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Amazon delivered my studio mic and associated bits. To "the householder". Except I wasn't in. As it happens, they'd been delivered to my neighbour, but I didn't know that. So now I've had to go round there AND DRINK A WHOLE BOTTLE OF WINE, plus be amused by her bonkers cousins (everyone is Laugharne is either related, or has been in a fight with someone someone else is related to). Now I'm going to be late to the pub :mad:

I've downvoted the delivery, anyway. Ner.
 
My DPD parcel was retrieved by the sender, who are going to send it out again, hopefully with a different courier.

I now have a few things from before Hogmanay being held hostage by Hermes, which should have absolutely arrived by now.
 
I'm not sure the Yodel tracking facility should effectively show me the address of the driver who clocked off early and took the van home for the night. Got my parcel today, so whatevers.
 
I was told my parcel was arriving between 3 and 4 today. It's nearly 6 and the DPD van with my parcel has driven past my flat on numerous occasions since 4. I even watched him do it a couple of times. Who wants to bet my parcel gets abandoned at some random parcel shop at some point this evening?

I know there's a pandemic but this is spectacularly atrocious.
 
I actually had an Amazon delivery pretty well on the nose.

We don't make it easy for them, there is no name or number on the door for example, but at about the right time there was a knock knock on the right door and hey presto my packages were there.

As it happens I think the lack of name or number is an unfair disadvantage where the delivery of items is concerned so I am going to speak to my landlord.
 
Whats with all the "Hermes are shit" memes out there? I suspect funded by a rival company.
This thread makes it clear all the companies are exploitative and flawed.


I actually came to say that theres so much Royal Mail post that hasnt been delivered that I am aware of, from well before xmas that it sounds like a massive fuck up has taken place the last month. I did hear they couldnt get the seasonal extra staff, not least from the likes of Amazon outbidding them. (+ covid absences)
 
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I had a package sent via Hermes. Waited 10 days. Phoned the supplier who sent another item, The original package then disappeared from their tracking system. The second package turned up with in 3 days. Then about a week later the first package turned up.
 
We have some Chinese company is selling stuff on the Internet but using my address for returns. It's impossible to contact Hermes to sort it out. I just bin it now.
 
I was told my parcel was arriving between 3 and 4 today. It's nearly 6 and the DPD van with my parcel has driven past my flat on numerous occasions since 4. I even watched him do it a couple of times. Who wants to bet my parcel gets abandoned at some random parcel shop at some point this evening?

I know there's a pandemic but this is spectacularly atrocious.
It's just turned up. Not so much as an attempt at an apology by the driver.
 
Whats with all the "Hermes are shit" memes out there? I suspect funded by a rival company.
This thread makes it clear all the companies are exploitative and flawed.


I actually came to say that theres so much Royal Mail post that hasnt been delivered that I am aware of, from well before xmas that it sounds like a massive fuck up has taken place the last month. I did hear they couldnt get the seasonal extra staff, not least from the likes of Amazon outbidding them. (+ covid absences)
I basically had all my post from the last week, today. Parcels now come separately to the main post, and the tracking app is off by about two working days at this point.
 
I've got a parcel in transit - a pattern going to a brass foundry - that has been shuttling around the North East of England since the middle of December. The tracking has shown it at various depots / hubs in that time.
Today, it still hasn't got where it is supposed to be going ...

That's several hundred pounds worth of 3D printing gone walkabout.
 
Whats with all the "Hermes are shit" memes out there? I suspect funded by a rival company.
This thread makes it clear all the companies are exploitative and flawed.


I actually came to say that theres so much Royal Mail post that hasnt been delivered that I am aware of, from well before xmas that it sounds like a massive fuck up has taken place the last month. I did hear they couldnt get the seasonal extra staff, not least from the likes of Amazon outbidding them. (+ covid absences)

Hermes are shit though. These companies aren't carbon copies of each other, so some are going to be more shit than others.
 
Hermes are shit though. These companies aren't carbon copies of each other, so some are going to be more shit than others.
Hermes have become appalling over the past month or so.

Today after two parcels being held at the depot since before Christmas, Hermes sent a message about 3pm saying they would be delivered by 7pm. Then at 7.45 another message saying delivery by 9pm.

Message at 9.02 saying it's delayed and I'll get another message about delivery on Monday.

If they sent me an image of someone flicking the Vs I'd be less pissed off, as at least that would be accurate.

Hermes are absolutely the worst of the bunch.
 
Hermes have become appalling over the past month or so.

Today after two parcels being held at the depot since before Christmas, Hermes sent a message about 3pm saying they would be delivered by 7pm. Then at 7.45 another message saying delivery by 9pm.

Message at 9.02 saying it's delayed and I'll get another message about delivery on Monday.

If they sent me an image of someone flicking the Vs I'd be less pissed off, as at least that would be accurate.

Hermes are absolutely the worst of the bunch.

Nuh-uh, those are just memes being spread about by rival companies in order to make Hermes look bad! ;)
 
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Nuh-uh, those are just memes being spread about by rival companies in order to make Hermes look bad! ;)
My neighbour caught one of our posties putting the red card through the letterboxes on Hogmanay - I'd gotten a card but thought I just slept through the intercom - but I bumped into his partner on the stairs and she said he'd caught the postie putting the card through the door and asked where his parcel was, seeing as how he was in. The postie then admitted he'd not even bothered to bring any of the parcels and just prefilled all the cards instead.

My neighbour was raging and went to the delivery office to complain, but if anything that's made it worse.
 
Hermes are shit though. These companies aren't carbon copies of each other, so some are going to be more shit than others.
Im not saying they arent shit I'm saying everyone has bad experiences with all post services, theyre all deeply exploitative and sweating their workers. ITs a bit like internet providers, start a thread online saying internet provider x is shit, and watch hte stories pour in.

Though I guess the field has to move back towards its natural monopoly over time and runners will drop out sooner or later
 
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Im not saying they arent shit I'm saying everyone has bad experiences with all post services, theyre all deeply exploitative and sweating their workers. ITs a bit like internet providers, start a thread online saying internet provider x is shit, and watch hte stories pour in.

Just because they're all exploitative, that doesn't mean that they all provide the same level of shit service. People dump on Hermes because they are particularly egregious, you don't have to dream up tinfoil nonsense to account for that.
 
Just because they're all exploitative, that doesn't mean that they all provide the same level of shit service. People dump on Hermes because they are particularly egregious, you don't have to dream up tinfoil nonsense to account for that.
Is this 22 page thread all about Hermes or do other companies get routinely slated?
 
Hermes are as bad as many others - however a few years ago when they started out they were defiantly the worst by some margin, as they tried to increase their market share by undercutting on price.
 
Is this 22 page thread all about Hermes or do other companies get routinely slated?

I believe it actually started about Hermes and the title was subsequently edited. So what? I don't understand why you are so resistant to the simple premise that some delivery companies provide worse service than others.
 
I believe it actually started about Hermes and the title was subsequently edited. So what? I don't understand why you are so resistant to the simple premise that some delivery companies provide worse service than others.
it started with DPD
 
it started with DPD

Ah yes, the same fuckers who were so rough in delivering a PC to my address, that I had to literally superglue the main heat sink assembly back together. DPD have their lowlights, but if it had been delivered by Hermes (god forbid), I most likely wouldn't have even been able to get the thing to even boot.
 
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