>>6421627He was only suspended while they "investigated", ie flipped through the list of people who had filled out a Authority to Leave form to see if there was one for that address. They fired him when they couldn't find one.
What pissed me off was the lack of common sense. It was the drivers brother in law and he left it in a locked house. Fair enough if it was some random and he just left it on the front step.
What's more, if instead of scanning it as a 'Safe Drop', then entering his brothers in laws name, marking it as 'Standing Order' then signing for it, he had of scanned as 'Delivered', entered his name and marked it as 'Care Of', he'd actually still have his job. It's bureaucratic bullshit.
But the whole think makes it more difficult for customers. I get so many people who when I deliver to them say "Oh if I'm not home you can just leave it at the door/around the back" and I have to say that I can't, unless they fill out a form, which they have to go to the post office to get.
Then there's times, and I get this a fair bit, where I roll up to the door and there's a note on it that says "DO NOT KNOCK! Shift Worker trying to Sleep! Thank You" If the parcel requires a signature I'm suppose to either knock and wake them up, or card them, even if the note says "Please LEAVE any Parcels at Door. Thank You".
I break AusPost procedure and leave parcels when that happens. I scan them as 'Safe Drop', customers name and mark it as 'Standing Order' then add in the note "Note on Door - Customer Shift Worker - ATL" and then sign with an X.
