Signing for packages

[Kogo Shuko]

We get a lot of mail where I work now... Most of it, the courriers just drop off, but the select *VERY IMPORTANT* stuff has to come through me. I pretty much sign for everything that needs to see a big boss ASAP.

Yesterday though. Yesterday. I signed for a... phone book. Of the Greater Toronto Area, no less. I literally had to SIGN for this thing, which is for the whole department. I felt bad not only for myself, but for the courrier as well, who was telling me that this phone book needed to be signed, because you know... that's SUCH classified information that the big bosses need to see.

Sigh.

[Andara Bledin]

Oh-kay.

Well, at least you got something to roll your eyes over, right?

^-.-^

[Boochan]

Thats awful. Pleased the telephones book here just get handed out by volunteers.

Regardless, one of my main qualms that I used to have regarding merchandise been freighted in is the fact that the store is responsible if we accept ANY visually damaged items thats come through. Now this is justified, but their used to be a fairly major bug in the system of this that we were pretty much expected to have X-Ray Vision/Goggles, because if we found something broken/heavily damaged inside the shipment (reasonably common, worst offenders would be Jewel Cases or Certain Light Globes) we would be held responsible because we signed for it.

[edible_hat]

My mum once had to sign for a pen! One single pen. In a box with packing peanuts.

What's worse is that it was a backorder, since their last stationary order included 12 pens and Supply SA (government department that supplies stationary to all other government departments, including schools) only had 11 left when they processed it.

[icmedia]

I know that, around here, a couple of the companies who pay people to deliver telephone books have taken to making their delivery people obtain a signature to prove it was delivered.

Apparently a fair number of employees were just dumping their load of phonebooks in the garbage and claiming they finished delivering to their route.