Comments on: How not to deliver a parcel

By: Bigpoppa

Bigpoppa — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:40:45 +0000

Sometimes the parcels are delivered fine, it’s the buyer that has the issue, for example:

We had a buyer recently claim that he hasn’t received his parcel, we contacted someone else he had made a purchase from and guess what he had also claimed to them that he hadn’t received their parcel…

Reporting to our eBay AM on Monday but expectations are not very high.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:01:46 +0000

We’ve had parcels left in the bin, – and possibly worse – under our car. But for a sharp eyed child (a bit lower in stature, it can help!) a valuable item could have been pulped!

By: ShaGGy

ShaGGy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:25:49 +0000

I had one last year where the TNT driver left a parcel containing electrical items on the doorstep in the pouring rain which was 2 feet away from the main A road running through the village where any passer by could have opened the passenger door and picked it up without even needing to exit their car, fortunately I had sealed the parcel on pallet wrap and it was water tight and a neighbour spotted the parcel from their house across the road and took it in.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:16:26 +0000

At least the parcel left the delivery office and the postperson visited your property.

Every time I have a above letterbox sized item sent to me all that happens is they send a ‘could not deliver’ slip the next day with the standard sized letters.(the large items are ‘delivered’ separately from the small items.

By: Gerry007

Gerry007 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:48:36 +0000

CHANGE IN DISPATCH EMAIL TEXT;

“please check your dustbin”….

By: Gerry007

Gerry007 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:46:12 +0000

Now I know where all our INR have gone…. !!

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:52:52 +0000

Fedex once left a parcel in one of our customers wheelie bins.. guess what.. yep… it got emptied and the parcel lost forever…

Account was then closed and another courier chosen (which is working nicely)…

Shame Royal Mail are not competitive enough….

By: peter kirkham

peter kirkham — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:32:29 +0000

could have been worse… at least the parcel arrived.
We used Fastway couriers and they failed to deliver 60 parcels in time for halloween, eventhough they collected from us on tuesday and could not manage to get them there for Saturday.
Still quite a few lost in system with tracking that does not work.
And what makes it worse… they could not care less.
Royal Mail are not that bad.

By: ebuyerfb

ebuyerfb — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:07:05 +0000

I suppose that’s as bad as the time I handed my postman a box (postage paid and everything) and he just took it to the corner of the street and left it there without bothering to tell me. If it wasn’t for a neighbor spotting the abandoned package I’d have lost about $2000.

By: board_surfer

board_surfer — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:16:16 +0000

well as a lot of rubbish is sold on ebay maybe the guy was doing you a favour!!!