Using work to take delivery of Goods: damaged by lads in post room.

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Hi,

Not sure what to do (or if there's anything I can do) about this situation, but thought some of you sages might be able to advise :D

A work colleague took delivery of a print on my behalf this morning. It was packaged in a cardboard tube with great big red "Fragile! Handle With Care!" stickers all over it - so one of the bright sparks in the post room took it upon himself to STAPLE the in-house delivery docket to the tube. Funnily enough, the metal staple went right through the cardboard and the poster inside, leaving two dirty little puncture marks in the $100 print and (IMHO) ruining it.

Now, it's for my own personal use, not for business purposes, but I'm heartbroken. (And $100 lighter for something I can't display.) I'd imagine that, apart from complaining to the post room supervisor, I've no recourse in the wide earthly world - what think ye?
 
Re: Goods damaged by lads in post room in work

Are you officially allowed to get personal stuff through the company mail room ?
 
Re: Goods damaged by lads in post room in work

I agree that it would be hard to take it further when the item was for your own use. What is your company policy on receiving personal items through the post at work? If it is allowed then you may follow it up ,if not I would let it go as you might ony create more problems for yourself by complaining!
 
Re: Using work to take delivery of Goods: damaged by lads in post room in work

Moved from Miscellaneous Non-financial Questions to Work etc.

My previous employer allowed delivery of personal items at work. They still do but have had difficulty with goods going missing and getting damaged.

My current employer explicitly forbids delivery of personal items. Even so they have the same difficulty with work related goods/samples going missing and getting damaged from time to time.

Does your company have a policy on personal deliveries?

aj
 
Sorry about that mis-posting and thanks for moving it ajapale!

Regarding the receiving of personal items through the company post room - the official line is that it is allowed, with the exception of Christmas time when employees are asked not to use the post room for the delivery of non-business mail.
 
I guess it would be worth mentioning it alright but I would guess that the person in question thought they were doing well, by attaching the docket.

I wouldnt have really thought a stapler would have reached through a cardboard tube and onto the print myself, I recieve loads of these on a daily basis and never once would I have thought that a staple could damage the contents.
 
Well, unless you can get the "second arm" of the stapler under whatever you're stapling to force the ends of the staple to curve back on themselves safely, it's pretty obvious that the bottom parts of the staple are going to stick out unless the cardboard etc is thick enough to take them.

Don't know why they couldn't just have used a bit of Sellotape on a package marked "Fragile", it's that lack of cop on that's annoying me.
 
No recourse Id say. If he jumped all over it, yes maybe. It is rare that there are set in stone policies relating to persoanl deliveries, but I know in my job its not supposed to happen, but its always let go by the postroom. Imagine if you complain, and then they see a big registered package f persoanl goods coming in for you just before Christmas.. they'll probably send it back! Not worth it
 
I'd agree that you'd be out of line complaining - I never get stuff delivered to work cos I just don't think its appropriate (unless you own the business!). Unfortunately this means I have to make regular trips to the PO where the opening hours are v inconvenient.

We have 21st century ordering mechanisms and 18th century delivery mechanisms!
 
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