Where's my parcel?

[vernon]

I can't believe my luck:

Amazon order split into five separate deliveries -on time
Empire direct one order - eight parcels - on time
Some motoring emporium or other one package - on time
Cycle clothing from Prendas - on time
Music store - CD - ontime

My wife had ordered even more from a wider variety of merchants than me and nothing is overdue or has gone astray....

All orders placed within the past seven days and all fulfilled without fuss and delivered by a range of postal and courier services. Even had a delivery on Sunday by Royal Mail - thought that they'd abandoned those.

 

[marinyork]

Sunday delivery, lucky thing. The little blighters queue parcels at my sorting office!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I hate courier companies (and I've worked for CityLink). I've stopped buying ebay stuff from people who use anything other than Royal Mail ... I have a sorting office about 200 yards from my house, but on the odd occasion I've had stuff "delivered" by CityLink it would have entailed less driving on my part if I'd actually driven to the seller's house and picked the stuff up myself.

 

[Dave5N]

I hate courier companies (and I've worked for CityLink). I've stopped buying ebay stuff from people who use anything other than Royal Mail ... I have a sorting office about 200 yards from my house, but on the odd occasion I've had stuff "delivered" by CityLink it would have entailed less driving on my part if I'd actually driven to the seller's house and picked the stuff up myself.

I reckon you're the only f*cker in the entire company that has.

DHL for me. They put a lot back.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I reckon you're the only f*cker in the entire company that has.

DHL for me. They put a lot back.

Actually, I didn't do much. I was on the agency, employed by the week as a standby night trunk driver (ie, taking a trailer full of parcels up to a delivery depot from the central hub near Wolverhampton). On the first night when I turned up for work at 8pm, they said "give us your phone number and go and get yourself a coffee, we'll call you when we've got something for you to do." At about 4am the phone rang and they told me I could go home. The next night, I turned up, reported for duty, gave them my phone number ... and went straight back home again. If they'd phoned wanting me to do something, I could have been back in ten minutes, but they never did. This went on all week, and I got paid for every night.

 

[summerdays]

Well for me its UPS at the minute... they came on Tue left a note saying they were coming on Wed - not much help as I couldn't get any time off, so they have left another note saying they are coming again today... and I still can't get any time off. Its my last day this year and today is the last time they are going to try and deliver this parcel. Oooo so infuriating. Tried using their on-line service to change it, but it won't let me.

Royal Mail are my favourites... they keep finding ingenious (?is that a word) places to leave it in the garden.

 

[wafflycat]

Royal Mail are very good for parcel deliveries - as I'm in the back end of beyond, so courier companies just don't cut the mustard on too many occasions. If, on the rare occasion a courier company says it can't find us, this means a round trip of over 50 miles minimum to collect from their premises - so I am not enamoured of courier companies. Couriers are fine if you live in a city, but not for ye average small town or village.

Edit: "If, on the rare occasion a courier company says it can't find us..." is not because the couriers are spectacularly good, it's because it's mostly deliveries by Royal Mail that we get.

 

[Morrisette]

Couriers are fine if you live in a city, but not for ye average small town or village.

Yep - and they lie to you. My office has had time-critical documents from a government department fail to arrive - courier company says they rang the doorbell and no one answered it - blatantly untrue. But because the person they reported this to is a government minister, we had to take the flak for it, were accused of being in the pub when we should have been at work, and now have to make sure there is someone in the office EVERY MINUTE in case stray couriers turn up. Needless to say it's never happened again.

 

[ColinJ]

Normally amazon sends stuff royal mail but this time it's citylink, I HATE CITYLINK. If I had known before ordering it would have put me off.

Same here! Actually, I can't tell you who the courier was because they buggered off without leaving a card. All I saw was the back of the van disappearing down the street. My parcel was left on the step, right at the side of the pavement. The parcel contained a £45 webcam. Fortunately I was in when the courier called, but they didn't know that when they dumped the parcel (there were no lights on) .

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Same here! Actually, I can't tell you who the courier was because they buggered off without leaving a card. All I saw was the back of the van disappearing down the street. My parcel was left on the step, right at the side of the pavement. The parcel contained a £45 webcam. Fortunately I was in when the courier called, but they didn't know that when they dumped the parcel (there were no lights on) .

So contact the company you ordered off and ask why it hasn't been delivered... it should (presumably) have been signed for, and wasn't, so they haven't any proof that you got it... it may make them think twice before using such a shoddy firm again... and you may get another webcam which you can flog on eBay

 

[Lardyboy]

Rant warning.

Don't know what it is with me and parcel deliveries, but yet another saga of a "lost" parcel this week.

Had a recorded delivery set for last Friday. I know the postman and he's very good when it comes to delivering when I'm unable to be in, he'll take it to my parents who are on the same round, or leave it with a neighbour. However last week he was off on holiday and the parcel got returned to the sorting office. Get it in 24 hours it said on the card.

So off I go on Saturday morning before work. Present the card and wait. Now here's a tip. If it takes longer than a minute you know there's trouble brewing behind the scenes. Comes back "I can't find it. It may not be back with us yet,it's still early" he says. "Ok" says I dubiously, "I can't come back till Monday now." He gives me the card back and off to work we go.

Monday comes, I go after work just to make sure. Hand over the card to a different bloke, and, 5 minutes later returns with no parcel! He photocopies the card and tells me to ring the manager in the morning. I'm not a happy bunny!

So I ring in the morning and get an answer phone! Then when all hope is lost a phone call, it's been found! Would I like it redelivered? "NO! I'll come and get it."

So go after work, hand over card,to yet another different bloke, saying that I've had a phone call, it's been found. So of he goes and comes back a minute later to say he can't find it! I tell him he's joking and that the manager said it was there. So off he goes again, and comes back empty handed asking was this the "Correct address?" "YES!" Back he goes, comes back, "Correct name?" "YES!" Then raised voices behind the scenes and he returns with my parcel!!!!!!!!!! "Sorry bout the delay, but it had your surname first then your Christian name on the parcel." So, I had to askmyself had the parcel actually been there all along!

 

[ColinJ]

So contact the company you ordered off and ask why it hasn't been delivered... it should (presumably) have been signed for, and wasn't, so they haven't any proof that you got it... it may make them think twice before using such a shoddy firm again... and you may get another webcam which you can flog on eBay

Very tempting...

 

[Dave5N]

Very tempting...

Dishonest

 

[Dave5N]

Couriers are fine if you live in a city

I do and they're not.

 

[Headgardener]

Not a rant but it's funny all the same.
Earlier this year I ordered a live bird food feeder and some live food to go in it. The information in the order details said that the live food would be sent from a specialist supplier and would take a few extra days to arrive. Well the feeder turned up while my Dad was out and a card was left for me to collect the it, so down to the sorting office I went and asked for the box that should contain the feeder. Lady behind counter reaches for the packet with my name on and screams and runs to the other side of the room. I'm a bit mystified as to how a plastic bird feeder can produce this reaction but manage to get the lady back to window to explain, I forgot to add she also chucked the package on the floor. Turns out it's the live food which had been put on the shelf upside down (even though the box said "live food this way up") and some of them had escaped. Ended up the she had to let me into the sorting office and ask me to pick up the mealworms that had escaped before she would give me the feeder which I had originly gone to collect.
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