What is happening with Royal Mail?

[andycorleone]

Yeasterday I went to a post office to send a packet just a little over 2kg to Italy the cashier told me that the total was £24 via Air Sure :shock: so I take my packet back to home and went to a website call interparcel who charged me £18. last afternoon UPS Come to pick the packet they gurantee delivery in 2-3 working days

 

[oddsocks]

I agree - if i sell anything on ebay now I use parcel2go - they are part of DHL and even give you 10% discount if you put their logo on the page. I don't know their international rates but in UK for up to 25kg it cost about £7 after discount- collected and tracked. Using their 2-4 day service recently a parcel collected in Suffolk on Wed was delivered to Fastlane Scotland Friday morning

Another one I like is parceline (or maybe parcelline) - I've not used them yet as a sender but received an order last week - you get an email with the planned delivery date and can change that date on line.....compared to me spending a fortune earlier this week on 0870 number to ANC to get an axminster order redelivered. It took about 6 attempts over 3 hours before someone answered. That's the main reason I use Axminster only if they are sole supplier or an offer; other suppliers have similar costs and better couriers

parcel2go even have further discounts during the postal strike

 

[White House Workshop]

Amtrak are good, too. And forget Parcelfarce....

 

[Another Dave]

Another one I like is parceline

From my own experience Parceline are pretty poor. One parcel was delayed a week in the Glasgow depot because the bar code had been defaced! They knew it was there, they knew who it was for, but it was 'held'!

Second item about six weeks ago was from Germany, and they returned it to the depot as there was no one in. It cost £11 in phone calls to finally get it delivered, as in this case it was 'in another van' - for the three days I requested it to be re-delivered on.

Absolute farce! Guy in the depot said "we have quite a bit of trouble with deliveries in your area". And we're not rural!

 

[tombo]

Oddsocks,

I use parcel2go - they are part of DHL

slight correction, parcels2go are not part of DHL, they are a separate company that have a contract with DHL to deliver packages on thier behalf. They dont therefore offer an equivalent service to a parcel delivered by DHL directly, such as insurance and support if anything goes wrong.

Having said that i use them all the time, its great cause i can get them to collect from any address normally from work so its really convenient. Fingers crossed nothing has gone wrong for me so far

tom

 

[Bodrighy]

Anything delivered by the postman gets dumped on the kitchen table. If it's from any other courier it's hit and miss whether it's left or I have to got to a depot. Last one (TNT) I was told my address didn't exist as the Sat Nav directed the driver to a field full of sheep. :roll:
Axminster stuff I get delivered to the college where I work. Get some funny looks when it's in a recycled box (they do that now) marked 'Highly Immflammable Material'

Pete

 

[oddsocks]

slight correction, parcels2go are not part of DHL, they are a separate company that have a contract with DHL to deliver packages on thier behalf. T
tom

good point Tom, I'd forgotten that fact as its a DHL van that collects.

As far as my ANC delivery from Axminster that was rescheduled for today....still waiting. I called ANC (only took 3 calls this time, I've learned to hang up after 50 secs as at 55 it goes to VM and you get charged). The package is on 'a' van but the normal driver has gone to Manchester (I live in Suffolk) so they have put it on another round and can't predict when it will arrive.

 

[White House Workshop]

my address didn't exist as the Sat Nav directed the driver to a field full of sheep.

Same problem here - the older houses in our (unadopted) street have names instead of numbers so they don't come up on any sat-nav. Plus, our house is hidden away up the end of an access track across the back of other properties... Nice and quiet, but annoying when stuff isn't delivered!

 

[Russell]

if you go to the royal mail price finder site you will get a price of £13.10 for a 2.5kg parcel unless it was a large parcel you were quoted on the wrong tarrif I regularly send parcels to Europe and invariably if less than 4kg the royal mail is cheaper than interparcel