On another note. Who's had problems with with delivery services? Cos' right now I am ready to demolish DPD...
Eeehhhh, too many to count, the price war that has been going on for years led to a hire-and-fire situation like you wouldn't believe. The guy seeing that you're on the 3rd floor (with lift!),
not ringing the doorbell even once, handing the package to whichever 1st floor neighbor getting another shipment and not even leaving a notice in your (ground floor) mailbox pretty much counts as standard service.
When things get
worse than that, you get a 50% rate of return-to-sender, including one that went back saying that
the entire street number doesn't exist. (The building hails from the 1970s, has the number in 1ft high print next to the entrance,
and an extra sign right at the curb.) People in less populated places report finding packages marked "fragile" in the courtyard of their farm, right behind a
locked 5m tall gate, when they weren't present for the delivery attempt.
Personally, place #1 of my blacklist goes to UPS. Back when I was at the university, we tried sending a hot-off-the-keyboards conference submission (strict deadline!!) to the U.S. through them, their promo material promising a 24h delivery. To cut a long story short, it became four days and
of course they didn't do
anything wrong, their terms and conditions said so, after all. Picture a ferroconcrete pillar twice as wide as the one on the current SSSS page right outside my office and me angrily hitting it with a barbell ... I guess the hole is still there today.
