Royal Mail V Couriers

[Walloper]

Triggered into action by someone's complaint about Royal Mail.

Who do you prefer to use? (Be honest.)
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Depends.

Royal Mail if it's a parcel as the sorting office is just over the road from my house and I'm really lazy.
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[dogbot]

I very rarely send anything that requires more than a post box, but were I to, there's a PO sorting office just across the road from me, too, so I'd use that first.

[tatters]

Royal mail, the service is still far better than all couriers and the depot is local not 20 miles away like parcel force/DHL/Fedex/City link etc.
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[Nai]

Royal Mail. For all their faults they are a million times better than City Link. Not sure about other courier companies, never use them.

[angryjonny]

Last Friday the other half bought a book to be shipped next day via Citylink. Yesterday she just told them to stop looking for it and give her a refund. Idiots.

[-LG-]

Whoever is cheapest.

Only company I wont use is UPS after a driver assaulted my mum.

[CB77]

After 'losing' important parts, and wrecking a piano in transit, I wouldn't touch another courier company.

Saying that, the Royal Mail have also let me down a few times, most notably with XBox games going walkies. If it's worth anything, it gets sent recorded from now on.

[stinkwheel]

Depends what and which courier.

I wouldn't trust citylink with a bag of dog shit.

UPS have always been pretty good for me.

Business post are one of the better ones and dop a flat rate for parcels up to a certain weight which makes charging stuff out much simpler. With them tracking means tracking, if you call they'll tell you where the van is with the parcel on. I've sent someone to meet up with one for an urgent parcel before.
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[thx1138]

I've used most of them, they've all varied from rubbish to very good.

UPS have been the most consistent.


I use Royal Mail less, as the sub post offices are all closing, and they privatised our main crown post office, and it has been dreadful ever since.

[GhostRider]

I use parcelforce most of the time (recorded delivery if it's worth over £10), however if you show them a picture of snow they turn to absolute shit.

I tried to book DHL through parcel2go once, two days in a row they didn't even bother to show up to collect the parcel, so I switched back to parcelforce and it was collected the next day, the guy even phones me up to tell me he's collected it, sterling service.

FedEx and UPS and the like are all good until they try to deliver when you are not in, their depots are always 20 miles away in the middle of nowhere.

Yodel are a shower of shit, meant to post this in the other thread but got distracted, anyway myprotein.co.uk use them as their courier service and they are fucking dreadful, they don;t even leave cards.........actually they do, but you won't know about them until 2 days later when you are coming back from work and notice a slip of paper with important looking writing on in the mud beside the pathway, pick it up and notice that it was dated 2 days ago, so rather than slip it unto the main door (live in block of flats) or even they just chucked it on the grass and left. Utter cunts.

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[Wave2k]

There is no such thing as a perfect delivery service, anywhere in the world.

However, Royal mail are still heaps above the rest as there infrastructure is already in place, and its pretty big.

but closing down many of the Post offices IS having an effect on frontline delivery.

Royal mail delivery offices, generally source there staff from the area.

So you will notice in shit areas, you WILL have more scummy postman.
Ive Worked in Croydon delivery office for example, and i wouldnt really trust my post being delivered there.

I live and work in a fairly posh area, and ive never even heard of a theft complaint.
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[-LG-]

In a sidenote, I was awaiting a parcel, paid a bit extra to get it the next day, forgetting that I needed to pop out for a bit during the day. Sods law it came when I was out. No worries, warehouse was only a couple of miles away.

My god, the way the treated the packages in the back of the vans...boxes with TVs and 'fragile' on, being thrown around! Luckily mine was just a bag and folder so couldn't get damaged, but was not impressed!

I'm guessing that they are all like this, but the fact they knew I was there waiting for my package...would have thought they would be a bit more careful!

[Jrod]

I nearly always use UPS - never had a parcel lost and for anything over a few kg they work out far cheaper.

I leave it in reception at work so don't have to worry about missing the collections!

[Marmalade]

[Benson_JV]

I've only really used TNT apart from Royal Mail & parcelforce.

Must say they were pretty damn good, got a parcel from Amsterdam to my front door in 48 hours.
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