Royal mail parcel missing

[Wacky Racer]

There's always a chance he delivered it and someone has nipped in the garden to nick it. happens quite often.

Claim on your credit card maybe?

[A500leroy]

They will have a gps location of where its been delivered to.
If the posties nicked it they would get sacked, so i doubt they will risk a 25k job for a pair of shoes.

[Grumps.]

Try telling the online shop you bought them from.

[djc206]

A500leroy said:

They will have a gps location of where its been delivered to.
If the posties nicked it they would get sacked, so i doubt they will risk a 25k job for a pair of shoes.

They’ll have a gps location of where he claims he’s delivered it to. You’d have to prove he nicked the parcel before you could sack him and that may well be nigh on impossible if he’s been remotely smart about it. Plenty of stuff gets stolen by couriers without consequence.

[Dan_The_Man]

Where do couriers usually leave your parcels ? porch or doorstep or side gate ?

[A500leroy]

djc206 said:

A500leroy said:

They will have a gps location of where its been delivered to.
If the posties nicked it they would get sacked, so i doubt they will risk a 25k job for a pair of shoes.

They’ll have a gps location of where he claims he’s delivered it to. You’d have to prove he nicked the parcel before you could sack him and that may well be nigh on impossible if he’s been remotely smart about it. Plenty of stuff gets stolen by couriers without consequence.

Not possible in a Royal mail delivery office, theres cameras on the loading bays and the vans are checked before you leave, your not allowed to take in private bags in or out.
Itll be a simple misdelivery, or possibly stolen from safe place after postie has gone.

[anonymous-user]

Youre wasting your time. Your contract is with the seller, not the courier. Go back to the seller and let them know. They should be the ones doing the leg work and if they can't get any answers, then they have to send you another delivery.

[A500leroy]

AH HA, you should have said!

Itll be at the office somewhere, During the restructing work thats going on to a postman delivery they are giving the an excess of work which doesnt get delivered if they run over, its get taken back to the office but may have been incorrectly scanned as delivered to make the figures look better.

Get down your local sorting office and ask to speak to the com ( manager).

[Electro1980]

I’ll bet it has gone to the wrong address. We get that all the time on the estate I live on.

And, yes, your contract is with the seller, not the carrier.

[rallye101]

Doubt a real postie would do it, they still have a lot of agency staff in though...my colleague caught a hermes driver deliver a parcel/ take a photo and then stuff it down his jacket all on video from his ring doorbell

[vikingaero]

A500leroy said:

They will have a gps location of where its been delivered to.
If the posties nicked it they would get sacked, so i doubt they will risk a 25k job for a pair of shoes.

That's naive.

Try googling "[insert name of courier company] stole my parcel" and see the hundreds of news articles on stolen goods.

During the Christmas stshow when Royal Mail were on strike and the courier companies were overloaded, many couriers too advantage of the situation to rob customers left, right and centre.

[djc206]

A500leroy said:

Not possible in a Royal mail delivery office, theres cameras on the loading bays and the vans are checked before you leave, your not allowed to take in private bags in or out.
Itll be a simple misdelivery, or possibly stolen from safe place after postie has gone.

It might not be easily done at a delivery office but it is possible elsewhere. “Misdeliver” it, hide it nearby and collect in own time for example.

I would imagine a mis-delivery is the most likely scenario, for some reason our newest postie delivered every single parcel to a neighbouring street with a totally different name for months. Thankfully to an honest person. But I wouldn’t dismiss out of hand the possibility of theft.

[airsafari87]

djc206 said:

It might not be easily done at a delivery office but it is possible elsewhere. “Misdeliver” it, hide it nearby and collect in own time for example.

I would imagine an mis-delivery is the most likely scenario, for some reason our newest postie delivered every single parcel to a neighbouring street with a totally different name for months. Thankfully to an honest person. But I wouldn’t dismiss out of hand the possibility of theft.

I had something similar happen before where a parcel had been marked as delivered to me and the photo was better than that one, but it wasn’t obvious that it was at my address.

A quick query at the post office and they saw straight away that it had been delivered to the wrong address with the same door number as me, a few streets away.

So they can check when, and exactly where that photo was taken if they can be bothered to do so.

[QJumper]

Niponeoff said:

pocketspring said:

Youre wasting your time. Your contract is with the seller, not the courier. Go back to the seller and let them know. They should be the ones doing the leg work and if they can't get any answers, then they have to send you another delivery.

Yes, but it says delivered!

In which case ask the seller to provide proof of delivery and, if they send you the same picture, tell them that it doesn't prove anything.

I think you have more chance of success with the seller, or possibly your credit card company, than you do with the Post Office. The PO can't refund you anyway, as their contract is with the seller.

[egor110]

A500leroy said:

djc206 said:

A500leroy said:

They will have a gps location of where its been delivered to.
If the posties nicked it they would get sacked, so i doubt they will risk a 25k job for a pair of shoes.

They’ll have a gps location of where he claims he’s delivered it to. You’d have to prove he nicked the parcel before you could sack him and that may well be nigh on impossible if he’s been remotely smart about it. Plenty of stuff gets stolen by couriers without consequence.

Not possible in a Royal mail delivery office, theres cameras on the loading bays and the vans are checked before you leave, your not allowed to take in private bags in or out.
Itll be a simple misdelivery, or possibly stolen from safe place after postie has gone.

What do you mean ?

We used to take out breaks out on delivery so would chuck a rucksack with food/drink in the back .

Re the vans getting checked there is no way your manager is checking every single van as it arrives back at the office .

What will happen is if there's a pattern of postie x always seems to have parcels go missing , RM will start sorting planted parcels into the delivery to see if they go missing .