Couriers

The Backwards Man

Del2005 wrote: »

You pay the same as me for a delivery yet I live in a city and you live in the middle of nowhere. Most of my deliveries I don't pay shipping, spend over £25 on Amazon, or never more than €10. So you think that a delivery costing a tenner is enough for at least 4 companies to take a cut and still pay a driver to go 30 minutes out and 30 minutes back to your home? The driver is maybe only getting €1 or €2 to do this. As for Vets and Doctor coming out I don't know many in rural areas but it costs me €55 to see mine in his office, I doubt you'll have much change from €100 to get a doc or vet out to your home.

You can't compare Sky, which is broadcast from space, to a delivery job and car tax goes into a central pool.

Supply of basic services to rural areas is heavily subsidised because every party knows that they will be destroyed if they tried to end the subsidises.

An Post have a proprietary address system which relies heavily on well paid post people having local knowledge and had an active part in sabotaging us getting a useful modern post code, which would have allowed companies easily find addresses and plan delivery routes, to protect their own parcel delivery business. BTW if vested interests didn't have a hand in giving us an expensive useless Eircode the delivery costs to locations could have been correctly calculated at checkout and I'd guarantee that you would stop ordering to your home miles from a town.

Impressive post, but completely irrelevant.

The couriers have already undertaken to do the job, you don't say you're going to do something and then not do it and cry and moan about it into the bargain. Don't want to do it, leave it to someone who will

Duggy747

bluewolf wrote: »

What happened

Not much really, made a friendly call to the company and he came the next morning. The courier was a nice guy so I didn't want to get him in trouble over the delivery of some shítty headphones and USB sticks.

The Backwards Man

I'm a shipping magnate and I have eighty containers of pyjamas and tracksuits destined for Dublin port but sure I'll just fcuk them off here in Europoort because even though I'm already paid for it there's no way I'm going to that insignificant backwater on the edge of Europe.

Lol

markc1184

Had a problem with DPD delivering 4 tyres before. Asked my mam to hang about my house for the day waiting on the driver to arrive and she is a real curtain twitcher in that situation and nothing came. Checked the letterbox that evening and there was a slip saying the time they supposedly called at so I checked my cctv and again no sign of them. Either too lazy to deliver them or the tyres would take up to much space. Their depot was only a few minutes away at the time so not as awkward to collect myself compared to what some people would have to go through.

philstar

foggy_lad wrote: »

When you live on top of the mountain or offshore in Donegal you can't expect the same services as us townies or even culchies living close enough to a town.

well with the onset of postcodes there should be no more excuses for delivering to the wrong address

FrStone

Del2005 wrote: »

You pay the same as me for a delivery yet I live in a city and you live in the middle of nowhere. Most of my deliveries I don't pay shipping, spend over £25 on Amazon, or never more than €10. So you think that a delivery costing a tenner is enough for at least 4 companies to take a cut and still pay a driver to go 30 minutes out and 30 minutes back to your home? The driver is maybe only getting €1 or €2 to do this. As for Vets and Doctor coming out I don't know many in rural areas but it costs me €55 to see mine in his office, I doubt you'll have much change from €100 to get a doc or vet out to your home.

You can't compare Sky, which is broadcast from space, to a delivery job and car tax goes into a central pool.

Supply of basic services to rural areas is heavily subsidised because every party knows that they will be destroyed if they tried to end the subsidises.

An Post have a proprietary address system which relies heavily on well paid post people having local knowledge and had an active part in sabotaging us getting a useful modern post code, which would have allowed companies easily find addresses and plan delivery routes, to protect their own parcel delivery business. BTW if vested interests didn't have a hand in giving us an expensive useless Eircode the delivery costs to locations could have been correctly calculated at checkout and I'd guarantee that you would stop ordering to your home miles from a town.

If they don't want to deliver to a rural area, that's fine. Just don't say you will, and then not carry out your part of the contract.

I've had way to many problems with couriers.. On the rare occasion they do deliver to my house they have to ring for directions... For god sake, I put directions on the instructions.

I actually won't order anything delivered by a courier anymore, an post are the only reliable company. And they never ask for bloody directions either

emigrate2012

sup_dude wrote: »

Yes I can.
We can't all live in towns...



You sound bitter.
Also, I've paid for delivery, the rest of the country don't pay it for me.



It would be even more difficult when they go out of business, as their couriers don't do their jobs.

I've worked stupid long hours before, I know what it's like. Not once did I blame the client or not do my job when others were affected. The blame lay solely with my employer for breaking the law. Doctors work stupid long hours but you don't see patience dying because doctors weren't bothered treating them. Vets work stupid long hours but animals don't go without just because the vet couldn't be bothered getting up at 2 in the morning. See all those top horses? Most of them got that way on the back of slave labour (or close), yet the animals haven't starved to death because it would take too long to feed them. Yeah, couriers work long hours but that isn't the fault of the person who is essentially paying their wages, and not an excuse not to do their job.

Was just trying to give you a bit of insight into a tough industry, there's a massive turnover of lads doing that. You happen to got stuck with a lazy **** in your area. Get yourself a po box and collect your hello kitty ankle warmers and Internet ordered sex toys at your convenience, try not being a whinge bag while you're at it...

Stone Deaf 4evr

FFS, all this talk of living off the radar. The country is tiny, if it was the rural US, you'd see isolated places.

and this fixed rate delivery charge from amazon etc not being enough to cover the cost of getting it to you is a cop out.
for every bit they lose on a delivery to ballygobackwards, they're making it up having 50 odd close together in the urban areas.

Ave Sodalis

emigrate2012 wrote:

Was just trying to give you a bit of insight into a tough industry, there's a massive turnover of lads doing that. You happen to got stuck with a lazy **** in your area. Get yourself a po box and collect your hello kitty ankle warmers and Internet ordered sex toys at your convenience, try not being a whinge bag while you're at it...

Jaysus, wrong side of the bed this morning?!
We had a PO Box, the owner died not long ago. But sure, I'll pop into the PO Box shop at some stage tomorrow and pick one up. That way I can order my Hello Kitty ankle warmers (once I find out what they are), and my sex toys until my heart's content, ammiright?

I understand that it isn't a pleasant job but that's no real excuse not to do it. The pay and hours are not the fault of the customer and therefore it shouldn't be the customer at fault. It's really one of the most basic rules of business. If it's really that bad, quit and find something else...

emigrate2012

Surely the **** if you had a po box before you can find out where to get another?
Trust me, if you were at that job, would you want to be traipsing up a lil boreen 5-6 miles from anywhere remotely on your route to drop off a t-shirt or the like, losing time and money for one poxy drop? I doubt it. Places like that are last on the list, if even on it, probably back to depot for the next sucker. Flat rate delivery rates work in urban areas, if you're in the arsehole of beyond you should be charged more as ultimately it costs more in real terms to deliver it. Or just make sure an Post is the carrier as it's state subsidised and they probably will get ot and won't mind the trip/time involved.
Can't sympathise with your plight at all.

I've had items delivered numerous times to my house which is fairly rural.
DPD, Fastway, UPS, GLS, Nightline.

Its usually the same drivers so I'm actually on first name terms with some of them.

I'm only in this house 3 years now but from the off I was ALWAYS pleasant to postman, binman and couriers. It has paid off. Postman allows me collect items from his house, I have his mobile number, binmen take extra bags and have waited for me to load up their lorry.
Couriers ring me all the time and arrange for delivery if I'm not there. Be it somewhere on the road, a shop etc. But they always call to the house first. I always offer them a cup of tea or more importantly if they'd like to use the toilet.


They are people too and a little bit of slack or courtesy Id bet is always welcomed, just as we'd welcome it in our own jobs.

marklazarcovic

TheTorment wrote: »

I've had items delivered numerous times to my house which is fairly rural.
DPD, Fastway, UPS, GLS, Nightline.

Its usually the same drivers so I'm actually on first name terms with some of them.

I'm only in this house 3 years now but from the off I was ALWAYS pleasant to postman, binman and couriers. It has paid off. Postman allows me collect items from his house, I have his mobile number, binmen take extra bags and have waited for me to load up their lorry.
Couriers ring me all the time and arrange for delivery if I'm not there. Be it somewhere on the road, a shop etc. But they always call to the house first. I always offer them a cup of tea or more importantly if they'd like to use the toilet.


They are people too and a little bit of slack or courtesy Id bet is always welcomed, just as we'd welcome it in our own jobs.

as a postie i can say this is what happens with me a lot,nice people get a xtra service free of charge,i expect noting in return,there are maybe 20/30 nice people on my route,ones id speak to most days,know where their relatives live and if on my route ill call there for them with a parcel if there not home,

if its off my route but on my journey back to office ill go there for them no problem.. costs me nothing to be nice,makes my job easier and customers life easier.

most customers we barley meet due to them working etc but if asked id help anyone out if i could . we dont get overtime for delivering to rural areas unless covering sick leave and doing xtra work,if its on our route we gotta go there if it has mail,simple as that.

christmas is mental for an post,and for our customers,hiding parcels from kids to help parents out(santa) is a normal occurrence,as is delivering something xmas eve that they were panicking over not arriving .. its mental but i love it.. its the indoors part of my job i hate ,the politics and clampdowns on staff who are like me,helping customers and going the xtra yard free of charge..

like most big companies the guy on the street is treated worst.

sorry ,bit of a rant ..

be nice to your postie,its free and he/she will help you out,for free.