Well THAT'S super helpful! 🤦

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 366 points –
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That’s PostNord for you. Reminder that the CEO earns ~700k a month for doing helpful things like… introducing every other day delivery of post. Hmmm.

Hold up. 700k of what currency?

SEK. I make 38k a month! Thus, she makes about ~18 times more than me and then a nurse's salary on top of that.

Funnily enough, the CEO of PostNord Denmark also earns ~700k, but DKK, so that is around 1.5 time that, but for running the part of the company with more losses

Source (p. 23)

Gotta make some changes to maintain that salary though right

Never forget who ruined the beautifully working Swedish postal service. Maud Olofsson screwed us over by taking on one of the worst deals in history. The Danish must have laughed their asses off when they offloaded their failing postal service onto the Swedish people.

I'm sure Denmark has hurt you greatly and will do so again, but the ownership is 60/40 between Sweden and Denmark. PostNord operates the same in Denmark as it does in Sweden.

It's a shame that Sweden had to lower their standards to the Danish level. PostNord gotten a lot worse in Sweden since the deal with Denmark

Eh, goes both ways. Post Danmark was actually quite decent before the merger.

I think you might be misunderstanding me. I’m not trying to attack the danish people in any way.

What I’m trying to say is this.

  1. Sweden had a great postal service and Denmark not so much
  2. A incompetent Swedish politician got us into a crap deal
  3. Now both Sweden and Denmark has crappy postal service
  4. And just as you point out, Sweden is now stuck paying for 60% percent of this clusterfuck while Denmark only pays for 40%.

No wonder the Danish people often is considered some of the happiest in the world.

I’m also trying to remind people that things like this is what happens when you elect politicians that don’t have the peoples interests in mind. And looking at the current people in charge such a reminder is unfortunately highly relevant.

Post Danmark actually wasn't that bad. It was a bit old school, but the prices were decent and the service was high quality. A year after the merger and absolutely everything was shit.

Now you are forgetting the part where the Danish postal service was bleeding money. This is partly due to their severance/retirement packages.

After the merger the economic troubles have continued. Where the danish part have been responsible for the losses and the Swedish part for the profits. So in effect the Swedish people are subsidizing the irresponsible economic decisions of the danish postal service.

But we are starting to lose focus on the person that the Swedes should hold responsible for this, Maud Olofsson.

"Your delivery will arrive on a day between a point in time and a different point in time. You better be there when the driver pretends to check if someone's at home and leaves without ringing anyway - not like you have anything better to do you lazy fuck."

Next thing, I take the day off to wait for the package (or work from home) and I get a message in the afternoon saying "you weren't home, your package is delivered at such and such drop off point"... always

“The driver will not knock, so make sure you are looking out the window and prepared for the 4 second timeframe when the driver will stand near the truck looking at your property, wherein you may run out and scream ‘wait!’. If unsuccessful, a delivery will be reattempted on an unspecified date within the next 8 months.”

And then you have some ridiculous retailers that don't allow you to hold a package for pickup anymore. What the hell happened to that? I feel like it used to be when I had a package that needed a signature I could just request for it to be held at the parcel service center for me to pick it up later.

But the last two times I had a package with a signature required, it wouldn't allow me to do that. The package was going to be returned to the sender for ridiculous reasons. One was an age restricted item which I can kind of get, but the other wasn't. Both times I had to beg and plead with the delivery company to hold the parcel even though it was not something they were supposed to do.

And people wonder why Amazon gets so much business. They don't make me take days off from work so I can hopefully receive a fucking package of the delivery person actually feels like ringing my doorbell.

Never again with packages requiring a signature for me. I don't work from home and my workplace is not in a location that can receive packages.

why is this so accurate? 😭😭😭😭

Amazon is always telling me my packages will arrive between 8 and 10pm but if it ever actually gets that late, it gets moved to the next day. Do they ever actually deliver that late?

100% of my amazon deliveries for the past two years have been at least a day later than promised.

They used to have excellent shipping. Now they just lie about every delivery time.

Probably depends on the delivery service partner. They have slightly different hours from company to company.

I believe it's because they hope a driver will pick it up for you. Those late night packages are delivered by contractors and they might just not pick yours on a whim probably depending on several factors.

That’s just the standard here, and it’s infuriating

I once worked for them. AMA!

Were you horribly understaffed and overworked then or did you get out before that started happening?

It just about started and also the fired most of the veterans as well.

Can't you just get a delivery to box-o-mat (or whatever the name of it is in english), or is it just a big delivery?

Yeah, that's it: it's 24 liters of cat litter (it was on special lol), so it's too big and heavy for those..

Why does someone need to be home for that? Can't they leave it outside or around the back somewhere?

Nah, I live on the third floor of an apartment building.

None of the outdoors is on my property and as such they're not allowed to leave it there even if I ask them to 😮‍💨

Okay. Second question: where are you going to keep 24 liters of cat litter? Granted I'm no expert in communist units (and I'm way too fucking tired to look it up) but I imagine that's a lot, both in terms of volume and weight.

I have a small spare room that I use for stuff I don't know where else to put or that I can't fit elsewhere. Litter goes in that room lol

Thihi should have gotten a delivery of cat litter today also between 8:00 - 21:00... at 20:00 it was changed for the 31st.

The Amazon equivalent of my country gives somewhat similar estimates, but they always end up showing up at 22:30 or straight up call me at such hours telling me they'll come by tomorrow morning

Next time change the delivery to a postnord delivery box. Most of then are pretty close to housing, and you can pick it up any time you want

I usually use those, but it wasn't an option because the package (containing 24 liters of cat litter. It was on special lol) was both too big and too heavy for those boxes..

Don't do by boy USPS dirty like that.

I wish more businesses would use Canada Post to deliver in Canada. They've got these great community mailboxes with larger ones for secure package delivery. They just drop the key to the big one in your smaller mailbox that works similarly to locked apartment complex mailboxes. It's way better than worrying if someone will grab the box in front of my door or if the delivery guy will even drop it at the right door.

In Denmark Postnord (which is what OP is using) has drop boxes that you open with the app itself through Bluetooth. Almost everything about Postnord is terrible but getting your parcels delivered to your local Lidl and being able to open the parcel box with the app is pretty neat.