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# SATIRE! BANG IN THE BACK OF THE NET!
:D

Although around here they are trying anew thing where they leave parcels with a neighbour, yeah great if you know your neighbour well.
(, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 16:14, archived)
# I don't get why that isn't done everywhere unless you ask not to?
I'd rather my neighbours take a parcel in than I have to collect it from the depot/it gets left in the rain on the step/gets nicked.
(and I never speak to my neighbours)
(, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 16:21, archived)
# Yes I am quite pleased with the development actually
I was getting rather fed up with traipsing all the way to the nearest sorting office at 6am before I have to go to work, then they went and closed down the nearest one (by near I mean 5miles) to the main Central Sorting Office so yes leaving it with a neighbour is infinitely better.
(, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 16:23, archived)
# It's okay, providing that your neighbour isn't a thieving pikey scumbag who will deny all knowledge.
(, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 16:35, archived)
# That is the problem.
(, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 16:48, archived)
# I don't get why "Deliver to my cornershop" isn't a scheme.
- They are widely distributed.
- They are open long hours, and pretty much every day there's a postal service.
- Chances are, you visit there anyway.
- The shops get increased footfall, community profile, and the odds of impulse spending.

I'd rather nip down the street that day; than take a bus and a long walk, twice, to visit the sorting office (once 24h for reprocessing has elapsed).

I know you can chose "redeliver to local post office", but there's a one pound charge for that; and the 'local' post office is not very local.

ID is not an issue, just use the same red cards you have to take to the sorting office; although they might well recognise you without them.
(, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 16:43, archived)
# This sounds like a sensible plan.
(, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 16:49, archived)
# our nearest corner shop is 5 miles away :(
(, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 16:51, archived)
# Yeah, that doesn't always work out so well
they can have a very loose definition of "neighbour"


(de-ris)
(, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 19:43, archived)