Ordered a drill press yesterday from Axminster Tools. Paid nominal sum for am am delivery today. Then I discovered that it's sodding DPD. Who have a track record of seeing that the left-most house on our little close of 10 houses is No.1 and then counting one, two, three to get to me. Except that their No. 3 is not No.3. It doesn't say No. 3 on it. And it's clearly a very old house and looks nothing like the other 8 houses all of which look similar and of the same 1990 age. My No. 3 has 2 number plaques on it, one high up on the garage so it can clearly be seen from the road: the old house (DPD's guess at No 3) is immediately on my left as the DPD driver looks at them.
So now I need to sit in the dining room all morning waiting to catch them. Or at least, since it's bins day, I could leave my big green waste bin, with its huge No. 3 label, parked at the bottom of my drive. Then, when I bellow at the DPD driver out of the window as he attempts to mis-deliver the usual "You weren't in" card, he might just wake up. We live in hope.
EDIT: I then had an email with a time slot for delivery, so sat in the dining room doing my music theory homework, where I could see any van arriving. Spotted the DPD van as it arrived, so intercepted the driver before he could ignore the signs that it was my house he wanted. Pillar drill unpacked, assembled and bolted to the bench. Sorted.