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#2687371 6-Apr-2021 17:55

i don't know who's right and who's wrong but 500m on a rural section is very far and a rather significant distance

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#2687376 6-Apr-2021 18:03

Yes it seems a bit vague to say the least. I suspect someone within the subdivision has been extracting the Michael with regard to deliveries.

We did nominate the porch at the front door for the purpose of leaving things and signed an authority to leave form saying so as well.

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#2687377 6-Apr-2021 18:04

Batman:
i don't know who's right and who's wrong but 500m on a rural section is very far and a rather significant distance

It’s a hot roll tarmac sealed road though, not a goat track.

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#2687450 6-Apr-2021 18:32

Our house is about 800 metres from the box and up a reasonable hill that can get slippery in winter. Also we keep the gate at the start of it closed to deter walkers. So although they used to come up and deliver to the house when we first lived here I have no problem with them now only delivering to the box.

We have a metal box next to the post box where large parcels can go and if they have something that's too big for the post box they put it in there. If it's too big for that they call us when they are on the way and we meet them at the box.

A few years ago our postie changed and the new providers tried to make everyone move their boxes so that the driver could get round behind the box ie off the road to put the mail in the box. Allegedly it was a H+S requirement. Because of the layout of the road it would have meant our box was then some 50 metres from our gate. A fair number of people complied but our box is located on a sort of triangle of ground outside the gate and way off the road so I said I wasn't going to move it. Eventually we had a meeting at the box with the postie and the NZ Post rural manager from Christchurch who agreed with me the box was fine where it was.

The postie never spoke to me again. Fortunately a new provider took over about 5 years ago and we get on fine.

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#2687458 6-Apr-2021 18:52

SJB:
Our house is about 800 metres from the box and up a reasonable hill that can get slippery in winter. Also we keep the gate at the start of it closed to deter walkers. So although they used to come up and deliver to the house when we first lived here I have no problem with them now only delivering to the box.

We have a metal box next to the post box where large parcels can go and if they have something that's too big for the post box they put it in there. If it's too big for that they call us when they are on the way and we meet them at the box.

A few years ago our postie changed and the new providers tried to make everyone move their boxes so that the driver could get round behind the box ie off the road to put the mail in the box. Allegedly it was a H+S requirement. Because of the layout of the road it would have meant our box was then some 50 metres from our gate. A fair number of people complied but our box is located on a sort of triangle of ground outside the gate and way off the road so I said I wasn't going to move it. Eventually we had a meeting at the box with the postie and the NZ Post rural manager from Christchurch who agreed with me the box was fine where it was.

The postie never spoke to me again. Fortunately a new provider took over about 5 years ago and we get on fine.

And this is why I don’t want to make an issue out of it. It’s very difficult to do that in NZ we have found without it descending into a very negative experience where people take things personally that aren’t personal issues.

One tradesman we had that kind of conversation with formally wrote to us and told us he’d never work for us again. It turned out he’d taken umbrage when my wife asked him to leave more quickly than he wanted to because she needed to get to a hospital appointment!

I’ve suggested to the postman that we bung him $100 a year and call it fair.

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#2687470 6-Apr-2021 19:35

Geektastic:

I’ve suggested to the postman that we bung him $100 a year and call it fair.

i'm not sure what to think ... all the best!

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#2687475 6-Apr-2021 19:42

How about getting a PO Box? Useful if you have lots of stuff delivered.

I don't get much mail sent to mine anymore however, so YMMV depending on your situation.

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#2688363 8-Apr-2021 14:53

no space for a giant mailbox?

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#2688396 8-Apr-2021 15:54

mdooher:

no space for a giant mailbox?

A tardis?

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#2689595 8-Apr-2021 20:53

Personally I think courier deliveries should go to the door. Other than that if they want to play silly bu@@ers about items in normal mail then I guess that’s up to NZP. It’s not the kind of service I’d want but it seems to be the only kind you can get and they seem happy to deliver at the lowest level they can get away with.

If you pay for a courier to your address then that is exactly where it should go and NZP should allow for that when they bid to take on delivery of courier items.

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