A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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A magpie has upset a crow. The crow flew from several trees away to argue with the magpie and the magpie is arguing back.

They're in my garden tree and now I can hear a second crow. :flag:

..and a third crow. I almost feel bad for the magpie.

Edit: the crows left and then the magpie refused to shut up and the crows came back. No longer feeling pity for the magpie.
 
DPD being DPD again. "Sorry there was an unexpected delay in your area, we'll deliver tomorrow*" with the * being "But we can't guarantee that". You'd think they'd have a better excuse seeing as the parcel never left their depot all day.
 
Lorcan said:
DPD being DPD again. "Sorry there was an unexpected delay in your area, we'll deliver tomorrow*" with the * being "But we can't guarantee that". You'd think they'd have a better excuse seeing as the parcel never left their depot all day.
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I think all the delivery companies are having problems because of the Royal Mail strikes - far more people using the couriers than usual. Last Friday I was told a parcel would be delivered on Saturday by yodel, in the end it came Monday afternoon.
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
I think all the delivery companies are having problems because of the Royal Mail strikes - far more people using the couriers than usual. Last Friday I was told a parcel would be delivered on Saturday by yodel, in the end it came Monday afternoon.
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I'd be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt if the parcel had actually left the depot, but it didn't. Every time it's a different excuse, and every excuse covers the fact they just don't bother turning up. Evri manages to be more reliable than DPD, which is a miracle considering they're Evri.
 
Different firms seem to be better/worse in different areas.
If my parcels come by DPD local (vans with blue writing) they are brilliant. If they are being delivered by the regional vans (red writing) they don't turn up when they are supposed to and make a lot of excuses.
Hermes should have changed their name to Maybe Never. Been waiting for news of a parcel since Monday, when you track it they say they don't have it but the sender says it was sent last weekend!
I wish we had decent shops so I didn't have to order everything on line.
 
Lorcan said:
I'd be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt if the parcel had actually left the depot, but it didn't. Every time it's a different excuse, and every excuse covers the fact they just don't bother turning up. Evri manages to be more reliable than DPD, which is a miracle considering they're Evri.
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My parcel didn't leave the depot either on Saturday, the tracking eventually said sorry unable to deliver today, I guess they eventually ran out of vans and drivers to get it out. Fortunately I wasn't needing it urgently. Round here DPD are generally reliable, my hay usually comes DPD. The one time it wasn't, was because the driver had got his load all in a muddle, so everytime he stopped he had to search through the whole van to find each delivery. Mine eventually came during the evening - and as it had 2 boxes and they had got separated, it took him ages to find them both :D
 
Back when I bought the Husqvarna, the seller gave DPD the wrong address, which would be fair had the driver not claimed nobody was available to receive the parcel at the address that doesn't exist. That was a Friday, I rang up, customer services put the order in for it to go out on the following day, the Saturday, instead.

Apparently they couldn't find it in the depot on Saturday so it didn't turn up then either.

It only goes downhill from there. Frequently late, or going to the wrong address, or claiming they couldn't find the address. I've left detailed, step by step instructions, not because I think it'll help but because I know when the complaints go through again the depot simply gets to prove they're either complete morons, OR they've got something against delivering to certain customers.

And it's why I could do with finding a new hay supplier since Happy Hay switched solely to DPD deliveries. They've already screwed up one hay delivery and it leaves me out of pocket, with money wasted having to find something else and knowing full well I'll never see it again. I'm not unreasonable, but I do find it worrying that asking them to do their jobs in some fashion leads to this and there's nothing I can do about it.
 
piggieminder said:
Hermes should have changed their name to Maybe Never. Been waiting for news of a parcel since Monday, when you track it they say they don't have it but the sender says it was sent last weekend!
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I must be lucky. I've been using My Hermes/Evri for years and not had a problem either with sending parcels or receiving them.

I've had problems with Yodel in the past when receiving parcels. Like I've waited in all day awaiting a parcel, van turns up opposite house driver sits in van for a couple of minutes, van drives off. Then I get message saying I wasn't in when I'd just watched the whole thing from my Front Room! The message should have say "you were in but as it was raining and the drivers of our vans clearly dissolve in the rain, the decision was made to deliver your parcel on the next sunny day."!
 
Betsy said:
I must be lucky. I've been using My Hermes/Evri for years and not had a problem either with sending parcels or receiving them.

I've had problems with Yodel in the past when receiving parcels. Like I've waited in all day awaiting a parcel, van turns up opposite house driver sits in van for a couple of minutes, van drives off. Then I get message saying I wasn't in when I'd just watched the whole thing from my Front Room! The message should have say "you were in but as it was raining and the drivers of our vans clearly dissolve in the rain, the decision was made to deliver your parcel on the next sunny day."!
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A Hermes driver parked outside my house, looked at it and drove away. The message said he couldn't find the house!
 
On DPDs app I've photographed the front of my house and uploaded it, pinpointed it with a map marker, AND used what3words. It forces them to come up with more and more excuses for not turning up lol.
 
"Sorry, we could not deliver your parcel because your DPDLocal driver couldn't find your address." lol as if. It's like they want handholding out on their deliveries, "Wah wah wah why should I have to do my job"
 
I need to start emailing a few online hay suppliers on Monday and find one who won't ship DPD. Four emails to send so far.
 
Yeah there's a few of them have said they use different couriers, it's a matter of working out who'd be delivering to here specifically. And then I need to be sure the fussy gits will eat it 🤷‍♂️ because they go through a lot of it, lol.
 
lol DPD didn't put it on a van on Friday, didn't bother their bums to deliver it on Saturday, and it didn't go out on a van today either, and while customer service said they'd get the depot to call me the depot clearly can't be bothered to do it either. I'm tempted to email the vendor and report it as lost at this point.
 
Lorcan said:
Yeah there's a few of them have said they use different couriers, it's a matter of working out who'd be delivering to here specifically. And then I need to be sure the fussy gits will eat it 🤷‍♂️ because they go through a lot of it, lol.
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If I recall correctly, on the Hay Experts payments page you can choose which delivery service you want..
 
I've (very, very politely) just told DPD to go, *ahem*, screw themselves. I don't have the patience for this stupidity. They've said I need to get the seller to rearrange a delivery? A delivery DPD screwed up, multiple times. I've emailed the seller to let them know, hopefully they know what DPD are on about because I'm done with ringing anyone by now. Yegads.
 
Last update (finally, lol), they've recalled the order and will refund once it arrives back. Fair's fair, and they've been very good about it. Thankfully with these guys I've only ever had issues with two orders, and both of them were because of DPD, it's not like this happens a lot.
 
I really do not like rude people! There really is no need to be disagreeable and discourteous. There was something on Marketplace that I was interested in so I sent the the seller a message saying that I was interested in the item, enquiring whether it was still available, and where they lived. The message I got back was "REFER TO LISTING!" The listing said "if its being advertised it's available". For all I knew it could have been collected and the listing not taken down as often happens. It's not what you say it's how you say it. If the seller had said "yes its available, when would you like to collect?" I would have gone and got it. Now that I know the seller is a rude old cow I'm not going.
 
I always ask if it’s available as most posters don’t remove it or it shows 1 interested and the person might not turn up
 
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