I hate Shittylink with a passion. Lying and lazy drivers, crappy service and overall incompetence has made them enemy number one.

4 times now in the last 5 months they have not even bothered to try and deliver to our office and each time they say they have left a note which they did not. Give them a call, oh the driver left a note its in his notes that he did. GAH

I have no idea how they are still in business either.

I think certain couriers now rate alongside lettings agents on my "how the fuck are they still in business" list.

Everyone I know who runs their own business is adamant that if they performed like some of these do they'd be out of business within 12 months.

It seems the industry average is so shit and the lack of better alternatives means they can get along just fine and turn a nice profit. Sounds a bit like the government.

We have a local firm called Swift that have always been top notch and better priced than shittylink and I know for a fact the family that run it are dodgy as hell.

We had to ship 20 servers from Glasgow back to our Newbury office earlier this year and was quoted over £3000 by a professional mover, Swift done it for £350 all in and on the same day!


Grrr Shittylink.

I like DPD as well. After the first failed delivery, I was able to arrange for them to pop the parcel in the wheely bin in my back garden (and I knew it'd be safe there). Following day, there it was!

City Link are awful. Even Yodel do Saturday delivery and 3 attempts. I would have happily paid City Link recently (it was a Friday) to deliver my parcel on the Saturday, but there is absolutely nothing you can do to schedule a safe place/neighbour, or upgrade the delivery, or anything. They knock twice on your empty house, then dump the parcel half an hours drive away at their depot.

Hopeless!

Yodel round my way are quite good. we have the number of the delivery lady so if no one is in the first time she comes back in the evening.

FedEx have impressed me today ~

16Kg parcel of xmas goodies for daughter in Canada

Collected from me at 1pm on Tue 17th
and delivered to her at 3.42pm (10.42pm our time) today (Thur 19th)

so, 45 hours from my door to hers in Alberta