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Home-alone, waiting for a parcel, which carrier e-mails as due 17:30~~19:30 today...

So, which plan ??
1) Head to wash-room just before 17:30, hope delivery arrives before next 'outage'.
2) Head to wash-room just before 17:30, go again to wash-room when must, hoping Murphy's Law doesn't ring door while you're busy...
3) Head to wash-room just before 17:30, then at ~18:45, then again at ~19:45 because delivery is running late.
4) All of the above.

Yes, #4 as, at 20:49 e-mail arrives saying will now deliver tomorrow...

Thank you, 'Hapless He##mes', recently re-branded as 'Wrong Ev#i Time'...

They were bad, now worse!

Could be worse, DPD told me they were delivering a parcel between 1400 and 1500 last weekend. 1500 came and went. No updates. Checked my email. Apparently it got delivered at 1405, and claimed I'd signed for it. With a nice delivery photo.

In a bin. Not my bin, mind. Someone else's. Who? Good question. The contents of a bin, with no context, in very low resolution,
doesn't really help determine that.

Fortunately, one of the neighbours went to put their rubbish out and saw a nice shiny parcel addressed to me, because still waiting for DPD to respond to my complaint that I haven't received the parcel.

Our 'half a ring-road' arcs through four (4) postal districts sharing same house numbers but sufficiently different area codes.
Well, usually...
In the end, I despaired of 'anonymous' delivery photos, with packages half-shoved into not-my-letterbox in/beside not-my-door, or behind not-my-bins.
I added a second set of house-number and area code characters just above my door's letter box. Also, big, hi-vis 'sticky' numbers to my bins.
Shiny, they show very well on smart-phone pics...
Several times since, I've heard an unexpected delivery attempt terminate with a cry of, eg 'WTF ??' as perp realises their error at final check-point...

FWIW, when the Ev#i courier showed up at lunch-time today, I politely sympathised with him over yesterday's terrible traffic. After a snatched breath, for he obviously expected brick-bats at best, he indicated that traffic was almost as bad today, already...

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