Generally speaking I hate couriers - in particular I hate the attitude that it is your fault that they were not able to deliver because you were not home =>

If I'd have known when they were coming I'd have waited for them.

But how the frig can you know if they don't tell you?





Well today I got an automised email that had a link to a web page showing this

{sorry about the WW2 censoring but loose lips and all that}



...so today I know that a tumble dryer is on its way to me and that I should get it this morning. Amazing eh?

Much better than the DHL "oh we can't say exactly when your package will arrive but it should be sometime today between 7AM and 7 PM - and no we can't say if it will be in the morning or the afternoon because we are a bunch of wankers"...

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1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Ive used FedEx for years. They typically know where your package is and when it will arrive.

UPS on the other hand has cost me thousands in delivery screw ups.

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

FedEx don't seem to have much of the market share here I think they've been here just the once.

Well I must say I'm pretty impressed with the people who just brought me my new dryer - they called 15 minutes before they arrived saying that they'd be at my house in 15 minutes (and they were). No arsing about - they just delivered it.

Perhaps it sounds pretty incredible to some people that a delivery company actually managed to deliver something on time with out any fuss - but it seems as though it does happen sometimes!

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Well shucks! THAT map isn't going to work. Google must have made a bad link. The map is in some kind of furrin language. Goodness knows where they'll be delivering it. Probably somewhere in the Netherlands or who knows where.

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Nice one Mike - have you got that shipping container and a bed ready for me yet? The way things are going here I could do with a change of scenery! (I'll bring the dryer so you can all have a laugh at it and ask "what the $%%$^& do you need that for?")

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!