Cheap Parcel Delivery Official Discussion

marklv

This seems a pointless thread. For small parcels I always use RM Special Delivery for inland and International Signed For for international. Even if the idiots of eBay/Paypal allow a fraudster to do a chargeback on your account, you can obtain proof of delivery from Royal Mail on international signed for. With that you can demonstrate that the item arrived. And if it didn't you claim compensation from Royal Mail. There is NO affordable courier service with adequate insurance - simple as that. You either charge the buyer £80 or thereabouts for intenational delivery (and politely get told to f**k off) or accept the risk and use international signed for.

anon_ymous

monkeyspanner wrote: »

Collect Plus are useless. Saga of mistakes.

-Tried to drop of at the shop I had booked at. No longer doing collect+.
-Found another shop and dropped off.
-Followed advice of others and made it clear it was not a return and did not need another label.
-Got receipt which showed correct delivery point and recipient.
-96hrs later I now find out it has gone to Raven RC which apparently is Littlewoods returns depot.
-Now have to wait for them to find parcel. They have "teething Problems" I am told and are trying to weed out the "problem" shops.

Thats why I said collect+ really need to police their shops or they'll be losing business fast. Anyone writing a complaint want to include that comment in there? BTW, no ones said if they've received their cashback from parcelmonkey yet via quidco, seeing as though their tracking time seems poor. It would be nice to see the cashback in the end and get a buyer a cheaper deal eg: I have a computer part to send. With royalmail recorded, it would cost me £5.41. With parcelmonkey, It would cost me £6.90 and £2 cashback and I would just charge a fiver for p&p. But if the tracking never comes, then Im losing out every time by £2

Kayster

waqasahmed wrote: »

BTW, no ones said if they've received their cashback from parcelmonkey yet via quidco, seeing as though their tracking time seems poor. It would be nice to see the cashback in the end and get a buyer a cheaper deal eg: I have a computer part to send. With royalmail recorded, it would cost me £5.41. With parcelmonkey, It would cost me £6.90 and £2 cashback and I would just charge a fiver for p&p. But if the tracking never comes, then Im losing out every time by £2

NONE of my parcelmonkey quidco have tracked.

cyberbob

marklv wrote: »

you can obtain proof of delivery from Royal Mail on international signed for. With that you can demonstrate that the item arrived.

International signed for does not guarantee tracking when the item has left the UK. So its a bit pointless really (considering the extra cost) your better off just using a straightforward COP to claim for any loss


If you use RM SD for all your inland postage your postal prices must be sky high

anon_ymous

Kayster wrote: »

NONE of my parcelmonkey quidco have tracked.

How long ago has it been since you used them? Surely this would be classed as false advertising?

anon_ymous

cyberbob wrote: »

International signed for does not guarantee tracking when the item has left the UK. So its a bit pointless really (considering the extra cost) your better off just using a straightforward COP to claim for any loss


If you use RM SD for all your inland postage your postal prices must be sky high

Maybe they're selling things like phones where you can only use SD in case a claim needs to be made?

allan1983

Hi Guys. Just a quick question
Ive looked through this thread (lots of ideas!) to find a courier to send a parcel (pram) from Liverpool to Leicester- 2 Residential addresses.
I dont want to pay the £70 odd some firms are after, and just wondered if anyone had any suggestions with personal experience?

Thanks

Kayster

waqasahmed wrote: »

How long ago has it been since you used them? Surely this would be classed as false advertising?

Its been about 5 weeks since the first one. I didnt suprise me much when they didnt track especially when they put it up to £2 of a £6 parcel. Doesnt reflect well on quidco either.

anon_ymous

Id say give it until 90 days?

Kayster

TuftyMatt wrote: »

ParcelMonkey have not offered quidco the chance to pay out £2 to customers on a £6 transaction.

Well - i've just revisited quidco and it say £2 per confirmed transaction and parcelmonkey have no special terms and conditions. As a UK parcel is £6 that is £2 off a £6 transaction to me.
Go have a look now before its changed! Here is the link
http://www2.quidco.com/parcelmonkey-com/
As it is in black and white that sort of puts the rest of your advertorial for parcelmonkey into question.

As you seem to have a hot line to the monkey can you ask him why there is no insurance for secondhand goods on their UK deliveries??