Two options:

1) Take a vacation day so you can go get it at your leisure.
2) Have it shipped to your work address.

-- 
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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> It's bad enough that they DELIBERATELY shut JUST BEFORE I can get there 
> every single weekday JUST TO **** ME OFF, but NOW it turns out that they 
> only actually open ONE DAY each weekend as well. So there's only actually 
> ONE DAY in an entire week that I can pick up my mail.

Do you think you are the only one in your company with this problem?  What 
do other people do?  Just never order anything?

If your employer is really so inflexible that they do not allow personal 
packages to be delivered there, and they do not let you arrive a bit later 
or leave a bit earlier one day to collect your package, then I would just 
phone in sick one morning while I go to the post office to collect it.

In Germany they have the "pack station" that solves this exact problem. 
Unmanned 24/7 place in almost every town where you can collect and deposit 
parcels - genius.

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>> It's bad enough that they DELIBERATELY shut JUST BEFORE I can get 
>> there every single weekday JUST TO **** ME OFF, but NOW it turns out 
>> that they only actually open ONE DAY each weekend as well. So there's 
>> only actually ONE DAY in an entire week that I can pick up my mail.
> 
> Do you think you are the only one in your company with this problem?  
> What do other people do?  Just never order anything?

They live 10 minutes down the road from where they work. (Remember, I'm 
the only person who commutes there.)

> If your employer is really so inflexible that they do not allow personal 
> packages to be delivered there, and they do not let you arrive a bit 
> later or leave a bit earlier one day to collect your package, then I 
> would just phone in sick one morning while I go to the post office to 
> collect it.

Yeah, maybe. I'll probably just get Eric to pick it up tomorrow. (Ah, 
but now he needs proof of authorisation... *sigh*)

> In Germany they have the "pack station" that solves this exact problem. 
> Unmanned 24/7 place in almost every town where you can collect and 
> deposit parcels - genius.

That could indeed be quite useful...

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> They live 10 minutes down the road from where they work. (Remember, I'm 
> the only person who commutes there.)

Did you ask your boss if you could work slightly different hours for one day 
to allow you to pick up your parcel?  It would seem a bit unreasonable if 
they said no, assuming you had nothing planned at work for the first or last 
hour of your day.

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scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> It would seem a bit unreasonable if they said no

  Bosses? Reasonable? ;)

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>> It would seem a bit unreasonable if they said no
>
>  Bosses? Reasonable? ;)

Fortunately I've never come across an unreasonable one yet, although I hear 
a lot about them :-)

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > In Germany they have the "pack station" that solves this exact problem.
> > Unmanned 24/7 place in almost every town where you can collect and
> > deposit parcels - genius.
>
> That could indeed be quite useful...

It is, I can tell you. Whoever invented it, I do owe him some :)

Unfortunately it only works with shipments via DHL - UPS or FedEx or some such
won't do. But it is a start.

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On Mon, 04 May 2009 09:14:29 +0200, scott wrote:

> If your employer is really so inflexible that they do not allow personal
> packages to be delivered there,

A lot of companies don't allow personal mail to be delivered to the 
office.  Reason is they get enough business related mail that hiring 
extra people to deliver people's personal mail isn't enhancing the 
business but does increase their expenses.

I'm trying to think if I've ever worked for a company that has allowed 
personal mail to be delivered there, and I can't think of a one.

Jim

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"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> >  Bosses? Reasonable? ;)
>
> Fortunately I've never come across an unreasonable one yet, although I hear
> a lot about them :-)

Strangely enough, I've yet have to come across an unreasonable immediate
superior as well - but I did see (or rather, typically didn't) some
higher-level bosses who didn't seem to have any idea what was going on "at the
bottom". Which I consider unreasonable enough to qualify (their decisions
seemed to be, at any rate, and I decided to presume they weren't just plain
assholes).

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"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message 
news:49ff16a2@news.povray.org...
> On Mon, 04 May 2009 09:14:29 +0200, scott wrote:
>
>> If your employer is really so inflexible that they do not allow personal
>> packages to be delivered there,
>
> A lot of companies don't allow personal mail to be delivered to the
> office.  Reason is they get enough business related mail that hiring
> extra people to deliver people's personal mail isn't enhancing the
> business but does increase their expenses.
>
> I'm trying to think if I've ever worked for a company that has allowed
> personal mail to be delivered there, and I can't think of a one.

    In my job, we're always sending packages to works addresses, and some of 
those addresses are Govt. departments or big companies like the BBC/ITV.

     ~Steve~


>
> Jim

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