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  1. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    Evri is usually pretty good around here, Yodel is abysmal, I think it just depends on your local delivery person and if they speak English and understand addresses in the UK.

    There is a story I could tell about a a certain vacuum cleaner company that used Yodel in their delivery to me, it was supposedly delivered but no picture and I immediately got on the phone to the company concerned.
    They just said, Ok we will call that lost in transit and sent me another one next day via DPD, most of those do at least speak English.

    Neighbour came round next day and said I found this in our rubbish bin, its got your name on.:roflol:
    Big companies just put a claim against the idiot companies they use I presume.
     
  2. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    I also had a window blind delivered by someone a quarter of a mile away, again it was Yodel, they had thrown it over her fence onto her grass.
     
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    KT53 Gardener

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    Our EVRI delivery guy is great, but I get the impression we must be in the minority in having a positive opinion of the company.
     
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    • Tidemark

      Tidemark Gardener

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      Evri here is very good. He’s been doing it for years and gets a little Christmas present from me every year. Amazon, on the other hand, are rubbish.
       
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      • Songbird

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        Evri good here, too. Delivery chap is lovely. Royal Mail is the worst.
         
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        cactus_girl Super Gardener

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        Our Evri chap, Yousef, is great. Same time everyday. Very reliable.

        Royal Mail keeps changing the postie. At least they haven't folded our Christmas cards in half this year.
         
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        LunarSea Front Garden Curator

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        Ours too. Maybe the same guy.
         
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        shiney President, Grumpy Old Men's Club Staff Member

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        Many years ago I had ordered a rather large rotavator for our veggie plot. In the ordering slot was a question:- "If not in, do we contact you and arrange re-delivery or is there a safe place to leave it?"

        I was quite clear with my answer, "I am unable to get to the door due to an operation so please leave it in the open porch by the front door." I thought that was clear enough. A couple of days later I received an email saying it had been delivered so I hobbled to the front door and no rotavator. After a couple of emails back and forth they said they would redeliver - which they did.

        Subsequently, when I was able to hobble up the garden I found the original delivery dumped on the verge outside the top of our driveway. To explain:- we have an "in" and "out" driveway as we are on a bend and it is for safety. The front garden is 90ft wide and over 100ft long. So we can't see anything from the house.

        The first delivery driver obviously couldn't be bothered to trolley all the way to the front door so just dumped it on the front. I contacted the company we bought it from and they said they had already claimed from the delivery company so they had no way to put it back into their inventory and to save them the effort we could just keep it. :rolleyespink:

        The charity we support sold it for 150 pounds - at least 30 years ago.
         
      • Jiffy

        Jiffy The Match is on Fire

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        Being that we have a post code that points to our house we get most of the parcels left at the front door :mad: even Amazon parcels have come here and they use GPS to go to houses so if a driver scans it at another GPS piont you then get all parcels, it all can be a pain in the backside, as i have been accused of taking parcels i moan at the drivers that delive them here and then i also have a go at some of the poeple collceting them because they don't have the name of their house's on the front of their property:mad:
         
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