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Originally Posted by DixieGal
I hope they get it right for you very quickly. And maybe you should think about having a second doorbell ringer for upstairs? That seems like the simplest solution to me.
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We used to have two doorbell ringers but we took out the one for downstairs so the only one left is the one for upstairs (and it's so loud you can hear it anywhere in house), underneath is a nameplate with our last name on it. But mail men often don't understand that people can live over shops and can be at home when the store's closed.
FedEx called back but they couldn't route the courier back so I could either pick the package up myself after four thirty in Amersfoort or wait until tomorrow.
Regarding packages there are two common things that cause problems. First of all we live just inside the limited traffic area. Some deliverers don't want to walk 20 meters from the road is blocked to our house. Often these packages are delivered at one of the businesses near the road block. I think that happened to the package on Friday and they saw today it wasn't for them and brought it to us. Luckily everybody in our area is used to playing mail men and bringing mail and packages to the right owners because for years the mail services have been very poor.
The second cause is that the canal I live along is really long, it runs through the inner city and some sections have other street names. If you're on the wrong end it takes at least half an hour by car to get to the other end. This is done by the council to discourage car drivers from coming into the inner city. It's happened several times that a courier was at the other side of the inner city and didn't feel like driving another 30mins at least to get the package delivered. This is what happened today, I think.
At the moment I'm half expecting it to be misdelivered again tomorrow. I already asked friends if I can have packages sent to them in the future. They live just outside the inner city, not limit traffic or long streets to confuse couriers.