Parcels being left on doorsteps without being siged for

There is an unoccupied house on a road near me that has recently had it's letterbox sealed up (re-possessed by a mortgage lender) - the glass window beside the front door was piled high with mail and newspapers. Recently there were a few letters addressed to the long gone (decade or more) previous owner, just left on the doorstep - definitely a standard post delivery.

I took them and reposted as 'return to sender - address unoccupied'. I don't know why the postperson didn't do that anyway.

I recently was awaiting the delivery of a package worth €600 to my work address and opened up the office one morning to see a note from An Post saying that the package was left in the re-cycle bin outside the building. It was also the day the bin was due to be collected but luckily the bin truck had arrived before the postman, so it didn't end up on route to the re-cycle center. It was a close call though and would have been a whole heap of hassle for me to sort out.

It's always been this way. Here's a thread from 2010 with multiple examples: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055978237/missing-post-the-postman-signed-for-it/p2 I think we're just noticing it more now as people get more things delivered to their homes. There was a time that courier companies really only did deliveries to businesses. Now, in my estate, you could set your clock by the DHL, UPS, Fastway and Amazon vans that do their rounds every single day. Plus an An Post parcel delivery in the morning and the regular postman in the afternoon. The drivers want to get done as quickly as possible, and don't want to be going back to the depot with a half full van and dealing with the paperwork of undelivered items and redeliveries, so they take shortcuts. Not an excuse, just an explanation. Most of the time it works out, I guess. But we're left picking up the pieces when it doesn't.

I had a CD delivered many years ago that the postman left under my doormat. I didn't know about it until I heard the crunch under my foot as I opened my front door. No idea why he did it, as it would have fitted easily though the letterbox.

Around here (a cul-de-sac in a very quiet estate), people look out for each other if things get left outside. I've often taken in stuff for my neighbour, and them for me. That's not to say that somethin couldn't be left outside the wrong house, stolen or damaged by the weather. But, unless the vendor was customer-centric like the Adidas example above, you'd have a bit of a battle on your hands to prove that you didn't get the item.

I like this as it means I don't have to have an awkward interaction with the driver.

Yeah, they're definitely in Ennis. They've only started showing up the past month or so. Grey Mercedes Sprinters with a blue Prime swoosh on them. One comes into my estate every day. I believe they're in Dublin too.

An post have to deliver to the address and will only return if it needs to be signed for.

As for them leaving in the recycling bin, I have the feeling you are making it up.

The reason is that we use an post and meet with their operations management a couple of times a year and under no circumstances will they leave a package in a bin unless specifically directed to by the recipient.

They also can track the exact location of where a parcel has been delivered down to 3m.

I doubt it will be…

couriers deliver items of value…

jewellery, electronic goods, valuable artwork, pharmaceuticals on dry ice,…

if no proof of delivery exists, what’s to stop a courier pocketing diamonds worth thousands, or something less valuable that just might take their fancy ? any of the above left to the elements or to be half inched wouldn’t be good…leaving and delivery are not the same thing…

maybe some sort of non contact delivery where a courier can indicate by technological means that it’s been left then a customer can so the same via app when they receive it… put a name and squiggle a signature..

Courier doesn’t leave till he sees the app update and the customer take the box.

They are getting away with it because no one is willing to pay enough for the delivery driver to care. They only make a few Euro per package so might not even earn a wage on a lot of deliveries, especially in rural areas or heavy traffic.

Not my signature item was never delivered. If the sender doesn't deal with it then charge back on CC/DC

I've friends you used to be motorcycle couriers during the boom. The amount of expensive stuff they'd have left on their bikes was crazy. One had about 20kg of gold going to the Assaying office left on the back of his bike for a day, the courier companies would promise the customer direct delivery and then give the courier as many drops as they can carry. Others left expensive stuff in completely the wrong places and plenty was robbed. And that was when couriers where earning huge money, now they are earning feck all and are even busier

The courier companies don't care as they always low quote for the jobs and then pay the courier even less, the sender picks the company with the lowest quote. The couriers aren't paid enough to be waiting around for apps to update. You pay peanuts you get sh1t service.

My story is absolutely true ... It was an official An Post notification (delivery attempted doc), not completed with alternative collection details but with hand written note on back saying the package was in the bin. It was the second of two packages (sent at same time), the previous had arrived a week earlier, also attempted delivery before office was open, completed attempted delivery note was left in the letter box and the package was then collected at the local sorting office.

I had been to the sorting office twice during the week to track the progress of the second awaited package.

As said previously ... I am not making it up. Signature and location are obscured, but this was the note put in the letterbox about the €600 package delivered to a recycle bin.