RE: UPS keeping your parcels safe

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxx>]

I've got Comfort - only problem is I'm missing out on this
functionality
because I've never got up the courage to cut a large hole in the
brickwork by the front door for the doorphone :-( The brickwork is a
'Cotswold stone' style concrete block with a very rough and undulating
surface. Any pointers to how I cut a very neat box out would be very
welcome!



Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 20 January 2003 17:08
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] UPS keeping your parcels safe



Of course, those of us with Comfort don't have this problem...

...No-one home, courier comes, rings the bell, - I speak to him/her on
my 
mobile...

...I tell courier no-one's in (that usually phases them a bit!), I ask 
courier to try next door (and listen whilst he/she does so) - I can
overhear 
a conversation taking place on next door's doorstep...

...Courier tells me where he/she has left it.... (and if it's bin
collection 
day, I can make a point of telling the courier NOT to leave it in the 
wheely-bin!)

simple!

Paul G.









>From: "Jenni Lowe" <jenni@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] UPS keeping your parcels safe
>Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:29:29 -0000
>
>
> > There was a mention of a signed receipt being left in the box
so
> > the delivery person leaves the package and takes the receipt.
> >
> > Cant help thinking defeats the point in the first place.
> >
> > I suppose best thing is to get a wife or house keeper or
something...
> >
> > B.
> >
>
>get a wife?
>*hard stare*
>
>we have all sorts of problems with delivery companies,
>the worst is when they drop something off at one of the other
>houses in the estate, and dont tell us.
>What happens then is, we call our supplier to complain that
>our goods havent been delivered, they get on to the courier,
>who phones us to say, oh, it was delivered 3 days ago next door.
>We go next door, who have, of course signed for it, causing us
>problems if there is damage or so on to the parcel, as it has
>been signed for, and not refused. I appreciate our neighbours
>trying to be helpful, but we have gone anything up to 5 days
>without goods because they have accepted deliveries and not told
us.
>Personally, if neither of us are in, we prefer to go to the
>depot to collect, doesnt suit everyone, but I rather do that
>than go round all our neighbours!
>
>Jenni


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