Citylink

[surveyor]

Seems on Christmas Day Citylink went bump. Unfortunate time, but also a sign of the service that they offered not keeping up with the competition....

[Magic919]

As mentioned on here. *cough*

[fridaypassion]

I've been a long time citylink customer always been very happy with the service and price. Very sorry to have seen them go under. When companies like Yodel are still in existence it makes you wonder what a company in this sector needs to do to make money.

[mattdaniels]

eBay are going to get a bargain now

[HRH2009]

Were they not part of Rentokill at one stage?

Others may know better, but I seem to remember it was never profitable when owned by Rentokill.

[Simpo Two]

HRH2009 said:

Were they not part of Rentokill at one stage?

Others may know better, but I seem to remember it was never profitable when owned by Rentokill.

Oddly enough my first employers were bought up by Rentokil, and didn't last long either.

[Schermerhorn]

The people who bought CityLink did not give it enough time to turn around the fortunes - a very bad business plan and a lack of patience.

I used them for 18 months. I was paying £5 + VAT for <20kg parcels with 24 hour delivery. Parcelforce charged £7.50 + VAT for the same.

I'll be sad to see them go. Fortunately I still have other courier accounts that I can use.

The fallout will have repercussions. Yodel will go the same way too I bet.

[madmover]

I've been using them loads over the last 12 months. They are especially good on larger items and are notably cheaper than majority of the competition 80% of the time.

I won't be surprised if they get bought out via eBay or similar.

[SpeckledJim]

Schermerhorn said:

The people who bought CityLink did not give it enough time to turn around the fortunes - a very bad business plan and a lack of patience.

I used them for 18 months. I was paying £5 + VAT for <20kg parcels with 24 hour delivery. Parcelforce charged £7.50 + VAT for the same.

I'll be sad to see them go. Fortunately I still have other courier accounts that I can use.

The fallout will have repercussions. Yodel will go the same way too I bet.

I have the same £5 rate (but up to 30kg) from Interlink who as sister company to DPD provide a superb service. Well recommended to anyone now looking to move from CityLink.

[Cyberprog]

SpeckledJim said:

I have the same £5 rate (but up to 30kg) from Interlink who as sister company to DPD provide a superb service. Well recommended to anyone now looking to move from CityLink.

Yep, we're paying roughly the same with Interlink I believe. Hope they don't push the rates back up now citylink are out of the picture!

[SpeckledJim]

Cyberprog said:

SpeckledJim said:

I have the same £5 rate (but up to 30kg) from Interlink who as sister company to DPD provide a superb service. Well recommended to anyone now looking to move from CityLink.

Yep, we're paying roughly the same with Interlink I believe. Hope they don't push the rates back up now citylink are out of the picture!

We get £4 overnight from UPS (commercial) and £5.85 (domestic) and we're not at all a volume account for them, so I'm confident the general going-rate will hold at around £5.

Seems a very good deal to me. Not that I tell them that!

[ModernAndy]

Best rate I've ever seen (not the cheapest but the best all things considered IMO given the value of things sent) was £3.6+vat +9% surcharge with parcelforce up to 30kg and there was a generous size allowance too. That was doing 250 items upwards a day though.

[Garage19]

Slightly lower scale...

What should I be paying for 2-3 items a day?

Currently >1kg £7, >5kg £9, >25kg £13.

[SpeckledJim]

Garage19 said:

Slightly lower scale...

What should I be paying for 2-3 items a day?

Currently >1kg £7, >5kg £9, >25kg £13.

Crikey, that's awful. I'd have thought even a 'general public' account on transglobalexpress.com using UPS would be much cheaper than that?

[beeej]

City Link were called "Sh*tty Link" round these parts... mainly because they seemed to have problems *delivering* *parcels*

Maybe that contributed to their demise <shrug>

[Chrisgr31]

I heard them say that they were keeping staff on in order to return parcels to the sender. As a matter of interest wouldnt they have been better getting them delivered to the destination? At least they would get paid then!

[Nickyboy]

I would say its easier to deliver 40,000 parcels back to the shippers, most of them would have come from a handful of large shippers whereas delivering them would mean 40,000 seperate deliveries

[roddo]

City link problems started when they over stretched them self taking over Target parcels.
I feel for the 'one man band' owners with a van who are owed money and now out of a job.

[fridaypassion]

Contractor on the telly yesterday running several vans. Owed 80k. Gulp.

[gregf40]

fridaypassion said:

Contractor on the telly yesterday running several vans. Owed 80k. Gulp.

That's business. If you have all your eggs in one basket...