Thread: Fastways Couriers WTF!

Originally Posted by timattalon

I would never use post if I can avoid it. When I was in retail we had a carton come in "damaged a bit" from them and they wanted us to open with them present so we did not bill them for stuff that was not broken. It was a commercial carton of 24 Thermos flasks (yup- the old glass ones) Now I can understand the odd one of these being broken, but these ones were broken because the Stainless steel trays that were also packed in the carton from the same supplier, had been crushed so badly they went through the centre of the flasks. Whatever hit that package hit it with enough force to BEND 24 Stainless waiters trays stacked one inside the other, and puch them into the adjacent carton. It looked like a fork lift fork had been rammed through the box......

Post can go git (d)ucked!!!!

After seeing their parcel add on tv,I wouldn't send a dead rat through nz post

Fact of life isn't it - when we have a problem the root cause doesn't get addressed and quite often the solution (band aid?) adopted is to use a different process with its own set of problems. Or further complicate the process by adding/interposing additional steps, ultimately not fixing the original issues. And so on and so on.

I would have no desire to collect my mail order items from my local cop shop. My nearest is unmanned a lot of the time – I presume they are out there preventing and solving crimes which process I am happy with rather than them operating a courier sub depot. Would they modify their station manned hours to accommodate infrequent and non regular courier drop offs of FAs and likewise have designated times for pick up. Would they need to set up an internal system for handling this business. May need to employ more staff to do this. Sounds like costs they would pass on as user pays.

Or would the process be to only deliver to manned stations? In which case my nearest is a considerable drive away. Sorta defeats the purpose of couriers door to door. And how long b4 a FA goes missing by whatever means whilst in the care of a police station?

As Jexla said keep them out of the FAs admin loop.

Originally Posted by madjon_

After seeing their parcel add on tv,I wouldn't send a dead rat through nz post

That's about ALL I'd send through NZ Post