Help Needed

[BipolarStacker]

So basically when I purchase from someone and they want to send it special delivery which needs a signature from me.

it’s hard because I work 6 days a week and can never sign for it so basically what I’m asking is what do I do ??

tavex send it to my local post office and I collect it Saturday around 1pm with my ID 🪪 

Can anyone advice what I can do when I buy on here and am not gonna be in where can I get the TSF member to send it 

[Roy]

Just go to the post office with your 'sorry, you weren't in' card, collect and sign.

[BipolarStacker]

My only days of are Sunday post office is shut my local post office opens Saturday which when I order from tavex I got Saturday just before they close but if I miss a parcel it goes to sorting office in town which isn’t open Saturday so I carbt get it 

[Roy]

Special delivery requires a signature.

if you are not in, it will be taken back to the Post Office for you to collect.

 

[Roy]

Is your wife in?

Mum? lol

[BipolarStacker]

That can not be only option as tavex send it straight to my post office 

my question basically is can a normal person do that if I have them my post office adress ?? 
 

or is it just a buisness that can do that 

[TheShinyStuff]

There's every chance the postie will just stick it through your letterbox anyway (if it fits) - I haven't been asked for a signature since covid!

Otherwise as per @Roy you can just collect it from the delivery office.

[BipolarStacker]

Just now, Roy said:

Is your wife in?

Mum? lol

No wife works also she is a manager of a care home so more hours than me 

honestly this is a question I ask because it’s a serious problem for me but dealers online will send to post office 

[TheShinyStuff]

Or maybe have it sent to friend/relative?

[TheShinyStuff]

Or your place of work if possible. There's always a way to get your hands on some shiny!

[Gordy]

1 minute ago, TheShinyStuff said:

There's every chance the postie will just stick it through your letterbox anyway (if it fits) - I haven't been asked for a signature since covid!

Otherwise as per @Roy you can just collect it from the delivery office.

for about the last 3 months or so our postal service in the NE has started making signatures priority again, first we get a card saying "we will attempt again tomorrow" then if that fails it goes to our local sorting office for pick up

They stopped just posting through letterboxes a while back for us

2 minutes ago, BipolarStacker said:

No wife works also she is a manager of a care home so more hours than me 

honestly this is a question I ask because it’s a serious problem for me but dealers online will send to post office 

ask the seller to send it to the care home, shes the manager, surely she can collect personal mail if its addressed C/O Mrs Bipolar etc etc

[BipolarStacker]

Guys I don’t think we are in same page 😂

 

tavex send my goods straight to my local post office (walk in post office) 

so if tavex do it can another person 

if Royal Mail miss it they send it sorting office and where I live it’s open Monday Wednesday Friday 

[TheShinyStuff]

Just now, BipolarStacker said:

Guys I don’t think we are in same page 😂

 

tavex send my goods straight to my local post office (walk in post office) 

so if tavex do it can another person 

if Royal Mail miss it they send it sorting office and where I live it’s open Monday Wednesday Friday 

Don't know - phone the post office in question and ask perhaps?

[BipolarStacker]

2 minutes ago, Gordy said:

for about the last 3 months or so our postal service in the NE has started making signatures priority again, first we get a card saying "we will attempt again tomorrow" then if that fails it goes to our local sorting office for pick up

They stopped just posting through letterboxes a while back for us

ask the seller to send it to the care home, shes the manager, surely she can collect personal mail if its addressed C/O Mrs Bipolar etc etc

I’m lay in bed with mrs bipolar now and just read this out loud and we both raised our eye brows and said why have we not thought of this 😂😂

[TheShinyStuff]

Problem solved. TSF strikes again!

[Bigmarc]

I had something delivered the other day from a member on tsf. I wasn't in so they left a card saying they would try again and only after the second attempt I could go to collect from post office. 

 

[Spyder]

It is very simple. When the member gives you the tracking number, go on royal mail site

https://www.royalmail.com/track-your-item#/

Once the package is travelling, you can get it diverted and picked from a local address like a shop or post office. Very simple

[James32]

39 minutes ago, BipolarStacker said:

So basically when I purchase from someone and they want to send it special delivery which needs a signature from me.

it’s hard because I work 6 days a week and can never sign for it so basically what I’m asking is what do I do ??

tavex send it to my local post office and I collect it Saturday around 1pm with my ID 🪪 

Can anyone advice what I can do when I buy on here and am not gonna be in where can I get the TSF member to send it 

Another thing you can possibly do is get a PO box.. not sure on opening hours in your local area, so will need research. Personally I'd go with Gordy's idea and get it delivered to you or your wife's work!

[Thelonerangershorse]

Still better if people use Special delivery rather than an other like EVERI, they're a whole new world of pain.

[flyingveepixie]

7 hours ago, Gordy said:

for about the last 3 months or so our postal service in the NE has started making signatures priority again,

I'm still getting 90% of them dropped through the letterbox.  I don't mind but for the implications of it being one day dropped through the wrong letterbox and picked up by some unscrupulous person, and there being no signature or doorstep pic to show where it was delivered.  Very very occasionally the postie might ring the doorbell to get me to sign, but most of the time it's just pushed through.  Seems to be only certain posties who will insist on a signature.

Edited August 18, 2023 by flyingveepixie

[silvergaga]

I agree with get a PO Box, like @cobrastacker.

[Zhorro]

8 hours ago, TheShinyStuff said:

Or maybe have it sent to friend/relative?

I'm sure many sellers will not send it to an address other than the registered address.

[Zhorro]

8 hours ago, Spyder said:

It is very simple. When the member gives you the tracking number, go on royal mail site

https://www.royalmail.com/track-your-item#/

Once the package is travelling, you can get it diverted and picked from a local address like a shop or post office. Very simple

If this is the case, what is there to stop anyone going on-line and changing the delivery address?

[Zhorro]

13 minutes ago, silvergaga said:

I agree with get a PO Box, like @cobrastacker.

I've seen a number of sellers on eBay saying they will not send to a PO Box.

[Gordy]

10 minutes ago, Zhorro said:

I'm sure many sellers will not send it to an address other than the registered address.

That's probably right for businesses but he's talking about buying off here