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Missus ordered a woolly jacket last night from Bonprix, at 7PM it was delivered 9.50am this morning. Now that is very quick indeed. We are off out visiting relatives on this bitterly cold morning, they could not have timed it better. Missus nice and snug in her new warm jacket, just now setting of out in the cold :)
 
Bitterly cold? Are you somewhere oop north? Alaska maybe? ;)

I'm still in my budgie smugglers and flip-flops down here. Although I do get asked to leave the office if we have a customer visit.
 
Ordered stuff on a Sunday afternoon once and it arrived Monday morning. Makes you wonder with service like that possible, how the hell it falls so woefully short the rest of the time.
 
Same here. Ordered something from amaz0n recently (late Friday) that was delivered on .....Sunday!
Also had quite a few Saturday deliveries, that I wasn't expecting until at least the Monday.

There are many good traders & delivery companies, but a bit of a lottery sometimes.

6 degrees here this morning (NW) ............... Winter is a coming. :rolleyes:
 
Yes some of the deliveries now are getting awesome, unless you are a night picker in a warehouse of course :-(
 
I ordered an Ironing board cover on Ebay on Friday afternoon ... it was delivered via Amazon on Sunday morning ????
 
Quickest delivery I know of was lots of years ago. A customer was on the phone ordering half a dozen BBC computer programmes while I was picking the order being relayed to me by the shouting saleswoman. As soon as the phone went down, I headed off down to town with the order and dropped it off 10 minutes after ordering.

Amazon orders are usually here several days before their expected date which is great when they're via DPD but can be a PITA if it's via Yodel or similar...
 
Nod said:
Amazon orders are usually here several days before their expected date which is great when they're via DPD but can be a PITA if it's via Yodel or similar...
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Yeah, they are a pain. Their own delivery might show expected delivery in 4 days................then suddenly they say, out for delivery today! (without a time slot either) Luckily we are at home 90% of the time.
 
Nod said:
Quickest delivery I know of was lots of years ago. A customer was on the phone ordering half a dozen BBC computer programmes while I was picking the order being relayed to me by the shouting saleswoman. As soon as the phone went down, I headed off down to town with the order and dropped it off 10 minutes after ordering.
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I used to do deliveries for a take away years ago, once I knocked on a door of a regular. To be told, John that was quick not even ordered it yet. Got the wrong house, but they were going to put an order in shortly, we did have a laugh about it :)
 
Quickest delivery? My son, a little over 4 hours, compared to my daughter the lazy sod, 25+ hours :D
 
recently ordered a cooker from currys on a sunday afternoon .... it arrived at 11am the next day
even my last camera was ordered online in the evening and arrived next day :)

i hate waiting :)
 
Maybe it is just the specialist delivery services getting quicker, as online buying really steams ahead. Can the regular postal service, that has been around for ever, compete with the speedy service offered by the online retailers?
 
jonbeeza said:
Maybe it is just the specialist delivery services getting quicker, as online buying really steams ahead. Can the regular postal service, that has been around for ever, compete with the speedy service offered by the online retailers?
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Depends on what you want from the service !

Since RM lost amazon deliveries the moans l've had are:
Parcels being left on doorsteps in rain.
Fragile items being thrown over fences.
Online tracking showing no way of delivering when there is a box on the main gate next to a bell,
strangely customers trust RM with gate codes.

The other day l was walking home and saw a guy with an amazon cd type packet
and scanner looking lost, seems it was the 5th attempt to find the house, not that difficult
just not easy parking on the high street.
What annoys me is people always assume RM made the delivery and complain, we now take phone pics
if we spot them to protect ourselves.
 
Gremlin said:
Depends on what you want from the service !

Since RM lost amazon deliveries the moans l've had are:
Parcels being left on doorsteps in rain.
Fragile items being thrown over fences.
Online tracking showing no way of delivering when there is a box on the main gate next to a bell,
strangely customers trust RM with gate codes.

The other day l was walking home and saw a guy with an amazon cd type packet
and scanner looking lost, seems it was the 5th attempt to find the house, not that difficult
just not easy parking on the high street.
What annoys me is people always assume RM made the delivery and complain, we now take phone pics
if we spot them to protect ourselves.
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Usually the same feller that delivers our stuff, from Amazon and a few other online retailers. He uses his own car and rings our bell, and bring it up to our flat. If we are not in, he leaves items with neighbours and leaves a note in our box.

I know things don't go well for everyone , but for the moment our deliveries are getting done pretty efficiently. We will soon complain if it goes wrong [emoji4]
 
I was going to create a similar thread to sing the praises of Nespresso. Their capsule deliveries are always super-quick.
 
Ricardodaforce said:
I was going to create a similar thread to sing the praises of Nespresso. Their capsule deliveries are always super-quick.
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I suppose it is only fair really, as most of us are quick to complain especially me when things go wrong :)
 
Has that from Crucial a few years ago, ordered some memory at lunchtime on Sunday, delivered Monday morning first thing.
 
Argos do same day delivery for £3.95 now which is very quick. Although not as quick as me driving to argos and picking it up.
 
It seems like it all about speed of delivery now, as most shops have similar prices, maybe they are trying to compete by offering a faster service. I remember the days it was the norm to wait for two weeks for a delivery from within the UK. Missus ordered a phone cover from China for £1.99 free delivery, it came in two days. Just how on earth can they do that ? :thinking:
 
I bought a led torch for £5.99 with free delivery two weeks ago from China . I was expecting a long wait, but it arrived in 2 days. I reckon someone is sat next to a plane with all the items they stock and lob it on immediately after an order is placed.

It's takes longer than for standard letters within the uk to arrive. How they do that and still make any profit is beyond me.
 
Similar, I paid £2 for a bumper case for my phone - it arrived within 3 days, including shipping from China. I assumed it would come by surface mail at that price, but that can't be the case (pardon the pun) given the speed - it must have been air freight. How can they make and 'ship' it for that price?
 
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