'It's not just me that it's happening to,' Ms Salama said. She said it appeared to be the same post man. 'This time he didn't even make it to the front door,' she said, with CCTV showing him jump from his van to drop the slip in the mailbox. 'Don't you dare,' she thought, Ms Salama told Daily Mail Australia. She received a text message from Australia Post informing her she'd missed the delivery. Not only had she paid extra for the delivery to be posted express, but Ms Salama now had to pay for parking at the post office to retrieve it.Īwaiting a further parcel for her business, the same thing happened all over again on Tuesday. 'The line is to the front door every time, there is always 20 or 30 people waiting. 'You've seen the post office lately,' she beckoned. 'Sorry we missed you,' the slip which the postie left behind readsĪll four of them then had to wait in a slow moving queue for 40 minutes, 'because someone couldn't do their job properly and just ring the doorbell', Ms Salama said. Julie Salama runs her cake business from her Merrylands home in Sydney's west, and was eagerly awaiting a parcel she'd paid express delivery for as she needed it to complete a customer's order.īut after spending the morning with one ear to the door for her parcel, she realised the postman had left a slip saying she'd missed the delivery. In November last year a mother-of-three caught her postman doing exactly that, not once but two days in a row. This is not the first time Australia Post have been criticised for leaving a slip behind without attempting to see if someone was home.
#MONEY KNOCKING AT MY DOOR 3 TIMES IN A ROW DRIVER#
If the driver has not followed the correct procedure, appropriate action will be taken.' 'Our policy is to knock and call out three times to see if anyone is home before leaving a card. 'If this is an Australia Post driver, their actions are in breach of our delivery policy,' they told Daily Mail Australia.
The incident has been reported to Australia Post's delivery centre, but Mr Tang warned that the lacklustre postman may be a repeat offender as he appeared to be writing up another card before he drove offĪn Australia Post spokesperson said they were attempting to make contact with Mr Tang so they could investigate the video and ascertain if he is an Australia post employee.