I Hate Delivery Drivers!!

Stock leftish comment citing low wages, greedy delivery companies, zero hours contracts and Iain Duncan Smith.  For me.

Its quite simple, nothing in Britain works and the vast majority of people are dishonest and shifty.

and they are rioting in the streets of america

What did you order? A framed picture of your house?

i bought a dyson vac for a decent wedge, i saw the delivery man running up the path with it on his back! not exactly how i want my expensive thing handled if im honest. all to save what maybe 5 seconds?

so in other words you where waiting at the window for your blow up doll for to show up for 45 minutes and the fkcer took of with it

No unfortunately it was not a framed picture of my house. It was some probiotics for my gastritis and numerous digestive issues, which I've had for 4 years now, and they need to be kept in the fridge.

So another day or two out on the road and they will be virtually useless. Think I'll wait until he delivers them, give him a piece of my mind if it's the same bloke, and tell him to send them back to Amazon.

the worst ones are the deliver drivers who deliver the delivery vans. you wait hours for the vans to turn up, then they turn around and say they tried to deliver em but you werent in cos you were out doing deliveries. 

I remember when I ordered my washing machine from Currys. The Currys van arrived at 8am (so lucky I got up early) and I opened the door to give the delivery driver a hand. Just as I was about to offer he rang my neighbours bell and proceeded to deliver a fridge freezer while I skulked back into the house. About 4pm my washing machine arrived on another van.

We ordered two 6 feet rabbit hutches from Amazon about 7 years ago. Delivery date - Thursday, they couldn't give a time.

He turned up at 9-45 p.m.!! and I had to help him unload the whole lorry as our hutches were down the front.

I asked him why he was so late. He said it was the route he was given by his transport office in Liverpool. 

His first drop was supposed to be 3 Bain-maries, which were on the arse end of the vehicle, to Bristol,  but it was turned away as there was nobody to take them into the cafe. 

He had to keep moving them off the back to get to other stuff, and he was also doing collections. 

By the time he got here to west Norfolk, our rabbit hutches had been on a facking holiday to Bristol, Swindon, Aldershot and London.

If I was the driver I'd have taken the facking things back to Liverpool.

don't take this lightly, complain and have them, make them pay.

I emailed them earlier and they said their drivers wouldn't do this as they get paid per delivery, so she basically called me a liar even though I witnessed it with my own eyes. Then she said if I want it today, I can pick it up from their depot in Bridgwater, which is at least an hour and a half round trip. What a joke. I never really get angry about anything but this has really wound me up for some reason. I really hope it's the same driver when it does eventually arrive as he's going to get a right ear bashing.

why would he come to your house and take a picture , why not just deliver it

how big ws the itme , maybe he left it at the depot by accident and thought ill sort this out

I feel sorry for the drivers. The companies they deliver for probably give them imposible workloads and they feel comelled to pull all sorts of stunt just to keep up.

don't be a liberal ^^^ this bloke deserves no sympathy

Had a cooker delivered, burly driver carried all 50kg up the driveway on his own, tripped on a step and dropped it, glass smashed all over the place. Dog cut his paw, total carnage.

You're right. Buy a flame thrower and smoke the mothefrucker when he turns up next time.

Crisp77 19 Aug 14 17:14 Joined: 08 Feb 02 | Topic/replies: 35,392 | Blogger: Crisp77's blog
What did you order? A framed picture of your house?

This reminds me a little of the guy on here who sat on his arris as his mrs and kids went down the road to check on a cyclist who he'd witnessed from his armchair being wanged into the next life by a van driver.

buccini be ready for him when he arrives next time and take a photo of him taking a photo of your house

Did you not think of going out and getting your parcel as opposed to watching him take photo's of your house?

ordered some new  furniture from ebay (don't ask)

supposed to be next day with a timed slot

3 deliveries cancelled last minute, and 7 days later, some cnunt turns up at the door 2 hours late.

"mate, any chance of a lift? this sofa is heavy!" .

FFS I had to put me trainers on and handball the foooooking sofa into the house with a little help off this wimpy delivery driver.

FOOOK knows what would have happened if I wasn't a strong tough man in good physical shape

^ Just then he noticed what I had playing on the laptop...

Did it have Linda Lovelace in it???

Hamsterdam
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Did you not think of going out and getting your parcel as opposed to watching him take photo's of your house?





he was too busy peeping out his window

Crisp77 • August 19, 2014 5:14 PM BST
What did you order? A framed picture of your house?

Quality

The best I have encountered are DPD. Their tracking system is brilliant as you can see his previous drops
and where his at any moment.

Useful for the company too but must be hell for the drivers. No small wonder that you see them so often being way over posted speed limits.

It was looking as if he was twenty minutes behind, but arrived just seconds before the scheduled time.
He did, however, skip the drop before mine, just around the corner.

Appalling behaviour by the driver in OP.

It's a two way street as customers not in at stated time of a delivery can ruin a courier's day - See Call a taxi's post as proof of the knock on chaos it causes.

Yep, i'm an ex courier driver

These new-fangled tracking gizmos must play havoc with their serial-killing endeavours, it's no wonder they're often grumpy.

OP obviously having an Eartha Kitt or Tommy Tank when Driver knock/rang bell and never heard him.

Then ran to the window without wiping , hence why he never ran out when teh gu was taking a picture  he has jobbies running down his legs

I don't believe it, it's happened again!!! I heard a van pull up, so I went over to my window to see if it was my delivery and saw a different driver walking to the gate, and he actually had a parcel in his hands this time. However to my amazement he then took a quick photo of my house, turned around and started jogging back to his van. So I ran downstairs and legged it out the front door as fast as I could, and shouted out to him a few times just before he got in his van, and he definitely heard me, but he completely blanked me and drove off. I can only assume that it was on record that I'd made a complaint and he decided to do it again just out of spite.

you could try keeping the rottweiler out the back next time.

buccini, is it a game that you've ordered from Amazon.
And do you have to catch a delivery driver to start (bit like throwing a 6 in ludo to start)?

Have you tried lowering the drawbridge, I find that helps.

Buccini would it not make sense to have a camera so you can photograph the van and provide it to the company rather than being made a mug of?

They take a photo themselves to prove that they tried to deliver it. So it's their word against mine. When I go onto their site and track it, the funny thing is that this driver was in such a hurry that he only got 1/4 of the house in the picture. At least yesterday's driver took a decent photo and got the whole house in :-)

buccini, is it a game that you've ordered from Amazon.
And do you have to catch a delivery driver to start (bit like throwing a 6 in ludo to start)?

Excellent, Mememe!

You need to cut the afternoon Tommy Tank out whilst your Doll is finally delivered

Want to sympathies with you, but why would a different driver do this out of spite?

So it's a smallish item. I can't figure out why these driver's get so close to your house then do one without delivering said item?

Forget a camera, film the feckers on yer fone!

"buccini, is it a game that you've ordered from Amazon.
And do you have to catch a delivery driver to start (bit like throwing a 6 in ludo to start)?"

I received an email back and she's spoken to the depot manager, who was said to be pretty upset and is going to speak to both drivers, so that's something.

These firms charge you for making fone calls.
Go online and find a free number option.
Don't let customer services fob you off.

Ring ring and ring again if you have to...Good luck

"I don't believe it, it's happened again!!! I heard a van pull up, so I went over to my window to see if it was my delivery and saw a different driver walking to the gate, and he actually had a parcel in his hands this time. However to my amazement he then took a quick photo of my house, turned around and started jogging back to his van. So I ran downstairs and legged it out the front door as fast as I could, and shouted out to him a few times just before he got in his van, and he definitely heard me, but he completely blanked me and drove off. I can only assume that it was on record that I'd made a complaint and he decided to do it again just out of spite."



Sorry, for laughing, buccini

I'm sure you're not finding this as funny as we are

Hi, we called but you were out, your package has been

[ ] Left with a neighbour
[ ] Returned to depot
[ ] Left in the safe place mentioned below
[x] Kicked to fk round the depot, stuffed with drugs and reported to the police
[ ] Scheduled for redelivery

I've told them to return it to Amazon, and been told that they cannot compensate me for the inconvenience.

Arrange to collect it from their depot, copy an image of their depot off Google Earth, send it to their customer services and say that nobody was in reception when you showed up at the arranged time

If you were watching when the bloke took a picture of your house - shouldn't you be in the picture of the 'empty' house
glaring out of the window looking disappointed?

No we have net curtains (not my choice). The good news is that I complained about them to Amazon and they're going to send some replacement items tomorrow. The bad news is that they can't assign delivery companies to individual customers, which means that it could well be the same company delivering them again. So stay tuned for the next instalment on Friday afternoon :-)

Harry R Scrack 20 Aug 14 17:40 Joined: 15 Sep 06 | Topic/replies: 305 | Blogger: Harry R Scrack's blog
If you were watching when the bloke took a picture of your house - shouldn't you be in the picture of the 'empty' house
glaring out of the window looking disappointed?



Sorry buccini

"I've told them to return it to Amazon, and been told that they cannot compensate me for the inconvenience."

Really sorry for laughing at this thread, buccini

"If you were watching when the bloke took a picture of your house - shouldn't you be in the picture of the 'empty' house
glaring out of the window looking disappointed?"

Harry!

Sorry

It's okay. I've laughed at a lot of the comments as well.

One thing is certain, we will never get an explanation for this kind of bizarre behaviour. Never will it be possible to unravel the mystery of
just what is going on.

The driver may get paid for making a delivery attempt, on 40% of such attempts the householder may be out, so to make up time he just photos the house and carries on thinking they were probably out anyway.

"It's okay. I've laughed at a lot of the comments as well."

I've just been reading some reviews of this delivery company and I found this negative review that was posted earlier today. It seems I'm not alone:

"i have spent most of the afternoon on the phone to the helpline as the delivery man did not knock at all and it has been confirmed by the tracker that he was only outside for 30 seconds and claimed he tried 'ringing the bell' however we don't nor have we ever had a door bell so this was clearly a lie only proving more that he did not even attempt to get any of our attention, there were three of us in the house at the time and none of us heard a knock.Not to mention the fact that I specifically put an extra instruction when filling out the delivery form that if no one was in to leave it in the shed which he clearly chose to ignore, also the parcel was only a lightweight jacket so could quite clearly fit through the letterbox. I was tracking the order most of the morning and it said it was 15 minutes away then suddenly it said 'sorry no one was present to sign the delivery' even though i read this whilst in my front room! I then rang the delivery service only to be greeted by an extremely rude man on the other end of the phone who acted extremely unprofessionally and laughed about it when I don't actually find it funny as i paid £6 for my delivery to arrive today and that is when I expect it to arrive. I am disgusted by the service and have never experienced anything like this with royal mail deliveries it seems your employees cannot follow simple instructions or even knock on a customers door. I find this insulting and rude. The reason why I ordered it with next day delivery was because I NEEDED it today as I am going to london tonight for a week, on top of the stress caused I know have to drive miles out of my way and waste my petrol to pick up a parcel that should be in my house now! All this trouble could have been saved if your employee could manage to knock on a door. I expect at least a full refund on the delivery cost."

I sympathise with all delivery drivers actually - after driving all that way ......and then they're 'NEVER EVER' home.....neither are the neighbours nine times out of ten! (this is their job!)

XDP are the cnunts I had to deal with

apparently I'm not the only one who is not happy and they are still as bad as when I encountered them 12 months ago.

https://www.trustpilot.co.uk/review/xdp.co.uk



It's not hard to guess the people giving them 5*'s are people associated with XDP

Harry R Scrack
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If you were watching when the bloke took a picture of your house - shouldn't you be in the picture of the 'empty' house
glaring out of the window looking disappointed?

buccinio you heard the van pull up and just glared out the window , when he was 15 minutes away why not open your door and have a tea/coffe on your doorstep and if he takles another picture you will be sittingg in the picture

im not buying this one now , not 2 days in a row

its ike their playing mind games if this is true

tommorow they will not only get out take a pic

but stop to do a bit of window licking

and then run off giving him the finger

Stick a running webcam on the window ledge.
As he goes back to his van run out and stand in front of the camera.
Send the film to the twunt in charge.

.......the drivers will be having a dump in his garden next

This is a wind up

Trust me this is not a wind up. I've posted a review on Trust Pilot using my real name, and the more I read about this delivery company the more I find that this practice goes on all the time.

Someone from the company contacted me this morning after reading this review and said that they will personally make sure that I receive the next parcel if they are the ones that will be delivering it.

However I've just received an email saying that the original parcel, ie the one I've asked to be sent back to Amazon, will be delivered today between 16.48 and 17.48. So the incompetence continues and they've managed to annoy me yet again.

When he appears next time, grab him and claim your prize.

From Wikipedia ...

Lobby Lud is a fictional character invented in August 1927 by the Westminster Gazette, a British newspaper, now defunct. The name derives from the paper's telegraphic address, "Lobby, Ludgate". Anonymous employees of the newspaper visited seaside resorts. The paper printed details of the town, a description of that day's Lobby Lud and a pass phrase. Anyone carrying the newspaper could challenge Lobby Lud with the phrase and receive five pounds (about £260.00 in 2014).[1][2] People on holiday were known to be less likely to buy a newspaper. Some towns and large factories had holiday fortnights (called "wakes weeks" in the north of England); the town or works would all decamp at the same time. Circulation could drop considerably in the summer and proprietors hoped prizes would increase it.

But only if you live at the seaside and he's carrying a copy of the Westminster Gazette.

Or you could buy a high powered rifle from Amazon and ... sorry it wouldn't get there.