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  • #62
    [Deleted User]
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    I've had items delivered numerous times to my house which is fairly rural.
    DPD, Fastway, UPS, GLS, Nightline.

    Its usually the same drivers so I'm actually on first name terms with some of them.

    I'm only in this house 3 years now but from the off I was ALWAYS pleasant to postman, binman and couriers. It has paid off. Postman allows me collect items from his house, I have his mobile number, binmen take extra bags and have waited for me to load up their lorry.
    Couriers ring me all the time and arrange for delivery if I'm not there. Be it somewhere on the road, a shop etc. But they always call to the house first. I always offer them a cup of tea or more importantly if they'd like to use the toilet.


    They are people too and a little bit of slack or courtesy Id bet is always welcomed, just as we'd welcome it in our own jobs.


  • #63
    marklazarcovic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,231 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    TheTorment wrote: »
    I've had items delivered numerous times to my house which is fairly rural.
    DPD, Fastway, UPS, GLS, Nightline.

    Its usually the same drivers so I'm actually on first name terms with some of them.

    I'm only in this house 3 years now but from the off I was ALWAYS pleasant to postman, binman and couriers. It has paid off. Postman allows me collect items from his house, I have his mobile number, binmen take extra bags and have waited for me to load up their lorry.
    Couriers ring me all the time and arrange for delivery if I'm not there. Be it somewhere on the road, a shop etc. But they always call to the house first. I always offer them a cup of tea or more importantly if they'd like to use the toilet.


    They are people too and a little bit of slack or courtesy Id bet is always welcomed, just as we'd welcome it in our own jobs.


    as a postie i can say this is what happens with me a lot,nice people get a xtra service free of charge,i expect noting in return,there are maybe 20/30 nice people on my route,ones id speak to most days,know where their relatives live and if on my route ill call there for them with a parcel if there not home,

    if its off my route but on my journey back to office ill go there for them no problem.. costs me nothing to be nice,makes my job easier and customers life easier.

    most customers we barley meet due to them working etc but if asked id help anyone out if i could . we dont get overtime for delivering to rural areas unless covering sick leave and doing xtra work,if its on our route we gotta go there if it has mail,simple as that.

    christmas is mental for an post,and for our customers,hiding parcels from kids to help parents out(santa) is a normal occurrence,as is delivering something xmas eve that they were panicking over not arriving .. its mental but i love it.. its the indoors part of my job i hate ,the politics and clampdowns on staff who are like me,helping customers and going the xtra yard free of charge..

    like most big companies the guy on the street is treated worst.

    sorry ,bit of a rant ..

    be nice to your postie,its free and he/she will help you out,for free.


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