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Don't understand how they make their job so hard.
Going to each door, ringing doorbells and waiting up to a minute for every parcel takes time. They can get through their route an hour quicker if they skip that and just leave the cards.
In ye olden days, over half of the houses had nobody home during the day anyway. The good posties learned which houses these were and pre filled out the cards. That saved loads of time. It eventually evolved into just about everyone getting a card.
These days, a lot of people work from home and actually want their deliveries. That's eating into the posties' previously saved hour. Some of them seem to resent it.
Actually even more hilarious: The dumb fuck doesn't like our stairs and he doesn't like our driveway.
Now he could literally just leave parcels at the out-of-site nook explicitly left there for this purpose and actually just avoid the whole stair issue but he tried to escalate "gee, your driveway looks a bugger to back out of" (and yes, it does but traffic is shockingly polite and always stops! Not to mention we are literally 90% of the way through building a turning circle that can take a moving van) to "Your driveway is unsafe to use" which then he tried to make an OH&S issue and well, if you make a stupid blanket statement like "The driveway is unsafe to use at any time of the day" (like he did) and involve OH&S then you end up with vic roads and council inspections blowing holes in your arse and ombudsmen getting involved, especially when I have ten pages of every other driver on the face of the planet using it without issue.
So Auspost have told him to fucking go park on the other side of the road then and walk them across you lil bitch. So his choices are: Use our driveway and admit he was fucking lazing it (and get caught on camera being fulla shit) or park on the other side of the road, walk every single parcel across the road (having to use the lights) and then walk back to his van.
He has chosen the latter. This is somehow our fault.
It's because it's not hard and they feel entitled to it being even easier. My years in public service have taught me that, essentially guaranteed employment for people with few transferable skills, leads them to think they should be doing even less.
In this case, emotional maturity of a hamster i'm guessing. He can't go the ol' yeet route 'cos of the cameras.