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Deliveries going missing
TheToonArmy
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Need some advice.
There are 2 other addresses the same as our address in a 1.5 mile radius.
The delivery drivers satnavs seems to take them to one of the others 2 addresses. Never had a satnav so I dont know the process of finding an address.
Over the years we have had about £1000 of deliveries go missing, luckly we managed to get the money back from all of them.
But today, we were getting a freezer delivered, the driver phoned up to say he was on his way, we put special instructions on the delivery note to say exactly where we were and to phone upon delivery.
The satnav took them to the wrong address, the driver and his mate said the woman took one look and rushed them into the house, they both felt something was wrong so they phoned us back, we assured them they were at the wrong address and they left.
They would not tell us which address they took it too but said the woman acted dodgy thats why they phoned to confirm.
Our son last year was getting fed during the night through a nose feeder, we got monthly deliveries of the food which some months would go missing, one of the drivers commented that he had delivered it to the wrong house and noticed in the yard loads of boxes of feed.
Its getting ridiculous that we think twice about getting deliveries.
Its just plain stupid to have 3 addreses the same in a 1.5 mile radius, but what can we do.
If a delivery goes missing, can I phone the police if the company confirms it has been delievered or am I just wasting my time.
There are 2 other addresses the same as our address in a 1.5 mile radius.
The delivery drivers satnavs seems to take them to one of the others 2 addresses. Never had a satnav so I dont know the process of finding an address.
Over the years we have had about £1000 of deliveries go missing, luckly we managed to get the money back from all of them.
But today, we were getting a freezer delivered, the driver phoned up to say he was on his way, we put special instructions on the delivery note to say exactly where we were and to phone upon delivery.
The satnav took them to the wrong address, the driver and his mate said the woman took one look and rushed them into the house, they both felt something was wrong so they phoned us back, we assured them they were at the wrong address and they left.
They would not tell us which address they took it too but said the woman acted dodgy thats why they phoned to confirm.
Our son last year was getting fed during the night through a nose feeder, we got monthly deliveries of the food which some months would go missing, one of the drivers commented that he had delivered it to the wrong house and noticed in the yard loads of boxes of feed.
Its getting ridiculous that we think twice about getting deliveries.
Its just plain stupid to have 3 addreses the same in a 1.5 mile radius, but what can we do.
If a delivery goes missing, can I phone the police if the company confirms it has been delievered or am I just wasting my time.
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I'm the same as you with addresses, but have only had the odd letter go astray. I really don't know what to advise but hopefully someone will be along soon who does.
I dont know what their post codes are but they wont be the same, it will be the same first 3 chars.
I have never had a sat nav but I assume they are keying in the address and not the postcode and selecting the address that comes up, the wrong address.
Google maps comes up with my address, when the post code is entered.
When only the street and town, it comes up with one of the others.
They're actually a number, while I'm a number + A but they insist on adding A to their address as well.
This causes more confusion for deliveries. My address for mail is really precise, saying where it's next to but the odd parcel still goes missing, especially if the regular postie is on holiday or it's a different delivery company.
Sadly the other tenants are thieving ***** so it's a bit of a black hole at their house as I've pretty much no chance of seeing my mail again if it goes there.
We do inform the suppliers, some listen and some don't. Any items of value which are small we have started to get them delivered to my daughters house.
We have a guess who the culprit is out of the other 2 houses but have no proof.
The driver today would not tell us which one it was today.
One parcel went missing last year ( £650 ), but this time the van had GPS tracking, when we complained it was not delivered they checked the vans logs and they confirmed it was delivered to the wrong house, I eventually after a month got my money back but did not find out what happened after that.
thought of that too. how would you go about enquiring about that.
Presumably the OP's neighbours have the same problem. Have they found a solution?
Worse case is they say they cannot do anything, nothing ventured.
There's this option:
http://www.postoffice.co.uk/collection-services
Would that help? I know it's not fair and an inconvenience to you but far better than all this wrangling. Temporarily, at least.
Yes, everybody I have talked too.
Then ask for everything she has kept of yours in return for not reporting her to the police for theft. If she doesn't comply then simply report her.
That's a cunningly simple but effective plan!
Takes me to my address, all addresses have an FK2 postcode
Just call me baldrick
On one occasion I got a letter from BT telling me that they were moving my telephone number to a new address. Somehow the people at the other address had ailed to give their post code and BT assumed my address.
Don't do that - it's classed as blackmail, which is illegal. (Mind you, she'd need an independent, credible witness to what you said.)
Surely blackmail is extorting money/goods that don't belong to you but this is attempting to get the OPs own property back.
its akin to saying "you stole my property, return it and I won't go to the police" in other words, giving the thief an opportunity to return stolen goods.
You will not be be guilty of blackmail if it reasonable to believe that your demand is warranted. Asking for your stuff back would be warrented.
The only thing to be aware of is it is no longer the property of the OP as they have already had a replacement/refund. Therefore its the property of the originating vendor.
But the OP said that they've managed to get refunds for eveything that's gone missing (except for, presumably, the freezer), which means that those goods aren't the OP's property any more.