Has Every Courier Collapsed Due To Black Cyber Day?
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Not the collapse thats the issue last week / this week, its the amount been damaged that is annoying. I am currently working for Royal Mail for 3 weeks in the parcel sorting centre to cover my christmas lull, certainly is an eye opener to how our parcels are dealt with. I would not want to see how the 'lesser' couriers do it. Scary !
We took on hundreds of extra drivers & driver helpers based on shippers estimations of volume and even with that we were swamped, IIRC Tuesday last week we had an extra 400,000 pkgs enter our system. Our estimations were less than 200k
I think the sheer volume of sales took everyone by surprise. I've never seen anything like it in 15 years
I think the sheer volume of sales took everyone by surprise. I've never seen anything like it in 15 years
chowiekid said:
Pretty sure myherpes are running behind due to a main hub fire.
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Really? I just thought they were bloody useless!..
On the subject of myhermes, we had a parcel delivered from them last week. No one was in so they left it in the hedge. No card through the door. It's dark in the mornings when we go to work and dark when we get back.
If it hadn't of been for the dog sniffing it out, we never would have found it.
Grandad Gaz said:
Really? I just thought they were bloody useless!
On the subject of myhermes, we had a parcel delivered from them last week. No one was in so they left it in the hedge. No card through the door. It's dark in the mornings when we go to work and dark when we get back.
If it hadn't of been for the dog sniffing it out, we never would have found it.
Oh I can go one better I ordered something from Essex going to hamilton in Scotland and it ended up being delievered to Sheffield. On the subject of myhermes, we had a parcel delivered from them last week. No one was in so they left it in the hedge. No card through the door. It's dark in the mornings when we go to work and dark when we get back.
If it hadn't of been for the dog sniffing it out, we never would have found it.
Suppose they were heading in the right direction at least.
No reported issues here, DPD. However we are fairly rural and dont have hundreds of similar companies within a few dozen miles - so one can only assume that my local depot is relatively stress free.
However dave, UKmail and Hermes - what do you expect!! 2 of our main suppliers use UKmail and well frankly the service we receive is disgusting.
However dave, UKmail and Hermes - what do you expect!! 2 of our main suppliers use UKmail and well frankly the service we receive is disgusting.
russy01 said:
No reported issues here, DPD. However we are fairly rural and dont have hundreds of similar companies within a few dozen miles - so one can only assume that my local depot is relatively stress free.
However dave, UKmail and Hermes - what do you expect!! 2 of our main suppliers use UKmail and well frankly the service we receive is disgusting.
Your right but we have to offer a free delivery option for eBay which is Hermes, if it's free and valuable it's UK mail and premium is Interlink - will evaluate in April However dave, UKmail and Hermes - what do you expect!! 2 of our main suppliers use UKmail and well frankly the service we receive is disgusting.
addsvrs said:
Not the collapse thats the issue last week / this week, its the amount been damaged that is annoying. I am currently working for Royal Mail for 3 weeks in the parcel sorting centre to cover my christmas lull, certainly is an eye opener to how our parcels are dealt with. I would not want to see how the 'lesser' couriers do it. Scary !
In what way is it a eye opener?surveyor said:
Again?! They haven't been able to cope with the Christmas volume since Yodel was formed, utter madness that companies still use them for Christmas volume.
coetzeeh said:
Judging by the traffic grid lock at M1 J13 at 6pm every day where Amazon have a HUGE warehouse I can empathise with the couriers. The number of artics heading in and out of this site is something amazing.
Even the Amazon warehouse in Dunfermline up here has artics queueing up as I go past it on the motorway. I assume it's the smallest one in the UK.Gassing Station | Business | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff