Lol we get lots of stuff from the same place (wife works from home) and usually they chuck a bag of Haribo in
Dpd update!!!! In desperation I went to the depot, even though I had no card through my door. I explained to the chap all that’s been going on and off he trots. Returning a few minutes later with a parcel. Then more fun starts. I hand over my driving licence as ID. I can’t accept this he says, as the parcel is in your wife’s name. So I pointed out that clearly we share the same name and the address on my driving license is the same as the one in the parcel. No go I’m afraid. What we now require is for you to produce your driving license, but also a utility bill that has your name and your wife’s name at the same address. I should add that by this point if been in the queue for forty mins. Whether he thought my head was going to explode or that he was going to bring on some sort of stress induced stroke I don’t know, but after a while even he saw the utter pointlessness of the situation and went off to get his manager to ok me receiving my parcel. So I now have a nice new phone and a pathological hatred of DPD. THE END.
We've done work (replace front wings & paint ) for out dpd guy, he has a T4. He is self employed, as they all are & runs 2 vans he charges dpd £2.50 per drop & does on average 100 drops a day in his own van & employs another blokey who does 100 drops a day also for £1 per drop so makes £350.00 per day!! He has only two weeks off a year but has to pay dpd to keep his round so makes, on average, £84,000.00 a year..... who's laughing now!? Him.... methinks!
Less 20% for tax, insurance on vehicle plus parcel insurance, class 2 national insurance, 14 hour days, bottles of driver Tizer rolling around his floor, fuel, endless parking tickets etc etc. Not such a rosey deal when you look into it.
No it bloody well isn’t. I use an online boiler spares supplier. Until very recently they used ups and I was able to have my parcels delivered to a local dry cleaners for collection. Unfortunately they now use dpd and this is the first time I’ve ordered since the switch. Given the fiasco of what happened the last time I attempted to have a parcel delivered to my home address, this time I thought I’d be clever and have dpd deliver to my local pick up point, which is a fecking great big Sainsbury’s. Received an email today from dpd apologising for not delivering my parcel, but my chosen collection point wasn’t available at 11.40 this morning. So apparently this huge supermarket just disappears when dpd approach it. These people are rapidly moving up my list.
I had a delivery from dpd today. I was told it’d be between 11:00 and 12:00. Arrived at 11:18. Gotta be happy with that!
Ours is good too, our driver is called Steve, always on time and he has dog treats for our dog when he comes. Can’t fault em
Had a delivery from them in the week. He left it in the garage and phoned me at work to tell me he’d had left it there.
A few days ago I sent a parcel to my youngest, paying the best part of £30 to ensure that it was delivered by 1pm the next day - it was his laptop that he'd left at home. Royal Mail took two days to deliver it - when you look at the small print they will endeavour to deliver it by when they said not necessarily do so. So it took 2 days to travel 170 miles on their extortionate express service.
Seems to be catching - I'm sat in a well-known tyre centre in Aylesbury and just had to stop the 'fitter' replacing the front tyres instead of the rears !
