Royal Mail tracker.

[Mo1959]

You know things have got bad when you see it's coming by Evri and breathe a sigh of relief! (Our local Evri lady is lovely)

Our guy is great too and very conscientious. He always waits until he gets an answer at the door rather than just dump the parcel like Amazon do. He will only leave a parcel in a designated safe place or try a neighbour to take it.

 

[Dan Lotus]

Our guy is great too and very conscientious. He always waits until he gets an answer at the door rather than just dump the parcel like Amazon do. He will only leave a parcel in a designated safe place or try a neighbour to take it.

Our previous Evri delivery lady was awesome, the more recent ones aren't quite up to her level.

Our Postie is the best though, as was his predecessor.

The current one will take the trouble if we are out, to take our food waste bin, walk down the drive, and kind of hide it behind the house, using that.
If it's a small parcel, he will even go to even more trouble of walking around to the back garden, and putting it through the cat flap
I always thank him when I see him, properly above and beyond.

 

[stephec]

I thought it updated to tell you when it was out for delivery?

I sold a coat on ebay, I dropped it of at a post office north of Manchester for delivery to Brighton in 48 hours, and thanks to Royal Mail's website I could see it travel to a distribution centre in Birmingham before heading up to Inverness sorting office, where it sat for a day before heading off to land in Brighton five days after I posted it.

I had a mental image of it flying around with the Benny Hill theme tune in the background.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

Our previous Evri delivery lady was awesome, the more recent ones aren't quite up to her level

Evri seem very variable. For me they used to be useless, complete disaster but current driver is good. To me that comes from bad managers ie everything depended on front line staff. Management should be identifying poor performance and addressing it - which they clearly are not. Bad management at depot and higher levels.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

In fairness there's too many unknown variables (traffic, delivery waiting, weather etc etc) to know when they will be delivering something as the schedule is non linear. The sequence can also change throughout the day due to traffic conditions. I would be surprised if the algorithm is set at 5am and does not change as the day progresses
For example, you have to deliver 300 items in and around the city you live in. Can you tell when the 178th item would be delivered?

The best they could realistically do is tell you when they are, say, 10 away from you and that would be in around an hour. Some couriers do this.

Most companies give you a time slot of a few hours.
You can follow the progress of your delivery on their app.

But why even bother to claim that it's possible to track your parcel, when that is clearly not the case.

Royal Mail's site is a bit pants.
The best way to catch your RM parcel is to be at home when the postie comes.
Ours comes only once a day, between 11.30 and 12.
In December, they also do weekend deliveries.
Make friends with the post person and show them a safe place to leave your parcels.
You can pick a safe place on the site too, but they won't check.
Or get it delivered to your work or to a post office.

Living close to the metropolis of Leeds means there are several Amazon warehouses within spitting distance and I'm about to order some stuff for delivery today with no extra charge. All tracked and can't fault 'em.

In my area Amazon is excellent.
Trouble is they have an agreement with Royal Mail too, so sometimes my Amazon comes with the postie, who might take it back if I'm not in - well, they don't do that anymore after I pulled them for it
I do however give my post people a Christmas gift!

 

[Mike Ayling]

Aussie Post give you a two hour window with at least 24 hours notice and they are very reliable.

 

[Drago]

The Royal Mail tracker not allowing you to track your parcel until its been delivered is akin to Michael Fish presenting the weather forecast and saying, "just look out the window."

 

[markemark]

Most couriers are predominantly used by companies and they are their biggest customers. The companies who use couriers don't really care about live tracking. All they need to know is if it is lost, is it days late and has it been delivered.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Companies like Evri cannot retain staff and so will take on anyone who can walk through the door. Sometimes they get a good one, the rest are either barely adequate or useless.

 

[PapaZita]

The information you get from Royal Mail tracking depends on the service the sender has used. I don’t know their names. Updating only after delivery is presumably mostly for the sender’s benefit. I see it mostly on letter sized items. There definitely are RM services that track a parcel step by step through the network, as I am watching one now.

My only slight complaint is that so much happens overnight that I don’t know my delivery window until I wake up in the middle of it. However, our local service seems predictable and our postie is definitely a “good one”, so I know that if a parcel is heading for our local depot at bedtime I need to be ready for it the next morning.