Our favourite mail company *cough cough cough*, PostNL, will officially stop handing out those pesky “we hebben je gemist” notes.
The notes, which are left to advise of an attempted delivery while you were outside doing better things than waiting for the post, are apparently costing the company too much time and money.
Instead, if you miss the delivery, you’ll receive an email or a notification in the PostNL app advising where your package is now.
To be honest, we can’t decide if this is a good or bad thing.
Obviously, we’re all for saving paper (about 70,000 kilos a year, according to PostNL). However, we have a sneaky suspicion that this will make it even easier for PostNL to pretend to deliver the package.
At least when they leave the slips now they have to be somewhere near the front door so you can fling it open on them and catch them in the act, right?
@PostNL my package (3SJPWT1458565) was supposed to be delivered on Monday. Finally got a window for today (Wed) between 9-11. Then the usual "we hebben je gemist" mail arrives. We were at home the whole day! This happened at least 5 times in the past year. Such a crappy service!
— wickedsoup (@wickedsoup) November 17, 2021
Not always digital
Naturally, there are some cases where a piece of paper will still be left. For example:
- If you don’t have an email address on file at PostNL
- If the package contains official documents
- If the package contains medical supplies
- If the package is a gift.
According to PostNL, the change is necessary because about one in 10 deliveries result in no one being home.
Are you in favour of this change? Tell us in the comments below!
It is amazing. Though they may hire the cheapest person paying him/her little it is still too expensive and the public oversight is looking away.