TNT rant

DXP55 · 14 Oct 2021 at 21:55

It's not really a rant but it is first delivey company that has messed up.

Ordered a gadget from company in Southampton on Saturday and it was picked up by TNT and dropped off at their depot down there -Not turned up yet - so did a chat today and guy said it missed the bus -it's still sitting here -He did apologise and said it will be on the next bus.
Hopefully I might get it tomorrow or Saturday -= Not really in a rush for it yet. - Also hope I never have to use it in earnest.

dlockers · 14 Oct 2021 at 22:03

Thought this was a Crash Bandicoot thread.

vanandjuanunited · 14 Oct 2021 at 22:03

On the next bus :confused:

what

Malevolence · 14 Oct 2021 at 22:13

How long before this thread blows up?

lsg1r · 14 Oct 2021 at 22:15

vanandjuanunited said:
On the next bus what

Maybe they've resorted to using buses due to the shortage in lorry drivers

DB_SamX · 14 Oct 2021 at 23:21

dLockers said:
Thought this was a Crash Bandicoot thread.

I thought it was about explosive.

Disappointed.

builder22 · 14 Oct 2021 at 23:30

TNT has recently bought Fed Ex, or maybe Fed Ex have bought TNT, can't remember but that's prob got something to do with it

Aku aku

Angilion · 14 Oct 2021 at 23:33

Malevolence said:
How long before this thread blows up?

Well played!

uber soldat · 14 Oct 2021 at 23:37

.....Beep Beep..............

Azza · 14 Oct 2021 at 23:37

Does / didn't @Lopéz work for TNT? He'll be able to tell us what a "bus" is.

Joeyuk · 14 Oct 2021 at 23:43

I know we are short of lorry drivers but sending parcels by “bus”. Better get my Christmas orders in as the buses round here are shocking!

Lopéz · 15 Oct 2021 at 07:16

Azza said:
Does / didn't @Lopéz work for TNT? He'll be able to tell us what a "bus" is.

Used to.

"Bus" is a new one on me, in laymen's terms that is what has happened I suppose, it's "missed the bus" but the accepted term is "linehaul".
Linehaul is the large trunk vehicle that takes parcels in bulk from depot to hub or hub to depot.
The internal phrase for a parcel being left behind for whatever reason (and there can be many) is "missed linehaul"

TNT were purchased by FedEx a few years ago but still haven't completed full integration.

DXP55 · 15 Oct 2021 at 10:34

Lopez.

You win the internet bottle of Whiskey - There is a lot of young people on here isn't there. :cry:

I thought someone would put 2 and 2 together after they must have seen the Big TNT artic trucks driving around.

It's now half way between Southamption and here and should be delivered today - Then I can get playing.

Scania · 15 Oct 2021 at 10:51

If it’s anything like most parcel carriers at the moment, the parcel is probably sat on a trailer waiting for a driver to take it, most already have huge backlogs due to the driver shortage / COVID / aliens / crap management etc and things will only get worse towards Christmas unfortunately…..

nine_tails · 15 Oct 2021 at 12:34

dLockers said:
Thought this was a Crash Bandicoot thread.

DXP55 · 15 Oct 2021 at 14:58

It's been delivered - Picture on images I have purchased.

I think the online chat woke them up.

MouthBoy · 15 Oct 2021 at 15:03

Malevolence said:
How long before this thread blows up?

People on this forum tend to have a short fuse these days, so not long...

Countcussy · 15 Oct 2021 at 15:14

For anyone that interested, And I know this because I use them for my business..

TNT is slowly migrating to Fedex as stated above. This is causing systemwide issues, but its very hit and miss, and is not affecting everybody.
Last week, they also stopped completely ALL domestic UK deliveries for around 72 hours, something I have never seen in 25 years of using couriers.
Anything that had already been collected and was sat in a hub, had to be re-booked manually. You can only imagine....
Their systems have also had 3 full outages in the last week alone.

Having said all of the above, we are dealing with issues with all of the main couriers. Sign of the times.
Staff working from home does not help, as they have less accountability and come across as not giving a ****