For those of you whom have no-one at home, most of the time on weekdays (i.e. you're at work), how do you get large items delivered?
Small items can easily be sent to your workplace, but large items pose more of a difficulty.
Delivery time isn't always predictable, from experience, so it's difficult to know when to be home either.
Ordering Large Items Online (Delivery)
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yep, the transport minster reckons u cant take a fridge on the train…. prove him wrong!
yeah large items, either take a day or, or buy on weekend and try to pick up urself (rent a ute say) from go get (ikea!)
A grand piano? Fridges are easy, but I couldn't even get the piano into the lift, never mind the train =P
But jokes aside, how do you know which day to take off though?
From my experience, couriers tend to just attempt delivery without giving notice as to when - at best they give a range of days it may arrive.
Or perhaps one could just let the attempt fail and see if you can pick up at a warehouse or something…
Yes, but with furniture they usually give you both the exact day and sometimes a time of day (e.g. Morning or afternoon or Evening). It doesn't go through the post, but a delivery service.
Seriously though, what item are you talking about? We're just guessing here, can't help unless you give us a vague idea…
It's not really for any specific item, I was asking more in a general sense to see how others dealt with it.
From experience, retail stores tend to allow you to organise a delivery time, but more budget oriented online stores seem to just send it off - when they arrive is anyone's guess.
I ordered a 27in monitor from Korea a while ago - whilst bulky, it was transportable. No knowledge of when the package was to arrive, apart from trying to guess from the tracking page.
Thanks for the info by the way.
I usually just work from home on the day but not everyone has that benefit. How about asking the neighbours to take delivery if they're available?
Usually there's some sort of tracking available and after staring at the tracking status' on a number of deliveries, you can get an idea as to what day the item is likely to arrive. The alternative is to call the courier company in the morning (if it's like a fridge or something).
I find that the couriers of the extra big items will make a decent attempt to deliver the item first go so they don't have to come back later. They'll buzz the apartment and ring the mobile number and hang around for a while.
Unfortunately tracking is a bit of a guess and doesn't always provide much leeway for giving notice for leave.
I suppose you're right about couriers trying to make a decent attempt - never really thought about it that way.
Thanks for the tips!
Whats too large to be carried home from the office?
(Washing Machine? Couch? Big screen TV? I just take a day off for those. I think most people do).