I ordered a Skywalker on Monday from China. By Wednesday it was in good old blighty, Coventry to be precise.
By Thursday night it had cleared customs and it was in Preston depot by Friday morning.
By my reckoning thats nearly 6000 miles in less than five days - impressive!
Last time i checked the tracker, Parcel force in Preston had lost the parcel. They rang me up and asked me what the parcel looked like (like im going to pigging know) :+ and then stated that the delivery address was missing and that the parcel was on its way back to China!! (?)
Doesnt it make you proud!! I had to drive from Manchester to Preston and basically stop the lorry from leaving with my plane!!!
Any funny delivery stories chaps ??
Ant
I hate the mail in this country, i must have sent out easily 20 packages over the last few weeks and so far only one confirmed delivery. In the Uk ? Nope, the package that went to america ! Wtf ??
Surprisingly it aint that bad coming over here. Mostly cause its straight on the overnight flight and one van trip down from Belfast airport.
Its only a problem when you're in manchester, rest of the country seems fine. :+
i dont get the problem "were all in Manchester" Because it has an airport????
anyway another story
i went to the bank to moan at them and get some money out, must of been 10-15min
anyway get up onto our road and the parcel force man is there, just getting back into his van.
we were following a grandma in a car and there was cars coming in the other way so we couldn't over take.
the parcel force man pulled out and started coming towards us and me and mum franticly waved and made gestures to stop and guess what the delivery guy did......
HE WAVED,SMILED AND COCKED HIS HEAD.
no you are not eddie stobart that gets randomly raved at wile going down the motorway!!!!!
maybe they just don't like sky walkers????
Oh dear, did he leave a ticket for pick up/redelivery?
Our normal post man just leaves them for a laugh. Cant be bothered to drive up the 30 foot driveway...
my parcel force man is great. he knows if im not in then to try and leave it with either 2 of my neibours which he knows im good friends with.
he did... but we had to wait for 3 days before he came again, and he didn't try delivering again, he took it to the local post office
I get on great with both the royal mail driver and the parcel force fella if i'm not in both chaps are happy to leave my gear in the garage :D
Same with the post lady none of this its too large for the letter box crap she either opens it up and posts it or again leaves it in the garage :D
It Goes to show what three tins of roses will do for you at christmas ;)
All my gear is sent recorded and i just must be one of the lucky ones as most things have arrived within three working days to the customers
Our parcel force man said to my brother one morning, "Is he building a model plane or a real one?", due to all the parcels arriving :D