Amazon UK - slow to dispatch.

The Glass Key · 10-12-2013 6:56pm

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My postman told me that they had lost the contract with Amazon a few months ago but he still keeps delivering things from Amazon? Over the last ten years we must have had a hundred plus deliveries of books from Amazon and they have to this day always come via An Post.

Computer stuff I get from Amazon comes 50/50 An Post and courier. Strangest one was two massive toolboxes I bought in the summer that I was sure would come by courier arrived with the postman - good job he's got a van.

Fred Swanson · 10-12-2013 7:00pm

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elfy4eva · 10-12-2013 7:06pm

Is it worth taking the free trial of amazon prime? Is there any catch to it? besides needing to unsubscribe before the end of the trial period?

Fred Swanson · 10-12-2013 7:09pm

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Ace Attorney · 10-12-2013 7:11pm

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I wondered about that, so they do deliver amazon prime to parcel motel, might be worth trying out so

The Glass Key · 10-12-2013 7:11pm

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Sounds right that was when it was ultra quick for a while like 3 working days or less from dispatch. Seems to be back to 4-5 working days from dispatch now, but then at this time of year its difficult to judge, for example my postie normally arrives about midday but the last week he's not been hear till gone 2pm so is very busy.

Fred Swanson · 10-12-2013 7:15pm

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Gran Hermano · 10-12-2013 8:12pm

Thatdoesnt looksafe tome AHHHHHHH wrote: »

I wondered about that, so they do deliver amazon prime to parcel motel, might be worth trying out so

Ordered three items on Saturday in the one order (all sold/fulfilled) by Amazon.
Rather than ship them together I'm now waiting on 3 separate parcels.
Would have worked out as 3 stays with parcel motel had I used them.
Just something to keep in mind and something that seems to happen frequently enough recently with Amazon.

Cabaal · 11-12-2013 9:51am

Thatdoesnt looksafe tome AHHHHHHH wrote: »

I wondered about that, so they do deliver amazon prime to parcel motel, might be worth trying out so

Prime to parcel motel works perfectly fine,

you can sign up to a prime trial for 30 days and use that to get items delivered to parcel motel,

I used it in the past, ordered something Thursday morning very early, it got dispatched Thursday night, delivered to parcel motel Friday and i received it at the parcel motel locker on Saturday morning.

Cabaal · 11-12-2013 9:53am

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Ordered three items on Saturday in the one order (all sold/fulfilled) by Amazon.
Rather than ship them together I'm now waiting on 3 separate parcels.
Would have worked out as 3 stays with parcel motel had I used them.
Just something to keep in mind and something that seems to happen frequently enough recently with Amazon.

Thats not anything to do with prime,

Thats the fact that all the items weren't available in the one warehouse, which meant they had to be dispatched from different warehouses and could not be combined into one big parcel.

Amazon site has more info on this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200386120

We can combine multiple orders into the same delivery if the order meets all the following criteria:

The orders are placed through the same customer account.
The orders are being delivered to the same address.
Orders being delivered to a EU address.
Items from each order are located at the same Fulfilment Centre.
The orders are dispatching at around the same time.

There are some cases when we won't be able to combine deliveries. For instance:

Orders that can't be dispatched from the same Fulfilment Centre to meet your promised delivery date.
Orders dispatching from different Fulfilment Centres.
Orders being dispatched to different addresses.
Orders marked as gifts.

hoodwinked · 11-12-2013 9:56am

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Ordered three items on Saturday in the one order (all sold/fulfilled) by Amazon.
Rather than ship them together I'm now waiting on 3 separate parcels.
Would have worked out as 3 stays with parcel motel had I used them.
Just something to keep in mind and something that seems to happen frequently enough recently with Amazon.

funnily enough i ordered an item and 3 books last night, the item is due 17th and the books on the 19th,

all in stock, all from amazon itself, all coming to the same address, all ordered at the same time...

what are they doing?

The Glass Key · 11-12-2013 10:14pm

OK so I said I'd get back about to parcels from Amazon that were dispatched Friday and Saturday (7th,8th) respectively with super saver delivery. Well both arrived to day Wednesday with An Post, cant really fault that service, one parcel was books the other computer bits and pieces. If you exclude the weekend then in my book thats a free 2-3 day delivery service. The books (6 of them) took just sort of 2 days to dispatch and the computer stuff just a day.

Nearly forgot to mention was talking today with next door neighbor who had a stack of Amazon boxes in the hallway and it turns out that she had a failed delivery last week that was sent with iParcel, when followed up refunded straight away by Amazon.

Ace Attorney · 11-12-2013 10:42pm

The Glass Key wrote: »

OK so I said I'd get back about to parcels from Amazon that were dispatched Friday and Saturday (7th,8th) respectively with super saver delivery. Well both arrived to day Wednesday with An Post, cant really fault that service, one parcel was books the other computer bits and pieces. If you exclude the weekend then in my book thats a free 2-3 day delivery service. The books (6 of them) took just sort of 2 days to dispatch and the computer stuff just a day.

Nearly forgot to mention was talking today with next door neighbor who had a stack of Amazon boxes in the hallway and it turns out that she had a failed delivery last week that was sent with iParcel, when followed up refunded straight away by Amazon.

You and your neighbour are lucky!, im still waiting for my nieces doll to arrive its been 10 days! i thought i might have got it today but nope,
It *should* be delivered tomorow by the looks of iparcels tracking site, however im not very optmistic because im in the west of the country and the depot is in dublin and they seem to only delivery items to the west maybe twice a week so fingers crossed

Entered into local delivery system 2013-12-10T14:41:53-05:00 Hawkes Bay Couriers (Hub) IE
Consolidation Arrived - Pending Customs Clearance and inbound scan 2013-12-10T00:00:00-05:00 IE
Exported i-Parcel and in transit to country of destination 2013-12-09T10:42:00-05:00 Surrey GB
Received at i-Parcel 2013-12-08T12:40:39-05:00 Surrey GB
Package details received electronically from Seller 2013-12-02T19:20:45-05:00 IE

Patty O Furniture · 11-12-2013 10:48pm

I had an item late for 2 days was meant to land on Mon, but landed today & ordered more on Mon & was expected to arrive on or near 24th is now scheduled to arrive this Friday, i'll see if it does?

A bit hit or miss!

The Glass Key · 11-12-2013 11:04pm

Thatdoesnt looksafe tome AHHHHHHH wrote: »

You and your neighbour are lucky!, im still waiting for my nieces doll to arrive its been 10 days! i thought i might have got it today but nope,
It *should* be delivered tomorow by the looks of iparcels tracking site, however im not very optmistic because im in the west of the country and the depot is in dublin and they seem to only delivery items to the west maybe twice a week so fingers crossed

Entered into local delivery system 2013-12-10T14:41:53-05:00 Hawkes Bay Couriers (Hub) IE
Consolidation Arrived - Pending Customs Clearance and inbound scan 2013-12-10T00:00:00-05:00 IE
Exported i-Parcel and in transit to country of destination 2013-12-09T10:42:00-05:00 Surrey GB
Received at i-Parcel 2013-12-08T12:40:39-05:00 Surrey GB
Package details received electronically from Seller 2013-12-02T19:20:45-05:00 IE

Hawkes Bay Couriers (Hub) words that send shivers down my spinn

SimonQuinlank · 11-12-2013 11:11pm

I just create different accounts and use the 30 day free prime trial and Parcel Motel,never wait more then 2/3 days for my order.Just remember to turn off automatic reneweal of Prime to the paid version the day you sign up so you don't forget and get stung.

Been doing this for at least a year,pretty sure I would be rumbled by now because using the same CC,but Amazon either haven't noticed or don't care.

foggy_lad · 11-12-2013 11:38pm

Thatdoesnt looksafe tome AHHHHHHH wrote: »

You and your neighbour are lucky!, im still waiting for my nieces doll to arrive its been 10 days! i thought i might have got it today but nope,
It *should* be delivered tomorow by the looks of iparcels tracking site, however im not very optmistic because im in the west of the country and the depot is in dublin and they seem to only delivery items to the west maybe twice a week so fingers crossed

Entered into local delivery system 2013-12-10T14:41:53-05:00 Hawkes Bay Couriers (Hub) IE
Consolidation Arrived - Pending Customs Clearance and inbound scan 2013-12-10T00:00:00-05:00 IE
Exported i-Parcel and in transit to country of destination 2013-12-09T10:42:00-05:00 Surrey GB
Received at i-Parcel 2013-12-08T12:40:39-05:00 Surrey GB
Package details received electronically from Seller 2013-12-02T19:20:45-05:00 IE

Your goods will be delivered by Fastway who have depots all over the place even in the west:D

http://www.fastway.ie/courier-locator

http://www.fastway.ie/west
http://www.fastway.ie/north-west
http://www.fastway.ie/south-west

Put your area or town into the locator and it will list your local couriers and depot. Have you got an email from Fastway yet giving their tracking number? you can then follow it on their site

Fred Swanson · 12-12-2013 12:07am

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Ace Attorney · 12-12-2013 12:22am

foggy_lad wrote: »

Your goods will be delivered by Fastway who have depots all over the place even in the west:D

http://www.fastway.ie/courier-locator

http://www.fastway.ie/west
http://www.fastway.ie/north-west
http://www.fastway.ie/south-west

Put your area or town into the locator and it will list your local couriers and depot. Have you got an email from Fastway yet giving their tracking number? you can then follow it on their site

Nope nothing from fastway yet, i had a look for the nearest depot its galway, an hour and a half away from me, ah i can wait as long as it here before the 24th it'll be grand, its just the nuisance of waiting 10 days for a package to be delievered is all.

chasm · 12-12-2013 2:15am

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

I had an item late for 2 days was meant to land on Mon, but landed today & ordered more on Mon & was expected to arrive on or near 24th is now scheduled to arrive this Friday, i'll see if it does?

A bit hit or miss!

Same here, although i knew when they dispatched on friday that i probably wouldnt have it by Monday. Have 2 more orders waiting for dispatch which i hope with arrive by Christmas.

foggy_lad · 12-12-2013 2:22am

Thatdoesnt looksafe tome AHHHHHHH wrote: »

Nope nothing from fastway yet, i had a look for the nearest depot its galway, an hour and a half away from me, ah i can wait as long as it here before the 24th it'll be grand, its just the nuisance of waiting 10 days for a package to be delievered is all.

Check your spam/junk folder and sign up for email updates on the iparcel site.

pleasant Co. · 12-12-2013 10:06am

Ordered something on Sunday (free super saver), it dispatched on Monday. Slow to dispatch? no not at all.

Fred Swanson · 12-12-2013 3:01pm

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12-12-2013 3:04pm

Feck, ordered a TV as a present and got the dispatch email today.

I-Parcel :mad:

First time I've ordered something from Amazon that has been sent by I Parcel but looking up reviews they dont look good.

L1011 · 12-12-2013 3:30pm

After never having an issue before, I've been waiting three days for something (a book) to even be dispatched.

pleasant Co. · 12-12-2013 3:35pm

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Well, I ordered 4 separate orders during the black friday sales and they all came within a week of dispatch. Can't really blame amazon for fukc ups on the postal services end, certainly it's up to them to remedy any fukc up when it occurs but beyond that, **** happens.

chasm · 12-12-2013 5:31pm

pleasant Co. wrote: »

Well, I ordered 4 separate orders during the black friday sales and they all came within a week of dispatch. Can't really blame amazon for fukc ups on the postal services end, certainly it's up to them to remedy any fukc up when it occurs but beyond that, **** happens.

All items i ordered from the black friday sales arrived promptly. The issue i have is that Amazon are taking an age to actually dispatch my last 5 or so orders. Once they have been dispatched i usually receive them within 3-4 business days, it's the waiting 7 days for amazon to actually dispatch the item that is the problem.

nava · 12-12-2013 5:31pm

Alexander Old-fashioned Lawn wrote: »

Feck, ordered a TV as a present and got the dispatch email today.

I-Parcel :mad:

First time I've ordered something from Amazon that has been sent by I Parcel but looking up reviews they dont look good.

I ordered something from amazon shipped via I-parcel and was quite quick to arrive, you can contact i-parcel to check the tracking number for fastway as they do the deliveries in Ireland. Reply was within a couple of hours,

Event Event Date City Country Code
Delivered 2013-11-28T15:13:39-05:00 Dublin IE
Out for delivery 2013-11-28T08:18:14-05:00 Dublin IE
Entered into local delivery system 2013-11-27T18:20:36-05:00 Hawkes Bay Couriers (Hub) IE
Consolidation Arrived - Pending Customs Clearance and inbound scan 2013-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 IE
Exported i-Parcel and in transit to country of destination 2013-11-26T10:12:00-05:00 Surrey GB
Received at i-Parcel 2013-11-26T03:28:37-05:00 Surrey GB
Package details received electronically from Seller 2013-11-24T08:59:55-05:00 IE

Fred Swanson · 12-12-2013 5:32pm

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nava · 12-12-2013 5:39pm

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Updated table with Country codes, according to google it's Fastway hub so not actually a city

Amazon UK - slow to dispatch.

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