"Svend" (svend)
09/03/2019 at 04:52 • Filed to: None
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"Svend" (svend)
09/03/2019 at 04:52 • Filed to: None | 1
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I got a ‘we tried to deliver your parcel’ note yesterday.
Went round to the post office to pick it up and was asked for I.D.
I said, does this not count. It’s the note you put through my letter box to come and get my parcel.
Was told, ‘because Royal Mail delivers on behalf of Amazon, they insist on I.D. so I need to see a proof of I.D.
I said, ‘true, good point, I could of broken into the house and grabbed this card and brought it here in the hope it was something priceless.
So I went home. Grabbed my passport as it was close by and went back. Was told a credit or debit card would of sufficed (how, that’s not proof of I.D. it’s merely a piece of plastic with my name on, I could of stolen it from the house I broke into when I got this card).
Also. My parcel has nothing to do with Amazon, clearly.
Saying that, it’s only ten 50ml glass bottles I use to decant whiskey or vodka into to give to customers.
If I recommend a drink to a customer and they look like they want to try it, I offer them some to try, so if they like it, they can get some, if they don’t, they’ve narrowed it down a little as to which way they want to go with their drinking.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Svend
09/03/2019 at 05:12 |
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i never get asked for id when collecting parcels
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Svend
> pip bip - choose Corrour
09/03/2019 at 05:33 |
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I live round the corner from a main sorting office so it’s no hardship. But it’s like come on, you posted this through my letter box. The postman gives me my mail if I’m standing near my door step, if it’s a non regular one, I only have to say, ‘anything for 41?’, and he looks and gives me it.
One day I waited in a queue and the lady at the desk asked for I.D., I said I only had a bank card on me, she said it wasn’t a form of I.D., went back after getting I.D. and the lady had gone for lunch and the guy just took the card off the counter before I had chance to get my I.D. out and got my parcel.
Make your mind up.
shop-teacher
> Svend
09/03/2019 at 07:00 |
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Similarly, the Illinois DMV will not accept the letter they sent to your address, as proof of your address.
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Svend
09/03/2019 at 07:37 |
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If parcels are too big, our post folks bring them straight to the door of your house (as they won’t fit in the mailbox)....they don’t ask for ID or anything, just”Hi, how are you? Here’s a package, bye!” lol
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Svend
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
09/03/2019 at 07:54 |
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Our post in the U.K. is to our door. We don’t have community mail boxes like some places in Canada or at the end or the garden next to the road like in the U.S .
Ours is literally a letter box in the front door of our house.
My front door with a Ford Fiesta Red Edition parked out front.
But if no one is there to receive it, they usually ask a neighbour if they’ll take it in.
facw
> shop-teacher
09/03/2019 at 08:14 |
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In Texas I had the problem that they wouldn’t accept my Comcast bill as proof of address because it was for internet service not TV and the accepted document was “a cable bill”, and I guess only TV counted?
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
09/03/2019 at 09:42 |
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“Hi, how are you? Here’s a package, bye!”
Aw, eastern Canada is so charming. Here, they just throw it at you as they speed by . “HERE MOTHERFUCKER” they yell.
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shop-teacher
> facw
09/03/2019 at 10:30 |
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Sounds like something they’d do in Illinois as well. Except it would depend on which cler k you got. I’m sure some would accept, and some wouldn’t.
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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/03/2019 at 11:09 |
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That sounds more like an Ontario thing compared to BC, at least to my eyes :P
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facw
> Svend
09/03/2019 at 12:04 |
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Many places in the US have mail slots in the front door, but the post office generally won’t deliver to those for new construction these days, preferring consolidated mail pickup points, or at the very least a roadside mail box. I’m pretty sure providing bad service is not the way to keep the post office relevant, though they are certainly pinched by Congressional meddling. Packages too big for the mailbox are usually left anywhere between the mailbox and your front door, depending on the laziness of the letter carrier, and how much work it is.