Poll: The great international parcel race.

Who wins?

  • UPS

    Votes: 69 27.4%

  • TNT

    Votes: 12 4.8%

  • FedEx

    Votes: 59 23.4%

  • DPD

    Votes: 112 44.4%
  • Total voters
    252
  • Poll closed .
I’m watching Michael Palin’s round the world in 80 days, and it really is amazing how far we’ve come in a short period of time. You’ve had a parcel picked up, transported to a different country and delivered in 26 hours. It’s quite staggering.

Wait until someone tells me about the internet.
 
I'm surprised there is so much hate on UPS. I always saw them as the most bullet proof/sexiest delivery crew. I did live by their depo in central London for a while, and the fleet of pristine purpose built trucks convoying in the morning may have been where the attachment came from :p
 
dLockers said:
I'm surprised there is so much hate on UPS. I always saw them as the most bullet proof/sexiest delivery crew. I did live by their depo in central London for a while, and the fleet of pristine purpose built trucks convoying in the morning may have been where the attachment came from :p
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for me it was seeing the absolute horror show that was their implementation of airsoft stuff from the eu post brexit, went from being quick and reliable to parcels held for months, parcels getting lost etc.

some of the popular stores just stopped shipping to the uk entirely over it.
 
adolf hamster said:
for me it was seeing the absolute horror show that was their implementation of airsoft stuff from the eu post brexit, went from being quick and reliable to parcels held for months, parcels getting lost etc.

some of the popular stores just stopped shipping to the uk entirely over it.
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They were okay but post Brexit was an absolute poop show.

Bought something that cost £66 from Italy, under the £135 limit.

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Then UPS wanted my TAX CODE?

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Then I gave them a random number as they do not need that.

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Then every single day I was getting the following update for about 2 weeks, just sat there in Italy, scan and put back, scan and put back.

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When it arrived a month later it had an encounter with someone with a sword.

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My business gets a lot of shipments from our main supplier based in the Netherlands and UPS have been absolutely shocking over the past 3/4 months.

Had multiple, multi consignment orders just sat at their depot in Stansted for weeks on end with no updates at all and no reason for the delay, finally arrived 5 weeks later out of the blue, and when it did arrive it looks as if it had been run through a tumble dryer for those 5 weeks, nearly everything was destroyed.

FedEx are a tiny bit better but the way they deal with import duties and VAT is a shambles and getting an invoice out of them is like getting blood from a stone.

TNT only tend to deliver larger items to us, but we drop ship a certain SKU straight from the importer and their tracking numbers either relate to some random consignment in Thailand or just don't work at all.

We rarely use DPD, but when we do it's flawless, and whenever we receive something via DPD (Or me personally) they're always bang on time within a 1 hour window with great tracking.

So, hoping DPD come through with the goods to back up my pointless post :p
 
Update 15:

FedEx: Collected 9:50
FedEx: Sent a second van just in case! 12:15
Scanned at Hartlebury
Left Hartlebury 16:21
Scanned Kingsbury 23:58

UPS: Collected 10:10
Scanned at Tamworth
Left Tamworth 19:04
Arrived Castle Donington 19:36
Left Castle Donington 21:54
Scanned Koeln
Left Koeln 04:30
Arrived Customs CH: 05:35
Cleared Customs 06:12
Arrived Delivery Hub 08:17
Out for delivery 10:36
Failed delivery will try again tomorrow

TNT: Awaiting Collection
Collected: 11:01 a day later than everyone else.
Worcester scan: 11:48

DPD: Collected 13:07
Scanned at Dudley
Left Dudley 16:08
Arrived Brum 20:18
Scanned BHX 23:27
Left BHX 05:52
Scanned London. 10:10
 
failed delivery probably means it wasn't on the van or he ran out of time :P

not all of those couriers exist in switzerland though so does it still count if swiss post does the actual hand over
 
arknor said:
failed delivery probably means it wasn't on the van or he ran out of time :p

not all of those couriers exist in switzerland though so does it still count if swiss post does the actual hand over
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Yes, because that's who UPS (or whoever) have contracted to complete the job on their behalf.
 
Update 16:

PLOT TWIST! TNT SPEEDING FROM BACK OF THE GRID TO SECOND PLACE.

FedEx: Collected 9:50
FedEx: Sent a second van just in case! 12:15
Scanned at Hartlebury
Left Hartlebury 16:21
Scanned Kingsbury 23:58

UPS: Collected 10:10
Scanned at Tamworth
Left Tamworth 19:04
Arrived Castle Donington 19:36
Left Castle Donington 21:54
Scanned Koeln
Left Koeln 04:30
Arrived Customs CH: 05:35
Cleared Customs 06:12
Arrived Delivery Hub 08:17
Out for delivery 10:36
Failed delivery will try again tomorrow
Was at the wrong delivery depot.
Left current delivery depot 21:30

TNT: Awaiting Collection
Collected: 11:01 a day later than everyone else.
Worcester scan: 11:48
Left Worcester 18:57
Arrived East Midlands Airport 20:34
Departed East Midlands to Geneva 20:58

DPD: Collected 13:07
Scanned at Dudley
Left Dudley 16:08
Arrived Brum 20:18
Scanned BHX 23:27
Left BHX 05:52
Scanned London. 10:10
 
You can actually feel everyone getting serious about it now :cry:.

If TNT can clear customs early enough it may pip UPS to the post. All depends on how early UPS can get the parcel back out tomorrow.
 
dLockers said:
I'm surprised there is so much hate on UPS. I always saw them as the most bullet proof/sexiest delivery crew. I did live by their depo in central London for a while, and the fleet of pristine purpose built trucks convoying in the morning may have been where the attachment came from :p
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The Kentish Town one? I'm round the corner and 100% went through a period of wanting to be a UPS driver when I was a kid because of the convoys! :D
 
I would have expected FedEx for a long distance international by air (one of the few who have their own cargo fleet of airplanes and who don't rely on civilian cargo space which is a bit sparse with covid).

For this, I would have fully expected TNT to screw up the collection because we have had no end of that issue with them, despite being part of FedEx now who are very reliable on collections. I rate FedEx and ups about the same for most stuff, and UPS are usually cheaper, albeit we've found FedEx to be a bit faster over all for priority shipping.

Credentials: sales ops manager who oversees all of our shipping globally.
 
Richie said:
You can actually feel everyone getting serious about it now :cry:.

If TNT can clear customs early enough it may pip UPS to the post. All depends on how early UPS can get the parcel back out tomorrow.
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It will almost certainly have been pre cleared last night, before it was even in the air would not surprise me.
 
Update 17:

TNT DROPPED THE BALL AND LOST THEIR SHOT?!

FedEx: Collected 9:50
FedEx: Sent a second van just in case! 12:15
Scanned at Hartlebury
Left Hartlebury 16:21
Scanned Kingsbury 23:58

UPS: Collected 10:10
Scanned at Tamworth
Left Tamworth 19:04
Arrived Castle Donington 19:36
Left Castle Donington 21:54
Scanned Koeln
Left Koeln 04:30
Arrived Customs CH: 05:35
Cleared Customs 06:12
Arrived Delivery Hub 08:17
Out for delivery 10:36
Failed delivery will try again tomorrow
Was at the wrong delivery depot.
Left current delivery depot 21:30

TNT: Awaiting Collection
Collected: 11:01 a day later than everyone else.
Worcester scan: 11:48
Left Worcester 18:57
Arrived East Midlands Airport 20:34
Departed East Midlands to Geneva 20:58
Arrived Liege
Delay reported 03:47

DPD: Collected 13:07
Scanned at Dudley
Left Dudley 16:08
Arrived Brum 20:18
Scanned BHX 23:27
Left BHX 05:52
Scanned London. 10:10
 
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