On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:49:04 +0100, "Arfa Daily"
wrote:

At least if the Post Office can't
deliver personally, it's back with them just down the road, by lunchtime.

Maybe that applies for some Post Office customers, for others like me
if its undelivered it's in the system for 48 hours until a personal
collection is possible from the local sorting office. If the missed
delivery is on a Friday then it's going to be Monday before it can be
collected, and not until after 7am where, unless you arrive well ahead
of time, you join a huge queue. A requested redelivery back to the
original address wouldn't arrive until Tuesday. But most of the time
the usual postie signs for it himself, leaves it hidden somewhere and
pops a note through the door.

The local couriers used to be fantastic, DHL was 8:30 am delivery on
the dot by a woman you'd expect to see on the cover of a fashion
magazine, UPS 10:30am , Parcelforce noon to 1pm, Royal Mail postie
regular as clockwork at 2pm except when he's on holiday where
everything goes tits up (see above)

DHL have gone down the ****ter, some of it is a local thing since the
driver changed, the new one is a grumpy bald headed ******* but what
really gets me is when DHL use their 'at home' or whatever they call
delivery to 'non business' addresses. Deliveries by the DHL van now
arrive mid morning, DHL 'at home' from the same bloody supplier on a
split shipment can come at 6pm. Sods law is that the bits in the
later delivery are what you desperately need first.



Arseholes.

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