The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

Our delivery guys end up with odd times.... they get a precise number of minutes for each job depending on whether it's a telly, washing machine or whatever and the routing system also "knows" (or rather, guesses) how long it takes to go from job to job based on area and distance. So we send out texts with similarly odd times on - "Your delivery will be with you between 16:38 and 20:38".

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I may have helped save that Ambassador, I told a facebook contact about the car yesterday and he's now coming from Wales to view it tomorrow in order to buy it.

Good work! Fingers crossed this works out

[Cavcraft]

My pet mouse 'Elvis' died today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He was caught in a trap.

[Lord Sterling]

"Your DPD delivery will arrive between 17:07 and 18:07." Sadly it hasn't. Was hoping to have the BX up and working again by now. Fiddlesticks.

 

DPD are absolute shysters. I work with some people who have worked there and you are literally forced to work non-stop chucking boxes, no matter how heavy they are, in and out of trailers. There is a time limit to unloading and loading trailers so boxes/packages are thrown in/out. It is hell on earth from what I heard from many people who have worked there before. Dont be surprised if your item/package arrives damaged.

[ashmicro]

You FUCKER Billy!

[Albert Ross]

My pet mouse 'Elvis' died today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He was caught in a trap.

 

 

So he's left the building then?

[meggersdog]

So the replacement for the ultra reliable Hyundai Accent has just had a failure to proceed moment.On the way home from work, in rush hour, the throttle cable snapped on the dual carriageway.I have done less than 200 miles in it but the fact that this is the second car this week where the throttle cable snapped is what made me grumpy.I collected another car on Monday and the cable snapped two miles from home but more on that at the weekend.

With no tools in the car I had to wait for a mate to collect me to collect the Discovery and tow it home.The break is close to the injector pump so first I tried joining it back together with a chock-block but upon closer inspection looks like the wrong cable was fitted in the first place.

The last two turbo diesel 306's I've owned had Lucas pumps and my non-turbo is fitted with a Bosche injector pump so I'm thinking the Lucas pump might have a different cable.The end of the cable doesn't fit onto the pump and is just looped around the fitment hole.This means the inner cable bends down between the throttle and the outer cable which might have put a strain on it.Oh well a trip to Millfield Auto Parts is on the cards then.

[ashmicro]

Me and my 2 big contacts use DHL, and I can't fault them. I was waiting on a Cisco router (from, as you'd imagine San Francisco) and the flight into Belfast International at Aldergrove was delayed by fog (here). Rather than it being maybe 1 hour late, my package containing the router was put in a FonACab (Belfast's biggest cab firm). The poor fella driving thought he was carrying a human organ, so well had he been warned to get it delivered quick. Apparently he was paid 50 quid for the 18 miles.

[Cavcraft]

It was my mate;s funeral yesterday, he drowned last week. I got a lot of abuse from his relatives about my floral tribute in the shape of a lifejacket, but as I told everyone 'It's what he would have wanted'.

[whitevanman]

Billy as wrong as it may be.....I laughed, if I was the deceased I would still laugh.....

[dollywobbler]

Package arrived this morning in an Interlink van. Apparently I requested that delivery be deferred until today. HORLICKS! The bloke was running early so he told me not to sign for it as he'd get in trouble. 8 minutes early. How criminal! Oh well. On the other hand, it's nice to know that Parcelfarce aren't the only shite delivery company.

[warren t claim]

Nightfreight are probably worse than DHL/DPD/YODEL.... Never send anything fragile through their Willenhall hub.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Me and my 2 big contacts use DHL, and I can't fault them.

DHL wowed me, and the rest of the board I hope, that time I sent a 16kg box to an overseas member. Collected from my house in Manchester at 2pm and delivered to an address in Ohio USA 23 hours, 53 minutes later. That was using their cheaper service too - a measly £60.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Well DHL's '48hr europe' service took 2 weeks to deliver a package to my fuggin mutha in France, and lied every day about attempting to deliver it. I hate all couriers, they are all wankers.

[willswitchengage]

UPS got an xbox 360 to the repair centre in Germany and back to me within 1 1/2 weeks - can't complain.

 

It's quicker than my Internet, at least.

 

[Cavcraft]

I only ever had one problem with Parcel Force and have found them really good to be fair.

[Des]

I once watched a Parcelforce guy unload numerous parcels to the one address, the roller shutter on his truck didn't stay up, so he pulled out a 2' box for the shutter to crash down on each time he threw it up as he leapt in. The box finised at about 8" high.

[Cavcraft]

Have Shiply been hijacked by Dick Turpin? Latest quotes are £150 and £180 to take a car 12 sodding miles

[Des]

Old Bristol shell is annoying me, I fear the future may not be looking too good for the old heap, I was stitched up like a kipper when I bought the thing so I kind of resent it a little, now I'm getting pissed off with hagglers, some guy abroad dicked me around, so to punish the wanker I lied to him the things been fragged, which wasn't exactly clever of me but it felt good. Now I'm thinking if I was to strip it for parts, I could keep some choice spares, sell what's left, sell the reg to some dick and gain a lot more filthy lucre.

I don't actually have it in me to kill an old car, but what if I let some plank mug me for the thing who then does just that.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Have Shiply been hijacked by Dick Turpin? Latest quotes are £150 and £180 to take a car 12 sodding miles

 

Shiply is wank nowadays, I think it hiked up its fees so many times that barely anyone uses it any more, theres any amount of jobs on there with no quotes whatsoever

[autofive]

shiply is full of un-insured transit owners

 

i have found the worst courier, by far, is Hermes

 

1. They 'lost' a parcel - it left my house with a courier and never entered the system

2. They lied and lied and lied about trying to deliver a parcel to a customer, 3 times they lied, it was eventually delivered about a fortnight late

3. They lied about delivering a parcel (false signiture and paperwork) and when i alleged a fraud and possible theft had taken place the parcel was delivered by a woman with three kids in tow and a battered mondeo, a day later

 

here is tracking details: http://www.interparcel.com/tracking.php ... 6825697881

 

and on each occassion that hermes have fucked up, they denied it, blamed me, or blamed the customer.

[cobblers]

Have Shiply been hijacked by Dick Turpin? Latest quotes are £150 and £180 to take a car 12 sodding miles

 

Shiply is wank nowadays, I think it hiked up its fees so many times that barely anyone uses it any more, theres any amount of jobs on there with no quotes whatsoever

 

The fees were bad enough to start with if the disgruntled blokes that delivered stuff to me were anything to go by a few months ago, something like £20 to shitly on a £55 job bringing me a car from 40 miles away. They were all running old mercs on veg oil towing trailers that were well overloaded cos doing it in a proper van would cost them more than they earned.

[Guest]

When I worked at M&S they contracted White Arrow \ HDN \ Yodel \ Laringitis as their courier. Several incidents of theirs passed into call centre history, one of which I shall recount you to now. I didn't have to take this call (thank Christ) but I heard about it soon enough because I sat near to the escalation team.

 

A while back a customer ordered a 42" TV from the website (don't ask) and arranged for it to be delivered at great expense. HDN being HDN, they subcontracted it out to some jobbing untermensch turds who well and truly fucked the job up Mexico style.

 

As with every customer complaint, there was a 6 foot high fence involved, for some reason. Except this customer actually had a 6 foot high fence - he built it himself using reclaimed brick. Anyway, these shitcunts rock up to matey's house and he isn't in, so for motives unknown to the human race outside of the delivery business they decided to take said customer's aforementioned £1200 TV and lob it over the fence, presumably because their Mk3 wasn't MOT exempt, or something.

 

That's bad enough, but the family dog was on the other side of the fence, barking.

And then the telly landed.

On the dog.

And then the dog died.

 

Yeah.

[Guest]

That wasn't all with HDN, mind.

 

They demolished several customers' walls, ripped gate posts out with their vans, crashed into customers' cars, walked into peoples' houses and threw packages on the floor (many of them women alone in the house at the time), delivered packages to thieving neighbours after being told repeatedly not to, etc, etc.

 

M&S fucked themselves up the cake exit by subcontracting their online services out for as cheap as humanly possible. When your delivery infrastructure is this shit, and then you follow this up by squaring a load of resentful Mancs and Scousers off against each other, all of whom hated their jobs almost as much as they hated each other, what you're left with is a mangled, haggered old pile of crap - which you can't even roll in glitter because HDN lost it at their Carrickfergus hub.

 

They let them deliver flowers too. You can imagine how well that went.

 

One customer got so pissed off with their flower 'delivery service' that he decided to send M&S head office a bunch of flowers from their range with a shitty note inside complaining about how bad the service was. The trouble was, the irony dog poo fairy paid him a visit because HDN 'delivered' the flowers, lost them somewhere in the system, and then claimed the customer never placed the order in the first place.

 

There was also a 'Flowers By Post' service not unlike the online catalogue flower service you see places in the Channel Islands run. So many boxes of these flowers were left in a particular 'safe place' by HDN that they ended up with a new name in the office : Flowers By Bin.

 

Normally it was collection day whenever HDN popped round.

 

You can imagine how well that turned out.

 

Etc, etc, D701 SWL, combi boilers, horse versus train.

[rml2345]

Some companies seem hell bent on charging £847.00 for P&P and then contracting it to the largest bunch of scheisters that they can find, who then subcontract it to a mouth breather in an "Mot exempt M8" MK3 Transit who lob it over the fence/eat it/give it to some jakey/sell it down the market.

I used to work collections for Bradford Group (Them of "Limited Edition Furry Gold Plated Electic Cheeseboard for only 800 instalments of £24.95" fame) and we were forever getting told about packages that never arrived or things sent back by courier that disappeared.

To be fair, trying to get money from that lot was worth a grump on it's own...

[Cavcraft]

When I worked at M&S they contracted White Arrow \ HDN \ Yodel \ Laringitis as their courier. Several incidents of theirs passed into call centre history, one of which I shall recount you to now. I didn't have to take this call (thank Christ) but I heard about it soon enough because I sat near to the escalation team.

 

A while back a customer ordered a 42" TV from the website (don't ask) and arranged for it to be delivered at great expense. HDN being HDN, they subcontracted it out to some jobbing untermensch turds who well and truly fucked the job up Mexico style.

 

As with every customer complaint, there was a 6 foot high fence involved, for some reason. Except this customer actually had a 6 foot high fence - he built it himself using reclaimed brick. Anyway, these shitcunts rock up to matey's house and he isn't in, so for motives unknown to the human race outside of the delivery business they decided to take said customer's aforementioned £1200 TV and lob it over the fence, presumably because their Mk3 wasn't MOT exempt, or something.

 

That's bad enough, but the family dog was on the other side of the fence, barking.

And then the telly landed.

On the dog.

And then the dog died.

 

Yeah.

 

[M'coli]

I "sold" an item through a well-known internet auction site for which I was invoiced a final valuation fee, plus VAT - the transaction ended up being cancelled, the final valuation fee has been credited to my account, but not the VAT. After an online-chat with one of their resolution centre people, it would appear that they are uninterested in my concerns, and I feel I have been defrauded of my money by the auction house itself.

[trigger]

I need some internet advice please before i kill someone, last week i had BT infinity fiber optic broadband fitted, as the box had to go in the hall way and my pc is wired in the dining room i had to buy a set of those TP-Link powerline adapters which uses the houses electrical wiring to transfer the broadband from room to room.

 

It's been working fine until last night when i last my pc's internet connection, i still have wireless and all the correct lights on the broadband boxes, I've ran a troubleshooting test on the computer that comes up as investigate router or broadband modem issues.

 

If i click check to see if problem fixed it then comes up as "local area connection" doesn't have a valid IP configuration".

 

I've done all the normal things like turning the broadband boxes on and off and well as the powerline adapters but still nothing.

 

Anyone got a idea what's wrong or even what im talking about?!

[RedSparrow]

Do you have an ethernet cable?

If so connect it to the hub - ie connect to the internet non-wirelessly and download any driver updates for your wireless adapter.

Worked for me. Common issue with PCs with Atheros adapters.

[cms206]

Adrian Flux. £111.68 "cancellation fee". For a policy they cancelled citing "incorrect paperwork".

 

That's this week's plans fucked then.