Aerialmark
Member Since: 21 Jun 2015
Location: Burnley (Where the M65 is cobbled)
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I have to say I agree with op. I am in all day sometimes and when I come out of my office/ex kids bedroom I have a card through the door, I don't live in a mansion where the parcel is delivered to the east wing and I am in the west wing, I am not deaf either as I hear all the other deliveries. Come on Royle snail  The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the best of everything they have.
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Geoff at Drym
Member Since: 18 May 2015
Location: Cornwall
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Just to be different, out here in the Cornish countryside, we have pretty good delivery firms. However, it's all down to the local delivery operative. The Hermes guy is very reliable and will call at any time up to 9.00pm ish, same goes for the DPD man (a charming and helpful Pole). Even the Parcelforce guy is very good. Our local postie is almost now a personal friend, we have many a chat putting the world to right.
So some of us are lucky with delivery drivers, long may it last. 2007 Disco3 2.7 tdv6 SE
gvif with reversing camera
V8 brakes with new EPB module and shoes
Later D4 grille
Alive tuning remap
Mazda MX5
Ferguson ted20 tractor
Hyundai Getz 1.4 (wife's )
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| 4th Aug 2017 10:16 am |
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Charliecloud
Member Since: 31 Jul 2014
Location: Tonbridge
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^ +1
Live out in the sticks and have good delivery from RM, PF, Amazon etc.
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| 4th Aug 2017 10:20 am |
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Aerialmark
Member Since: 21 Jun 2015
Location: Burnley (Where the M65 is cobbled)
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Like you Geoff our postie is a great chap who we have had for years and we all know him but unfortunately he doesn't deliver the parcels  The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the best of everything they have.
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| 4th Aug 2017 10:21 am |
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Narpy
Member Since: 18 Jul 2011
Location: Stockport
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Our postie is a proper grump, real misery guts, proper sorry ass'd sad case individual with a massive chip on his shoulder.
In fact, at one time, I actually thought he was posting on here under a pseudonym, you can decide for yourselves which poster I thought he was.  Mods:
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| 4th Aug 2017 2:34 pm |
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Erea
Member Since: 19 Mar 2012
Location: Munster
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Geoff at Drym wrote:Just to be different, out here in the Cornish countryside, we have pretty good delivery firms. However, it's all down to the local delivery operative. The Hermes guy is very reliable and will call at any time up to 9.00pm ish, same goes for the DPD man (a charming and helpful Pole). Even the Parcelforce guy is very good. Our local postie is almost now a personal friend, we have many a chat putting the world to right.
So some of us are lucky with delivery drivers, long may it last.
I would have to agree, here in rural Ireland it's the same most delivery drivers will go out of their way to deliver and almost all ring in advance to say they are on their way and give an approx time. As for the regular postman and relief post woman they go above and beyond to deliver.
An Post (Irish equivalent to Royal Mail) now have a locked post box available, we have one at our gate and the postman can open it and put quite a large parcel into it 30cmx20cm46cm and then I get an email to say I've got post.
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| 4th Aug 2017 3:04 pm |
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Geoff at Drym
Member Since: 18 May 2015
Location: Cornwall
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Just to add to my praising of my local DPD guy, last evening he delivered a parcel of bits for my tractor. He was outside the projected time given for delivery for which he was most apologetic. Turns out that DPD have taken over Interlink and the workload is unbelievable. He had already delivered around 70 parcels and still had almost as many again to deliver the same evening.
Quick chat revealed that he was on £7.50 an hour and was going to have to work Saturday and Sunday. He reckoned that this week he will earn £1000.00. I think he said that weekends paid £8.50 an hour. That's a hundred and something hours to earn what a senior NHS member of staff earns for 37 hours!!! And all of that is not productive.
Still the DPD guy said he didn't mind working all these hours as it wasn't forever and he appreciated the money while it was available.
I jokingly said that while he was working he wasn't spending. He chuckled and agreed. 2007 Disco3 2.7 tdv6 SE
gvif with reversing camera
V8 brakes with new EPB module and shoes
Later D4 grille
Alive tuning remap
Mazda MX5
Ferguson ted20 tractor
Hyundai Getz 1.4 (wife's )
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| 5th Aug 2017 2:04 pm |
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Washwipe
Member Since: 19 Apr 2013
Location: Bucks Oxon Herts Border
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Think DVSA wouold have something to say regarding working those hours, there is already a EU discipussion going on regarding the amount of hours that van drivers are doing, they are supposed to do the same driving hours as drivers of LGV's only difference being it is not recorded by Tacho, even so they are expected to keep a manual record, if stopped by DVSA he could be in the mire.
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| 5th Aug 2017 4:02 pm |
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UNG
Member Since: 20 Jun 2008
Location: Lancs
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Yodel are far and away the worst delivery company they make the worst of the others look good, the change of name did nothing to improve their image from their day's as Home Delivery Network or HDNL
Had a nightmare trying to get a parcel from their Warrington depot one Saturday morning after they tried to deliver to a business address the previous evening about 2 hours after it had closed for the week.
Got to the depot at 8:30 and left at noon having eventually got my parcel the queue when I left had about 40 people in it and one of the Yodel staff informed the queue as I was getting my parcel that the collection office was closing at 12:30 and some of them might not get their parcels, 2 guy's in the queue told him if he wanted to go home then everybody in the queue would get their parcels or there may be some trouble "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag'em down to your level. It's cheaper".
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| 5th Aug 2017 4:09 pm |
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Geoff at Drym
Member Since: 18 May 2015
Location: Cornwall
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Washwipe wrote:Think DVSA wouold have something to say regarding working those hours, there is already a EU discipussion going on regarding the amount of hours that van drivers are doing, they are supposed to do the same driving hours as drivers of LGV's only difference being it is not recorded by Tacho, even so they are expected to keep a manual record, if stopped by DVSA he could be in the mire.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe you may be thinking about the 'working time directive' which governs the hours everybody is supposed to follow. I don't believe that drivers of vehicles below 3.5 tons have to keep a log where no tachograph is fitted. And I think you mean VOSA, the government body that is responsible for all commercial vehicle regulations.
However, I totally agree with you that no employee should be required to carry out the vast number of hours that this guy was doing simply to do his job. 2007 Disco3 2.7 tdv6 SE
gvif with reversing camera
V8 brakes with new EPB module and shoes
Later D4 grille
Alive tuning remap
Mazda MX5
Ferguson ted20 tractor
Hyundai Getz 1.4 (wife's )
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| 6th Aug 2017 10:19 am |
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UNG
Member Since: 20 Jun 2008
Location: Lancs
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Quote:And I think you mean VOSA, the government body that is responsible for all commercial vehicle regulations.
I think you need to catch up VOSA closed on 31st March 2014 it now comes under the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency ( DVSA ) remit "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag'em down to your level. It's cheaper".
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| 6th Aug 2017 1:15 pm |
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Geoff at Drym
Member Since: 18 May 2015
Location: Cornwall
Posts: 584
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I stand corrected. 2007 Disco3 2.7 tdv6 SE
gvif with reversing camera
V8 brakes with new EPB module and shoes
Later D4 grille
Alive tuning remap
Mazda MX5
Ferguson ted20 tractor
Hyundai Getz 1.4 (wife's )
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| 7th Aug 2017 9:49 am |
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astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
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Turn of 'Parcel Farce' today.
Usual sh  te of delivery slot of 7.00am to 6.00pm. How the is that a delivery slot??
Waited in all day and tracker confirmed 'on way'. Now here I am at 7.50pm and it's been 'returned to depot' 
Lying said 'tried to deliver'.
Now I can either drive 15 miles to collect it, wait another day at home or PAY to deliver NEXT DOOR as "that's a different address sir"
Useless
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| 9th Aug 2017 7:51 pm |
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astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
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Took 48 hours for 'next day 1.00pm' delivery option. Made an online complaint and got a bland "we're very sorry, we've investigated but cannot find any reason for the delay" platitude.
Only the person who posted can make any claim so I've got back to the company involved (I am very happy with their service - they printed 100CD's with a colour photo for our wedding in under six hours and dispatched them but Parcel Farce let them down.........  )
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