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I had a friend who ordered £3k of HDDs.. courier firm just left it by his recycling bin... Was supposed to be a signed delivery. I said would have been fun to claim non receipt just to have the courier who signed for him squirm
 
.Lethal said:
Agreed, ever since internet shopping being a thing.
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I don't know if it was because it was privatised around the same time, or just generally the people at the top of the company were too complacent to capitalise on a market they already had a partial infrastructure setup for. We saw Amazon growth going mental 10yrs ago. I remember 15yrs ago not taking a liking to them, that was when Play appeared to be one of their rivals, in the UK at least. I'm not sure if Play ended due to the whole no tax on the channel islands thing or not. I just don't know how RM failed to really have any proper advancement in their services.


JudgeDeath said:
I had a friend who ordered £3k of HDDs.. courier firm just left it by his recycling bin... Was supposed to be a signed delivery. I said would have been fun to claim non receipt just to have the courier who signed for him squirm
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That's quite impressive, any idea which courier it was?

I think the only courier worth using is DPD, but generally the whole delivery sector is not fit for purpose. It's such a cut throat market that has ultimately left us with either underpaid or badly treated employees, or low service quality.
 
The_Arbiter said:
I don't know if it was because it was privatised around the same time, or just generally the people at the top of the company were too complacent to capitalise on a market they already had a partial infrastructure setup for. We saw Amazon growth going mental 10yrs ago. I remember 15yrs ago not taking a liking to them, that was when Play appeared to be one of their rivals, in the UK at least. I'm not sure if Play ended due to the whole no tax on the channel islands thing or not. I just don't know how RM failed to really have any proper advancement in their services.




That's quite impressive, any idea which courier it was?

I think the only courier worth using is DPD, but generally the whole delivery sector is not fit for purpose. It's such a cut throat market that has ultimately left us with either underpaid or badly treated employees, or low service quality.
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Dunno.. was a few years back... Agree on DPD. And they give you REAL delivery windows....
 
The whole paying extra for "Signed for" now is pretty much worthless with all couriers, Since covid.

Now they will NEVER go back to actually having the recipient signing for the item as they've had it too nice just been able to drop it on the doorstep and sign for it themselves and off they go regardless. They're in such a hurry to drop off the 980 parcels they have that day they wont wait 1 min for you to sign it, or if your not in regardless of the items value will just leave it wide open to been nicked anyway.
 
It will come down to policy.. while cost of nicked parcels is less than the "savings" in time, they'll keep doing it that way... but if thefts/claims rise???
 
The_Arbiter said:
I don't know if it was because it was privatised around the same time, or just generally the people at the top of the company were too complacent to capitalise on a market they already had a partial infrastructure setup for. We saw Amazon growth going mental 10yrs ago. I remember 15yrs ago not taking a liking to them, that was when Play appeared to be one of their rivals, in the UK at least. I'm not sure if Play ended due to the whole no tax on the channel islands thing or not. I just don't know how RM failed to really have any proper advancement in their services.
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It was when Postcomm was introduced, they forced RMG to carry on charging their fixed price but let companies like UPS, Deusche Post etc. charge the going rate so these companies came in being able to charge what they liked so when they were doing massive city to city volumes they could charge a few pence per letter but RMG still had to charge 23p or what ever a stamp was, likewise a letter being delivered from London to remote Scotland the actually cost was around £25-£30 but RMG could still only charge the price of a stamp whereas the private companies could charge the real world cost, This legislation meant all the profitable mail was gobbled up by the private companies and RMG forced to deliver the other post at a loss, hardly a fair fight but I guess it's what is known as progress.

As somebody earlier mentioned nobody wants to pay for postage (myself included sometimes) so the companies cannot charge enough to deliver a good service whilst paying a decent wage and providing drivers a manageable workload so I can see drivers signing for peoples parcels just continuing, not sure how people are going to raise non-deliveries when the driver is signing to say he dropped it off, he's not confirming it was actually received just that he dropped it off somewhere, might not even be the correct address but he dropped it off somewhere.
 
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Yep he did it to loads of people. *******.
 
Good news at last.. PayPal ruled in my favour and issued a full refund. Case was against eBay rather than the seller though due to how the payments now work. Hopefully eBay can get the money back from the scammer. I have instead bought a 5600x for £220.
 
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