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16-08-2018, 03:21 PM | #26 | |||
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Samsung couldn't track the TV down (the neighbours moved it to a family members house) so they gave us a new one free of charge.
The neighbours returned the TV once they found out the police were called and sow we have two smart tv's as Samsung never came to collect their replacement one |
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16-08-2018, 03:21 PM | #27 | |||
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16-08-2018, 03:21 PM | #28 | |||
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16-08-2018, 03:22 PM | #29 | |||
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Because the courier left a note to say it was there, and the neighbours returned it after finding out the police were called
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16-08-2018, 03:22 PM | #30 | |||
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Nah we phoned them a week or so later and they said to keep it as compensation for the hardship
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16-08-2018, 03:25 PM | #31 | ||
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16-08-2018, 03:35 PM | #32 | ||
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Mostly I'm happy to take parcels, except for our actual next door neighbour. I'd take a parcel for them, open it, literally smother it in dog****, wrap it back up then leave it on their doorstep. I guess. But that sounds like more effort than they're worth.
...we don't get on. |
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16-08-2018, 03:44 PM | #33 | |||
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16-08-2018, 04:18 PM | #34 | |||
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My husband works in law, so would be hypocritical... but those things do come up on lie detector tests as well... Unless you've managed to convince yourself it isn't stealing, which is possible? It just depends on how the question is framed.. if someone dropped money on the ground or that person capitalized on someone elses dumb mistake, then they may not think that of that as stealing persay, but "capitalizing"... so depending on how that is framed, it could probably be picked up... but I imagine a lot of people would fail that line of questioning... it's all in how you ask it... Companies can actually be quite good as far as customer service goes... My grandmother fell out of contract on her electric and didn't let us know, so I went to renegotiate it yesterday (her bill was YUGE)... anyway, they saw how long she'd been out and right at the beginning of the phonecall they said they'd give her a credit.. anyway, at the end they offered a $244 "Loyalty" credit in edition to lowered fees.. I nearly choked as I couldn't believe it... and yes, she is quite happy Last edited by Maru; 16-08-2018 at 04:19 PM. |
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16-08-2018, 04:24 PM | #35 | |||
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...yeah I do...it’s a great opportunity to chat with the neighbours and touch base and catch up when they come to collect them...or when I go collect mine from them etc...it can take an hour or so to collect a parcel and have a little chat....
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16-08-2018, 04:41 PM | #36 | |||
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Depends on your neighbours....Its something we have always done because my husband works from home. However we took a delivery of two large boxes that ended up sitting in our dining room for 2 days and in the end we had to lug the bloody things around to their house...then they moaned that there was a hole in one of the boxes and ultimately we signed for something that could have been damaged... We stopped doing it for them...they never said sorry or thank you.
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16-08-2018, 04:49 PM | #37 | |||
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It's probably just easier to have UPS/Post hold it at their facility and just pick it up that way if trust is an issue... unless it's super important, like medical/time-sensitive dealies...
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16-08-2018, 04:58 PM | #38 | |||
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Yes, always.
Although it went through an annoying spell when the son next door discovered Amazon....parcels every day for weeks, and the whole household worked But I always smiled sweetly when they knocked on the door for them. We have had quite a few deliveries at the bungalow, as we haven’t moved in yet our new neighbour Keith will take charge. Good way to break the ice, we know his life story now, as does he ours |
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16-08-2018, 05:01 PM | #39 | |||
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My Nana is always home and she takes all the neighbours parcels in if delivered when they're not home. She then gets her walker out and takes it across to them if she sees them come home. She can't get about very well so that's nice for her to get about a bit without over doing it.
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16-08-2018, 05:03 PM | #40 | |||
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honestly it's not an obligation but it's a nice thing to do. depends how you feel about your neighbours i guess
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16-08-2018, 05:04 PM | #41 | |||
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I think if I had to leave a parcel, I would tell them to leave with him. Just because we got on so well... he is not really adjacent to us in terms of seeing them when they come in and out as it's on a different street that loops away from ours, so there is no other reason we would've met, so that was nice... |
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16-08-2018, 05:25 PM | #42 | |||
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16-08-2018, 05:56 PM | #43 | |||
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i always refuse to accept parcels for neighbours. The delivery company get paid enough, they just want to avoid coming back. There are drop off points locally too, so if someone isn't going to be in to receive a delivery, they should send it to the drop off point.
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17-08-2018, 02:07 AM | #44 | |||
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I said yes because its usually on the same street, so there's no issue with it as the neighbour is either next door or just across . It's the polite thing to do and the favour is returned aswell .
Unless you're on bad terms with your neighbours or you get burdened alot with their parcels, then there shouldn't be a problem . |
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17-08-2018, 03:58 PM | #45 | |||
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I do take parcels but my neighbour sometimes takes the piss. Like I recently refused delivery of her new bed.
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17-08-2018, 03:59 PM | #46 | ||
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I don't take them anymore, as my neighbours refuse to do it for me and one of them actually had a go at me for not bringing her parcel round the second she got in from work, while I was dealing with a ill child (who actually ended up in hospital that night), so basically, **** them.
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17-08-2018, 04:28 PM | #47 | |||
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