CityLink sold for £1

vikingaero

catmiaow wrote: »

True but I'd rather pay for delivery and get better service to be honest.

Problem is that we don't pay enough for a decent delivery service whether in the form of a £3.95 delivery fee or built into the cost of the product. Most couriers struggle to make profits so we have the system we have.

No courier will be the first to increase their prices substantially for a better service. It would be commercial suicide for the first adopter. When you have a man and van making 90-100 deliveries per day where each parcel has paid between £2 to £10+ per drop and that is probably a revenue of £500-750. Take off wage bills, van leasing, insurance, DIESEL, warehousing, other staff, HGV's computers, etc etc and not a lot is leftover.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

Gemma_ wrote: »

and customers must realise cheap/free deliveries don't always get you the best carriers

They used to be excellent for business users though which I why I dont understand how the fell off so quickly. All our mobiles used to be delivered by them years ago and it was always next day at the time they said. Same with us using them. Then they just went down hill. Probably going for the apparent easy money of doing other customers rather than focusing on their core business which they were good at

Person_one

vikingaero wrote: »

Problem is that we don't pay enough for a decent delivery service whether in the form of a £3.95 delivery fee or built into the cost of the product. Most couriers struggle to make profits so we have the system we have.

Royal Mail do a pretty good job, better than any courier I've ever had dealings with, as a customer.

Kite2010

Dear Better Capital

We attempted delivery at 12:41 this afternoon (when nowhere near you), however nobody was in (even though there was). The driver ran out of missed-delivery cards.

Kind Regards

Citylink

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Dear Better Capital

We are sorry to inform you that your delivery has been lost

Kind regards

Citylink

paddyrg

vikingaero wrote: »

So how do you polish a turd?

You can't, but you can roll it in glitter. HTH.

Steve059

paulofessex wrote: »

<snip> City Link has lost money since 2007, including £26m in 2012. <snip>

Who in their right mind would send money by City Link, especially £26m?

vikingaero

paddyrg wrote: »

You can't, but you can roll it in glitter. HTH.

Maybe that's why it was bought for £1 - because they rolled it in glitter first.