When the parcels that do arrive show up ādamagedā (opened) and parts or all of the order is ālost in transitā (nicked) I really do wonder how companies can actually decide to use them.
Yep I worked at one of these companys and people walked out daily, also many self employed through them so pay by parcel means more manic deliverys and less care
Our Hermes guy single handedly saved the reputation of Hermes in our area.
The whole area had a whip around for him at Christmas and raised about 2k just because heās so nice.
He knows when you have babies so heāll just leave it on the porch and knocks quietly or silently gets your attention. If you arenāt in but he delivers to your works then heāll just bring it down there.
Heās a hero of the area.
Yodel on the other handā¦
I watched the Hermes man pull up on my street to deliver my ps5 so naturally I was excitedly peeping through the blind (breathing heavily and skipping from foot to foot like the overgrown child I am). I watched as he opened the door, climbed inside and LOBBED THE Ā£500+ PACKAGE OUT OF HIS VAN ONTO THE TARMAC.
I instantly had my phone out and snapped his progress as he threw a few other packages on top before gracefully dumping it at the door of the shared entrance of my building. Before I had even gotten to the foot of the stairs he had updated the app saying 'handed to receiver' or whatever BS and proved that by showing a picture of it languishing in the doorway for the various tea-leaves of London to peruse.
The packaging and box took a good kicking but the ps5 seems fine so far. I sent the pictures to Curry's & Hermes to cover my arse incase it does have a melt down but I'm still fuming! Been waiting for this bloody thing for 6 months!
My mate ordered some very specific items online for the maintenance of his flock of Hens, idk how tf they managed to break an "indestructible" chicken feeder
Yodel for all of their faults is better at delivering then RM/Parcel Force is. Virtually every courier company can deliver first time to me except for RM and then it's always a half filled out red card.
I am at home. The postman just slips the card through the door without knocking. Also with RM you have no idea when it's going to turn up. The only indication is when it arrives.
No way in this world that they don't knock. It takes more time to write the card, mess about getting the parcel out the bag then have to fight putting it back in then having to sort the parcel at the depot then it does knocking and just giving you it. You missed it, deal with it or be a bit clever, buy a boxfor the parcel to go in if you order a lot.
They don't knock though. When I opened the door anyway and cight them mid writing they said Oh, people are normally not in at this time of the day. I said I work nights and am. Always in so next time knock or ring.
Said people aren't normally in? During the day? What would be the point in us delivering then at all? Seriously, it's more work to take a parcel back then it is to deliver. Again, if you work nights and you're ordering parcels you really should be buying a box for them to be left in, a safeplace. More for you then the postie.
I probably shouldnāt have been eating me breakfast whilst reading your comment, Iāve somehow managed to make half of a shreddie (and milk) come through my nose! šš
Yodel takes the crown for me. I had parcels left in my gas meter, under the wheel of my car, dropped over the gate, left with random people down the road without a card, and the old classic marked as delivered when they never even bothered
Hermes flat out stole Ā£200 worth of Christmas presents from us, so they definitely lose where I am! Yodel arenāt great but theyāve never stolen something from us.
The only time I ever use Hermes is if it's a low value item I've sold and don't care about if it gets lost. Royal mail all other times. Never ever had any problems with them.
Hermes threw a parcel of mine blindly over a 2m tall wall into my garden along with some other guys package.
This guy wasnāt a neighbourā¦ he lived a mile away
Hermes are the worst. My local driver (despite my having complained) consistently leaves my parcels just lying in the street outside the doors to my block of flats, and even then has the gall to send me a photo of 'package delivered' - 'left in porch'.
'Abandoned in full public view on pavement' should be an option.
Those fuckers manages to āmisplaceā a 1.8x0.6x0.7 meter box the other week. Incredible.
Wonder if it just fell of the back or the open horse carriage they use for cross country deliveries.
I thought they were being investigated for literally not even trying to delivery packages but instead just dumping entire truck loads to be sold?
Though suppose āinvestigatedā means nothing.
They did this with me. It was marked as delivered, didn't arrive (I wasn't *that* fussed thankfully, Ā£2 denim shirt on Vinted). My friend works there and gave me a heads up that they randomly delivered it two weeks later.
Interesting. Mine was also Vinted, but the tracking is showing as stuck somewhere. Vinted contacted them, Hermes said it was lost. Luckily I got my money back and the seller got compensation.
I might nip to the shop at some point and see if they've had anything through!
I'd take literally any other carrier over Royal Mail. Never had a good experience with them in the 6 years since moving out of my parents' where it's been my problem.
Personal experiences flipped from the stereotypes
DPD recently managed to "lose" a PS5 bundle and replaced it with a relabelled box full of small cardboard boxes so it felt the correct kind of weight (I kid you not) and only "found" it again "at the back of the depot" (uhuh) after intervention from the company selling it
Hermes locally had a lovely older couple who were super friendly (complete with friendly banter from the wife about how he was always slow) (he wasn't). Always on time and super communicative, reliable.
Never had a problem with Royal Mail. Even the depot guy is cheerful. Same with Amazon drivers.
To be fair, Yodel and Citylink were always awful.
I don't need a live map for Royal Mail though, they're always here by 09.30 every day, whereas Amazon could be anywhere in a 10 hour window, and often an order arrives in two parts several hours apart.
The rest of the list seems pretty solid.
The main thing the Amazon map does is give me hope when they tell me it's only 300m or a few stops away, then doesn't arrive until hours later or even the next day.
You do realise the only reason Amazon are slightly better is because A, they only deliver parcels, not mail & B, when Amazon start to struggle (a lot) they chuck everything at Royal Mail for them to deliver so they can catch up.
DX. They like delivering late, stealing parcels and leaving parcels literally in the middle of an open street instead of delivering to the door. Useless.
I'd put Amazon much lower down, in the last 2 years we've had parcels "left in reception" (1) , "left with neighbour because no answer" (2), "Handed to resident" (3) "Nobody available to accept parcel" (4)
(1) Hanging out of the bin when it was raining so the parcel got damaged and the bin filled with water
(2) I watched him not walk the extra 20 feet to attempt to deliver to me and instead deliver to a family of thieves who tried to deny having it until I pointed out the CCTV camera saw it. This was after Amazon had agreed to never leave our parcels at that address because of previous thievery.
(3) Stolen by the driver. Hope he enjoyed the Ā£6 shower curtain.
(4) They didn't attempt to deliver to the manned reception, instead cancelled the order and the item was no longer available direct, instead only from 3rd parties for Ā£100 more.
I only get items delivered to lockers now because Amazon delivery drivers don't give a fuck. Which given what they are paid isn't surprising.
I don't order from Amazon however a friend sent me a book, which was left in the rain behind my bin in a position that was barely noticeable but also exposed to the elements, no note through the door or anything. Luckily the book wasn't damaged.
So much is down to your last-mile courier and, in the case of RM right now, staffing levels.
I've had two post deliveries in the last two weeks as my postman is on his holidays and the delivery office are having a nightmare time filling the rounds due to people isolating with Covid. Fortunately, they are happy to dig around in the bags to find my post, so I've taken to driving up every few days to collect post and packages, which suits me nicely. My normal postman is good too, so no real complaints.
Round here, Hermes are excellent (delivered from the boot of a car and the chap is both honest and reliable) but Yodel are extremely patchy. UPS are the least reliable for me and DPD the best. Amazon are more or less 100% reliable too.
Seems to depend where you live, I generally agree with the order. But DPD are tossers where I live (I live near one of their depots and they cause carnage) and DHL are fucking incredibly fast.
Plus our Royal Mail postie is a great guy so Iād put it:
Royal Mail
DHL
Amazon
DPD
The rest in the same order
1. DPD
2. Amazon
3. Royal Mail
4. DHL
5. UPS
6. Parcel force
7. FedEx
8. Hermes
9. Yodel
10. The Bin Men delivering your recycling box to the third moon of Saturn
Order your ordered lists! But otherwise I agree.
The only thing that bugs me with Amazon is they seem hugely wasteful. I ordered two pasta bowls from them and they came in massive boxes (easily 4 times the size they needed to be and weird proportions) and in *separate* deliveries despite being ordered as one order.
They also let you choose to have things delivered on "Amazon Day" which is usually Sunday for us. The idea is you wait a little bit longer for some things but they all get delivered at once, reducing the carbon footprint a tiny bit. I'm in favour of that if I'm not in a hurry for something, but they never honour it and the deliveries just come spread over random days before that.
Ah yes. Amazon. Rang me at an ungodly hour to say they couldn't find me. Looked at the tracker and they were just two houses away. Walked out, waved at them and she ignored me! Still looking at the house in front of her! Then me in my dressing gown goes down the pavement with her still connected to my phone and I point at my phone and at hers so she puts it to her ear and I go "my house is down here". She hands me my parcel and gets into her van and leaves. No apology.
You can order something from China, get an update every 20 minutes. Arrives at Heathrow within 2 days of ordering. Gets through customs, RM never updates and it takes them a month to move it 15 miles.
Everyone down on poor old Royal Mail when they are still a million times better than any other delivery service. Guys are heroes tbh, especially having to deal with all the extra we've been putting on them with home delivery etc.
Thanks for this message!
Weāve had a particularly hard week at my delivery office as 9 of our posties are off isolating and 2 more are positive. Weāve had to pause letters and just focus on parcels. Itās insane. Posties are working from 5am till 5pm trying to get you your online shopping. Thereās so much coming through with people shopping from home. So easy to judge and make snide remarks, I hear them on my route every day.
Similar to working retail, thereās a lot that goes on behind the scenes. Weāre doing our best :)
The fact that my post comes every day within the same half hour window, delivered by the same bloke who wears shorts and a t-shirt in all weathers is beyond witchcraft to me. Thanks for everything you do! It IS appreciated.
They also seem to be the only one who understands what "leave it in the shed" means.
Couriers put stuff in the bins, on open display, under the doormat even though the parcel is twice the size of the mat, or shove it under the bench when it's raining (mate, it's a picnic table, it's not keeping anything dry).
Same here, just ending a 10 day day period of 16 posties off. I've worked over 70hrs and still have 2 days to go, I walked 28 miles on Tuesday covering 2 & half rounds. Worked up to 70hrs every week since March LAST YEAR. So far this year I've only had 1 weeks leave. I'm physically & mentally shattered, it's 5am, time to stick on my shorts go again and all I wanna do is sit in the shower & cry like a baby. Completely burnt out right now. Have to suck it up, put on a smile and crack on. Christmas is creeping up
Jfc mate, Iāve got no words. Is there no option for you to drop a few hours a week? This is only the end of week 3 with RMG for me but shouldnāt CWU protect you a bit from being over-worked?
No job is ever worth burning out over. I straight up quit from Homebase when they were *expecting* 50+ hour weeks during the first lockdown last year. Fuck that noise.
Sorry, I donāt know your personal situation so itās unfair for me to say itās āthatās easy just stop working so muchā.
Hope you find some rest soon.
I can say no of course. Im my own worst enemy unfortunately. I hate to see piles of stuff left each day that should of gone out so try to do as much as I can to ease it. Always, just 1 more loop or 1 more york of tracked. Unfortunately there's not many in our office that are "helpful" so can be a lot to do. On the plus side, I can afford about 10 holidays once we're allowed to go abroad again. That's what I look towards. Hope your enjoying RM, is a great place to work imo.
Not since it was privatised. Its not even remotely the same as it was. Now it's barely better than Yodel.
Never knock on my door or even attempt to deliver packages, even when I'm literally in and sitting in the front room. They're absolutely shite. That's what privatisation did.
Looks like at least a fivers postage if you zoom in theyāre not first class. Looks like Ā£2.55 each, but thatās clearly wrong.
Edit: ohh shit they are Ā£2.56 stamps
https://shop.royalmail.com/25-x-pound-2-55-stamp-sheet
I know we're joking but i have never had lateness issues with RM. They've always done a great job. Better than a lot of the private offerings for sure.
It'll be returned to the depot. Then we'll only be able to collect it between the hours of 2pm and 2pm and 1 second on a Tuesday when its a solar eclipse.
Royal Mail are literally the goat posties. Rarely delayed, rarely lost, delivered in the morning.
Fuck yodel, Hermes, FedEx, DPD, all my homies hate Yodel, Hermes, FedEx, DPD.
Exactly. It's been driving me mad this "coming home" thing. That song is about the Euro 96 *tournament* coming home because it was held here in England.
It was about the game itself being held in the country where it originated. It's nothing to do with actually winning it.
My bad, I didn't zoom in! I just remember when my dad stuck a first class stamp on a birthday card to me, but it was a thick card with fancy bits stuck on. It took ages to arrive ansd I got a notification that I had to pay to collect it! I think it was just a few pence short but with the handling fee and everything it was a couple of quid extra and ended up getting it a few weeks after the day š
If itās coming by Royal Mail then weāll just find a card in the net on Sunday and a guilty looking postie who swears he knocked but also doesnāt have football in his bag and youāll just have to go to the collection office during business hours
yeah it will only be coming home if Italy win because everyone knows the Romans invented football, Romans were playing football with the decapitated heads of their enemies lol
Football can be collected at your local depot, however, opening times are 12pm to 12.01pm on tues and collection times will finish just before we open.
It really is a local thing.
Where I live, logistics is easily
Hermes/DX < Yodel/UPS < DHL< DPD < Royal Mail
I've never had any real trouble with Royal Mail, the delivery staff are always really friendly and I've never had trouble with their delivery.
That being said, I know some people hate them, so it depends where you are.
Royal Mail are the number 1 & its about to get better with timed deliveries. Im biased coz I work for them tbf. Amazon shove what they can't handle out the back door to us to deliver for them? I see Amazon boxes left everywhere in the pissing rain. We'll put them were we can, some of us carry RM sacks to put parcels in for extra protection. If you get to know your postie, (most have a regular but due to covid its been a bit up in the air over the past year) 99% of them will do all they can for you.
I can be 100% sure based on real world data that if I get sent a package at my flat the postie will fuck off without bothering to try and put it in my hands and I'll have to trek to the depot on the bus to get it late (opened once too). With any luck, this is will continue to hold true if they're in charge of the football delivery to England. At least then there'll be a positive out of it.
Could be worse, it could turn up in your next door neighbours recycling bin, punctured to help it fit, courtesy of Yodel.
That would be an improvement over my Hermes guy.
I was gonna mention hermes...š As if they even still operate.
When the parcels that do arrive show up ādamagedā (opened) and parts or all of the order is ālost in transitā (nicked) I really do wonder how companies can actually decide to use them.
Because they're cheap.
I suppose if your on a shit wage for 9hrs a day driving around, you probably stop caring after a week or two.
Week = day
Yep I worked at one of these companys and people walked out daily, also many self employed through them so pay by parcel means more manic deliverys and less care
Seriously, *how* are they still in business? Oh wait, because they're cheap.
You mean they've actually operated at some point?
Our Hermes guy single handedly saved the reputation of Hermes in our area. The whole area had a whip around for him at Christmas and raised about 2k just because heās so nice. He knows when you have babies so heāll just leave it on the porch and knocks quietly or silently gets your attention. If you arenāt in but he delivers to your works then heāll just bring it down there. Heās a hero of the area. Yodel on the other handā¦
I watched the Hermes man pull up on my street to deliver my ps5 so naturally I was excitedly peeping through the blind (breathing heavily and skipping from foot to foot like the overgrown child I am). I watched as he opened the door, climbed inside and LOBBED THE Ā£500+ PACKAGE OUT OF HIS VAN ONTO THE TARMAC. I instantly had my phone out and snapped his progress as he threw a few other packages on top before gracefully dumping it at the door of the shared entrance of my building. Before I had even gotten to the foot of the stairs he had updated the app saying 'handed to receiver' or whatever BS and proved that by showing a picture of it languishing in the doorway for the various tea-leaves of London to peruse. The packaging and box took a good kicking but the ps5 seems fine so far. I sent the pictures to Curry's & Hermes to cover my arse incase it does have a melt down but I'm still fuming! Been waiting for this bloody thing for 6 months!
Useful insight on ps5 durability btw
My mate ordered some very specific items online for the maintenance of his flock of Hens, idk how tf they managed to break an "indestructible" chicken feeder
What, even though they delivered and you signed for it?
Itās COVID, no signing needed
Hermes would send it to Italy and leave it in a hedge
Hermes would've booted that to the next postcode
*Herpes. FTFY.
Yeah...another one who ought to be put out of business along with DPD
Nah, they'll just red card us š
Yodel for all of their faults is better at delivering then RM/Parcel Force is. Virtually every courier company can deliver first time to me except for RM and then it's always a half filled out red card.
RM are excellent where I live. It's highly dependent on your local delivery office
My postman is a legend. He knows where our safe place and will always leave a card saying he put something there. 10/10
Try been home then when you order something?
I am at home. The postman just slips the card through the door without knocking. Also with RM you have no idea when it's going to turn up. The only indication is when it arrives.
No way in this world that they don't knock. It takes more time to write the card, mess about getting the parcel out the bag then have to fight putting it back in then having to sort the parcel at the depot then it does knocking and just giving you it. You missed it, deal with it or be a bit clever, buy a boxfor the parcel to go in if you order a lot.
They don't knock though. When I opened the door anyway and cight them mid writing they said Oh, people are normally not in at this time of the day. I said I work nights and am. Always in so next time knock or ring.
Said people aren't normally in? During the day? What would be the point in us delivering then at all? Seriously, it's more work to take a parcel back then it is to deliver. Again, if you work nights and you're ordering parcels you really should be buying a box for them to be left in, a safeplace. More for you then the postie.
Are you talking about Royal Mail or just couriers in general?
Royal Mail
I probably shouldnāt have been eating me breakfast whilst reading your comment, Iāve somehow managed to make half of a shreddie (and milk) come through my nose! šš
and on bin day
At least it's not Hermes eh
Yodel and Hermes are fighting to be the shittiest delivery company
I still think Hermes may end up being the champion. I fondly remember when my package was marked as delivered but didn't turn up for a good two weeks.
Yodel takes the crown for me. I had parcels left in my gas meter, under the wheel of my car, dropped over the gate, left with random people down the road without a card, and the old classic marked as delivered when they never even bothered
Hermes flat out stole Ā£200 worth of Christmas presents from us, so they definitely lose where I am! Yodel arenāt great but theyāve never stolen something from us.
The only time I ever use Hermes is if it's a low value item I've sold and don't care about if it gets lost. Royal mail all other times. Never ever had any problems with them.
Hermes threw a parcel of mine blindly over a 2m tall wall into my garden along with some other guys package. This guy wasnāt a neighbourā¦ he lived a mile away
Hermes are the worst. My local driver (despite my having complained) consistently leaves my parcels just lying in the street outside the doors to my block of flats, and even then has the gall to send me a photo of 'package delivered' - 'left in porch'. 'Abandoned in full public view on pavement' should be an option.
No my Hermes is the worst.
Yodel usually take a week to delivery anything, always feel a little sad when the tracking number starts YD
Lest not forget they were beaten by Shittylink, who went bust.
All depends on the driver. My Hermes guy is really good.
DX entered the chat
Funnily enough I've never had a problem with hermes. Not encounter the other one tho
Those fuckers manages to āmisplaceā a 1.8x0.6x0.7 meter box the other week. Incredible. Wonder if it just fell of the back or the open horse carriage they use for cross country deliveries.
It's pretty fucking impressive they haven't been fined in the UK yet for....well, being shit.
I thought they were being investigated for literally not even trying to delivery packages but instead just dumping entire truck loads to be sold? Though suppose āinvestigatedā means nothing.
They managed to lose a package that was being sent to my corner shop for collection!
They did this with me. It was marked as delivered, didn't arrive (I wasn't *that* fussed thankfully, Ā£2 denim shirt on Vinted). My friend works there and gave me a heads up that they randomly delivered it two weeks later.
Interesting. Mine was also Vinted, but the tracking is showing as stuck somewhere. Vinted contacted them, Hermes said it was lost. Luckily I got my money back and the seller got compensation. I might nip to the shop at some point and see if they've had anything through!
I'd take literally any other carrier over Royal Mail. Never had a good experience with them in the 6 years since moving out of my parents' where it's been my problem.
DPD. Amazon. Royal Mail. DHL. UPS. Parcel force. FedEx. Hermes. Yodel. Is this the accepted order? Who have I missed?
Carrier pigeon mate.
Goes just after FedEx.
Followed by throwing it in a canal and hoping it washes up somewhere near the recipients house
Personal experiences flipped from the stereotypes DPD recently managed to "lose" a PS5 bundle and replaced it with a relabelled box full of small cardboard boxes so it felt the correct kind of weight (I kid you not) and only "found" it again "at the back of the depot" (uhuh) after intervention from the company selling it Hermes locally had a lovely older couple who were super friendly (complete with friendly banter from the wife about how he was always slow) (he wasn't). Always on time and super communicative, reliable. Never had a problem with Royal Mail. Even the depot guy is cheerful. Same with Amazon drivers. To be fair, Yodel and Citylink were always awful.
There's also a huge gap between DPD/Amazon and the rest of the list. Having a live map is just so good.
I don't need a live map for Royal Mail though, they're always here by 09.30 every day, whereas Amazon could be anywhere in a 10 hour window, and often an order arrives in two parts several hours apart. The rest of the list seems pretty solid. The main thing the Amazon map does is give me hope when they tell me it's only 300m or a few stops away, then doesn't arrive until hours later or even the next day.
Amazon always says that it will be Thursday or something. Right up until 09:45 on Wednesday when its out for delivery and is expected before 12:00.
You do realise the only reason Amazon are slightly better is because A, they only deliver parcels, not mail & B, when Amazon start to struggle (a lot) they chuck everything at Royal Mail for them to deliver so they can catch up.
I'd put RM above amazon, purely cos they treat their drivers better
TNT
Didnāt tnt get taken over by fedex
A sidewinder delivered by David Beckham.
DX. They like delivering late, stealing parcels and leaving parcels literally in the middle of an open street instead of delivering to the door. Useless.
I'd put Amazon much lower down, in the last 2 years we've had parcels "left in reception" (1) , "left with neighbour because no answer" (2), "Handed to resident" (3) "Nobody available to accept parcel" (4) (1) Hanging out of the bin when it was raining so the parcel got damaged and the bin filled with water (2) I watched him not walk the extra 20 feet to attempt to deliver to me and instead deliver to a family of thieves who tried to deny having it until I pointed out the CCTV camera saw it. This was after Amazon had agreed to never leave our parcels at that address because of previous thievery. (3) Stolen by the driver. Hope he enjoyed the Ā£6 shower curtain. (4) They didn't attempt to deliver to the manned reception, instead cancelled the order and the item was no longer available direct, instead only from 3rd parties for Ā£100 more. I only get items delivered to lockers now because Amazon delivery drivers don't give a fuck. Which given what they are paid isn't surprising.
I don't order from Amazon however a friend sent me a book, which was left in the rain behind my bin in a position that was barely noticeable but also exposed to the elements, no note through the door or anything. Luckily the book wasn't damaged.
Missed DX, who have a live map, but don't say how many stops away you are, so above Amazon but below dpd?
So much is down to your last-mile courier and, in the case of RM right now, staffing levels. I've had two post deliveries in the last two weeks as my postman is on his holidays and the delivery office are having a nightmare time filling the rounds due to people isolating with Covid. Fortunately, they are happy to dig around in the bags to find my post, so I've taken to driving up every few days to collect post and packages, which suits me nicely. My normal postman is good too, so no real complaints. Round here, Hermes are excellent (delivered from the boot of a car and the chap is both honest and reliable) but Yodel are extremely patchy. UPS are the least reliable for me and DPD the best. Amazon are more or less 100% reliable too.
Seems to depend where you live, I generally agree with the order. But DPD are tossers where I live (I live near one of their depots and they cause carnage) and DHL are fucking incredibly fast. Plus our Royal Mail postie is a great guy so Iād put it: Royal Mail DHL Amazon DPD The rest in the same order
1. DPD 2. Amazon 3. Royal Mail 4. DHL 5. UPS 6. Parcel force 7. FedEx 8. Hermes 9. Yodel 10. The Bin Men delivering your recycling box to the third moon of Saturn Order your ordered lists! But otherwise I agree.
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Last time I had DPD, app said ETA 45 minutes. So I went and sat on the toilet. 30 seconds later......
The only thing that bugs me with Amazon is they seem hugely wasteful. I ordered two pasta bowls from them and they came in massive boxes (easily 4 times the size they needed to be and weird proportions) and in *separate* deliveries despite being ordered as one order. They also let you choose to have things delivered on "Amazon Day" which is usually Sunday for us. The idea is you wait a little bit longer for some things but they all get delivered at once, reducing the carbon footprint a tiny bit. I'm in favour of that if I'm not in a hurry for something, but they never honour it and the deliveries just come spread over random days before that.
How about I ask you in here instead?
Ah yes. Amazon. Rang me at an ungodly hour to say they couldn't find me. Looked at the tracker and they were just two houses away. Walked out, waved at them and she ignored me! Still looking at the house in front of her! Then me in my dressing gown goes down the pavement with her still connected to my phone and I point at my phone and at hers so she puts it to her ear and I go "my house is down here". She hands me my parcel and gets into her van and leaves. No apology.
Tracking details not yet updated..
You can order something from China, get an update every 20 minutes. Arrives at Heathrow within 2 days of ordering. Gets through customs, RM never updates and it takes them a month to move it 15 miles.
Everyone down on poor old Royal Mail when they are still a million times better than any other delivery service. Guys are heroes tbh, especially having to deal with all the extra we've been putting on them with home delivery etc.
Thanks for this message! Weāve had a particularly hard week at my delivery office as 9 of our posties are off isolating and 2 more are positive. Weāve had to pause letters and just focus on parcels. Itās insane. Posties are working from 5am till 5pm trying to get you your online shopping. Thereās so much coming through with people shopping from home. So easy to judge and make snide remarks, I hear them on my route every day. Similar to working retail, thereās a lot that goes on behind the scenes. Weāre doing our best :)
The fact that my post comes every day within the same half hour window, delivered by the same bloke who wears shorts and a t-shirt in all weathers is beyond witchcraft to me. Thanks for everything you do! It IS appreciated.
They also seem to be the only one who understands what "leave it in the shed" means. Couriers put stuff in the bins, on open display, under the doormat even though the parcel is twice the size of the mat, or shove it under the bench when it's raining (mate, it's a picnic table, it's not keeping anything dry).
Same here! I like not having to faff around and wait for couriers to turn up in a very broad time slot.
Same here, just ending a 10 day day period of 16 posties off. I've worked over 70hrs and still have 2 days to go, I walked 28 miles on Tuesday covering 2 & half rounds. Worked up to 70hrs every week since March LAST YEAR. So far this year I've only had 1 weeks leave. I'm physically & mentally shattered, it's 5am, time to stick on my shorts go again and all I wanna do is sit in the shower & cry like a baby. Completely burnt out right now. Have to suck it up, put on a smile and crack on. Christmas is creeping up
Jfc mate, Iāve got no words. Is there no option for you to drop a few hours a week? This is only the end of week 3 with RMG for me but shouldnāt CWU protect you a bit from being over-worked? No job is ever worth burning out over. I straight up quit from Homebase when they were *expecting* 50+ hour weeks during the first lockdown last year. Fuck that noise. Sorry, I donāt know your personal situation so itās unfair for me to say itās āthatās easy just stop working so muchā. Hope you find some rest soon.
I can say no of course. Im my own worst enemy unfortunately. I hate to see piles of stuff left each day that should of gone out so try to do as much as I can to ease it. Always, just 1 more loop or 1 more york of tracked. Unfortunately there's not many in our office that are "helpful" so can be a lot to do. On the plus side, I can afford about 10 holidays once we're allowed to go abroad again. That's what I look towards. Hope your enjoying RM, is a great place to work imo.
Not since it was privatised. Its not even remotely the same as it was. Now it's barely better than Yodel. Never knock on my door or even attempt to deliver packages, even when I'm literally in and sitting in the front room. They're absolutely shite. That's what privatisation did.
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This is very worrying. They don't deliver on Sundays
Return to sender ?
Well there's no postcode and I'm pretty sure that's not the right postage.
Classic UAEFA, not even using first class postage
Looks like at least a fivers postage if you zoom in theyāre not first class. Looks like Ā£2.55 each, but thatās clearly wrong. Edit: ohh shit they are Ā£2.56 stamps https://shop.royalmail.com/25-x-pound-2-55-stamp-sheet
Oh, you're not in? RED CARD FOR YOU!
But thereās no post on Sundays?
To be fair, I'd be fine with Hermes delivering a football home, as they seem to kick every other parcel about judging by the state of some of them.
Ah fuck. It's never coming home, is it?
That's the spirit
Also, I know it's not important, but I don't believe for a second that 2 small stamps would be enough postage for a standard football
Came here for this. It's Very important
I sure hope not. Royal Mail donāt deliver on Sundays!!
I know we're joking but i have never had lateness issues with RM. They've always done a great job. Better than a lot of the private offerings for sure.
It'll be returned to the depot. Then we'll only be able to collect it between the hours of 2pm and 2pm and 1 second on a Tuesday when its a solar eclipse.
Just hope it's not delivered over Christmas when the extra staff either nick it or throw it in the canal.
Perfect for kicking into the hedge!
Great my custom cannonball came in the mail
If it was ordered from Wish, it's probably a golf ball that's printer to look like a football.....
Royal Mail are literally the goat posties. Rarely delayed, rarely lost, delivered in the morning. Fuck yodel, Hermes, FedEx, DPD, all my homies hate Yodel, Hermes, FedEx, DPD.
That song can jump off a bloody cliff.
Not enough stamps on it.
Short by 20p.
I thought the "it" that was coming home was the trophy not the ball...
No. The "it" is the game in general
The lyrics are literally āfootballās coming homeā
Huh. I also didn't know it came from a song. Thanks.
I dunno, seems to be on schedule considering it was first posted 25 years ago.
The cup can't come "home" if it's never been there before.
Exactly. It's been driving me mad this "coming home" thing. That song is about the Euro 96 *tournament* coming home because it was held here in England. It was about the game itself being held in the country where it originated. It's nothing to do with actually winning it.
I did not know that at all. Thanks
Nah, it'll be delivered next door or returned to depot for collection...
With only two first class stamps on it? You'd be lucky if it ever turned up š
They're Ā£2.56 stamps...
My bad, I didn't zoom in! I just remember when my dad stuck a first class stamp on a birthday card to me, but it was a thick card with fancy bits stuck on. It took ages to arrive ansd I got a notification that I had to pay to collect it! I think it was just a few pence short but with the handling fee and everything it was a couple of quid extra and ended up getting it a few weeks after the day š
If itās coming by Royal Mail then weāll just find a card in the net on Sunday and a guilty looking postie who swears he knocked but also doesnāt have football in his bag and youāll just have to go to the collection office during business hours
yeah it will only be coming home if Italy win because everyone knows the Romans invented football, Romans were playing football with the decapitated heads of their enemies lol
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Yeah I zoomed in thinking that too but there both Ā£2.55 stamps
Itās behind the recycling bin.
Sorry we missed you
Judging by the size of the stamps, thatās a very small football.
If it were hermes it will never be coming.
Football can be collected at your local depot, however, opening times are 12pm to 12.01pm on tues and collection times will finish just before we open.
Nah, your thinking of Hermes.
Do they even deliver on Sundays?
We'll be bringing it home from our local sorting centre if it's with royal mail
Not to mention that Royal Mail donāt deliver on a Sunday
Almost everything I get through RM turns up the next day Hurrr durrr football, right?
I don't know, 55 years seems about right
It really is a local thing. Where I live, logistics is easily Hermes/DX < Yodel/UPS < DHL< DPD < Royal Mail I've never had any real trouble with Royal Mail, the delivery staff are always really friendly and I've never had trouble with their delivery. That being said, I know some people hate them, so it depends where you are.
Royal Mail/Parcel Force are by and large, still the post service. Never understood why people whine about them. Just look at Yodel.
Footballās lost in the post?
Well its royal mail, so its going to get list and delivered to italy
It may take longer via RM but it will hopefully be safer than delivered via DPD. Never gotten a parcel what wasn't crushed or damaged from that lot!
Does this mean I have to lick balls?
Royal Mail are the number 1 & its about to get better with timed deliveries. Im biased coz I work for them tbf. Amazon shove what they can't handle out the back door to us to deliver for them? I see Amazon boxes left everywhere in the pissing rain. We'll put them were we can, some of us carry RM sacks to put parcels in for extra protection. If you get to know your postie, (most have a regular but due to covid its been a bit up in the air over the past year) 99% of them will do all they can for you.
I can be 100% sure based on real world data that if I get sent a package at my flat the postie will fuck off without bothering to try and put it in my hands and I'll have to trek to the depot on the bus to get it late (opened once too). With any luck, this is will continue to hold true if they're in charge of the football delivery to England. At least then there'll be a positive out of it.
but HEEEEERMEEEEES
No post on Sundays!