Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
DPD seems pretty good. You can arrange location and day of delivery to suit you.
An alternative to Royal mail any ideas ?
- Thread starter BADGER.BRAD
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derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
RM works for me, had loads of problems with Yodel, Hermes and a couple of others.
mark st1
Plastic Manc
- Location
- Leafy Berkshire
Tbf from the 16 odd billion items a year they deliver as a company they are going to attract complaints. I've never had a problem with them as yet. However I'm not a business customer as the OP maybe.
Our postman has really unified our area and led to the development of a real community spirit round here so I won't hear a word said against him. Without our local postman, most of us would never have met our neighbours and started up friendships had our postie put the right letters and parcels through the right letterboxes. Thanks to his diligent, ceaseless work, we've all visited the homes of our nearer and further neighbours to hand-over or swap items that were intended for other letterboxes but mysteriously came through ours. And theirs. I always wonder why Mrs. Muldoon from round the corner tends to look embarrassed when we have to take her parcels to her. She does seem to get a lot.
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
I use My Hermes as it's cheap but for larger stuff UPS but their site is not very user friendly.
gbb
Legendary Member
- Location
- Peterborough
And neither are some of their drivers...I nearly ended up in fisticuffs with one of them
T0sser.
DanZac
Senior Member
- Location
- Basingstoke
DPD every time. Tell you to the minute when its arriving, option to leave in a safe place or with a neighbour if your not in and personalised service.
Unlike those twa#s at Royal mail who never deliver anything and take it back to their lair (if they even bothered to bring it out in the first place). Have no parking (car or bike) massive queues at all times of the day and the most useless unhelpfull sour faced staff ever.
Unlike those twa#s at Royal mail who never deliver anything and take it back to their lair (if they even bothered to bring it out in the first place). Have no parking (car or bike) massive queues at all times of the day and the most useless unhelpfull sour faced staff ever.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Our royal mail, both letters and parcels are excellent. (Bristol). However the Parcel Farce crew when I lived in Cheltenham were a shambles though letters was perfectly OK. The most hopeless I found were UPS. Not in, left card (then living in Cardiff) -nearest depot supposedly Birmingham. Wtaf?
- Location
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
In contrast to some on here I send out dozens of parcels a day in the post for my work and very little gets lost or damaged. What am I doing wrong?
I had a delivery from DPD a couple of weeks ago where the guy turned up and said "I can't give the parcel to you for ten minutes, I'm early."
Personally I've never had problems with royal mail, but I don't post things very often, and if I miss a delivery it's no big deal to go down the road and collect it from the main depot.
Dpd seems to work well, plenty of local drop off points and there vans are out and about all day long. The drivers I know all seem to be fairly decent if a little stressed at times.
Dpd seems to work well, plenty of local drop off points and there vans are out and about all day long. The drivers I know all seem to be fairly decent if a little stressed at times.
