I had a packaged delivered by Amazon the other day. I didn’t realise that it had actually been delivered because the delivery driver didn’t ring the doorbell or knock the door and unusually the dogs didn’t hear their approach. I only realised that it had been delivered when I saw the notification in my emails. I was intrigued to read that it had indeed been delivered but also to an entirely new room in our house - the postroom.
Obviously this must be some Narnia-esque place in our home that I never knew existed, perhaps it could only be visited via a secret passage or hidden doorway. Maybe it is even transdimensional and would take me to another world entirely when I wanted to retrieve my package.
Of course it could be that not only had Amazon delivered my package but that there was a new Prime Member bonus that I didn’t know about, in addition to free deliveries, videos, music etc they now also supplied a new room in your home to which they will deliver your packages. A free extension, and a bargain at £79 a year1.
It might also be possible that the driver had delivered my package to one of his usual favourite hiding places. Like our front step, or porch or behind a bush. Don’t get me wrong I’m really grateful that our delivery drivers do such a great job but sometimes it must be easier just to ring the doorbell and we’d come and take the package from them.
So anyway where was this mythical postroom?
I went and checked the usual delivery spots / hiding places and the package was in the front porch, so sadly no new room, transdimensional space or even secret wardrobe. It’s interesting though, I’ve noticed since we’ve moved here that visitors don’t quite know what to make of our front porch. Some think it’s our front door and stand outside and knock there, which is fine, but we don’t always hear them knocking there as it’s the otherside of our actual front door. Others realise that our doorbell is on our front door and correctly open the porch door to ring the doorbell.
We haven’t found a solution to this just yet, although I suspect that we might have to try a video doorbell of some kind, as a sign we put up had no impact
I escaped the recent price rise by a few days so until my next renewal date I’m on the old pricing.
Lol, so the driver figured the porch was a special room you built just for packages. How very 2023 that is!!