Courier Chaos

[flecc]

It is Yodel that I have found poor

I haven't suffered any Yodel delivery for long time, but yes, they are very poor. Here they dont have professional drivers and dedicated vehicles, just using locals driving their own cars and often only delivering in the evenings as part time jobs.
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[Nealh]

I have seen the same Flecc, with flats/apartments .When I was delivering to multi occupied buildings parcels are simply left in a commumnal or foyer area and any one can literally take any parcel.
It is very poor state of affairs and must cost some vendors alot of money to replace missing items.

 

[Nealh]

I haven't suffered any Yodel delivery for long time, but yes, they are very poor. Here they dont have professional drivers and dedicated vehicles, just using locals driving their own cars and often only delivering in the evenings as part time jobs.
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My Evri courier is one such self employed and uses his personel people carrier, though he appears to be full time .

 

[guerney]

My delivery instruction for every delivery is always "KNOCK VERY LOUDLY & RING BELL!!!" but they never ring the bell, bloody annoying. I've even made the doorbell switch more obvious using yellow hiviz tape, and they still never ring the doorbell.

Most of my parcels are delivered damaged, but what drives me crazy is they take pictures without authorization and they even take them when specifically asked not to.

Hermesand Evri are the worst for that. They have to of course, in case of disputes, because Hermes in particular is the worst. I've shied away from buying items when I've seen that it'd be a Hermes fsckup.

 

[jimriley]

Just had 5ltr paint delivered. Can was properly dented, lucky it didn't burst. Could have been packed better by Rawlins, treated with care by FedEx. It's obviously been chucked about.

 

[Az.]

Ordered chicken manure 10l from Amazon. Driver delivered maybe 1.5l. He was very apologetic. Said parcel was damaged and rest is all around his van. That was the only time when I was happy parcel was damaged.

 

[guerney]

Just had 5ltr paint delivered. Can was properly dented, lucky it didn't burst. Could have been packed better by Rawlins, treated with care by FedEx. It's obviously been chucked about.

My lifetime supply of Aeroshell 22 arrived the same way - I couldn't work out if the big can was dented because it was cheap, or because of Hermes... but it was contained by the strongest clear plastic watertight bag I'd ever seen, so I reckoned it was the former and didn't start a Paypal dispute. The bag came in handy when I needed hard wearing yet clear flexible plastic for my DPC-18's rain hat.

 

[Nealh]

Ordered chicken manure 10l from Amazon. Driver delivered maybe 1.5l. He was very apologetic. Said parcel was damaged and rest is all around his van. That was the only time when I was happy parcel was damaged.

10l hardly enough to do any job I would have thought , when I bought 300l mix of farm manure and compost my CF trailer strained a little under the 125+ kg weight though the Bafang G370 roadrat coped quite well.

 

[Az.]

10l hardly enough to do any job I would have thought

I strongly disagree! 8.5l did fantastic job! I couldn't dream of better outcome.

when I bought 300l mix of farm manure and compost my CF trailer strained a little under the 125+ kg weight though the Bafang G370 roadrat coped quite well.

It must have been fun to ride through town...

I wish I had big garden like yours. Mine is super small with koi pond and big shed full of bikes.

 

[guerney]

Chicken poo is extraordinarily stinky but very effective, and a little can go a long way. However, it can't be used in too high a concentration or too often because of it's high ammonia content, which can burn plant roots. Horse manure is Russian roulette - it can contain Roundup, a herbicide they ingest with grass... which can render your entire garden incapable of growing veg. Takes Roundup years to break down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_(herbicide)#Carcinogenicity

There's a owner of goats who advertises locally every so often I'm told, and I keep cycling past the corner where she is said to put up a sign when she has bags available, but so far I've failed to purchase any.

 

[lenny]

Things will only get 'better' now the P.O. is in so much deep water all of a sudden..
Anyone else amazed at the impact a tv program has in 2024 when the real news broke a couple of years back??
I recall feeling empathy for the programmers on hearing the original news of the horizon system failure as well as the poor postmasters who may finally get some vindication.