'It's in the bin': Father stunned to find Amazon delivery of cooking oil and toys for his children perched on top of rotting food
- Rob Davies, 48, found his package on top of bags of smelly garbage
- Father-of-two said he was 'speechless' when he read the delivery card
- The Amazon delivery driver had written: 'Item left in bin' on the note
A father was stunned to find an Amazon delivery driver had left a parcel of cooking oil and toys for his children perched on top of rotting food.
Rob Davies, 48, from Wrexham in North Wales, found his package on top of bags of smelly garbage in his outside bin.
The father-of-two said he was 'speechless' when he read the delivery card, which said: 'Item left in bin'.
A father was stunned to find an Amazon delivery driver had left a parcel of cooking oil and toys for his children perched on top of rotting food
The freelance writer said: 'At first I thought it must have been a joke, surely no one would put an item of value in the rubbish?'
'What if I'd been away on holiday and my neighbour had put my bin out? I wouldn't have seen the card until it was too late.'
He said the parcel contained a soft toy, a children's book and DVD, and a 5l bottle of rapeseed oil, coming to £36.
Mr Davies said he doesn't want the Amazon driver sacked, but did want the company to make sure the same thing didn't happen to anyone else.
After calling to complain, they told him leaving parcels on top of smelly bins was unacceptable and offered him a full refund, which he declined.
The angry father added: 'It's not even as if it was my recycling bin, it was my smelly bin containing household waste, it shouldn't have items of value left in it.
'I don't expect to have to fish food items and presents for my children out of it, no matter how sealed the box may be.'
'It showed a lack of respect for the parcel and for the person it was being delivered to.'
A spokesman for Amazon said: 'We take incidents of this nature seriously and are working with the delivery company which is investigating the matter.'
Rob Davies, 48, from Wrexham in North Wales, found his package on top of bags of smelly garbage in his outside bin
Similar bizarre delivery incidents have been widely reported lately.
In January, Thomas Campbell returned to his first-floor flat in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, to find a large delivery box from Amazon with his clothing order clearly tucked under the mat.
The 28-year-old said the package was 'impossible to miss', but was stunned to find a note in his letterbox telling him to look 'under doormat' - complete with smiley face.
In November last year Ajmal Aziz found his long-awaited parcel on his roof from Yodel, with an apologetic note stuffed through the letter box.
'I have left your parcel in a safe location as requested by the sender,' the form read. In response, the deliveryman wrote 'Sorry. Top of your roof'.
Yodel apologised to Mr Aziz for the 'overly enthusiastic attempt to deliver a parcel for a customer who was out: aiming for an open window, he missed and found the roof'.
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