This is a prime whinge.
Why???
Well it's quite simple, City-Link are quite useless.
I have had a lot of kit delivered over the past few years by them, a lot on next day delivery and they don't and have never managed to actually deliver on time.
Apart from having a delivery time of from 0730 - 1730 (which they don't actually keep to as I've had packages at gone 1800hrs), they have your goods for days and don't deliver when they are supposed to. If I pay for next days delivery then this is what I expect.
Not that we've had your goods since Thursday last week and we can't be arsed to actually deliver them until Wednesday the following week. I have also had a slip placed through my door by the only delivery driver that wears stealth slippers to make deliveries.
Despite being sat in a chair for the majority of the day that was no more than 10 feet from the door I was told I was not in and that as a result this slip had been posted at 1300hrs, that would have been a miracle as I was talking to a neighbour on my doorstep at the time.
I placed an order with another company at the same time and not only did the delivery company give me an hour bracket they also told me the name of the driver. That I think was interlink express. Hermes give a similar service, so the question is how can City-Link be quite as poor as they are.
A friend of mine used to work for them and he says "Well it's because we have more deliveries than we can possibly handle in one day without having time travel", basically the company is tight, the drivers aren't paid a lot and they are expected to actually deliver more packages than is feasible without breaking the laws, both of physics and of the land. The only way a City-Link driver will be able to deliver everything on time is if he's called "The Doctor" and his vehicle is an old blue police box that's been repainted yellow and green and is generally known as the TARDIS.
So, what are we expected to do. Well I for one am willing to contact the vendor and say "If you are going to ship with ****ty-Link, Don't" I am quite willing to pay that little more to get the goods when I need them and not post event.
Is anyone else of similar experience??
Why???
Well it's quite simple, City-Link are quite useless.
I have had a lot of kit delivered over the past few years by them, a lot on next day delivery and they don't and have never managed to actually deliver on time.
Apart from having a delivery time of from 0730 - 1730 (which they don't actually keep to as I've had packages at gone 1800hrs), they have your goods for days and don't deliver when they are supposed to. If I pay for next days delivery then this is what I expect.
Not that we've had your goods since Thursday last week and we can't be arsed to actually deliver them until Wednesday the following week. I have also had a slip placed through my door by the only delivery driver that wears stealth slippers to make deliveries.
Despite being sat in a chair for the majority of the day that was no more than 10 feet from the door I was told I was not in and that as a result this slip had been posted at 1300hrs, that would have been a miracle as I was talking to a neighbour on my doorstep at the time.
I placed an order with another company at the same time and not only did the delivery company give me an hour bracket they also told me the name of the driver. That I think was interlink express. Hermes give a similar service, so the question is how can City-Link be quite as poor as they are.
A friend of mine used to work for them and he says "Well it's because we have more deliveries than we can possibly handle in one day without having time travel", basically the company is tight, the drivers aren't paid a lot and they are expected to actually deliver more packages than is feasible without breaking the laws, both of physics and of the land. The only way a City-Link driver will be able to deliver everything on time is if he's called "The Doctor" and his vehicle is an old blue police box that's been repainted yellow and green and is generally known as the TARDIS.
So, what are we expected to do. Well I for one am willing to contact the vendor and say "If you are going to ship with ****ty-Link, Don't" I am quite willing to pay that little more to get the goods when I need them and not post event.
Is anyone else of similar experience??
In at least two cases with Amazon*, because I knew I wouldn't be available to take delivery the next day, I've purposely waited until 'a good while' after that day's order cut-off time to place an order ~ and they've still arrived the following day! Fortunately I have good neighbours 
. IIRC, MyHermes has rolled up earlier than expected too ~ and if memory serves me one parcel was delivered to me mid afternoon ... on a Sunday! :yikes:
while the others are very reasonable.
