I had this scamming text arrive today from a mobile phone number I don't have in my contacts and has never texted me before. EVRI: Our driver attempted today to deliver a parcel but no one answered. Track and reschedule delivery at (dubious link) it obviously isn't genuine and has many flaws but seriously an Evri driver knocking and waiting for someone to answer! in which parallel universe does that happen?
Our post man rings the doorbell, then knocks, then rings the doorbell again, then knocks again, and then tries the doorbell a third time. By which point, either m or my wife have managed to leave our office, so that we can let him know we're at work and where to leave the parcel. Always in the same place. And he always acts as though we shouldn't be working for a living.
Our dustbin men have created a brilliant game, it’s not got an official name but I like to call it “who’s drive will our bin be outside of this week” oh how we laugh.
That’s good too when they play ‘let’s not empty it cos it’s 5mm ajar’…….its a particular family favourite of ours
This morning I received a (legitimate) email telling me that "Due to changes within the Bosch Group, SingleKey ID will no longer be provided by Bosch.IO GmbH but by Robert Bosch GmbH" and a snail mail telling me that "[North Northamptonshire Council] … have been working to improve [their] processes and … the first stage of this is to change your Council Tax account reference number [which] is used in the processing of your Direct Debit". Seriously, how many f*cks is a man supposed to give?
Funnily enough we had an Evri delivery yesterday. He knocked on the door and rang the bell almost simultaneously. I was sitting only a couple of yards from the door so was opening it within seconds only to find him marching away towards where the bins are. I called him back and he handed it over with a sour face. Maybe having to open the gate and then walk all the way to our door was too much for him. Surprised he didn’t just drop it half way between gate and door.
Oh I'm sure they are working to a tight schedule with more parcels than time to deliver them, but it's ridiculous that they don't even give you time to answer the door, especially when I did it so quickly. We're in a pretty safe place to be honest - two properties enclosed by gates with the big house and our cottage next door so he could have dropped it anywhere on the big gravelled area and no one outside on our quiet lane would have seen it. Mary, the Lakeland Terrier next door, might have found it first and peed on it, but that's another story. Anyway parcel safely delivered and he did well to find us, but it would be nice if these drivers were given more realistic delivery schedules that actually allow them to wait a few seconds at least.
