Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8051
A tale of two Hermes deliveries.....
One a six quid mug left with neighbour.....
.......the other a 185 quid TV left on drive in the rain FFS, useless
7th Dec 2018 11:04 pm
Charliecloud
Member Since: 31 Jul 2014
Location: Tonbridge
Posts: 980
At least they didn't reverse into your driveway wall and then deny it was them
Wished I had a surveillance camera fitted then !
8th Dec 2018 12:28 am
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13078
Buy from a shop at a fair price, pick it up yourself. Easy.
Buy cheap from an online shop, leave it to a zero hours contract driver to deliver, complain when everything is less than perfect.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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8th Dec 2018 2:05 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72775
Up here in the frozen norf the chap that delivers most of our stuff for Hermes is absolutely fantastic, to the point of being able text him to get stuff picked up early. He also knows our “safe” place. He works for Menzies and does most deliveries for DPD, Jodel, UPS, etc. We’ve had a couple of deliveries recently by another person, he was old school Hermes and would just leave stuff on the doorstep.
Have recently found that a lot more stuff from the likes os Amazon is going via Royal Mail, and our local Postie is also excellent.
8th Dec 2018 8:51 am
Hot Tub
Member Since: 15 Aug 2017
Location: Milton Keynes
Posts: 1071
Yes there are good guys out there like DSL said the delivery guys are under pressure to do multiple drops so time is a premium for them. Also we want a discount price possibly add a note to supplier about safe place for items which maybe a potential for problems on delivery.Welsh Collie Chauffeur Service To Barney & Rooney.
8th Dec 2018 8:57 am
astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8051
RRSTDV8 wrote:
Buy from a shop at a fair price, pick it up yourself. Easy.
Buy cheap from an online shop, leave it to a zero hours contract driver to deliver, complain when everything is less than perfect.
Ah, it’s my fault for buying online
A) I couldn’t find a suitable TV in high street retailer within 10-15 mile radius
B) I travelled 30 miles to the only Argos that said they did have a TV I wanted only to find the box damaged (I have three Argos stores within ten miles, one less than a mile away, I would have used them if I could)
C) the mug/TV was bought online as the only place I could find them, cost irrelevant (TV had a choice on electrical retailers but long delivery times and I assume they use ‘special’ low zero contract drivers different to everyone else and with 12 hour delivery slot and ‘safe place’ option?)
D) however, or wherever, I buy from I’m paying for an ‘acceptable’ service.
E) it takes an idiot to leave a box with picture of a TV on it on the drive in the rain (it rained all day)
F) he walked past the gated, dry, carport to get to front door
G) there were ‘safe place’ instructions on order to leave with neighbour who was in/waiting
If you dont like the place where something was delivered to, just complain it never arrived and sell it on e-Bay next month.A vaccine does not stop you catching a virus, or passing it on, or getting ill from it, really ill. It does reduce the likelyhood of you dying when really, really ill. Stay Alive - KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE.
8th Dec 2018 12:55 pm
Narpy
Member Since: 18 Jul 2011
Location: Stockport
Posts: 7830
RRSTDV8 wrote:
Buy from a shop at a fair price, pick it up yourself. Easy.
Buy cheap from an online shop, leave it to a zero hours contract driver to deliver, complain when everything is less than perfect.
Blimey, and a merry feckin Christmas to you too. Mods:
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8th Dec 2018 2:36 pm
geoffsnook
Member Since: 13 Jun 2014
Location: south wales
Posts: 3169
Discovery 3 se gone
Range rover sport supercharged here:)
8th Dec 2018 2:44 pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13078
Narpy wrote:
RRSTDV8 wrote:
Buy from a shop at a fair price, pick it up yourself. Easy.
Buy cheap from an online shop, leave it to a zero hours contract driver to deliver, complain when everything is less than perfect.
Blimey, and a merry feckin Christmas to you too.
WTF has Christmas got to do with it?
If you buy from a shop, in person, then you control the deliver process. Not difficult.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
9th Dec 2018 12:49 am
M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8072
Another high street shop closing? - blaming the tinter net for it. It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
9th Dec 2018 8:27 am
Pelyma
Member Since: 06 Jan 2005
Location: Patching, Sussex
Posts: 15496
Plenty of specialist shops survive because they sell on the internet too. We use a saddler in Lancashire a leather specialist in Yorkshire a bird food specialist in Hampshire all on the internet but not practical to drive to.DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
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9th Dec 2018 9:06 am
Rescue01
Member Since: 14 Jan 2008
Location: Aberdeen
Posts: 2430
astonbuilder wrote:
RRSTDV8 wrote:
Buy from a shop at a fair price, pick it up yourself. Easy.
Buy cheap from an online shop, leave it to a zero hours contract driver to deliver, complain when everything is less than perfect.
Ah, it’s my fault for buying online
A) I couldn’t find a suitable TV in high street retailer within 10-15 mile radius
B) I travelled 30 miles to the only Argos that said they did have a TV I wanted only to find the box damaged (I have three Argos stores within ten miles, one less than a mile away, I would have used them if I could)
C) the mug/TV was bought online as the only place I could find them, cost irrelevant (TV had a choice on electrical retailers but long delivery times and I assume they use ‘special’ low zero contract drivers different to everyone else and with 12 hour delivery slot and ‘safe place’ option?)
D) however, or wherever, I buy from I’m paying for an ‘acceptable’ service.
E) it takes an idiot to leave a box with picture of a TV on it on the drive in the rain (it rained all day)
F) he walked past the gated, dry, carport to get to front door
G) there were ‘safe place’ instructions on order to leave with neighbour who was in/waiting
Real first world problems 🤣🤣🤣Its not the height of the fall but the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts!!
9th Dec 2018 12:45 pm
astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8051
Presume you’d see it that way when it happens to you, yeah right
9th Dec 2018 11:01 pm
Rescue01
Member Since: 14 Jan 2008
Location: Aberdeen
Posts: 2430
Life’s too short to worry about the unimportant things. Its not the height of the fall but the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts!!
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