OT - Herpes deliveries

[David]

I am expecting a parcel via Hermes and the tracking shows two attempted deliveries.

Both are at times when we were in.

We have not had the traditional "card through the door" other courier companies leave when they attempt a delivery.

For those of you who have had failed deliveries from Hermes, did you get a card?

I am suspecting that the courier is just not getting to the end of the round and recording a delivery attempt to conceal this.

Attempts recorded at 17:41 on the 25th and 21:06(!) on the 28th. We were in at both times.

If the recording of times is in any way accurate the package was picked up from the depot at 08:28 and the attempt was recorded at 21:06 which is one hell of a working day.

Cheers

Dave R

[Andy Burns]

I've certainly had items make it onto the van, but then show as unloaded again at end of day, rather than a delivery attempt, in my case the driver lives quite local, so I can go and collect

[whisky-dave]

You can get a cream to get rid of Herpes deliveries ?, best to find out who's delivering it to you first.

[tabbypurr]

seems to be rather common

[Nightjar]

Oddly enough, I have just had my first delivery using Hermes. Had I been a lot further from the front door, I wouldn't have heard the fairly quiet knock.

I find that only about half the delivery services use the prominent and working door bell push. However, I have one of these:

and, apart from Parcel Force, who won't leave parcels in it if a signature is required, that usually works for missed deliveries.

[David]

Whooosh!

[newshound]

I'd often wondered if someone was making something like this. Unfortunately at £240 it's a bit pricy for light domestic use given that we have someone at home most of the time (not saying the price is unreasonable for a secure device, and certainly might be sensible for working people).

[RobertL]

We've had a case where parcel force posted a 'you were out' card through the door when we happened to be just standing behind the door. We opened the door and asked for the parcel and he admitted it wasn't actually on the van!

R

[RobertL]

I'm amused to see that "fish" is spelled "phish" on that website when they actually meant "fish".

R

[Max Demian]

I don't think that's a whoosh: that's whisky-dave choosing to take your joke seriously.

[spuorgelgoog]

On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 11:33:51 UTC+1, David WE Roberts (Google) wrot e:

Hermes tracking can be a work of fiction. Quite often things arrive here be fore they've even made it to the depot!

I think Hermes couriers are self-employed and probably don't have a formal round. Their deliveries aren't usually time-critical like other carriers. P ossibly your courier picked up from the depot in the morning then dropped t he kids off at school, dug his allotment, got the kids back and made tea, a nd you're getting your parcel as he's passing your house on the way to a da rts match, or something like that.

Owain

Owain

[pamela]

I have had repeated trouble with Hermes picking up packages. If Amazon arranges to use them, I'll phone customer services and request Aamzon uses its own couriers.

[S Viemeister]

I try to avoid Hermes, but it's not always possible. I've had tracking reports showing items 'out for delivery' from _Dundee_. I'm on the north coast of Sutherland... It's not uncommon for deliveries to arrive a week or more after the 'out for delivery' date.

[Andy Burns]

I think that can mean "delivery by their trunk network to the local bod with van" ...

[Brian Gaff]

Yes I do have a lot of sympathy with these drivers, Personally I think something has got to give with these companies, and with a bit of luck it will be realism on how many deliveries can be done in a day with the levels of traffic around nowadays. Brian

[tabbypurr]

I do wonder if ziplines could have any place in clogged cities. They could presumably remove at least some road traffic shifting parcels, post etc.

NT

[S Viemeister]

Yes, it would appear to be so.

[spuorgelgoog]

I don't want my Ebay Treasures having been used for target practice by Sarf Lunnun gangsters on their way overhead.

Owain

[Nightjar]

If they could hit the zipline containers that used to fly across shops in the days of a central cashier, the Army ought to be recruiting them as marksmen.

[damduck-egg]

Some shops still use pneumatic tube systems. Though the UK had few longer ones that linked buildings some cities in overseas had actual networks with staff at interchanges to sort and redirect the cylinders to terminals from which the contents of the cylinders were moved onwards by couriers. Paris was one of the larger networks with over

400 kilometers of tube at one time , it ceased operation in the 80's. Prague's smaller system made it into the 21st century till flooding damaged it but is still in place. On a larger scale London has the Post office Railway which is still intact and part of which is shortly to come back into use again, not for parcels though but tourists . Hard to imagine now when you see how crowded it is but the original section of what is now the Central line used to have a parcels service with parcels loaded on the trains

More of a network for transporting larger freight was the Chicago Freight Tunnels.

It has appeared in a couple of movies , a 1950's gangster film where the cops threaten to throw a bandy in front of a train , and much later after it was abandoned a scene in the Blues Brothers where Carrie Fisher gets muddy.

G.Harman