petebassist Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 This made me laugh this morning - not sure what would've happened if the person had lived on the upper floors, maybe the driver would have swung it round like an Olympic hammer thrower? https://www.talkbass.com/threads/how-the-german-parcel-service-hermes-delivers-music-gear.1384939/ 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 At least they only chuck mine over the garden gate, or leave it on the front doorstep. Does show the advantage of Class D over valve amps, though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_lefty Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Can't remember if it was Hermes or Yodel but one day I found a package for a completely different address in the middle of my living room. I'd been out. How did it get there...? Thrown in through my open living room window. Which is the horizontal type over five foot off the floor that a person can't get in through. No idea why they chose my house. They left a note for the person who it should have been for saying "left with a neighbour" and my address! She couldn't believe it either 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teebs Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 When 'heft' becomes an issue! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger2611 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 And no doubt the van will be coming back to me and the customer will be outraged at the mere idea that some idiot could have jumped up and down on the roof! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 They cannot lob any parcels up to me. I'm 2 floors up and dont have a balcony. Mind you, why would that stop them...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teebs Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 6 minutes ago, fleabag said: They cannot lob any parcels up to me. I'm 2 floors up and dont have a balcony. Mind you, why would that stop them...? Trebuchet? Amazon unveil their latest delivery fleet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Wouldnt fit in the van, teebs. Good try though 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Now we're talking turkey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slappindabass Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 They are lucky. Hermes here managed to lose a whole trace eliott stack for me last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Makes Parcelfarce (motto: "We can lose an elephant and break an anvil") seem positively brilliant. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 This isn't news anymore - can't really blame the drivers who are paid something like 40p per parcel they deliver. Got to deliver a lot to make a decent wage. To be fair my Hermes driver is a lovely old fella, just does it to supplement his pension. I've never had any issues with him mainly because he also delivers to my neighbour and we'll take in parcels for each other (including some medication while he was having a kidney transplant). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slappindabass Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 31 minutes ago, TheGreek said: This isn't news anymore - can't really blame the drivers who are paid something like 40p per parcel they deliver. Got to deliver a lot to make a decent wage. To be fair my Hermes driver is a lovely old fella, just does it to supplement his pension. I've never had any issues with him mainly because he also delivers to my neighbour and we'll take in parcels for each other (including some medication while he was having a kidney transplant). Maybe not news, and I am not blaming the drivers as it didnt make it that far. It is sat in a warehouse somewhere wjth people walking past it everyday! 140kgs 1.2mts by 65cm. Yku would think someone might notice!🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teebs Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 2 hours ago, fleabag said: Wouldnt fit in the van, teebs. Good try though Nooo, you miss understand their aim (pun intended). The trebuchets are outside their warehouse. Point roughly in the direction of recipient - twang! Online notification "product dispatched & en route" (although they'd say 'on route', being uncultured ) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cato Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) I ordered some new walking boots today. I was offered either free untracked Hermes delivery for a random day some time next week or tracked DPD for an extra £7. £7 well spent I reckon. Edited January 25, 2019 by Cato 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Cato said: I ordered some new walking boots today. I was offered either free untracked Hermes delivery for a random day some time next week or tracked DPD for an extra £7. £7 well spent I reckon. As long as they get the postcode right. I've got a Warwick Thumb incoming from Italy, DPD doing the final leg. The seller put the address (including the correct postcode) on the parcel, but somehow the separate postcode field has got a generic postcode in it (B77 1AA). Got an email saying it would be delivered 24/01, then the parcel status went from being delivered on 24/01 to customer rescheduled for delivery 25/01 (no I didn't), then to delivery on 28/01. I rang them up today to find out WTF was going on, and found out then that the postcode was wrong (not, as I say, the postcode that the seller had put on the address label, but the postcode that they'd magically derived) and so it had gone to the wrong hub and it will be delivered on Monday, now they've got the right postcode in the postcode field. I can't help but think that there's a lorra lorra cluelessness at DPD. Just think how much worse it will be buying basses from Europe after Br*x*t, with all the customs, VAT, etc... Edited January 25, 2019 by Rich 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cato Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) The thing that gives DPD the edge over their competitors for me is that they give you a one hour delivery window and ,in my case, so far, they've never missed it. That and the fact they've never left anything for me in a neighbour's recycling bin (helpfully described on the 'sorry we missed you' card as an 'out building') on bin day. I can't say the same for Hermes. Although I've probably just jinxed myself... Edited January 25, 2019 by Cato Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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