Soldato
thats pretty poor tbh, but I guess others will follow suit (citylink being as who we use) Ive got loads of stuff I know has to be in reading at a client next week, guess ill be taking a drive!
IMPORTANT ANNOUCEMENT TO SCOTLAND/NEWCASTLE/YORK REGARDING DELIVERY
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thats pretty poor tbh, but I guess others will follow suit (citylink being as who we use) Ive got loads of stuff I know has to be in reading at a client next week, guess ill be taking a drive!
Soldato
I think its just not guaranteed with the news that more bad weather due in a few days....... where abouts are you?
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Depends on the weather from now untill christmas
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My cpu is in a depot 30 miles away, but you cant seem to be able to contact DPD to arrange self pickup, until you get carded 1st. Gonna scream!!!!! 
any chance of a better rate from ocuk on royal mail special delivery in the mean time?
wanting to order a 6970 tommorow am but i'll be damned if i'm paying £12 for delivery
anyone from ocuk care to comment?
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If you`re lucky enough to get through to your local Depot,you may end up listening to a constantly ringing Phone for 30 minutes,like i did yesterday.I guess all we can do is wait.
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My cpu is in a depot 30 miles away, but you cant seem to be able to contact DPD to arrange self pickup, until you get carded 1st. Gonna scream!!!!!
Tell me about it, my PC had been shipped from pillar to post with no card through the door when they tried to deliver it everyday in the snow when it finally did turn up it was broke and had to be RMA'd.
Not impressed with DPD and now i'll have to wait even long so probably wont get my PC before Xmas. Just wish i didnt pay by finance or i would have cancelled untill next year when the new hardware is released
Caporegime
I wouldn't say all over areas are unaffected like lol.
i think they should suspend collecting and concentrate on getting the parcels delivered they allready have
That's exactly what they are doing
They've said sorry, no more into those depots, we need to concentrate on whats in the network already.
Business collections take nothing away from deliveries. Often (like with OcUK) it's not a van that collects, it's a truck, and it goes nowhere near the local depot, it goes straight to the hub.
In other cases it may be smaller pickups but for half a days deliveries you're talking 5 minutes stopping at an industrial estate on the way back. It's really insignificant compared to deliveries.
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That's exactly what they are doing
They've said sorry, no more into those depots, we need to concentrate on whats in the network already.
Business collections take nothing away from deliveries. Often (like with OcUK) it's not a van that collects, it's a truck, and it goes nowhere near the local depot, it goes straight to the hub.
In other cases it may be smaller pickups but for half a days deliveries you're talking 5 minutes stopping at an industrial estate on the way back. It's really insignificant compared to deliveries.
Same guy who dropped off my delivery yesteday collected it today for RMA ^^.
Caporegime
That's exactly what they are doing
They've said sorry, no more into those depots, we need to concentrate on whats in the network already.
Business collections take nothing away from deliveries. Often (like with OcUK) it's not a van that collects, it's a truck, and it goes nowhere near the local depot, it goes straight to the hub.
In other cases it may be smaller pickups but for half a days deliveries you're talking 5 minutes stopping at an industrial estate on the way back. It's really insignificant compared to deliveries.
Which is exactly what's happened with my order
.I don't know if 3rd party collections or only business collections are still on, might well be business collections from now on, unless it's on the way.
Which is exactly what's happened with my order
Which is exactly why they're calling time on any more - so your parcel and everyone elses who are waiting can be done before christmas.
scotland , i guess thats a big no ;p
Soldato
Yeah we often send 100+ consignments a day but where that would take a driver a day it takes a matter of minutes with us, I still cant understand why newcastle is in the list
theres no snow left here
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NOOOOOooOOoOO!!!
Now how will I get my PC Upgrades... I mean Christmas presents for other people?
Though I've just been from Newcastle to York today and the roads are fine. There's a bit of snow left over, but it's mostly lying in fields and hedgerows. I know there's more bad weather on the way, but they should be prepared now.. shouldn't they?
Any way it looks like if I want that new BD Drive and case fan I'll have to actually leave the house
Now how will I get my PC Upgrades... I mean Christmas presents for other people?
Though I've just been from Newcastle to York today and the roads are fine. There's a bit of snow left over, but it's mostly lying in fields and hedgerows. I know there's more bad weather on the way, but they should be prepared now.. shouldn't they?
Any way it looks like if I want that new BD Drive and case fan I'll have to actually leave the house
Soldato
it is not just dpd, i was speaking to our ups delivery driver today and he said they have a back log of 300 lorry loads still waiting to be delivered due to the weather
they all talk ****e mate, 300 lorry loads means nothing 25000 consignments is a bbigger worry
God! Thats lame. My PC is stuck in limbo at the moment and there's no chance of this according to them...
Whatever happened to the UK. You'd think we've never ever had snow. I know it's bad when you have backlogs but to just stop deliveries at Christmas is mad. Especially going from the weather forecast like they ignored the last time. What's to say it turns out wrong... deliveries are back on then back off?
How come there's never an approach we'll deal with it if and when it happens? not days before when there's no snow yet. Now soon as somebody says snow we just shut everything down.
I can see supermarkets clearing out their shelves from the mass panic.
Whatever happened to the UK. You'd think we've never ever had snow. I know it's bad when you have backlogs but to just stop deliveries at Christmas is mad. Especially going from the weather forecast like they ignored the last time. What's to say it turns out wrong... deliveries are back on then back off?
How come there's never an approach we'll deal with it if and when it happens? not days before when there's no snow yet. Now soon as somebody says snow we just shut everything down.
I can see supermarkets clearing out their shelves from the mass panic.