A while back, Artemis, there was a discussion on scams on the radio that I heard, I can't remember which station, which concluded that some delivery companies send emails asking people to sign for permission for such parcels to be left by the door, if the courier finds nobody in. (So if it goes missing, it's your fault!)
OH is expecting a parcel delivery and, seemingly in relation to that, he received an email today asking him to sign for it...in advance!
Surely, that cannot be right.
He just laughed and said, "I'm doing no such thing. They need to try harder!"
The odd thing is that the email address is right. Is the email poorely expressed, perhaps? I've never heard of any delivery company asking for a signature before delivery.
How can you sign for something (by email) to say you have received an item - that you haven't received yet!!!?
I've been intrigued by this. Artemis, if you say that the email address is correct, I trust it is; therefore, I expect there's some error in the form of expression.
We always receive emails to tell us that the item has been dispatched and a tracking link but never a request for any signatures. Perhaps, as Helen says, they were asking for permission to leave the package by the door or to throw it over the garden gate(!) but ran out of ink!
Refusing to sign is the wisest thing to do, I think.
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Your OH is a wise person.
Thank you, JennyJ.