Fastway Aint So Fast

[Sniper]

Nah not moving... just becoming a resident of NZ... yeah yeah, you shudder I know!! lol...

Its not that bad being a citizen. Just means you never lose when SA and NZ play rugby.

[thehollowmen]

yeah we have problems with couriers all the time.

Currently the courier company has lost a WHOLE VAN

I'm not sure how that happened but it ment I had time on saterday to go riding and eat waffles and look at the eye-candy hanging around our appartment.. so I'm not too grumpy about that.

But it is still missing. Yes wonderful medical specimens that haven't been fixed and have probably gone off by now

I don't trust these courier companies any more, if it is really important I'll deliver it myself.

Good luck getting it back. Courier parcels do have an insurance whatzit on it, but that's usually for the sender to sort out if it hasn't arrived. Ask the wellington company to send it again and sort it out.

BTW - check your back doorstep or under the bushes... Those guys put them in the wierdest places.

[thehollowmen]

Nah not moving... just becoming a resident of NZ... yeah yeah, you shudder I know!! lol...

Best of luck, going through that paperwork atm too...

[Blakamin]

I wont begin to tell you of the problems with Kapiti Fastway (to lose shit) Couriers.....
We've also given up on NZ Post couriers
Probably Broken Transport suck too

we're now using NZ Couriers... and havent had a problem yet (and once a month I send 170 courier bags all over the country)

[vifferman]

BTW - check your back doorstep or under the bushes... Those guys put them in the wierdest places.

Indeed! We've had a couple of things (two separate deliveries) delivered that were hiding under the cover of the BBQ on our deck. (Obviously the same courier/driver). We had no idea either of them was there, until we got pissed off they hadn't arrived and searched around for the fourth time.

The thing that annoys me is that they never get a signature, even when it's obvious you're there (like at work, when there's a whole building fiull of people!) and the item is sent on a 'signature-required' basis. In fact, the only time in recent years where I've actually signed for summat was when I bought some stuff from a guy on the UK Firestorm site - I had it within 4 days.

So is there any hope for a shake-up in the courier industry? It used to be OK - you used the courier instead of post because it was faster and more secure. Not anymore, and it's getting worse!

[Devil]

I bought some stuff from a guy on the UK Firestorm site - I had it within 4 days.

Recently ordered a back protector from a UK site, got here in 4 days too. Damn good work. I think it was handled by NZ post at this end too.

This is ignoring the fact it was left on my doorstep for go knows how long. *mutter*. (Then again we are down a pretty private driveway, back section.

[DarkNinja]

Still not here, they reckon givce it another day though. this guy was the most helpful yet and took my number and name to ring me if he sees it come by.

[vifferman]

Wonder how much stuff just disappears...

Especially before Christmas....
I had some mail-ordered CDs disappear from the face of the Earth. Couriers insisted they'd delivered them (unprovable without a signature, yet we're supposed to believe that). Luckily, the company I bought them from despatched some replacement ones, free of charge, even though they weren't at fault.

[Motu]

It's 90% the driver - up here Constant Couriers were so bad that I told my suppliers never to use them,it would take over 24hrs to get parts from Onehunga to Mt Roskill,less than 10mins drive in peak hour.But the last couple of drivers have been great,we get all our stuff well inside their 3 hr limit.I have an account with NZ Couriers,but were hopeless for getting stuff to me,then we had a couple of great drivers,one rode a new Triumph Daytona,but the latest couple are hopeless and we are into the 24 hour overnight again.

[カワサキキド]

When I ordered stuff to be sent to Queentown, from Auckland it usually took 2 days, from Christchurch 3, Dunedin 5 and from Australia overnight!

There is a reason that fastways are the cheapest, and I believe you have found out(It only happens with important or urgent stuff thou), and I have also found NZC to be the best.

[ajturbo]

i posted a LARGE bag of gear ($$$$ worth) from LA to Key west where i was going to be staying with my mate... i got there 2 weeks after i sent the parcel (another story!! ) got to my mates , got on the piss forgot about the parcell for about a week,, then one drunken night i suddly though where's all my gear, ( i was going up to new hampshire, on the canadian boarder..in WINTER! and it had ALL my winter gear..heated thermal jock strap etc) ph UPS.......sorry sir but the person at the address said that there was no-one of that name living there!!! WTF so i asked what the address was.....it apears that I put the wrong address ..i mised the 1 ..it should have read 15....not the 5 i used!!!
so where is it now i asked?
on it's way back to LA !!!!
ok that's fine..i'll just call LA
called LA UPS...... err sorry sir no record of it ariving!!!!!
fuck i thouhgt ...but then again i was on holiday ...
somthing will happen for the good
went to NH
froze my butt
got home (month latter)
2 days after i got home a knock at the door, here was my bag!!!!
for some reason i had put a RETURN address here in NZ!!!!
so morral of the story..
want somthing sent home from over seas?
post it to yourself...tell the posty " na man, donno who your talking about."
..bingo it goes back to sender!! you at home in NZ
for the cost of sending it across some hillbilly town in the good old USA

saved me SHIT loads in postage

[ajturbo]

Wonder how much stuff just disappears...

:

i orded a PALET of paint one day to go from Welly to Nelson
usally over night... so i gave it 3 days..i'm nice like that...
so i was very concered that it haddent arived a WEEK latter!
ph the paint Co.."yes andy we sent that a week ago"
went to the delivery Co....."aint here!"
i surch the place and they were right no paint??? WTF!!
re orded..got here the next day
i can work!



6 MONTHS latter i was back in Nelson... got a Ph call from the delivery guys..
errrrrr andy ? ....yes.....
we have found the paint!!!
bit late now matey!..where was it?
NEXT DOOR AT THE OTHER DELIVERY Co!!!!!!
i went down sure enough there it was! the original contact number (mine ) on the TOP of the packing slip...... the manager of the OTHER delivery Co was wondering why i haddent come and picked it up!!!!
and it was only when they had a piss up together..(the 2 Co's) that the original Co manager saw the palet..remembered my ...chat ..cough..with him..
but unfortunaly for them the paint was passed it's use by date...hahahaha
it has a shelf live of upto 3 months!! hahahaha

[Coyote]

Still waiting for the CD I ordered. The problem is I have no-one to contact to find out what the hell has happened to it

[gav]

Couriers, FRIGGEN COURIERS, bane of my life mate. Yesterday ordered an air filter for a truck at work about 2 o clock, better put that on a sub 60, mate! No worries, they write the time on the box when courier collects, 14.29, arrived twenty past 5, tosser. Rang supplier following morning, free freight, cool. Girl I used to work with just started as courier for Fastway in Nelson, so what do they do, no previous experience, they put her on the busiest run in central Nelson Doh!
We send stuff around with Castle Parcels, average service, God knows how their track and trace works, had stuff delivered and 3 days later they are still ringing to tell me they are still chasing it up, havent the heart to tell them I've already received it .

[scroter]

in a round about kinda way i work for NZ couriers/Post haste. i think we charge pretty hefty prices but as an example i remember some saturday deliverys for the south island being left in rotorua one friday night. when they found them saturday morning they chucked them on a plane, bearing in mind these parcels are about the size of a small lunchbox and weigh maybe a kilo each, 5 hundy thanks very much to the person who left them behind(not me) or there boss. i cant believe fastway cant do the whole thing from a call centre. also someone mentioned claiming. couriers come under the limited liability carriers risk (maximum of $1500) and somethings arnt covered at all like windscreens and second hand car parts, anything outside that law should be insured for it or wear it. sux aye.