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Chequered Flag Racing
19-12-2010, 09:45 AM
Postman Pat or was it Eric, George, William??

Who cares he's just delivered a present for her indoors @ 09:43, today 19th Dec 2011

and we have 4" of snow this morning and it's -4.4c :woot: but rising :D

http://billinghamweather.com/wxlive.php

:thumbsup:

mattJT
19-12-2010, 10:02 AM
Jeez, they must be backlogged.....delivering on a sunday....and in the snow...:thumbsup:

hammerhead
19-12-2010, 10:08 AM
apparently they have roughly 1 million parcels backlogged :o props to em for getting out on a sunday tho and in the snow

mattJT
19-12-2010, 10:14 AM
apparently they have roughly 1 million parcels backlogged :o props to em for getting out on a sunday tho and in the snow


1 million erghh, that's probably why the guaranteed special delivery service is currently suspended, time scale wise......mind you made me laugh tho, went to post a parcelforce 48 parcel, was told that this service was suspended (timewise) but would I like to pay more for parcelforce 24, which was also suspended :confused:

mole2k
19-12-2010, 12:07 PM
Our postman was saying they where going to be working today to try and clear the backlog, we're stuck here in NI as they've closed all the airports so no mail is getting in or out...

purplenut
19-12-2010, 12:19 PM
Postman Pat or was it Eric, George, William??

Who cares he's just delivered a present for her indoors @ 09:43, today 19th Dec 2011

and we have 4" of snow this morning and it's -4.4c :woot: but rising :D

http://billinghamweather.com/wxlive.php

:thumbsup:
Agree there g
I ordered some stuff on Thursday (you know) and it still not here and that's a courier.
But the gear I ordered from the same guy on Friday came 1st thing sat morning and we had snow not as much as you tho:thumbsup:

big p
19-12-2010, 03:47 PM
our postie turned up today in his jeans and hoodie with a 3s lipo for me.

mdb_75
19-12-2010, 05:09 PM
I don't think our posties were working at all yesterday (Saturday). I drove to the sorting office as they have the latest collection post box outside. The front gates were chained up and there was about twenty vans parked up all covered in about 20mm :eh?: of snow!! Didn't see a postie about all morning either and we normally see a few. Shocking if they weren't delivering as the non-side roads were mostly clear.

Aran
19-12-2010, 06:42 PM
i got post today, was bit surprised on a sunday lol

Whiskers
19-12-2010, 08:02 PM
Postman Pat or was it Eric, George, William??

Who cares he's just delivered a present for her indoors @ 09:43, today 19th Dec 2011

and we have 4" of snow this morning and it's -4.4c :woot: but rising :D

http://billinghamweather.com/wxlive.php

:thumbsup:

We are still waiting for a delivery from amazon that was ordered about two weeks ago because of the weather.

Also I hadn't noticed that we had started the new year yet! :p

carlin
19-12-2010, 08:26 PM
I'm still waiting for my parcels that was sent out to us end November & December :cry:

But makes you laugh cause they getting all the recent stuff out though,i ordered something Monday but was here yesterday.

So makes you wonder what they have done with the mail sounds like Non Compliance then been destroyed just to get rid of the back log........

mattJT
19-12-2010, 08:32 PM
I'm still waiting for my parcels that was sent out to us end November & December :cry:

But makes you laugh cause they getting all the recent stuff out though,i ordered something Monday but was here yesterday.

So makes you wonder what they have done with the mail sounds like Non Compliance then been destroyed just to get rid of the back log........

or you could have done to you what royal mail did to me recently....my b4 spares from ebay were sent recorded, delivered and signed for...just not at my house or by me :mad:

racingdwarf
19-12-2010, 09:22 PM
or you could have done to you what royal mail did to me recently....my b4 spares from ebay were sent recorded, delivered and signed for...just not at my house or by me :mad:

I have had that, recorded is fine, but they don't give a rats arse as long as someone signs for it, they just take it to the door, If like happened to me they take it to the wrong place and the oap signs for it cos he thinks that is what he has to do there job is done,took ages to sort the cock up,and royal mail were very unintrested, I had to find out where the parcel had gone:mad:.

I think the stand point is, If the wrong person signs for it, it's not the PO's problem! As if that person is not the name on the parcel, or the right address and not expecting anything they should not sign....If they do they are being dishonest:woot: the postoffice has done it's job:cry:.

Sadly the only reason I use recorded with all my parcels is so I can proove to the reciver that I have posted the item, by sending them the track and trace number

bodgit
07-01-2011, 10:32 AM
Things are getting desperate. I,ve just had a DHL delivery by a private 4x4.
I,ve never seen that before. Are they paying the public with 4x4 to deliver now in snow.

Chequered Flag Racing
07-01-2011, 10:45 AM
Things are getting desperate. I,ve just had a DHL delivery by a private 4x4.
I,ve never seen that before. Are they paying the public with 4x4 to deliver now in snow.

No.

He or she works out of DHL depots for another company who deliver parcels that are considered small enough for them. That's how it worked a few years back when I worked for DHL part time.

hammerhead
07-01-2011, 01:13 PM
pity parcels2go arent doing as well as royal mail i have about 12 parcels here waiting to be picked up wich was yesterday :yawn:

shoebox-airbrushing
07-01-2011, 01:21 PM
Is first class supposed to be next day delivery ?

blue_pinky
07-01-2011, 01:46 PM
Next day is the aim of first class, but is not guaranteed.

big air
07-01-2011, 03:17 PM
pity parcels2go arent doing as well as royal mail i have about 12 parcels here waiting to be picked up wich was yesterday :yawn:

I have had parcels waiting to be picked up from Parcel2Go (DHL) since the 12th December and only picked them up yesterday and today.:mad:
useless gits:woot:

hammerhead
07-01-2011, 03:28 PM
I have had parcels waiting to be picked up from Parcel2Go (DHL) since the 12th December and only picked them up yesterday and today.:mad:
useless gits:woot:
thats bloody ridiculous:o

mattJT
07-01-2011, 07:41 PM
I have had that, recorded is fine, but they don't give a rats arse as long as someone signs for it, they just take it to the door, If like happened to me they take it to the wrong place and the oap signs for it cos he thinks that is what he has to do there job is done,took ages to sort the cock up,and royal mail were very unintrested, I had to find out where the parcel had gone:mad:.

I think the stand point is, If the wrong person signs for it, it's not the PO's problem! As if that person is not the name on the parcel, or the right address and not expecting anything they should not sign....If they do they are being dishonest:woot: the postoffice has done it's job:cry:.

Sadly the only reason I use recorded with all my parcels is so I can proove to the reciver that I have posted the item, by sending them the track and trace number


Worst of all, the so called ebay dispute investigation found in his favour....their investigation consisted of checking the tracking number and that's about it :mad:

Still, taken it to post office review now, so will see how that goes ;)

johnnygibbon
07-01-2011, 07:51 PM
waiting for a log book and some rc parts that were ordered first week in december and its still no where near
roll on pat i racing the sc truck next week and i need to trade my van in to ( ex gpo)
i no it was a busy time but surely the delivary companies knew it was coming

bodgit
07-01-2011, 08:34 PM
I sent 2 items recorded delivery on tuesday. The one sent 380 miles away has already been "attempted delivery" but the one that went only 130 miles is still in the system.