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In Australia you don't even need to have a bowel movement to miss a delivery. Here Australia Post just drops the "Sorry we missed you!" card straight into the letterbox, without even ringing the doorbell, let alone actually having the parcel with them.
As a result, we no longer accept mail to our house and get it delivered to a post office box instead. Pick-up is at our convenience.
We have that with Purolator, guy didn't knock just sticker, didn't even have package out of the truck. I was yelling trying to get his attention as he walked off, he did not even bother looking back. Another time work shipped me a $4000 workstation with signature request. They didn't bother walking up the 3 steps to the house, just left it on the path at bottom of steps near the main road sidewalk. I only saw it because I kept checking if they had arrived yet...had I been 5-10 minutes later somebody would have seen it and could have walked off with it.
I'd heard Australia Post is looking to improve this by experimenting with flying drone technology. Drones will be able to place the “Sorry we missed you!” card straight into the letterbox from a central dispatch location without having to do the expensive and time consuming step of sending a driver to put the note there by hand.
This got a chuckle out of me man, thanks.
Given their past performance and processes .. it's entirely possible for this to actually happen.
I lived in Australia for a few years and this baffled me for the longest time. I kept missing deliveries even though I was home, and it was only when I queried it with the local post office that they told me that the posties don't even bother carrying parcels around. They just leave them at the post office and card everyone as standard.
If they do that because of efficiency, why bother with the cards at all? Just set up an auto email when it's at the post office for pickup.
Same for Germany - quite often at lest.
Australia Post blames the increase in online shopping and have done so for decades.
They keep making "normal" mail more expensive, keep reducing delivery routes and increase time for post to arrive.
Parcels regularly travel across the globe in hours, sit at Australia Post for a week, get shipped across the country in a process that takes days, then sits in a warehouse 17 km away for 10 business days before a delivery is even attempted.
As far as I can tell, they're in a self induced death spiral and they managed to get the one person who was actually turning it around, fired.
She now runs Team Global Express (formerly known as Toll Global Express), you might have heard of her, the first female CEO of the Year in 2015, Christine Holgate.
I thought you were joking but this is actually true?!
That's bananas but I really shouldn't throw stones as an American.
Happens to me in Canada. Get home after work to a UPS package, a FedEx package, and a Purolator package in the lobby, and a card from CanadaPost saying they couldn't deliver.
It really depends on volume of deliveries, area, etc. but yes I've experienced the sorry we missed you cards many times knowing for a fact I was home all day and checking the mailbox. Nobody rings. I don't think they have the parcel. I bet they just say okay, we don't have time/we can't be bothered with these ones so let's just drop the card.
Exact same thing happened to me with usps today. UPS is just as bad, if I have a Saturday delivery scheduled, I'm 100% getting it on Monday due to "business closed". I don't live at a business.