Courier deliveries for 99p with Parcel2Go
5/02/2010 at 18:16
Parcel2Go have a 99p offer on deliveries for Monday 8th February 2010 only, for items up to 25kg in weight. For one day you can send all of your UK courier deliveries for just 99p through the Parcel2Go website.
To qualify for the 99p offer you’ll need to register at Parcel2Go.com and use the Parcel2Go eBay upload tool which links to eBay. This enables you to upload delivery information from your eBay ended items and imports it into Parcel2Go ready for you to select the 99p offer and book a collection date which can be from Tuesday onwards.
The service offered at 99p is HDNL Standard 24 – 72 hour delivery, which normally costs £5.99 + VAT. Although the offer is for bookings made on Monday only, you can arrange a collection date for any day during the week. There’s no limit on the number of parcels you can send using the offer, but it’s strictly a jiffy bag or box service, letters will not be accepted.
This has to be the best delivery promotion I’ve ever seen, 99p is an unbeatable price and if you want to take advantage I’d recommend you register with Parcel2Go and get your eBay account linked ready for Monday morning.
Disclosure: Parcel2Go advertise with TameBay
Store your stuff says
6:27 pm on 05/02/2010
Wow that is a good deal, are they offering the same offer for non eBay orders eg amazon?
Chris Dawson says
6:29 pm on February 5th, 2010
Currently (as far as I know) it’s eBay orders only – you have to use the Parcel2Go eBay upload tool to qualify for the 99p offer.
VW Teesside says
7:30 pm on 05/02/2010
It is possible to change the name/address details on non-courier orders after you’ve dispatched them within eBay, to upload them to P2G.
Does this service from Littlewoods offer online tracking & signature under Paypal’s SPP?
Store Your Stuff! says
10:53 am on February 8th, 2010
I tried the editing thing, but just ended up wasting my time, when you try to import the orders it just brings through the original order details with the original address. Either they have been very clever here to stop folks doing this very “workaround” or they have some kind of system for checking for duplicated eBay order numbers. Either way you can only send eBay orders. (cant blame a bloke for trying! There is a recession on!)
Sue Bailey says
10:59 am on February 8th, 2010
Norty people.
Sally Chandler says
7:46 pm on 05/02/2010
Yes this includes online tracking and full proof of delivery (upon request). The service is normally £6.49 + VAT but is currently £5.99 + VAT through the website but if you transact on Monday 8/2/2010 and use the eBay download tool you get it for £0.99 + VAT
TheShopkeeper says
7:52 pm on 05/02/2010
821 reviews (currently) with just 1.4 out of 5 stars and only 14% of people would recommend using HDN.
http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews150787.html
Good luck everyone with your feedback and DSR’s using HDN. Like MyHermes they’re cheap for a reason.
Dave Timmins says
9:34 pm on February 5th, 2010
Hmm, looks like you had a bad experience TSK…
Never good if it happens to you – but “bad things do happen, even to good people” !
I’ve used them a few times in the past, had one late collection – but they sorted it out in a couple of hours, and I found them really helpful.
All the others went fine… bit of a pain in the as* that one time, but the words “nose” and “face” spring to mind.
EVen at their normal prices, I still use them and find them one of the best (I also use two other couriers for some items)… but at 99p, what the heck – I know I’ll be booking a load on Monday!
Bigpoppa says
10:28 pm on February 5th, 2010
Well, on the back of those reviews alone, I won’t be using the service…Thanks but no thanks.
Sally Chandler says
11:01 pm on 05/02/2010
The truth is that there will always be bad reviews even for the best providers but the silent majority are often marginalised by a few bad experiences. At 99p why not give this a try and see what you think?
Also see http://parcel-delivery-reviews.parcel2go.com/
I accept these are all very positive but they are real none the less.
Sally Chandler says
11:12 pm on February 5th, 2010
Additionally (and this is heartfelt and genuine) in no way would I ever suggest any negative experience has less value or impact just because it is statistically rare. Every single incidence of customer frustration is of critical importance even if it is not representative of the whole. Many businesses have gone to the wall ignoring their customer’s frustrations.
Sue Bailey says
1:38 am on February 6th, 2010
Thanks Sally. Nice to know that P2G are listening.
Sally Chandler says
11:04 am on February 6th, 2010
We really want to test our new drive for customer service quality. If you have any problems email me on quality@parcel2go.com. I want to hear if we still have current areas to improve upon. We want to hear when we are bad but it would also be nice to hear when we are good
northumbrian says
9:01 am on February 6th, 2010
parcel2go had a real bad patch a few years ago they were really bad,
at one time we used to book them and cringe,
they have turned things around amazingly,
we now use them quite regularly with no problems
Dave Timmins says
12:16 pm on 06/02/2010
Hi Sally,
Thanks for the link to the P2G reviews…
Interesting to read some of the good points, as well as those who’ve had some issues on other sites.
After reading both sides, i’ll certainly try a few deliveries on monday, see how it goes and report back on here (if I remember).
Anyone else thinking of using this?
Steve Antony Williams says
12:04 pm on 07/02/2010
Sue, I still prefer pictures in the actual listing, tad old fashioned I suppose. I feel there is a growing trend for sellers to rely on just the one picture in gallery or maybe I’ve just been unlucky in my searches.
Store Your Stuff! says
8:49 am on 08/02/2010
So I just used it for a small sample batch of orders. The upload tool was seamless and really easy to use, although the links for setting up the ebay approval could have been made bigger & with graphical button links. So now we will see what HDNL is really like. I’ll let you know
Store Your Stuff! says
10:58 am on 08/02/2010
Further to my last comment, I just noticed that the addresses on 2 of the 3 orders I placed are not justified correctly, 1 of them is particularly bad. If you faithfully go in to each record via ebay SMP and edit the correct address format with upper case letters where needed BEFORE you upload, then you’ll have no problems. If like me you use some kind of labeling system that auto corrects the addresses and didn’t notice (or simply don’t want to) then this is actually a big pain in the elbow and does detract somewhat from the “slickness!!
David Brackin says
5:23 pm on 08/02/2010
I don’t normally moan, but I’m gonna.
We’ve just had another missed collection today from a Parcel2Go booking. Quite a large customer service headache for us when this occurs, and happens all too often. It’ll probably get re-booked but we’ll have egg on our faces with our customer, who will have spent time waiting for a courier today.
The account is a nightmare to do the bookkeeping on. We spent £700 with them last month and I’m on the verge of stopping the Ops team from using them because of the admin burden. I’m afraid I was given a blank response when I raised this issue with the company.
Parcel2Go seems to me to be fine for occasional haphazard personal work, but is borderline unsuitable to supply services to a business. I’d be keen to be shown wrong.
Sue Bailey says
5:39 pm on February 8th, 2010
David, did you send this to Sally? email in 5.1.1.1
David Brackin says
11:37 am on February 9th, 2010
I have sent an email to that address to alert her to this thread.
Checking back, we had two failed in Jan and three in December that were reported and re-booked. The emails tell me that 4% of their collections fail (a number unchanged since March 09), although my failure rate appears to be considerably higher.
Sally Chandler says
1:35 pm on February 9th, 2010
Hi David
I got your email and will respond very soon via that route. Thanks for the contact.
Tony says
12:25 pm on 09/02/2010
Well, I decided to give them a try and booked 25 parcels. Had a text this morning from P2Go to say they would be collected between 12 & 3 so I’m keeping my fingers crossed!
Tony says
1:53 pm on February 9th, 2010
All collected at 1pm and I noticed all booked on 24hr, so far so good.
Mark says
2:27 pm on 11/02/2010
There was an article a while back about HDNL taking over the DHL UK business, I wonder how this will affect the quality of service in the future.