Ah, wish I'd known, I'd have used the office address. They left a card blowing around outside our front door with nil info bar a mobile number on it... no joy yet. Sadly typical with Hermes in my experience. (Tbh, the only carrier I've not had massive problems with is RM).
Ah, wish I'd known, I'd have used the office address. They left a card blowing around outside our front door with nil info bar a mobile number on it... no joy yet. Sadly typical with Hermes in my experience. (Tbh, the only carrier I've not had massive problems with is RM).
Yes, I'm not keen on Hermes either, really. Only marginally more reliable than Yodel and their 'hoist-and-chuck' approach.
06-13-2016, 09:18 AM (This post was last modified: 06-13-2016, 09:22 AM by Nik.)
Hermes does have a bad reputation for being somewhat unreliable. In the end things usually work out, but some couriers occasionally make mistakes that require the recipient to work it out, which is unfortunate. Hermes seems to be one of them. Perhaps it's because they operate with quite a number of subcontractors (although many other couriers work with subcontractors, too, these days).
Among the couriers with the best reputation is FedEx, apparently. You rarely hear any complaints about them. I don't know what order volumes you need to make their rates attractive, though. With a high volume their int'l rates are very reasonable, that's all I know.
RM is great for int'l shipments up to 2kg, no doubt. The national parcel services in general are very reliable, with the exception of certain countries where either the services themselves or the customs offices have a bad reputation for pinching stuff. Italy seems to be one of them. But this is based on (frequent) hearsay, I have no firsthand experience with the national postal/parcel service in Italy.
06-13-2016, 11:23 AM (This post was last modified: 06-13-2016, 11:26 AM by Edward.)
Tbh, I find all private couriers are a nightmare, but that's what happens when you bring the profit motive into basic service provision. RM will go the same way with privatisation.
(06-12-2016, 07:32 AM)TheContinentalOp Wrote: It's funny, because in Sweden they are still called tennis shirts. A polo shirt here is a turtleneck. All rather confusing.....
I imagine the polo shirt term is better known in the countries where the upper ckass set play polo? I prefer the term tennis shirt because of that prior origin myself, but few in the English speaking world would search for thst term.
Worth thinking about this sort of nomenclature issue as SJC seeks to expand, bearing in mind a lot of custom over time will come via boolean search engines...
I like myhermes as my pickup guy looks like Flava Flav, he remembers my name, scans things correctly and loads parcels into his van and doesn't chuck them.
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(06-12-2016, 07:32 AM)TheContinentalOp Wrote: It's funny, because in Sweden they are still called tennis shirts. A polo shirt here is a turtleneck. All rather confusing.....
A turtleneck! Now you always learn something new. The link to the FL only mentioned early "poloshirts" being button down oxfords. Makes sense because the is less flapping with buttondown.
I mean "jersey knit short sleeve sportsshirt" would be all inclusive but polo shirts is easier. Like Edward said, we gotta prepare for search engines.
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