UPS pick up point - anyone else used before?

dowie

dowie

dowie

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Went to one earlier to drop of a parcel, it was just some local newsagents - handed over parcel and the guy picks out some UPS pad and fills out some paper receipt marked with a UPS logo writes down store number, date and my tracking number and hands it to me... thought fair enough, it's just some small shop, maybe you don't get a scanner etc.. with these things.

Thing is I'd expect the tracking to be updated soon - dropped it off this afternoon? Or does UPS not always pick up on Saturdays?

Obviously with the paper receipt/no scan I don't get the initial tracking showing that it's been dropped at the store which is a little bit annoying... I mean I can go back there if it were to go missing, it's very local but meh... just annoying I guess - used to tracking appearing instantly etc..

Does anyone know if UPS tends to pick up from these small drop off locations regularly at weekends etc..?
 
I’d assumed there would be a scanner but there were UPS signs near the door, it was the address from the UPS website and the guy at the counter had a pad of UPS customer receipts to write on so... meh. Hopefully doesn’t go wrong, just slightly annoying that it hasn’t been picked up yet.

Also, how does a multinational company like that not have 24/7 support/chat... they’ve just got some dumb chat bot on their site and a phone number to call on week days and Saturday mornings basically.

I’d just wanted to ask when they make collections - I guess judging by that, not on weekends!
 
Ah, cool, thanks for the replies guys. It was just the lack of scanning that bothered me, I guess I have a "receipt" of sorts but it's literally just someone filling out a standard bit of paper, no special stamp or signature etc.. I guess the tracking will probably update at some point on Monday.
 
LeeUK said:
The shops that didn't give a paper receipt are just damn lazy. I take it the parcel still has all the required details already applied before dropping off?

I've used CollectPlus before but it's done on the PayPoint machine and tracking/emails are started immediately after it's scanned into the shop.
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Yup, parcel has a pre-printed label attached, I just assumed it would be scanned when handing it over and it wasn't.... so then I'd assumed, well, global logicstics firm, pick up location in central-ish London on a Satruday, it should be picked up within a few hours... apparently not. Presumably it will get picked up on Monday...

They kind of deserve to be beaten/lose out to things like Amazon's in house delivery dervice etc.. as this whole process seems a bit backwards - lack of Saturday pick up, no scan etc.. pretty poor given it is 2020, I don't think it is ureasonable to expect companies to operate 7 days a week these days.
 
Vanquish-Storm said:
Best one I have used recently is InPost. You can rock up anytime, the locker is outside somewhere. Just scan the label and a door opens to put the parcel in.
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That sounds pretty cool - this was for a repair and I was sent the box/label etc.. didn't have a choice (well save for perhaps paying extra to arrange a courier collection but meh... fancied a walk and have KN95 mask to stick on before going inside the shop).
 
Ah... good news - tracking updated to shipped and now it's at Stansted airport.... thanks again for the reassuring responses! :)

I was half expecting replies along the lines of:

"LOL dowie, you muppet, didn't get it scanned"

"hahaha this is like those ebay threads"

"hey dowie, wanna buy my 2080ti on ebay for £200, it's working, honest..."

I dunno, something about leaving a 2 grand laptop in a pile in a dodgy newsagent and with only a paper receipt literally anyone could have filled out themselves seemed a bit dodgy... but meh, it's in the system now and on its way.
 
Oi!!! :(

It's in Germany now... that was pretty quick, from pick up this afternoon circa 4 through to airport at 8pm and now Germany at midnight.
 
nope - seems to have worked out... gotta say I'm impressed - got this a couple of hours ago:

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Like I could have just dropped it off on Monday if I'd know but they've picked up Monday afternoon, at the airport Monday evening, in Europe (Germany) by midnight... and this morning it was in Czech republic, by this afternoon they've repaired the screen and keyboard and have shipped it back to me - due to arrive here tomorrow or Thursday...
 
And it's back...

Quite impressed with that, granted if I'd known Saturday wasn't a delivery/pick up day I'd have just gone along on Monday... but regardless - picked up from Shop Monday Afternoon, in Germany by the evening, in Czech Republic by following morning, fixed it and shipped back to me that afternoon... and I got it back today, Wednesday morning...

Except they've not fixed everything - keyboard still broken... will need to send again!!!!
 
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