On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:59:46 +1000, Barbara wrote:

Jeßus wrote:


Oh David - don't get me started...

I have ONE courier who delivers to my door - as long as you make
several STD phone calls over a period of a week AND only if it suits
them.

In the few months that I have lived here, I could write a small
paperback on the trials and tribulations of dealing with couriers here.
This is one industry which seems to lead a very charmed life. Most
engage in outright theft here, IMO

Do you live in a rural out of the way area?

Yes, definitely rural and out of the way.

Do you realise couriers have to do more than just your delivery, to make
money?

Goodness, why no Barb... I hadnt thought of that.

Fuel certainly isn't cheap these days and neither is labour.

Indeed... Queenslanders are notorious for the lowest wages anywhere.

If
it takes extra time to get to where you are, it means they can't get to
other places and so let other people down. Are you there all the time to
take delivery? Nothing more annoying to go out of the way only to find
no one is there to take delivery/pay COD etc and so then have to make a
return delivery.

Do you have *anything* to say beyond the bloody obvious?

People who move from urban areas to rural areas and expect the same
service as town dwellers and expect the deliveries for the same price
are extremely annoying.

Who expects the same service - and why would they? How insulting. Go ****
yourself Barb.

I could volumes on the stupidity and lack of common sense of people and
what they expect of couriers/carriers.

I cringed when I saw your name in this thread, realising what you do (or
did)

I'm not sure there is much point taking the time to counter or answer the
raher obvious and insulting points you made Barb.

All I will say is - NO amount of checking, asking or even pre-empting
possible scenarios in advance results in these courier companies giving
you the truth BEFORE commiting to using them. This makes it very, very
difficult to convince business that you will have significant problems
actually obtaining your parcel until its too late
.. Notice I said 'obtain' and NOT actually having it delivered.

I've heard it all before from these so-called couriers.

The key problem - as I have said - is that they have both the goods AND
payment in advance. They have no incentive to deliver, or at least
deliver in a timely fashion.

3.5 weeks for a parcel to travel 200KM is a joke, as is being charged
extra for delivery to my town compared to their depot, only to find that
they don't deliver to my town - ever.

Anyway, no point arguing with you about this, is there?

(also why do you post in HTML)?

I don't.