DPD - Follow My Parcel *5th August*

My parcel turned up about 15 minutes into the delivery window, and I had a long chat with the driver about the new system.

Apparently they have a built in delay of about 15 minutes, so that the displayed map actually shows where the drivers last stop was and not where he actually is now!

He explained that is partly a security measure, as it would be all too easy for an organised gang to hijack a vehicle if they knew exactly where it was at a given time.

It is not usually obvious to see exactly where a driver will go next, although it is often not that hard to work out!

Once the delivery has been made, then the map is, of course no longer visible.

I think this new feature must have impressed a lot of vendors, as DPD are apparently have to turn contracts away at the moment as they only have a finite amount of resources available.

As others have already said though, it is a very impressive system, and what, I wonder will be the next step?... a camera on each van perhaps! :)
 
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Well I think this worked for me today, but it's kind of hard to say :o

I opened the link and the driver was showing to be an hour away. Next thing I know I must have fallen asleep after pulling a 12 hour shift last night because I was woken up by him banging on the door! My son hadn't wanted to wake me as it meant he could spend longer on Minecraft than I'd usually let him. Sneaky little tyke :D

I refreshed the link which still showed *Carl* to be at the delivery before me, which ties in with the delay mentioned above. A few minutes later it showed my parcel as being delivered.

I can't imagine that anyone is so tight on time that they actually need this extra service, but it's a natty little gimmick and appears to work well.
 
5UB said:
You should have a link texted to you. - That will open a browser. :)

If you never got the text, then it maybe because you paid with PayPal and the numbers are not transferred properly. - However if you pay via card, the number should be forwarded to DPD and should work as normal. :)
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I just click on the link emailed to me from OCUK, maybe there's another link in a diff email.
 
Turner555 said:
Pretty awesome feature, always on time in my experience.

Wish amazon would implement this. :D
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Amazon do in fact use DPD for a lot of their deliveries... well they do to me anyway, and the on the order I received from them earlier this week I was able to take advantage of this new facility... as I posted earlier!
 
Hey all, Bobby from DPD here - hope everyone's well. Just been reading through the thread, and it's good to see that Follow My Parcel has been well received :)

Remember that you can get us on Twitter and Facebook if you ever have a query relating to your parcel delivery.

Until next time - peace!
 
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