Peculiar practices of a delivery ninja

[truepenny]

So the delivery ninja brought my new toner cartridge today. (Huzzah! Megan Arkenberg, this means you will be getting your Booth stories soon!) But he or she felt it necessary to . . .

I need to back up a second. Instead of a regular doormat, we have a metal grating. It's intended for the purpose--my sister found it in one of those catalogues of Victorian home decor reproductions--and I actually really like it, because you wipe your feet on it and it doesn't get dragged around.

So, grating. And toner cartridge in a fairly sizable box. And the delivery ninja, having put the box beside the front door, felt it necessary to lean the grating up against the box. To keep it from blowing away? To make sure I didn't miss it? To camouflage it from the roving bands of toner pirates?

Really, I got nothin'. But I'm glad the toner cartridge came.

Comments

[heresluck]

To camouflage it from the roving bands of toner pirates?

::snerk::

[megan (from livejournal.com)]

I'm reminded of those Secure Delivery Fails that appear every now and then on FailBlog. And it gets even more interesting when the delivery ninja is an amateur...I once had an envelope of cash slipped between my front door and the screen, and the non-ninja in question left a huge post-it on the knob: CASH IN ENVELOPE. Seriously, it could be seen from the street. Fortunately, roving bands of cash pirates were not in evidence that day, and the non-ninja has since learned to write a check.

And I’m glad to hear the toner arrived safely. Looking forward to more Booth! :-)

[meijhen.livejournal.com]

The UPS guy here picks up our welcome mat and puts it over the box. Said box could be HUGE...and there is the mat, draped over it like one of those useless little shrug-sweater-thingies.

I have *no* idea why they do that.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

To camouflage it from the roving bands of toner pirates?

Given the price of toner, I don't actually find that terribly farfetched in the abstract, though I would question its application to this particular situation.

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Usually the toner pirates tend to haunt the hallways of large office buildings...

[talkswithwind]

It keeps the rain off?

[alex51324.livejournal.com]

I've seen that, too. I've always suspected over-zealous application of a rule by someone who is...erm, hard of thinking. But I've never spoken to a UPS driver who has done that, so I really have no idea.

[soho-iced.livejournal.com]

I had an Amazon delivery helpfully placed round the corner by the bins so no one would nick it. Good idea, except by the time I found it it was cunningly concealed by a large box of recycling and due to a few nights of rain was wet through and had a slug on top.