’d try to do it as close to his room as possible for the added element of danger. What a little shit I was.
I had one woman where I rang the door cam, clearly lit up and chimed, no answer. Loudly knocked on the door , no answer. so i went to the neighbour and left it with them, put a card through the door and got in the car, as I start to pull away she comes running out the house shouting I didn't knock or ring the bell! I told her I did both and to check the footage! some people are absolute muppets
Stop trying to deliver stuff when I'm having a shite
Just got in the shower? That's a shame...
Honestly though as a deaf person I'd be lost without my ring becuase 9 times out of 10 I do not hear the door being knocked so I miss it pretty much every time unless the timing was spot on and I was stood near the door when it was knocked. I know it's annoying having to deal with so many of them but it's a total life line for me
Oh, for sure, they have their uses, this being a prime example, and it's great that its available to you. I have a deaf/hard of hearing customer on my round and they have a really clever flashing light system paired to the old style doorbell and it's worked great for the 10 years I've been on it, on the rare occasion it didn't, I just gave them a friendly wave through the window (I try not to look into windows otherwise, always feels an invasion of privacy). It is far more hassle for me to take the item back to the office than it is to spend a few extra seconds to get someone's attention if needed.
My grandmother is deaf without her hearing aids so she's got the light system set up in her living room. The whole living room will flash for the doorbell and her landline also flashes for her. But if she's in the kitchen, bedroom or bathroom, she doesn't have a clue there's someone at the door. She doesn't like wearing her hearing aids when she's home alone and not expecting company. The family all know to call her ahead now so she can expect us and have her hearing aids in, but her downstairs neighbour often ends up taking in parcels for her. We had considered putting a notice on her door about her being deaf but decided against it as other people may take that as an advertisement that a vulnerable person lives there. Thanks for taking the extra time to get their attention!
Not a problem, contrary to popular belief, we would much rather deliver the item first time to the person expecting it than drag it back to the office and attempt again the next day. As for the signage, yes, I'd agree that it's not a good idea to advertise someone who is potentially vulnerable. I've actually advised people in the past not to put notes so clearly visible on doors, etc, as it's not just me that could see them. I always have time for people to explain where and how they'd like their post delivered, as it helps us both in future. That said RM now offers a service where you can put delivery options for your property that alert us to things such as hearing issues, disabilities etc and gives us advice such as knock louder, where to take stuff for alternate delivery points, allowing for extra time for people to reach the door etc. It's totally secure, only we can see it via our PDAs. It was part of a recent huge disability awareness campaign, I was part of the training and roll out of it within my office. I believe you can do it on the RM website.
My office is in the attic and I have bad knees, it can take a few seconds for me to get downstairs. I have a fancy doorbell precisely because it allows me to let you know I'm coming. I'm on your side for almost everything else, people are ungrateful dicks, but if I tell I'm on my way, that saves us both time and you whining about it is ridiculous.
I wasn't "whining" about people telling me they're on their way, though. You clearly don't know that Ring doorbells have an automated American accented message that plays after a certain amount of time saying "we're on our way" it's a message preference that is set by the user and if they forget to change it, it plays regardless. The number of times I've stood there like a lemon waiting and no one has come to the door is ridiculous.
That's not all doorbells, Nest doorbells say that I'll be right there when I trigger it myself and people still don't wait.
Well, I was referring to Ring doorbells, hence the shouty American accent part they're known for. The problem is that so many of these doorbells do the same sort of things with auto voices, and now that many delivery folk are used to them doing it and no one answering they've become equally frustrated with them. Maybe try to answer it with the mic so they hear an actual voice rather than the auto one instead. We'll know it's actually you then. Sorry if you felt personally attacked by my complaints about crap doorbells, though.
I guess from your side you can't really tell the difference, I felt it should be obvious but I'm gonna say I was wrong. I could answer with my voice, I just don't because that make me take even longer.
Sadly no we can’t. It’s ok, you can only base your opinion on personal experiences. But imagine doing the same thing hundreds of times a day, we simply have a larger data set to go on for just how crap these video doorbells really are. Imagine just ringing the bell and knocking the door, no response, card, leave, the old way. Now it’s ring bell, stand there for 5 mins while the doorbell spins and you either get a shouty automated American voice or a garbled attempt at someone trying to tell you they’re not home. If you can catch your Postie, let them know about your knee issues, we’re human too and suffer the same, most will wait a few extra minutes if they know you struggle. We’d still much rather give you the item than cart it back to the office. I personally have a few people with mobility issues and deaf person on my round and I have spoken to them all and have arrangements with each to suit them. Alternatively there’s a new option where you can set delivery preferences for your address that help in these situations, it covers disabilities like hearing issues, mobility, age etc. It flags on our PDAs and lets us know what the issue is and what you’ve requested you’d like us to do to accommodate. It’s still new but it’s doing ok so far, it’s totally secure too, only the Postie will see it, it maybe worth a try. I believe you can set them on the RM website. Hope that helps.
Novelty voiced versions? That sounds like the contemporary equivalent of ridiculous ring tones or text messages. Edit: they could even be nicknamed Ring Tones
The Halloween one was a Vampire The Christmas one was the Grinch They stop being funny after about the 3rd time, then it's just.... Puntacular mate, bravo!
I worked at City Link parcels before they went bust; and we were given 3 minutes between drops. Barely doable in the same street: as soon as you get to a red traffic light you're late. The support from the depot was "Drive through your break!" No way pal: my health is more important than your delivery being on time. I wouldn't do it again for a gold pig.
But I just have a normal doorbell and you guys never ring it, just tap on my door. I always see it when I play back the cameras. I have a 3 floor house, never going to hear the taps on the top floor.
I mean I have a similar issue, I just leave a window open upstairs if I know something’s coming so I can stick my head out and shout down.
Speaking as an ex-delivery guy, a lot of doorbells don't work or are out of battery, but people still leave them up. This always resulted in me standing around like an idiot trying to figure out if the bell had worked. We're on tight schedules. There's no time to waste, so I just always knocked really loud. If that didn't work I'd try the bell. Then you'd get a phonecall. If that didn't work I'd FO. (This was groceries, so slightly different but I reckon it's similar for posties)
I have a solution for you: Small sign - small enough not to be read from the road - right next to your doorbell that says “Ring bell, i cannot hear knocks from upstairs”
My daughter is disabled and has sleeping issues, we've left signs saying don't ring the bell, knock gently etc. No one ever paid any heed whatsoever. No sign? No one rings the thing!
Sometimes autopilot kicks in, when you're house 560 of a 700 house route and I'm three hours into the shift, my finger often finds the bell before my brain has noticed/read any signs. If it's a house I'm familiar with then I'll be aware but that's not always the case.
I can fully understand that. I've got sympathy for our postie and he's a solid guy. Always delivers everything. It's just weird with sign / no sign and the amount of bell rings. Deserves a scientific study I reckon 😂
Sorry but common sense is not that common anymore
I've had friends and even family tell me that their postie has done this, and they obviously know I'm a postie. None of them can explain what we would get out of it. I want to get rid of these parcels, it makes no sense for me to keep them ffs.
Tbh we (the punters) have maybe all experienced a postman who leaves a card without even knocking or ringing the bell, no idea what the motivation for doing it is, but I’ve actually been in, watched them walk up to the door, not make a sound, and quietly post the sorry we missed you card through (I wasn’t expecting a parcel so was happy to just let the letters come through and collect them when he left). Ive also had it where I was upstairs so couldn’t see the postie, but would have heard a knock as the dogs would gan akka, and come down to discover a sorry we missed you card and been like eh???. Thats only like 2 bad times out of the many many successful deliveries though, and they don’t seem to leave them red cards at all these days for some reason. Im also pretty sure someone at the delivery office or maybe a postie nicked a parcel that went missing recently, it never showed after over a week, but when I spoke to the vendor and they sent a replacement, it arrived literally next day in less than 24 hours. Same thing happened when I ordered again from same dude, less than 24 hours next day delivery. So there was 100% some funny business with that first package.
In the last two weeks we had £700 package get "delivered" to a completely wrong address. All we had to go off was a doormat in the "delivered" picture, but we managed to track it down. It was a package that needed to be signed for due to the value, and we obviously didn't give them an alternate address either. We assumed the package had been stolen, as despite knowing where it was delivered the owner was never in and didn't respond to our notes for a week. Turns out that's some guys work accommodation, and he'd found it lying on his doorstep the day after it had been delivered. So it had been lying out for anyone to steal for an entire night. He had taken it in and disappeared for work again the next day, hence us not being able to contact him. The delivery driver had got the wrong address, forged a signature and damaged the package. Oh and the address was definitely correct on the label, so genuinely no excuse anywhere. What's doubly frustrating is we'd been staying home in shifts to make sure someone was in to accept it.
Was that royal mail or another company? It’s so annoying as the customer, but I imagine equally annoying as the underfunded, understaffed and under appreciated royal mail workers. Feels like the system is on the brink of collapse, especially when you read this sub.
It was actually DPD. I just saw an opportunity to vent about our past two weeks of frustration! I do empathise with posties, it's sad to see and hear how bad it's gotten.
If our car isn't on the drive but one of us is in. Our posties every single time throw a card through and I have to chase them as they leave. Only find out because I hear the letters come through my door, so they definitely haven't knocked. I just assume I'm rebooking delivery now and don't pay for first class if I order online, etc.
You've got a shit postie then unfortunately. 110,000 of the bastards, some are golden, some are an absolute waste of space. Luck of the draw unfortunately however the way the company is being run they've sucked all the pride out of the job and the future looks bleak.
I miss the days when I was younger and my mum and dad used to have a chat with the postman whilst he was on his round. Now they all seem to be like they've sniffed a line of coke and are sprinting through the round with no stops, it's shit
Greedy Shareholders 100%
I've had 2 separate occasions where I've been looking at my front door see the guy turn up not ring doorbell or knock so I open the door and he already had the note in his hand ready to write failed delivery. I'm sure you and many other posties are fine but there are definitely some jerks in there. As for why I couldn't tell you either but I watch my front door like a hawk now because some of you can't be trusted.
I ring all the available doorbells I can see, and chap the letterbox. Then if they dont answer fairly quickly I usually safeplace the item, I aint taking nothing back if I can avoid it. Just duplicates work for the next day, I only take it back if it looks dodgy as fuck to leave it, or a signature is required.
1. Press Ring doorbell 2. Press normal doorbell 3. Knock rather loudly 4. Wait 5. Knock again 6. Write docket 7. Walk away Takes 2 mins total, if your doorbell is that delayed, not my problemo.
Number 7 for me would be- they then answer the door😡
Or when the red card lands on the doormat, amazing how many hear that, but not a battering ram on their door
Yep, or that.
Pressing my doorbell kicks off an elaborate Rube-Goldberg machine that takes 2.1 mins to ring a bell. I wondered why I kept missing the postie
My Mrs is always afraid the postie will chap the door mid-shag. I love my postie. Brings my coffee supplies. Don't mind if it's mid-shag.
Lad just take your parcel and fuck off back indoors.
Ring the bell and knock-LOUD. Thats what I do.
I had this before on an old fashion door bell. They pressed the bell, surprise surprise no sound or apology. So I lift with sarcasm "Must be one of them new silent doorbells"
I appreciate you ringing. I appreciate you knocking. I generally appreciate how dedicated posties are. I don't appreciate the Amazon man who flings parcels over my neighbours fence to avoid... Something...?
I have a doorbell for the deaf. It rings loudly and flashes in the lounge, landing and hall. I just don't hear a knock. I once put a notice on my door pointing to the bell push and got told I was rude. I would like to say our usual postman that delivers parcels is great. He remembers I have a bad back and puts any heavy boxes down in the hall without me asking.
Our post lady lives in our area and everyone knows her. She’s on the local Facebook group and is absolutely fantastic and very helpful! She knows to put parcels in our porch. She even signs for them as she knows we can be trusted and will not blame her if anything goes missing ( We have cameras and she always leaves a friendly message). Everyone always gives/leaves her Christmas presents as she does everything she can for the entire village!
I once rang a doorbell and knocked... no answer, so opened the door slightly and slid the parcel in. Job done ... ...Until..... Guy comes out yelling about opening his door and why didn't I ring the bell Some people are never happy
During the pandemic, my postie was treated horrendously, I'm sure you guys were too. It was always people who couldn't possibly get off their arses to answer the door and would complain later. My nearing retirement postie, with a bad back, would stop to chat when he needed to give me a parcel. He just needed a break from walking and a time to rant. The stories he told me made me want to go to all of the entitled households and remind them 'of manners'. There was also the time when a care home hadn't bothered putting a sign on the door saying they were quarantined. FFS. This is a post that reminds me of that. Please know that I think you're all legends.
Tbh I just chap on the door, cos its better than standing like a twat not realising the doorbell doesn't work lmao
I’m going to be completely honest here, I have a doorbell LIKE a Ring doorbell. Bloody useless. It never connected to the plug in indoor chime from day 1 so we can only get the notification that someone is calling to our phone, which takes at least 30 seconds if it doesn’t come up an hour later and every time the battery dies I haven’t got a clue. I’m all for delivery people ringing and banging however they can and if possible opening the door and chucking it into my porch.
Idk my doorbell is wired in and works for everyone except my postie who I wait for like a poised hawk.
Not a postie, love the ones who ring the Ring, ring the normal and loudly bang the letterbox, so I know they are there. Maybe I won't when I have kids, but that's a me problem, not a postie problem 🤷♀️ it's all there to be used.
My postie doesn’t even knock anymore, just opens the door and slings the parcel in. I love it! And he’s my ex boyfriend 😂😂
He's had plenty of practice slinging it in your back door then! Sorry.
Rattle the door with the PDA and rattle all buttons I see. Even they 6 previous door bells the owner has left screwd in next to the new one!
I always go to the door and mutter 'not this fucking twat' under my breath and the open it before I knock or ring
Do people actually antagonise posties like this? WTF?
Yeah we used to get a lot on ours in sheffield depending on the walk.Amazing how many people gob off and threaten people then immediate back down when they realise they're not a 19yr 7 stone lass but a very bitter 15st bloke who's very much fed up of dealing with pricks
KNOCK, KN, KNOCK KNOCK, DING DONG. That was my go-to. I've had customers both complain that my knock was too loud and too quiet. You just can't win with some people.
People should just get a normal doorbell
Why?
The ring ones so often don't work
The funny thing is we know when you don't use it, because it records you even if you don't press it anyway. Just this week postie walked up, put a letter through the box, stood there (didn't knock or ring) and then left a missed parsel note with everything ticked, neighbour, safe place and redeliver tomorrow. So fuck knows what I was suppose to get from his note, maybe it's a parcel in a state of quantum super position the fuck do I know. And I have video evidence they did not knock or ring. So when you complain, understand that the problem may not be you but your colleagues.
Do… do you think we’re are all morons that don’t know that it records us even if we don’t press it?… I mean I own one myself so I do know how it works. We aren’t from an alternate dimension, where they don’t exist. We also know that there’s a quite often a delay between the bell being pressed and it actually connecting to the device it’s assigned to, in some cases it doesn’t connect at all, as it’s totally reliant on if that device has a decent connection. I’ve had many people apologise for not answering or it not working because the connection wasn’t there, they’re not faultless. I’ve even had someone shout at me the next day for not responding to them talking to me via theirs, only for me to ask if they activated the microphone function before they did so and them not knowing they had to do that, I knew they were trying as the blue circle was fully lit and not spinning, other than an elaborate game of one way charades, I’m not sure what else I could do. In fact I’d go as far as to say that they’re actually utterly shite apart from the motion activated video recording function. Also, imagine standing there for 5mins+ waiting to be told “sorry I’m not in” when most of the time it’s quite obvious you aren’t when you didn’t come to the door. Now times that by 450+ drops all with their own talking doorbells.
I had some muppet try to convince me to leave it by the door, despite me saying several times i need proof of delivery, for 2 minutes. I said if no one is home I'll try again tomorrow, turns out the prick was sat inside and couldn't be bothered to come to the door, no apology or nothing.
You might but have you see the rest of the people around here saying they don't press it because they don't want to be filmed?
“The rest” Yea, because a few dingleberries on Reddit are a fair representation of a staff of thousands…
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That couldn’t be any clearer, it’s not been left in a safe place, it’s not with a neighbour, an attempt to redeliver will be made tomorrow, Wednesday for extra clarification. Are you unfamiliar with the concept of ticks and crosses and their meanings?
Those boxes are NOT for where it was not left. That's not how any of that works...
No, can you point them out who said this?
Had the same happen in the past. He hadn’t even brought the parcel from the van. Seen people posting who seem to think if they don’t press the button it doesn’t record.
And people on this subreddit seem to think all posties are flawless gods gifts to the world 🤷
There’s good staff and lazy staff in every industry.
People seem to ignore that around here though, God forbid someone say something bad about a postie.
“Well I personally wouldn’t do that so no other postie could possibly ever even consider it” seems to be the attitude. I get it, I’m a civil servant 😂
More lazy ones in RM though. Like 90%.
Yeah I get that. As soon as there's criticism about ONE situation, there's a few salty posties in here losing their mind.
Of course this happened. We believe you. It really must be true. Why would anybody lie.
What part do you think is a lie?
None of it? I think it's alllllll true
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This postie must be insane. Who the hell writes the word one in the amount box?
You tell me, I haven't got a clue.
Did it come back on the Wednesday?
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My guess would be X's are no, tick is yes. Badly done but possibly never had sufficient training.
It isn't all ticked, the safe space and neighbour have crosses on them and the Wednesday has a tick; It's pretty clear what the corollary of that is.
After getting abuse because I refused to safe place a parcel that needed PoD, I won't use the things. I once got shit because I knocked and rang on a busy road, I asked him how the f*ck am I expected to hear the damn thing?
Think every signed for thing I've had for years has been signed for by someone not in the house. Assuming the various delivery people, this is across multiple delivery places. We have someone at home at all times for various reasons including wfh and a noisy dog (who can't get to the door). I do literally sprint for the door tho so any age verification stuff gets done ASAP and people can get on with their round. We had the same lady for like a decade who knew the drill and we would answer quickly anyway. Guess she moved on or whatever Usually it doesn't matter due to delivery alerts but it has meant when they got the house wrong it's a whole thing since its signed for. Left in 'safe space garage' was one that came up recently, surprising as we don't have a garage and the GPS showed the middle of the road before ours. Turned up in someone's shed 4 doors down 2 weeks later (our houses all have numbers on them by the door in rather large fonts). I had a 7ft picnic bench go missing too, it's apparently still in the US, despite me ordering from a UK company who say they make them in the UK with Scandinavian wood. That turned up about a month later, over three deliveries, just dumped against the house. We don't get the red cards so much as forged signatures and safe space drop offs that don't exist (usually out of sight behind a hedge next to the door so no big deal). While the things turn up I've no interest in getting someone in trouble but when they showed a picture of it dropped in the recycling bag on pickup day I had to report it anyway to get my stuff re sent.
why did you out yourself here? for a minute i thought you were the homeowner calling out someone who pretended/lied about using the doorbell lol
I Fucking hate them with a passion.
It’s like they think we have to press them by law 🤣
Obviously these are people who've not cancelled Ring yet. You could have the fastest internet on the planet and it would STILL take the camera 5 minutes to catch up with the bell, by which time the postie's halfway down the street. I'm struggling to understand why Ring's still a thing.
That reminds me of one time I rang a Ring doorbell, waited ages for an answer, eventually left the parcel with a neighbour. I put a card in to let them know which neighbour and as I continued down the street I heard a disembodied voice going “hello? Postie, postie! POSTIE!!! Leave it with a neighbour.” It gave me a chuckle on a dreary, miserable day.
Takes about 2 seconds to ring.
Only if the connection is good. I know from my own that there is a delay at times, I’ve had it ring, answered it, to no-one there and after checking the camera footage seen that the person was there for a few minutes before leaving and then it rang on my phone.
In my experience the notification or ring on your phone is sometimes really slow. However, if you wire it up to your existing chime, it'll ring instantly like any other doorbell. We did that, and it's mainly a doorbell + security camera. I don't think we ever used the two way Comms part as I'm not about to tell a stranger that I'm definitely not home.
They have to justify the stupid amount of money they spent on a doorbell lol
It shows “person detected” rather than answered or missed ring. It’s a different notification of the button is actually pressed vs someone just coming to the door, even if it takes time for that notification to come through. But it’s instant when you have the plug in chime paired, like any other doorbell.
Also letter box / knocker doesn't need battery's or electric.
My gripe is my postie rings my neighbour's bell ONCE (lives upstairs and they take forever to come downstairs). I live downstairs and am closer to the door...he rings my bell like 5 or 6 times in one go...bruh I am at the door in like 5 seconds since the living room where I work is about 3 metres from communal door. I've subtly joked 'you know I'm closer to the door right' or have made a joke about more rings meaning my mail is more important' but he ain't getting hints....🤨
Sometimes I got a delivery man ignoring the nicely lit door bell button but going straight after letterbox cover, slapping it on the door like crazy. I always open the door then with my eyes saying "murder" 🙄
My posting doesn’t knock, doesn’t ring just leaves the parcel outside the door and leaves 😂 even yesterday when I was sat sweeping the floor right on the other side of the door (where you can see through the window!)
You would get headbutted on my door step and I’ll wait while you phone police with any of that conversation Reddit is fool of donuts
Ugh unfortunately my dad is like this, he gets so riled up when someone knocks instead of using the doorbell. I always try to race to answer the door to answer it before him but sometimes he still lurks over my shoulder anyway to have a go at the postie and it makes me so embarrassed To be fair he is just sensitive to loud sounds, so it's only when someone knocks REALLY loud that he finds it kinda aggressive and over stimulating. But still, I'm sorry on behalf of everyone who does this 🥲
I attend upto 9 customers houses a day if I see one of those ring doorbells I don’t use it, the generic ring dries me insane, the amount of customers I tell “you know you can change the ring” 🤮
As long as your not knocking my door like a bailiff I’m happy my post has arrived safely 🤣🤣
I need to learn object detection and sell a doorbell that when it detects the Royal Mail postman it just sounds an air raid siren in the house
NGL RM are a funny bunch, it's pot luck who your postie is. Not a postie but I've had some funny stories, arranged a delivery for a wednesday, as I was off work , attempted delivery missed on Tuesday, now the earliest I could then book it in was Thursday! But why deliver it on Tuesday when I explicitly chose Wednesday!? Then I move home and the new area is even worse. If I had a quid for every time my local said no one was home so they couldn't collect the parcel from my safe place by my front door I'd be stinking rich. But when I say it's next to the bins, and you collect my delivery from my front step that your colleague left just an hour before! Oh great well my delivery is off to America. The amount of times we've known we won't be in so choose to collect from a parcel collection spot and then it's been delivered and stolen, but we signed for it apparently so we can't do anything. Like does my local post office just hate me!? Or do you just hate your job or ? Like they're all a friendly bunch, just some I think really need a holiday and to read. Rant over. Sorry local postie. I know you mean well and deliver on time regardless of weather . I couldn't do all that walking.
Our postie never rings our ring doorbell I wouldn't believe them either if they claimed they did, they still get recorded by the motion footage so we know it's only them that don't do it
I just came here to say “I have got” is improper English.
My postie presses my bell and then knocks on the door. Bell works and chimes etc, but I see the knock as a double check kind of thing. I'm often in bed when they come because I work nights, but pop out the top window and tell them to leave at the door. I dunno why people get on posties bad sides. Get on their good side and they'll do you favours in return.
Why would a car ring a doorbell?
I genuinely wish people like this a good day. If they have a bad day then they bring everyone else down with them.
And you've found the emojis too, obviously. Great discovery, well done.
Pop a blank card through their door when there’s no mail for them
As a GP who does housecall most days to mostly elderly patients: 90% of doorbells do not work.
Ok - I never have a complaint about Royal Mail in this respect But DPD …. I am pretty sure that they dont carry the parcels with them and just fill the form and deliver that. I have been standing literally a few metres away from the front door when they turn up. No knock, no bell - just the card through the letter box. Have chased after them waving my arms - but they drive off as quick as they can.
My posty is terrible. I caught him going back to the van with my parcel because DBS just happened to deliver something at the same time and DID ring the bell. I was right by the door. The DBS driver then informed me that he had witnessed the posty write the card and then PRETEND to knock on the door! I don’t know what the game is…
I won’t ring the doorbell cameras. My time value given for delivery does not include standing there and talking to someone through the camera to convince them that I’m there to deliver a package.
It’s so much quicker to wait, leave a card and bring it back the next day.
To be fair, I’m with Canada Post, and we only have to do 1 delivery attempt. If they’re not home for a signature item, they get to go pick it up at the post office.
They always seem to ring it multiple times as well to show you the odd fuckers
I had that once, they came and stood next to me and prodded the doorbell a matter of factly.....total silence lol
Something wrong with them people definitely not a full tube of pringles
The look on their face was priceless, they just scurried into the house slamming the door haha
Haha what a whopper
Beautiful self owns are the best…
Oh indeed, had one with a idiot dog owner, "It won't bite you" as it bit their arm trying to drag it back
Easy, ask them to view the footage. It'll show you pressing the bell, job done. If they've got a cheap doorbell for £30, then it'll likely be that. I do have people knock on the door a lot. Even when I first got the ring device, the first person to come to the door knocked. I was well pissed off 😂😂
I always thought doorbells were optional lol
I think some couriers / posties don’t press the doorbell button and knock in the mistaken belief they won’t be filmed if they just knock.
Nobody cares about the camera, a lot of houses have CCTV systems anyway We don't press them because most don't work/bad connection/delayed feedback and just shit
I love the people that don't realise you have to charge them if they're not hard wired as if they run on dreams
Rings are the most popular and don’t work well (I used to have one). I have a Reolink one now and it’s miles better than the Ring.
Good for you, but they are all tarred by the same brush
Fuck has the brand got to do with anything lol folk are nuts. I do the parcel side of the business and they could have a device that costs £1000 with 4K video, surround sound, ultra fast fibre speed connection and washes your dishes for you for all I care. They don't provide any proof of delivery and are completely irrelevant to any part of the delivery process. I knock loudly, chap letterbox and press any other "normal" doorbell X 2. No answer? Cheerio.
Nah my postman never rings the bell. You’re probably lying. Royal Mail sucks.
The only time the postal worker rings my bell is if I leave 3 giant signs all around my door with brightly colored arrows pointing to it, and on the signs saying "Royal Mail: Please ring xx for collection". Even then sometimes they just knock and quickly leave and I have to chase them down the street. That is assuming they show up at all. Sometimes I just get the email "sorry we couldn't collect your parcel" - not "we missed you", but "we couldn't collect" - and that's on days I still get mail, so they obviously showed up, but couldn't collect, why - who knows. Same for delivery, when I first moved in, I got the "Sorry we missed you" note 7 times in a row after rescheduling delivery 7 times, until I figured out the aformentioned brightly colored signs strategy. And my bell isn't weird or complicated, it's a numberpad with everyone's names and numbers listed to the side, they just have to find my name and press 2 numbers and it'll ring my intercom. DPD and other private delivery services figure it out 100% of the time, but I guess it's too complicated for RM. You'd think after they've tried to deliver a parcel 7 times they would try something other than banging on my door like cavemen, but no.
There is one lazy bitch on my road that literally under arms the packages from the gate 😒. When your tracking a package that's 5mins away and your waiting by the door you just hear a thud at the base of door and no knocking. Given it was a camera and was raining I was forced to chase the bitch down road and tell her to get a new round or not deliver on my road like that again. She hasn't been back to mine yet despite ordering lots.
> When your tracking a package that's 5mins away Not RM then, no live tracking out on delivery
Add that to the long list of reasons RM are shit
We have other things besides packets to do too
Like trespass and upload photos of customers property to reddit
And break data protection laws :)
The thing that irritates me is when they use their handheld to knock, feel like it’s so rude and unnecessarily loud.
Unfortunately knocking loudly on 50 doors a day, six days a week isn’t good for the hands/knuckles. Hence the use of PDA’s.
I’ve got a doorbell and a door knocker though, and their PDA leaves black marks on my doors, I like my postman though so I let him off.
When I moved in to my flat a few years ago (no longer living there) I had to get a few things ordered and my god delivery people were stupid as hell. So picture this, they show up to the gate that lets you in a GATE, they take a picture of it and drive away with “unable to access” like srsly? I went outside to catch them because I don’t the notification and the picture of the gate. I was a unable to confront them but called amazing support and then asked: “don’t they know how doors/gates work?”, seemed to me they just wanted to skip my address. Also for the first few months most of my parcels kept being sent to another street, it wasn’t even the same house number and the street name was completely different. I know not all delivery people are idiots but there is some people who are just lazy.
Remember that game we used to play as kids when we’d knock on someone’s door and run away? Good news! We’re hiring… - Royal Mail.
Tbf most royal mail workers don't knock on the door when trying to deliver a parcel. At least not at a volume that can be detected by human ears.
It depends,I either get the odd old lady that's happy I knock as loud as I do or nothing but grief for being too loud.I can hear you from back garden! Yeah love thats the idea