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Watch as postman hurls parcel into garage door from car

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Watch as postman hurls parcel into garage door from car

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Watch as postman hurls parcel into garage door from car window

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The driver hurls the package out of the window onto the concrete driveway (Picture: YouTube/eDude76)

If you think your postman is bad at delivering your precious online purchases, be thankful it isn’t this guy:

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One of the problems with our obsession with internet shopping is you still have to get someone to deliver the goods to you.

We’ve all ended up with the red ‘sorry we missed you card’ of doom, or the even more frightening ‘your parcel has been left with a neighbour’, meaning you might have to actually speak to someone who lives near you.

Worse still, you get home to find that awesome thing/rash impulsive purchase you bought on eBay the other night is cracked, dented and broken, despite the ‘FRAGILE’ tape criss-crossing the box.

Now we might be closer to knowing how that can happen.

YouTube user eDude76 posted a video today from a security camera outside the front of his house, clearly showing a parcel delivery driver cruising up his driveway, then casually hurling a package containing a hard drive like a bowling ball onto the concrete and into the garage door, before he’d even come to a stop.

The driver, who eDude said works for the US Postal Service, then puts the car in reverse and high-tails it out of the driveway.

UPDATE: Since the video was uploaded a link has been posted to the US Postal Service’s Twitter account (@USPS), who said it is investigating whether the incident involved one of its drivers
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Re: Watch as postman hurls parcel into garage door from car

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Not surprised really.
My old company used to use TNT for parcels as every one else was apparently too expensive. But the fact we had to spend a fortune on packaging just to be sure it would arrive in one piece seemed to negate any savings.
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Re: Watch as postman hurls parcel into garage door from car

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"postman" :crazy: Not us, but that word in the title gives us all a bad name. :sad:
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Lounge Lizard wrote:"postman" :crazy: Not us, but that word in the title gives us all a bad name. :sad:

Only if you are a competitor, thats why its in their forum not ours. :Very Happy
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