Amazon has been a real pain the the jacksie as far as we're concerned. The rented flat we were in has two entrances and has lifts going to different floors. The A drivers just dump all the parcels for the entire block in the communal room (not a recption, there's no receptionist) in first entrance they came to, despite being told many times that items for certain floors should go to the second entrance. My husband (late 50s ) had to cart several heavy packages out of entrance 1 into entrance 2 to get them up to our floor. In addition, some of the block's residents don't bother closing the entrance door properly behind them and groups of youths have been coming in and helping themselves.
Whilst rescuing one of our packages from the wrong entrance, he also spotted one for a close neighbour and put it through their letterbox, with a quick note to say what he'd done. They joked that they were astounded that A had dramatically improved their delivery service.
When we lived at our our house before going to Ukraine, a bin man knocked on the door. He was Eastern European judging by his accent and had excellent English. He handed me a parcel and said "This was on top of the bin but it doesn't look like rubbish to me." It wasn't rubbish! It was a parcel with something new that an Amazon delivery idiot had just dumped on top of the bin.
Well, A is cheap and convenient. I guess you get monkeys if you pay peanuts.
Thank goodness for the bin man's good sense and honesty. I meant to write and praise him to his employer, but you know how life gets in the way sometimes. I regret I didn't. (That guy was probably a medical doctor or equivalent in wherever he came from but had to take whatever job he could get here.) Life is not fair. We know that But it doesn't hurt to remember how other people are suffering.
And why do we get so many British millionaire or billionaire Prime Ministers? That seems to make it even less fair.
So, you're scared to go to the bog all day. You just know that the minute you sit down they'll ring the bell.
