Amazon lockers are the best thing since sliced bread. They put the ball back in your court to pick it up, when you have time. Removes the stress completely and makes ordering pleasant again.
Keep an eye out for them, if you can.
Keep an eye out for them, if you can.
1. request a delivery at work, let the receptionists at your office sign for the package and very politely thank them each time (and don't do this too often)
2. place the order to be delivered at your home address, knowing that you won't be there and that you'll have to pick up the "you were out..." slip, and duck out of work and cross town later in the week to the post-office sometime during opening hours and suffer the queues there.
The reason I use the word "awkward" is that I feel like I'm misusing some facilities no matter what I do (expecting a receptionist to handle my packages, or making a postman bring a package all the way to my flat and then all the way back home and fill out forms etc).
These temp lockers are such a great idea.
The problem though is that most of the time I can not choose the delivery company, and I've only seen La Poste having the lockers.
Just flash the barcode from the email, and it opens the appropriate locker. It even lets you open multiple ones with a single barcode if you received multiple packages the same day.
Everyone in my office does this, although we don't have a dedicated receptionist and the job normally falls to the office manager instead. It doesn't even cross my mind as a misuse of company resources. Is this something that would be considered inappropriate in other places?
It could be that this is all fine and I'm overthinking it - so maybe take what I"m saying with a pinch of salt :-)
And anyway you may not want everyone to know what you are buying.
So :
* small company where everyone takes care of (his own) deliveries: OK.
* smallish company company where there is a receptionist: OK because it does not happen too often.
* middle-sized company: not OK.
* large company with a dedicated mail/parcel/delivery service: I guess it depends on formal work agreements.
Room 40 was a bench behind the warehouse reception.
Of course, there are potential pitfalls here - say, assuming your colleagues to be honest, for instance - but to the best of my knowledge, we never lost a parcel in years. (Which is more than could be said for anything entering the murky depths of our ERP system...)
I have found ordering from B&M's via their websites and picking the thing up at the store bypasses this whole problem.