I've just assumed that they take a pic of the parcel in my hands. Do you think it's a full photo Woodgreen?
I must admit @Uff, I'm more accustomed to being the one holding the phone to take pictures of plants and views, so I can't be sure, but I have felt uncomfortable having the phone aimed at me by a stranger. I did say to one guy who handed it over the gate 'That is a photo of the package isn't it, not me?' He just laughed.
If there's a facility when ordering I ask that a parcel should be left in the open porch if I'm not home, (which also covers my being out of sight or hearing of a delivery when I'm at the far end of the garden.) I got used to them just leaving it on the shelf or the mat during lockdowns, but I can see the necessity for proof of delivery.
That all seems very complicated. Here we have to sign on a digital screen. If we're not in we get a note in the letterbox or a text to say it's been dropped off at the PO or a relay point which can be one of 3 local shops depending on courier.
No chucking parcels over fences or dumping them behind bins/walls/whatever.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Properties around here are quite spread out and some postcodes are of little help to couriers ( they seem to have improved lately though.) But during lockdown one package was abandoned at the church gates!
The digital screens seemed to be discontinued when Covid arrived @Obelixx. I haven't seen once since.
My wife laughs when she receives an email to prove her package was delivered - and a photo of my feet. Given the condition of my gardening footwear, I understand her point!!
@Obelixx. That’s how it always was here until covid, the drivers didn’t want someone who may have picked their nose/coughed on their hand then touching the screen, then go to the next house and have the same thing again, spreading covid around.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
If they take a picture, it's usually of our dogs teeth closing on the parcel. Other than that, they knock, hear the dog, shove the parcel behind our bins and run. (Dog is actually terrified of strangers and barks to make them go away). We still have the screen for 'signed for' parcels. Signing my name with my finger produces something completely unlike my signature, so is pretty much useless for evidence anyway. The screen is pointedly wiped in front of us, with a cloth that's probably been used for the last hundred people, oh well.
@Lyn and @Woodgreen - during Covid they mostly asked to deliver to relay centres or were armed with a handspray for us and gloves for them and we all had to wear our mask. Fine out here in the sticks but not sure how it would work in the suburbs and cities where everything is so much more dense and parking a van for the extra time needed is not so easy.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
My wife contacted the delivery company to return a parcel the driver turned up to collect it and when she asked for a receipt he said that there wasn't one so she said wait there and took his photo with him crying "not the face not the face"!
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If there's a facility when ordering I ask that a parcel should be left in the open porch if I'm not home, (which also covers my being out of sight or hearing of a delivery when I'm at the far end of the garden.) I got used to them just leaving it on the shelf or the mat during lockdowns, but I can see the necessity for proof of delivery.
No chucking parcels over fences or dumping them behind bins/walls/whatever.
But during lockdown one package was abandoned at the church gates!
The digital screens seemed to be discontinued when Covid arrived @Obelixx. I haven't seen once since.
Given the condition of my gardening footwear, I understand her point!!
We still have the screen for 'signed for' parcels. Signing my name with my finger produces something completely unlike my signature, so is pretty much useless for evidence anyway. The screen is pointedly wiped in front of us, with a cloth that's probably been used for the last hundred people, oh well.