"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:03:20 +0100, Tough Guy no. 1265
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On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:56:07 +0100, Bob Eager wrote:

On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:50:17 +0100, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:47:07 +0100, Bob Eager
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On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:15:24 +0100, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:09:33 +0100, Bob Minchin
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Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:33:20 +0100, Bob Eager
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On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:26:43 +0100, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:21:37 +0100, Bob Eager
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On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:42:14 +0100, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

Wouldn't it be cool if ParcelForce could tell you EXACTLY where
your parcel was? They have GPS in their vans don't they?

They're stuck back in the ark.

But DPD do exactly that.

You mean if I track a DPD parcel coming to my house, I can see
where it is?

Yes. Although it depends on the service the sender has selected.
It
tracks as with all the other carriers until it leaves the local
depot.
Then you can see the van's location, and how many deliveries are
left before yours, and how long it will be.

Cool. I knew they were better than others (they give you a 1 hour
delivery window), but I didn't know they were that good.

But should the driver happen to arrive before the start of the 1
hour
window, the hand held device won't let you sign for it until the
window has started.
DAMHIKT

I have had that problem before. The driver was most irritated but
got
around it. I think he signed for it himself later on. Quite why DPD
thought a customer would not like the parcel delivered early is
beyond
comprehension.

Because the customer might have had to come home specially to receive
it.

Bull****. I am told the parcel is to arrive between 1pm and 2pm.

If I am not home at 12:30pm and the driver comes then, well that's the
driver's problem, he'll have to have a coffee break.

If I am home at 12:30pm, I might aswell sign for it.

I suspect there's some arcane reason to do with fiddling 'customer not
in' statuses.

Nope. If the driver comes at 12:30, he cannot enter that status, as I
should not be in. If the driver comes at 1:30, then he should be able to
enter that status, as I wasn't there. With the current system, he can
still arrive at 12:30, find me correctly not in, then enter the customer
not in status an hour later. So the system achieves nothing. There is
no advantage whatsoever in preventing the customer from signing for the
parcel at any time.

The stupid system failed anyway. He gave me the parcels early, swore at
the device, then told me he'd sign it himself later on with an
unintelligible squiggle that looked like my name.

A well designed system wouldn't allow that anyway, it
would check if it was signed at the location of the delivery.

And would take a photo of the receiver signing it too.

Nobody can sign properly on those things anyway. My signature never looks
anything like the real thing.