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... does a courier send me an email to tell me that a parcel has been delivered ... to me? I know! I was there. You only allow items to be delivered to the addressee in person. Do you imagine that after half an hour I've forgotten it occurring?
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I read a message from you in the CodeProject Lounge 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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That's what their SOP says 
Standard Operating Procedure
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The company policy states "An Email or text message must be sent to allow the customer to know that the package is out for delivery", the office drone whose job it was forgot to send you the message when said truck left and now sent you an Email alert thinking that you like my parents and only check your email when someone (usually me!) says 'Have you checked your email'....
I bet ya!
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It is the end of the delivery process and so you get a message of it.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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The courier services here send an email to us to let us know that they have delivered a package. It's useful since they just leave them at the door and if I am expecting something, I can ask a neighbor to pick it up for me while I'm at work.
That said, I don't think I've gotten an email for a package that I have to sign for... I'll need to order some ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) and check.
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In case the courier went to the wrong address and some dodgy person squiggled in the signature box and think they are going to keep your stuff without you noticing for a few days and then deny all knowledge of said package ever arriving?
modified 6-Jan-16 11:49am.
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That would be reasonable except that this is a special delivery for which I'm required to provide ID (I could tell you why but then I'd have to kill you!)
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Member 9082365 wrote: (I could tell you why but then I'd have to kill you!)
But can't you put anyone's email address in when asking to receive notice of delivery?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It's just a receipt. Just in case someone else signed for it, you could now create a scene in your home, which seems like the sort of thing you'd do given how easily you get annoyed over little things. 
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Maybe they were not sure that it was you. I've once ordered a gaming computer for about $1500 and checked at work the tracking number and it said delivered. I called UPS and they said it was delivered at the reception. There is no reception in the building where I live. When I got back home, they just dumped it in front of my door.
Good thing I live in Canada and it was still there after several hours lying around in the lobby.
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Because if you are at work, there might be 200 people in the same building. If you need it urgently, then knowing goods in have signed for it means you can go and get it instead of waiting for someone to open it, mangle it, steal half the bits, pour the rest into an internal memo envelope, and send it to the wrong floor...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Why not?
I never finish anyth
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I once found a registered letter (signature required) containing concert tickets on my doormat. The postman had written on it "nobody was home to sign for it, so I signed it myself"!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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[thought I'd try the new message type]
Just had a cold call about miss sold PPI. I politely the lady [citation needed] that I had never had nor needed any PPI and that I was not in need of her services.
But she persisted and asked me how I could be so sure.
Nagy Vilmos said: I build banking systems. I have put in software serving banks across the world and I know how banking products are designed. I read the small print in contracts and do not sign anything I am unsure about. I have worked in financial services for over quarter of a century. I HAVE NEVER HAD PPI!
She replied "oh."
veni bibi saltavi
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Quote: She replied "oh, and continued the sales pitch"
Or thats my experience of them. 
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Yes, she tried to keep me going and I politely but firmly asked her to be so kind as to FOAD.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I have worked in financial services for over quarter of a century
Nagy Vilmos wrote: She replied "oh."
Oh, he seems to be fun-ded, she must have thought 
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I find it more satisfying to not even bother to give a response but to just hang-up. I'm sure they have every possible response, 99.99999999% not repeatable in the Lounge .
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No, you should keep them on the phone for as long as possible. While they are talking to you they won't be bothering me. 
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Too hard. I use one of "Do I know you?", "Why are you calling me." and "Please enter your password?". These mostly result in a short silence followed by the sound of hanging up. Problem solved.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I am not entirely sure I have ever had PPI either but the bank sent me a claim form - I filled it out saying "i don't know" and they sent me £3000
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I like that if true, I never had PPI, but I did wonder if I claimed to have had it would the bank believe me and pay up. With my luck they would find out and I would have to pay it back.
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My younger sister is in town this week. She's still in college. I've had to Google several things she has said to understand her, making me feel old. Now I have to look up Producer Price Index (PPI) Definition | Investopedia[^]. And I"m not even 100% sure I got it right...
Thanks for making me feel older!
Hogan
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It's Payment Protection Insurance. Something the UK banks sold to people years ago, without telling them what they were buying. So now you can get your money back plus some compensation, even if you never bought it.
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