Yahoo Finance WATCH: Postie caught on camera throwing parcel ‘like a frisbee’
A customer was left “pretty annoyed” after he caught an Australia Post delivery man on camera carelessly throwing his parcel on his front door before walking away.
Sydney resident Russell Noble took to Twitter after discovering how his package had been handled by the postman.
Righto, regardless of whether the package is soft and/or not fragile, should the postie really be throwing my packages around like a frisbee, @auspost? Incredible. pic.twitter.com/tSMgvF0USX
— Russell James Noble (@russelljnoble) May 4, 2020
Another user also criticised the handling of the package, replying: “Like seriously how much effort is it to just sit it down.”
The Australia Post logo is visible on the helmet of the delivery man.
Speaking to Yahoo Finance, Noble said he checks his installed video camera every time a parcel is delivered because his front door is further in on his property.
He wasn’t entirely shocked by the postman’s actions, he said, adding that most postmen drop parcels.
“They don’t place it [down]. They just toss it from some height,” Noble said.
“I probably have videos elsewhere where [a postman] threw a box.
“This one was more of a frisbee toss,” he said of the video.
He was “pretty annoyed” after viewing the footage, especially as he wasn’t home when it happened, and “when you expect a package to be delivered respectfully”.
“It could contain something important. If you just chuck everything, who knows, it’ll break.”
Yahoo Finance has reached out to Australia Post for comment, and a spokesperson said it would not be commenting to media but following up directly with the customer instead.
At the time of publishing, Noble said he had not yet received any communications from Australia Post.
Delivery services have been struggling with demand amid higher levels of online shopping following the business shutdown.
To cope with the Christmas rush, Australia Post said in October last year it was hiring 3,700 Aussies.
In late April, the national postal service said it was hiring a further 600 casual workers to its delivery network and call centres to keep up with the demand that has seen parcels delayed for days or weeks.
Yahoo Finance recently revealed a Woolworths worker was caught leaving refrigerated and frozen goods on a front doorstep in the sun.
Woolworths has since issued an apology and offered the customer a voucher.
Food delivery services such as Uber Eats and Deliveroo have also changed their practices amid the pandemic to offer ‘contactless delivery’.
However, a recent Yahoo Finance poll found that only 40 per cent of food deliveries actually practised contactless delivery “all the time”, with 31 per cent of respondents saying their food drivers had not practised contactless delivery.
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