Pendraken Future Plans - Please Read!

[Poggle]

Royal Mail is a sh*t show. They must have the worst service in the world.I suppose you have looked at other carriers?

I sympathise, Leon.

It's as bad over here in the US. I once sent out two parcels within a fortnight of each other, using the USPS standard boxes. The USPS succeeded in smashing the contents in spite of the heavy packaging. I complained, and a month later they replied saying they'd investigated themselves and found they were totally blameless.   

[Leon]

...saying they'd investigated themselves and found they were totally blameless. 

Funny how that works isn't it! 

We had one package to Australia, around £110 value and we'd paid Royal Mail £24-ish for a Tracked service.  They lost the package completely, the tracking didn't work, and then decided that our claim was worth £8.  So not even the cost of the postage that we'd paid them to lose it!

[fsn]

I am prepared to accept many brickbats, but Amazon are offering to deliver non-Amazon products.

Don't know how I'd feel about picking up my Pendraken goodliness from an Amazon locker.    

[Raider4]

Don't know how I'd feel about picking up my Pendraken goodliness from an Amazon locker.    

Useful way of squeezing things past any household authorities.

[sultanbev]

Speaking to my RM local postie a few months ago, they are tracked now so their footsteps are recorded, too much lingering talking can get them into trouble! He said he'd give it 12 months before the whole thing collapsed under the weight of the management ineptitude.

Mark

[Leon]

Speaking to my RM local postie a few months ago, they are tracked now so their footsteps are recorded, too much lingering talking can get them into trouble! He said he'd give it 12 months before the whole thing collapsed under the weight of the management ineptitude.

That sounds about right, our collection driver has told us that they've got GPS on all of the vans too and if he stops anywhere en route his boss would call him to find out why he's not moving.

[DecemDave]

Useful way of squeezing things past any household authorities.

 

[Leon]

Another quick update on this thread, the surveyor chap has finished what he calls 'Stage 1' of his process and has managed to get £1600 knocked off our 2023-24 rates bill, which is great news.  He's now moved on to the backdated 2021-22 and 2022-23 bills to see what he can do there. 

[Enigmatic Gamer]

Great news indeed! Hope he can do the same for you on the other years 👍

[fsn]

Result!


As long as he doesn't charge you £1700 for his services. 

[d_Guy]

A positive note: my last four orders from Pendraken have arrived, median time, in under eight days after shipment notice. That includes what ever RM does, trans pond journey, US customs, USPS (and their bizarre routing schemes), and the final 27 hour donkey journey to our wilderness outpost.

[paulr]

Rates bill

Prompt deliveries to the wilderness

[Ithoriel]

A positive note: my last four orders from Pendraken have arrived, median time, in under eight days after shipment notice. That includes what ever RM does, trans pond journey, US customs, USPS (and their bizarre routing schemes), and the final 27 hour donkey journey to our wilderness outpost.

Good to know Pendraken's prompt delivery works even across The Pond.

I am reminded of a conversation with a fellow countryman of yours who, when I asked where in the US he came form, replied that he came from a place so small and so remote that it was saved from being a one-horse town only by the fact it was too poor to actually afford a horse!

Also, I have Duelling Banjos as an earworm now!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Have to our RM post is far superior to Envi(Hermes) - parcels left in a different road at a non-existant address. Ho Hum

[Ithoriel]

Evri ... because every parcel is lost, stolen or damaged?