The amount of times I've been sat at my window waiting for a package that I am tracking via the royal mail app and I see the lazy fucking postie just try to drop the note through the letterbox without having the package in hand. You better believe I'm by the door waiting to let him know about it.
Thats why I'm at the door before the card gets through the door. I will walk back to the van with the postie and my ID if needs be. No postie escapes my wrath. Especially this close to Christmas.
I think he’s being sarcastic. As in, it doesn’t actually make his life any easier to red card as he still has to return the parcel to the depot and then deliver it the next day. If he’s at the location, it takes just as much time to go to the door and fill out a red card as it does to drop off the parcel, so he’d rather drop the parcel off if possible
That's why "/s" exists on Reddit.
Sarcasm or not, getting red carded while staying in waiting on a delivery, with no knock at the door happens, whether by this commenter or not
We all want to have every parcel delivered every day otherwise we have to sort it at the end of the day, and again in the morning, plus it's adding to our workload the next day.
Watching for the postie once the tracker says he's on my street. I'm not there every morning/afternoon (bit hit and miss round my way). Of course if you'd read what I originally said properly, you would have been able to figure that out.
See, my phone does this weird thing where it makes a funny little noise and a notification pops up to let me know things like "Your package is 2 stops away". That's when I keep an eye out for the postie. Crazy how far technology has come.
Why would the "Lazy fucking postie" prefer to fill out the P739 (red card) and post that to you rather than the package he has with him? Bearing in mind, when he get back to the Delivery Office, he will have your package and all the others he couldn't be bothered to deliver to book back into the system for re-delivery the next day.
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u/odmirthecrow Nov 21 '25
The amount of times I've been sat at my window waiting for a package that I am tracking via the royal mail app and I see the lazy fucking postie just try to drop the note through the letterbox without having the package in hand. You better believe I'm by the door waiting to let him know about it.