SHIPPING
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I'll chime in and say my vote goes for DHL 100%. The ability to waive the signature required upon delivery is worth it's weight in effin gold. This was a huge inconvenience for me when UPS was handling deliveries. A signature would always be required with UPS. I work a normal job like most people so there is no way I would ever be home when they would attempt delivery unless I took the damn day off of work. So this meant a phone call to UPS, getting put on hold, being transferred to their international department, talking to someone for about 5 minutes to have the package dropped off at a local UPS center. My local UPS center is only open till 6pm so half the time I wouldn't make it there to pick up my package after work. This sometimes meant that I would get a package delivered on say a Tues or Wed but woulnd't actually be able to get to the local UPS center until Saturday to get my shirt or jeans. Pain in the ass.
I am more than happy with DHL and quite honestly it allows me to make purchases more freely through IHUK than it did in the past. Before I would be a bit hesitant unless I absolutely wanted the item. Bottom line is because of DHL's option to waive the signature required I will spend more with IHUK.
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Shipped the 11th, received the 13th at 3:00pm.
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Thinking of moving from UPS to DHL. @Danny RnH did recently and says that it is a million times better.
Any views?
Excellent decision!
I had 3 orders via DHL Express in the last months, from IHUK and R&H … super fast (1 day) - trouble free - pleasant ... so much better than the UPS and DPD scum.
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DHL is much slower then UPS. I'm sill waiting for my last order, departed from Southampton Tuesday, December 06. Yes, they let you change delivery address & other stuff, but it doesn't work, they do a lot of mess and the result is always more delays. When everything is OK (no vacation days, good weather, ecc) they take one day more than UPS, and, finally, their tracking is poor, slow, ambiguous and unreliable.
Ten years ago DHL was the best, I dunno what's happened.
Nowadays I prefer GLS, which, among other things, is headquartered near my office … -
I agree with georgeel. I have had some good experiences with DHL and also some bad ones. UPS, I have never had a bad experience. In general, if something is shipped DHL I just expect it to take longer to receive.
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DHL Express? Wow! The odyssey of my poor 8" Pool-On Boots is not over yet!
Seriously, I think that each carrier has different standards depending on the country. Here in Italy UPS and GLS work fine. DHL is sometimes good and sometimes not.
And this is the Wall of Shame:
SdA: a bunch of idlers. They have a contract with the Italian post office so it's take it or leave it.
BRT: it's the "international name" for Bartolini, the company's owner. If you have the misfortune your shipment to fall into their clutches, it's over! BRT is a company famous for the extreme ignorance of its staff. Wrong roads, house numbers, often even wrong city. Their trucks are a pitiful sight. Their call center staff are rude and their offices are open to the public only two hours a day. A true nightmare. A relatively cheap nightmare, but is the worst of the worst. -
Gorgeels description of BRT strongly reminds me of Berlin's Customs. The rudeness, the incompetence, the daftness, insert multiple hours waiting time….only inexpensive they certainly are not!
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HOT-HOT DHL NEWS: Package arrived, MINE, this time!
- opened the box.
- attached chocolate sovereign British coins to the Xmas tree.
- Put on boots.
- gone out and took a walk (boots are made for walkin', aren't they?)
- fit pic on the page
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Never had an issue with UPS (or any courier service for that matter) until I tried shipping something today…
Local UPS in Adelaide has closed!
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UPS MyChoice
Recently a customer used UPS MyChoice to change a "signed for" delivery to "no signature required" delivery. The parcel was dropped at his front door and subsequently went missing. He made a claim for non-receipt and I spent ages trying to make PayPal understand the sequence of events.
Their position, you shipped it, he did not get it, your responsibility, you pay.
My position, I shipped it "signed for", he unilaterally changed that, it went missing, not my liability.
Originally they found against me and charged me £14 in addition to the sale amount (about £200) for the privilege. I appealed and won, but it took a shit ton of effort work and emails
Just be aware, that if you do use UPS MyChoice, that you are signing up to this:
By selecting the Authorised Shipment Release service, you authorise UPS to release packages
addressed to you at your address when no one is present to receive the delivery. UPS will only make
one delivery attempt and will not obtain a signature upon delivery. A UPS delivery record constitutes
conclusive proof of delivery and, by selecting the Authorised Shipment Release service, you will be
asked and are required to accept responsibility for any loss or damage to the package after it has been
released at the address. UPS retains sole and unlimited discretion to honour your Authorised
Shipment Release request (and may not do so, for example, due to delivery conditions such as
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I've had a similar instance occur, except UPS delivered my parcel to a different/wrong/ incorrect address & because I choose to waive the signature they wanted to hold me liable for the delivery to the incorrect address.
I explained to UPS I can not be liable for an item delivered to a wrong address and made UPS provide the GPS used to show where the item was delivered. I was then told by UPS I can not file a claim since I wasn't the shipper so I contacted the shipper & was told they do not insure & since I waived signature I was again out of luck.
I thought that was again a trash response so I filed a claim with my bank & advised of what happened outlining that the error was made by UPS delivering my item to an incorrect address. As a customer if I make a purchase & the shipper doesn't insure the item I shouldn't & will not accept responsibility if there is a problem with the shipment being delivered to an incorrect address.
Guess we are going to have to agree to disagree on this, although your line of events don't exactly match with mine.
In addition it would be great if customers could add insurance to their purchases to protect themselves in the event of a mishap with the shipping agent if they want to waive signature.
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It seems reasonable that if you waive the "signature" you are doing so at your own risk. In my opinion liability on the part of the shipper ends when the package is taken by UPS and liability ends for UPS when they deliver to the correct address…..My preference is to have the package held at a UPS access point to be picked up at my convenience. This ensures it's safety and also allows me to pick up on my schedule.
