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eyebrows

02/4/2014 at 2:56pm
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Taken from my tracking information.
Monday, March 31, 2014 Shipment 3 LB package picked up SEATTLE, WA - USA 4:24 PM…
Wednesday, April 02, 2014 Delivered Signed for at 1:08 PM
Cost $10.99
I think Royal Mail could learn a thing or two.

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Wow!!! That's brilliant service.

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Wow!! brilliant, much better than Royal Mail, I'll get DHL to deliver a letter to the Scottish Highlands for 53p.

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02/4/2014 at 7:32pm
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Not bad for Drop It, Hide it and Lose it.

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Quote: Originally posted by eyebrows on 02/4/2014
Taken from my tracking information.
Monday, March 31, 2014 Shipment 3 LB package picked up SEATTLE, WA - USA 4:24 PM…
Wednesday, April 02, 2014 Delivered Signed for at 1:08 PM
Cost $10.99

But was it at the correct address?

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Whilst talking about other couriers v royal mail.
I just used Collect+Standard with tracking for the first time when I sold a sleeping bag on Ebay.
It cost me £6.97 for 24hr delivery against £11.99 using royal mail 48hr.
Buyer received it when promised and emailed me to say so..

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raftguid1977

03/4/2014 at 12:32pm
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dhl are awesome
ordered the nikon from china late saturday and was at my door monday morning.

to say i was impressed was an understatement.

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03/4/2014 at 4:17pm
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I wasn’t really having a pop at Royal Mail, more impressed with the delivery time from the West coast of the States to the UK.
I regularly send parcels to the States East coast and the cost is about £30-£40, sent my last parcel over two weeks ago and still not arrived.

Quote: “michell8. Wow!! brilliant, much better than Royal Mail, I'll get DHL to deliver a letter to the Scottish Highlands for 53p”

Well now that I am a Royal Mail shareholder

I shall be encouraging them to raise their prices, 53p for a letter to Scotland is scandalous, should be at least £5. Trouble is, that might encourage a few more internet trolls who have nothing better to do and like disrupting normal on-topic discussion.

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03/4/2014 at 4:58pm
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You compared Royal Mail unfavourably with DHL & I was suggesting you were not comparing like with like, they are 2 totally different entities. So hardly trolling & hardly off topic.

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Royal mail are good at letters, agreed, but send anything above 200gm and the prices are now getting silly, If you compare like for like overseas its even worse and the time taken can be horrendous, A small jiffy bag weighing 249 grams is £5.05 and takes 15-21 days, UPS can do it in 3 days for less, 6kg to europe £27 UPS £9.00

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Quinny

03/4/2014 at 6:53pm
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At one time, (About 20 years ago.) FedEx were unbeatable for stuff around the world, because very little of their shipments were sub contracted, whereas RM for example, have no control over anything that leaves these shores, as it then falls into the hands of the relevant postal service.

These days, DHL and UPS have caught up with FedEx, and there isn't really a lot between them.

Did I mention that I worked for FedEx......?

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