Postal strike stopping you buying ?

[pricha]

Just now, Solachesis said:

Oh I ordered something off of Amazon yesterday and today it arrived, twas a nice feeling having something actually come the next day. 

The driver didn't bother knocking though. Looked at tracking and it was delivered, left in front of the door 🤷

That's the problem.  It's a race to the bottom with courier drivers.  Its all about the cheapest service to make someone at the top rich. Unfortunately with Amazon drivers they are paid by the number of parcels they get rid of hence they just doorstep most items. If the parcel goes missing its the sender who usually pays up. 

[Petra]

it’s not the being paid for how many they deliver, but a lot of independent drivers don’t live close to the warehouse they pick up from, so the last thing they want to do is do a round of deliveries, quite often a fair way from where they live followed by having to go back to the warehouse and drop off anything undelivered. Hence the leave it anywhere attitude.

[pricha]

It's not just coin collectors that are suffering. 

😒

[SheepStacker]

3 hours ago, Petra said:

it’s not the being paid for how many they deliver, but a lot of independent drivers don’t live close to the warehouse they pick up from, so the last thing they want to do is do a round of deliveries, quite often a fair way from where they live followed by having to go back to the warehouse and drop off anything undelivered. Hence the leave it anywhere attitude.

Not to mention the budget-end of the courier companies don't even have "depots". A 20ft container on an industrial car park is the closest you could get to such a concept.

[Petra]

8 minutes ago, SheepStacker said:

Not to mention the budget-end of the courier companies don't even have "depots". A 20ft container on an industrial car park is the closest you could get to such a concept.

Not all the independent drivers doing Amazon work for themselves, there are actually companies with Amazon contracts, who then employ drivers. There is obviously some money to be made in this parcel delivering business! No wonder Royal Mail want more of that and less letters🤔

[SheepStacker]

2 minutes ago, Petra said:

Not all the independent drivers doing Amazon work for themselves, there are actually companies with Amazon contracts, who then employ drivers. There is obviously some money to be made in this parcel delivering business! No wonder Royal Mail want more of that and less letters🤔

Oh of course. As more and more shopping is done online, courier companies are going to be huge business.

Edited December 15, 2022 by SheepStacker

[Fenlander1]

It's a farce.

 

[Fishface220]

Finally had my 2 SD delivered today.... over a week late on both and tracking updates have been rubbish. Jiffy bag one has seen better days but thankfully the contents complete and damage free. 

I still won’t be buying or selling until the new year I think. 

[dicker]

I received post for several of my neighbours today, not deliberately…

In giving purchases a miss this side of Christmas!

[GoldDiggerDave]

4 minutes ago, dicker said:

I received post for several of my neighbours today, not deliberately…

In giving purchases a miss this side of Christmas!

Where I can I'm hand delivering to TSF members also good to meet a few of you lovely people.

[GoldDiggerDave]

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Edited March 8, 2023 by GoldDiggerDave

[SiCole]

11 minutes ago, dicker said:

I received post for several of my neighbours today, not deliberately…

In giving purchases a miss this side of Christmas!

We take the postage in for anyone who’s not in on the estate or next estate at work at the moment. It’s hard enough to get them to bring it one time so I have a pile of everyone’s parcels who come and grab when they rock up to work 

[James32]

11 minutes ago, SiCole said:

We take the postage in for anyone who’s not in on the estate or next estate at work at the moment. It’s hard enough to get them to bring it one time so I have a pile of everyone’s parcels who come and grab when they rock up to work 

You wouldn't happen to have some of mine, by any chance?

[SiCole]

3 minutes ago, James32 said:

You wouldn't happen to have some of mine, by any chance?

Mate we end up with 15-20 parcels and none are for us sometimes lol

It will recover - it always does. 

[Mtaybar]

Postage strikes is one of the main reasons I'm not making any posts to sell right now. I couldn't bare the anxiety of whether or not it's going to make it lol. 

[SiCole]

3 minutes ago, Mtaybar said:

Postage strikes is one of the main reasons I'm not making any posts to sell right now. I couldn't bare the anxiety of whether or not it's going to make it lol. 

Its ruined my weekly odd and sods post as half is stuck in transit

[GoldDiggerDave]

We should have our own TSF postage.   I'm sure we live the full length of the country we could drive a few junctions up and had off at the next motorway service station like a big game of pass the parcel. 

[Anteater]

7 minutes ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

We should have our own TSF postage.   I'm sure we live the full length of the country we could drive a few junctions up and had off at the next motorway service station like a big game of pass the parcel. 

I can really imagine that taking off and growing over time once it gets past a critical mass. Of course at some point we'd be noticed and all simultaneously arrested by armed police thinking we were organised criminals moving drugs.

[Paul]

8 minutes ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

We should have our own TSF postage.   I'm sure we live the full length of the country we could drive a few junctions up and had off at the next motorway service station like a big game of pass the parcel. 

Just keep buying from RM new issues, postal strikes are never a worry as fuff all ever gets dispatched 

[Petra]

Even if it’s not making it within the usual time, special deliveries have been getting prioritised and have been getting sorted out by the people who have been working.

[GoldDiggerDave]

My mates brother is a sorting office manger.....the lowdown if it's not RMSD it an't coming.  They are pushing RMSD like crazy everything else is getting stacked up and not moving. 

[SiCole]

31 minutes ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

We should have our own TSF postage.   I'm sure we live the full length of the country we could drive a few junctions up and had off at the next motorway service station like a big game of pass the parcel. 

It would all just find its way to a certain house in Ireland....

Like it already does actually so won't fix whats already f*cked.

[GoldDiggerDave]

1 minute ago, SiCole said:

It would all just find its way to a certain house in Ireland....

Like it already does actually so won't fix whats already f*cked.

Yeh @James32 will be doing the final leg on his swan pedalo 

[GoldDiggerDave]

6 minutes ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

Yeh @James32 will be doing the final leg on his swan pedalo 

Thing is knowing  @James32 he would be charging 2 grand a seat for the immigration work around for his passengers  

[Goldfever20]

50 minutes ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

We should have our own TSF postage.   I'm sure we live the full length of the country we could drive a few junctions up and had off at the next motorway service station like a big game of pass the parcel. 

I could start delivering TSF SD from Monday😅 24/7 service.