Dhl Rubbish!

Package delivered this morning at 09.12 No idea when the tracking caught up I was in Londinium. Good job I left a note on the door with instructions for the delivery man then, eh?

Just back; knackered!
 
G-force1 said:
Just back; knackered!
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Serves you right for going to das capital - there's very little to commend it IMHO. Over priced, over populated and over hyped.

That said, Mrs Rhino and I did spend an enjoyable weekend there last December, but I wouldn't want to do it every year :D:D:D:D
 
Chuggy, I was born there (a long time ago), but I concur 100%, and on top, dirty. That is my second visit inside six months, but I forgive today as it was to celebrate the life of a near life-long friend.

Incidentally the contactless card worked a treat, it is definitely the way to go with L.T.
 
Yeah, I was born and brought up in the south west suburbs (Royal Borough 23 as I recall - Kingston-upon-Thames) but I wouldn't give a Castlemaine 4X to go back there.
 
The worst parcel carrier is the one that just let you down. The best is the one that hasn't.
I recon they are all as good/bad as each other - its luck really.
Some of the regional hubs are now subcontractors, used by several courier companies - so whos fault is it. Yours, probably, for expecting service!
 
stockers said:
The worst parcel carrier is the one that just let you down. The best is the one that hasn't.
I recon they are all as good/bad as each other - its luck really.
Some of the regional hubs are now subcontractors, used by several courier companies - so whos fault is it. Yours, probably, for expecting service!
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Yeah, the UPS delivery that gave me so much grief, when it arrived, the driver was wearing his UPS uniform that had a stitched logo saying 'subcontractor to UPS'.

Hermes stand the best chance because they use local people (yeah, yeah, yeah) and DPD have got the systems that seem to work every time.
 
Amazon obviously have a 'rogue' driver somewhere in the Midlands..
Local weekly has a story of a pile of (opened) Amazon boxes being dumped in a local field.. Amazon systems allegedly show the parcels as 'delivered, signed for'..

We have a very large amazon warehouse down the road, at Rugeley..
 
PhilP said:
Amazon obviously have a 'rogue' driver somewhere in the Midlands..
Local weekly has a story of a pile of (opened) Amazon boxes being dumped in a local field.. Amazon systems allegedly show the parcels as 'delivered, signed for'..

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Royal Mail thought of it first :D:D:D:D:D:D

I think Southampton Water was the delivery address of choice. Before that it was Redhill depot - never expect anything to arrive unscathed if going through Redhill was the advice from our village postmistress when some recorded packets failed to arrive.
 
Even when it does arrive , your parcel may give problems , like the one my Son just received with parts missing .
He contacted the dealer who asked him to send photos of the missing items .
 
We all have our own bad experiences but I am very happy with Hermes in general. I sent over 50 parcels when I sold my OO collection and didn't have a problem with any of them. Only glitch was their web site was a bit slow one day and the paypal interface got a bit mixed up so I ended up paying twice for one delivery, but that got sorted quite easily. I find their tracking is pretty good and is visible to sender and receiver. Because they use local drivers you sometimes find that the same person delivers other courier stuff, they remember you and your favoured option for what to do if you are not in. So pretty good really.
 
"My doctor told me I have hermes....!"
"Don't you mean herpes?"
"No, apparently I'm the carrier....."

BOOM-tishhh!
That joke pre-dates the delivery firm, of course, I heard it back when it referred to the Messenger of the Gods..... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Jon.

Oh, and back on-topic: email from Amazon this morning telling me a parcel for me was "out for delivery" and would be with me today... ooh goodie, I thought.... about 5pm a white van pulls up, but no-one gets out; I go out to find the driver (who has a "limited command of English") rummaging in the back of the van. After several minutes he emerges and tells me that although my parcel is on his schedule and on his little handheld thingy, he "can't find it on the van". He says "Maybe tomorrow!" and b*ggers off.
Had rather incendiary online chat with Amazon customer representative who promised to relay my complaint to the depot and will "make sure the package is delivered tomorrow". I've seen more organisation in a bucket of maggots.
On the flip side, I sent three largish parcels out this week via UPS booked through Interparcel, all collected efficiently and politely within my specified (4-hour) time window and each delivered at a reasonable hour the very next day. Thus is the Balance of the Cosmos restored..... ;)
 
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Yebbut, you are the sender with UPS, and thus had a contract with them. if the sender doesn't specify any delivery arrangements, it's tough s***t as far as they're concerned (well, they're not... ......concerned that is).
 
mikanmart said:
Even when it does arrive , your parcel may give problems , like the one my Son just received with parts missing .
He contacted the dealer who asked him to send photos of the missing items .
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Hands up all those who missed the significance of the last sentence .
 
mikanmart said:
Hands up all those who missed the significance of the last sentence .
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Me - for half a second :smoke::smoke::smoke:

Hence the importance of an alibi.

You can't prove you weren't there, but you can at least assert that you were somewhere else
 
DHL seem to be at least getting into the spirit. I saw a delivery driver this morning dressed as one of Santa's little elves.
:D:D
 
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