IMPORTANT ANNOUCEMENT TO SCOTLAND/NEWCASTLE/YORK REGARDING DELIVERY
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cant really blame the couriers tbh, we had a good week of rotten weather up here and i dont care what anyone says the roads were not safe to be out on for most of last week
anyone know if dpd are working 7 days atm? mines states i'm to expect a 4 day delay and is due today. should i expect it on monday or wednesday?
anyone know if dpd are working 7 days atm? mines states i'm to expect a 4 day delay and is due today. should i expect it on monday or wednesday?
Thats why there is shifts.
I'm not saying they have to deliver to peoples doors 24/7. To the depots, yes. I'm not saying it's written in stone.
...and last winter in Scotland was any different to this how? in a year how has Scotland learned from this... not a thing has changed. If anything it's gotten worse.
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Thats why there is shifts.
Where's the logic in shifts ? It is far more logical and efficient to have every available worker doing the same shift in a situation like this. Having some of your workforce going through the night at a slower pace and attempting deliveries in the middle of the night is ludicrous.
DPD could not have seen the severity of the snow, prior to the last 2 years of cold winters we had 7 mild winters in a row ! It's just unfortunate that the snow happened when it did, if the majority had fallen after Christmas like it did last year, then it would have had much less of an impact.
As for me, i ordered a Case from another e-tailer using DPD and i've been waiting since Tuesday. I personally will be giving the delivery man a mince pie when he shows up, i'm sure they're all working as hard as they possible can to get this cleared, and Christmas should be encouraging everybody to band together and be supportive !
There's only so much anybody can do im afraid. After a certain point Grit doesn't go anything, because heavy snow just falls on top of the salt and isn't melted. Like i said above, it was highly unlikely we were going to have a third year of severely cold weather, and the major investment needed in Snow Ploughs and other equipment couldn't be justified going on past weather.
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The real problem and it always has been for years. There's never enough staff. It's always the same, never enough or too much. There is never a balance. The Christmas rush has never been a new thing. Why is it Royal Mail can take on more staff, and vehicles to deal with it.
Don't need major investment in snow ploughs. You're telling me in 2010 we can't make mounts for the trucks and such the councils use and just fit a snow plough to them? take them back off when you don't need them and the trucks are still in use for every other normal day... while always keeping the several really heavy duty wagons.
Soldato
Why can't people be a little patient?
...because it's Christmas?
Probably because Royal Mail isn't a private company, and has been throwing money down the drain for years. Which is also the same reason why it's being sold off !
I've never before had a problem with deliveries around Christmas with the exception of weather, employing extra staff on the off chance that it may snow is just a bad business strategy.
I'm sure it's not that easy, otherwise they would have done it. Snow Ploughs are actually pretty specialised, they need large tread tyres so that they aren't bogged down by the ice and snow they're trying to clear. Building hundreds or thousands of special plough attachments for existing vehicles would be incredibly inefficient.
Sometimes you just have to accept that the weather is too powerful for anybody to overcome. There are cities in the US which are overcome by snow pretty much every year, it doesn't matter how much money they throw at clearing it up, the snow still comes out on top.
I love how people nowadays have just totally forgotten the meaning of Christmas, and now it's ALL about presents. Pathetic.
Soldato
Yes, at the end of next week. Plenty of time yet.
We'd rather throw it on benefits though. ¬_¬
lol, in this day and age it is. It's about families and gift-giving. People will try hard to satisfy their family and if the presents aren't there, they aren't satisfied.
I'm only 19 and it drives me mad. I can understand children doing it but for the past few years i haven't been bothered what i was getting for Christmas. My mum basically forced me to throw together a list of stuff i'd like and i told her to pick something.
I enjoy just chilling out on Christmas day eating loads and watching crap TV, like the Eastenders Christmas Special.
Thats why there is shifts.
Shifts, yes thank you, but people work the shifts and they do specific things such as hubs sorting and distributing during the night and drivers delivering from depots in the day.
In fact I really don't understand what your pet shop was on about as all couriers work 24/7 all year round.
I did all my gift buying in 1 hour, I don't try that hard any more because nobody really wants the things they are given anyway. Soap, chocs and wine are the best bets, at least they get used at some point. Almost everything else will end up at the back of a wardrobe or in the bin.
I'm only 19 and it drives me mad. I can understand children doing it but for the past few years i haven't been bothered what i was getting for Christmas. My mum basically forced me to throw together a list of stuff i'd like and i told her to pick something.
I enjoy just chilling out on Christmas day eating loads and watching crap TV, like the Eastenders Christmas Special.
Same, i'm always saying i don't want anything off my parents but in the end i have to come up with something because they'll buy me something i don't want and be it i'm ungrateful or what but the past 2-3 years i've ended up with something i really don't need.
Yeah, better to ask for something you might actually use, it's like when relatives buy you clothes when you're a kid and you HATE them, and they just end up not getting worn, total waste of time.
Well put it this way, i probably sound well ungrateful but a year or two back my mum bought me an Apple iTouch 8GB when my phone could do absolutely everything it could do and more. I was disappointed and told my mum straight that i wouldn't use it and asked if she had the receipt. She was upset, i even offered for her to keep the money. End of the day it's pointless owning something so expensive that you'll never use.
Yeah, i get what you mean pal. Sounds like you at least tried to be honest, although can't say i would have ! I probably just would have taken it and at least pretended to use it, too much stress to be dealing with on Christmas day.
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This is shocking!