Home Delivery Network...

flasher · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:02

Had an item delivered today from HDN, first time i have ever used them, luckaly my neighbour took the package for us and had the card through the door to say who had it. Was deliverd on time to the date specifed by there website.

Did get worried when i had read the horror stories on the net about them but still perfer to have stuff shipped RM, works out a lot easier.

Fothsn · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:07

Most of Amazons small items come through us (Royal Mail) such as CD's DVD's etc, a lot of large items as well.

I use Littlewoods quite often for their clothes and they use DHN and I agree they are far far too inconsistent, trying to get through to them is a joke I’m sure the only have one phone.

atpbx · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:08

They are not a conventional carrier in that they only deal in bulk contracts and dont do collections.
They charge very little and the drivers deliver over 100 stops a day across huge areas.
They are just, white flag? blue flag? what ever they were called who Grattens used to use.

Fothsn · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:10

atpbx said:
They are not a conventional carrier in that they only deal in bulk contracts and dont do collections.
They charge very little and the drivers deliver over 100 stops a day across huge areas.

Well it’s the same as every other courier; if they cant manage the load why book the contracts?

Wiggins · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:12

My other half orders stuff online with Littlewoods and they have always been either a day or even days early.

They are a spot on courier

Fothsn · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:16

Wiggins said:
My other half orders stuff online with Littlewoods and they have always been either a day or even days early.

They are a spot on courier

I’ve never had a package go missing but a few times they have failed to show up on the day expected. I wouldn’t say there bad but average

MarcLister · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:35

HITMAN_LEON said:
They are used by big catalogue companies so you should be fine.

Yeah shouldn't be a problem. Had a few things delivered by them.

Danger Phoenix · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:41

HDNL have been fine for deliveries here in Coventry... they only slipped up once when collecting an item from me (organised by Amazon).

Feef · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:45

Random, I saw an HDN branded van for the first time today and briefly wondered who they are.

So now I know.

Looks like they do have some branded vans too, this was white with a small green/black logo.

Lopéz · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:47

fothsn said:
Well it’s the same as every other courier; if they cant manage the load why book the contracts?

That's not really how it works with conventional couriers, it's a little more complicated than that.

atpbx · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:55

fothsn said:
Well it’s the same as every other courier; if they cant manage the load why book the contracts?

Life is too short to even begin to explain how these things work.

Fothsn · 21 Feb 2008 at 20:02

Lopéz said:
That's not really how it works with conventional couriers, it's a little more complicated than that.

Surly if the drivers are struggling to do there delivery’s the courier is taking on too much? But what do I know

atpbx said:
Life is too short to even begin to explain how these things work.

Okay.

Hyper · 21 Feb 2008 at 22:16

Just a quick update.

Item was delivered today by a van branded with Home on it but that was it.

The package didnt come till 5:30pm mind, i was beginning to think it wasnt going to arrive.

Lopéz · 21 Feb 2008 at 22:27

atpbx said:
Life is too short to even begin to explain how these things work.

It's all the drivers fault you know. You should ask him what the story is