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F@&€ing couriers

Talking of couriers.we had a rather large box delivered on the ..left on the doorstep no knock on the door no delivery note sod all …had an email same day says delivered to house owner through the door …🙄
 
How's this for Royal Mail 24hr delivery....took seven days

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At least it got there....thankful for small mercies!
 
I usually have a chat to our postie . It seems that they quite often choose between letters of parcels and alternate what they do that day .
Also a fair bit of Amazon Prime stuff is being delivered by our postie more recently which he says slows him down as they are often boxes that don’t fit in his bag.
 
Our postie is new, he used to do parcels for M&H couriers, so he knew the routes anyway. He's a good lad, very pleasant.

The relief postie is near on 70, and is generally running 2 hours later than the regular. Very good at delivering the right things to the wrong places. Thankfully only one week in three.
 
Bloody DPD yet again , ordered some chew streets and claimed to have knocked but knew they were telling porkies

Must confess the customer service at Amazon has been very good and will now send me a full refund once it’s back at the depot

I ordered them from another supplier and had to problems
 

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Drives me nuts that what the point of selecting a delivery day for them to simply change it to what ever suits them

Then u get a notice they attempted to deliver it and surprise surprise they get a no answer call , go figure as that’s why u selected that particular day in the first place

Noticed one missed call with dpd and they send ur parcel back to the seller

Needs some basic common sense to be in charge but no lets make it as difficult as possible for u

Amazon have started to change days as well out of the blue
 
Arrgh - waiting for parts. Should have arrived Monday. Not delivered. Out for delivery yesterday with time slot of between 7-8pm! Didn't arrive. Out again today. Tracking says I'm delivery No 66on a rural route where the van didn't leave depot till 11am. As of 4pm he was only just half way round - don't see this turning up today either. I'm right at the end of the drivers run. Seems to get part way round and buggers off back to the depot when he's had enough. Tomorrow, I'll be driving to the depot to pick up my parcel if it doesn't turn up tonight.
It's been. bouncing in and out of the depot now for three days - christ knows what state it's in.
 
I followed one important package via the track your package that was approaching my place (i wait up the lane by the road gate) only to see it suddenly make a diversion to Porthleven, the nearby coastal village where it stayed for the whole afternoon before going straight back to the depot.
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As before I get things sent to argos/sainsbury and do my grocery shopping + fuelling at the same time if I can't buy local. The deliveries to argos have never been lost or delayed and I would recommend this to rural folk if its possible,
I got so fed up with the runaround of phoning the companies to chase things.
 
If there are no local alternatives and the outlet you are buying from is on the other side of the country there is little option but to have it delivered. From a rural location a run to the local supermarket is 10+ miles. Paying for delivery should not mean you pay twice by then having to drive and collect packages from some remote location.
Having worked closely with delivery companies the issue is one of depot managers wanting to get everything 'out of the depot' and onto vans so he can tick a box on his efficiency rating or whatever. That the van driver is so loaded up with drop points he hasn't a cat-in-hells chance of getting round the route without working stupid hours means nothing to the manager - not his problem - it was the van driver that failed.
You can manage 80 odd drops when they are closely bunched in town. You can't do that on rural routes, sometimes with miles between drops.
 
I am 100% certain that the dpds and evri type firms don't send a van out every day with just a few packages as the royal mail used to do but wait until its worthwhile for the self employed drivers to make a living, this could be all week where i am, in London I have seen vans delivering to flats with it seems, their whole family helping the driver,
It's 16 miles round trip for me to go to argos but they won't take big items,
 
I’ve finally had a part for my nephews Ford fiasco it was sent with royal fail 48 hour it took 8 days 🙁 there’s no wonder they’re having difficulty 😀
 
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