Please make sure that your House Number is clearly marked and can be easily seen from the other side of the road!
if you do this I guarantee that your deliveries, whether they be postal or food deliveries, will arrive sooner and that they will hardly ever go astray!
so if your number is hard to see then get a pot of white paint and go out and paint your number on your gatepost!
I am a delivery driver and I can tell you that if a driver knows that a particular house is easy to find and he has multiple deliveries, he is going to the easy ones first!
also if he has a delivery on a street that is notorious for not having numbers then he will go there last!
yes, I know we delivery drivers shouldn’t do these things but we do, we are only human after all!
also with food deliveries, if your food is always turning up late and cold. the best way to get out of this is to start tipping the driver!
once a driver knows he will get a good tip, he will bump you up in the delivery order!
bribery works!!!
also if you find that no matter where you order food from it always turns up cold.
then you need to ask yourself, can my house number be seen from the other side of the road on a dark and rainy night and if the answer is NO, then it is obvious why your food turns up late and cold!
so in short please make sure your house number is clearly marked if you want your deliveries sooner.
and it will cut down or even stop your deliveries from going to the wrong house!
merry Christmas all and I hope all your deliveries arrive on time!
I like Royal Mail. The posties don’t seem to need bribes.
This year, I had a few thoughts as the wind screeched up the driveway of the HMO ( house of multiple occupancy) where I live, and the rain poured down.
I bought a very large tin of Quality Street, and gave it to my usual postman as he was unloading a sack from his van just down the road from me. That went down well.
the bigger and more expensive the house the smaller the tip!
seriously
you go to a house on some rough council estate and they will tip a fiver!
you go to a million-pound house in a gated community and they will stand there with their hand out for a penny change!!!
I would have assumed owners of “million pound houses” would prepay for orders. During the present public health emergency, contactless or prepay is safer than cash. I hardly handle cash at all these days.
tobe fair, most people do order online and prepay their orders now.
but,
iv been doing food delivery for 25 years and
“you go to a house on some rough council estate and they will tip a fiver!
you go to a million-pound house in a gated community and they will stand there with their hand out for a penny change!!!”
is something I realized in my first year,
it’s been a basic rule of thumb ever since. and in the 20 odd years since then nothing has ever happened to challenge that saying"
ok, let’s get back to today’s prepayment.
because of prepayment, it is very rare that you actually get a tip from a prepaid.
so when you do you remember it.
back in the day, b4 prepay you would on average get ÂŁ5 tips on weeknights and ÂŁ10 to ÂŁ15 each night on weekends.
today you are very lucky if you can get ÂŁ5 tips over a weekend!
tomorrow night Christmas eve should be an exception, Christmas eve and new years eve have always been good nights for tips, however, iv got a feeling that this year it might be different!
but we shall see and i will report back!
Not all delivery drivers go to the easier street first, nor to the guaranteed tips.
Our drivers get an order of delivery to follow, to shorten the driving time.
But indeed not seeing house numbers does delay things.
We are the corner house in a close with our number clearly displayed but have to constantly redirect delivery drivers who confuse us with a property on the main road with the same number.
yeah every shop iv worked at does that BUT once the driver is out the door they will do their own thing!.
unless the shop tracks them in real-time!!! most shops don’t!
@y0ungn1ck yes corner houses can be a pain,
try getting yourself one of those numbers that has the street name on it as well.
you can get them on ebay i think and there is even a backlight version that can be read from far away!
it probably won’t stop driver walking down your path but it will stop them knocking on the door!
Most deliveries we’ve had this week the driver is back in their van and off before we’ve got to the door. I always say leave in the porch if it won’t go through the letter box, saves them knocking. I like to thank them when I can catch them, they are very much in a hurry though.
Our post lady got some chocs this year and the farm delivery lady we get our meat and eggs from got a bottle of wine, they’ve both been great. We’ve stopped having other food delivered (takeaway) and prefer to collect that.
I can relate to the difference in areas, I had different delivery areas many years ago working for Royal Mail. The new estate with rather large houses never expected anything from them but it was an absolute nightmare finding addresses, the residents weren’t very welcoming but very quick to complain. On the flip side the less affluent area I later moved on to the folk were the most friendly I’ve met. You’d think twice about parking a nice car there overnight and expect the wheels to be still on in the morning.
We used to tip the postman and bin men however this last two years the change of staff has been quite unreal ….so we made a donation to my charity soldier’s off the streets….
I know we should keep off politics BUT it does annoy the hell out of me that government shirks its responsibility to such a high degree that we need to have charities to look after our ex-soldiers!
it is an utterly disgusting state of affairs!
also, I tip my hat to @exiled-viking for donating to such a noble charity!
My surly neighbour has complained that too many delivery vans are delivering stuff on our cul-de-sac street and using my frontage and the one belonging to the house opposite us to turn round on. She lives at the end, opposite us and the vans don’t even go as far down as her frontage. For some reason she thinks it’s my fault. Yet the vans aren’t delivering stuff here.
Totally agree with the number thing, i’v just done a delivery job for crimbo and small, non existant or covered by a door wreath house numbers is the biggest pain in the rear i’v come across.
On the tip subject a chap i knew used to have his own taxi’s and he used to say most of his work and tips came from people that could least afford it.
I should think a road like mine is a delivery driver’s nightmare. Five miles long, the last four of which are rural with scattered farms, businesses and houses that have names, not numbers, and no street lighting!
We had or rather should have had a Tesco delivery once and it was a new driver. He delivered to another Number 3 around the corner from us, teenage son signed for it and put all the grocery away for when his Mom got home
Unfortunatly 28 doesn’t always come between 26 and 30, on my street alone we are number 15 and there are 4 houses between us and number 13 and 14 isn’t one of them, we have two houses with names and the sat navs they give you don’t understand names, then we also have 13a and 13b. Then you have some roads numbered 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 rather than odds one side evens the other then you have estates where you have a row of houses say 1-7 then 8-15 is somewhere else trust me bluebird before i did this crimbo job i’d of thought along your lines but now i can see exactly where Thibor is coming from.
Just the day before christmas eve i spent about 25mins looking for a house in a village called Linton i found 75 and 55 with only a field between and i wanted 73 it turned out it was at the rear of 75 on what looked like a different road and thats not even going into newbuilds that the satnav says doesn’t exist.
The only positive thing is the more you cover an area you get to learn the intricases of it.
