Oooooh it's just like NORAD at Xmas (DPD Deliveries)

aliasojo

I'm waiting on a parcel. It's being delivered by DPD.

I've just had an email telling me it's arriving between such and such and such and such (hour delivery slot) and I can see on the link where the van is.

The link tells me my delivery driver's name, how many deliveries there are before me and I can track the van on a wee map. It's just like tracking Santa.

Compared to the ridiculous carry on I had with Royal Mail recently, I am very impressed with DPD.

I just wanted to share. :rotfl:

Toothfairy4

I had a delivery from them a few weeks ago, loved that you can track it! Makes a nice difference to Yodel who i've had lots of stuff delivered by recently (lots of new baby purchases), who often dont turn up at all!

aileth

It's brilliant!

I kept checking the driver's route, it was wonderful. I was showing my husband and work colleagues and probably looked crazy how excited I was! I do think it's a great idea knowing the driver's name. In times when there's so much doorstep fraud, anyone could turn up!

Tropez

The last time I had a delivery from DPD, which was less than a month ago, they told me when they should be arriving, their drivers name and their strange little map and the parcel arrived 63 and a half hours later than they said.

claire16c

I had this this morning too, was brilliant knowing the time within 1 hour!

I didn't know you could see a map!

tea_lover

I had a delivery from DPD a while ago and it made such a nice change. They told me when they'd be there (to within an hour) and actually turned up. Polite and efficient - what's not to love?!

Much better than Hermes who left £200 of clothes in a wheelie bin outside on the street.

gingin_2

Hmmm, well I'm the Grinch.

I complained to DPD because one of their drivers was behaving like an intimidating numpty behind me, beeping his horn and acting aggressively whilst I obviously had a child in the car (I have lived here many years and know the ways of the windy narrow roads and am positive I was in the right) and they didn't have the courtesy to email back, so thumbs down from me - and I did wonder if their tight time slots contributed to the episode.

tea_lover

gingin wrote: »

Hmmm, well I'm the Grinch.

I complained to DPD because one of their drivers was behaving like an intimidating numpty behind me, beeping his horn and acting aggressively whilst I obviously had a child in the car

Now I sound like the Grinch but that really winds me up. Aggresive, intimidating driving is wrong - regardless of whether there's a child in the car or not. It's like those stupid 'child on board' signs. What are they for?? If there's an accident the fire brigade and police are more than capable of searching without a 'helpful' pointer from a sticker. They seem to be saying it's ok to drive like a [EMAIL="tw@t"]!!!!!![/EMAIL] so long as you don't do it near a car with a child in.

Ok, rant over . I appreciate that was shockingly off-topic .

Tropez

tea_lover wrote: »

Now I sound like the Grinch but that really winds me up. Aggresive, intimidating driving is wrong - regardless of whether there's a child in the car or not. It's like those stupid 'child on board' signs. What are they for?? If there's an accident the fire brigade and police are more than capable of searching without a 'helpful' pointer from a sticker. They seem to be saying it's ok to drive like a !!!!!! so long as you don't do it near a car with a child in.

Ok, rant over . I appreciate that was shockingly off-topic .

They were originally designed for North America where you have vast stretches of road going through the middle of fricking nowhere and if there were an accident it could be some time before anybody came across it. The signs were supposed to be an indicator that there was a child onboard that may have been involved in the accident and thrown from the car and/or wandered off into the wilderness dazed and confused and that there may be a need to search more extensively than normal.

The theory is actually sound. It isn't uncommon for a baby or child to be thrown from a car in an accident (a number of accidents are caused by kids who manage to disconnect their seatbelt, distracting the driver and causing a crash), perhaps down an embankment and being obscured by dirt, long grass or such and certainly in the case of a younger child they could suffer a head injury and wander off and get lost. While emergency services will generally search the immediate area, anomalies do happen where thrown or injured kids show up far from where you would expect them to.

Unfortunately, as no one seems to remove the damn things when the kids aren't in the car, they become worthless. The emergency services can't spend an hour looking for a kid that may or may not have even been in the car in the first place. Secondly, due to the stupid positioning of many of them, they're actually responsible for 1 in 20 road accidents according to figures released by Confused.com.

smartpicture

Love DPD, I've been having loads of deliveries lately due to a new extension and they are head and shoulders above every other delivery company. You don't have to suspend the rest of your life waiting around for them.

Person_one

Are DPD the people who deliver passports? If they are I had a major farce with them last summer, got a lovely letter of apology and everything! Not as bad as Hermes though, who I boycott as much as possible.

I love Royal Mail, very sad to see it being privatised, I've had about three problems in 13 years of receiving quite a lot of post, and they all got sorted quickly and easily.