DPD Parcel Wizard - DPD Pickup

Berty · 03-11-2015 10:59pm

Are you supposed to mount that An Post box on your premises?

I just let my postman sign for my stuff for me and hide it.

He only lives around the corner after all.

deadimmortal · 03-11-2015 11:41pm

Even with all these companies, we still cant get liquids delivered from Amazon such as perfumes etc. Is there any company that has an address in the UK midlands that would deliver it a depot here?

uck51js9zml2yt · 03-11-2015 11:45pm

deadimmortal wrote: »

Even with all these companies, we still cant get liquids delivered from Amazon such as perfumes etc. Is there any company that has an address in the UK midlands that would deliver it a depot here?

Why can't you use PM. Delivery within the UK.

NeverWaining · 03-11-2015 11:53pm

bk wrote: »

Well I honestly don't think PM will have to worry about full lockers in future if they keep prices at €4 with all the new, much better competition from PW, PC and An Post.

Some people will remain blindly loyal to Parcel Motel, regardless of convenience or price. Not me mind, but some will.

NATLOR · 03-11-2015 11:54pm

Kyra Wide Walkway wrote: »

Why can't you use PM. Delivery within the UK.

They wont deliver liquids outside UK mainland

Fr_Dougal · 04-11-2015 12:04am

Berty wrote: »

I just let my postman sign for my stuff for me and hide it. i text him and ask him am I getting warmer, sometimes it takes me days to find my package.

Well that's not very professional!

foxy_j · 04-11-2015 12:21am

Ya tried registering and the error message is coming up for me too...:(

Buddy97mm · 04-11-2015 12:36am

foxy_j wrote: »

Ya tried registering and the error message is coming up for me too...:(

Ditto, for past hour

Corholio · 04-11-2015 1:33am

Its stupid to say people will remain blindly loyal to Parcel Motel. As countless people have pointed out its whatever suits people, not everyone prefer or can get it delivered to their house. I like the no frills, not having to wait around for a delivery of PM. I might get some things with Parcel Wizard but its hardly just going to suddenly take over. It won't.

Virtual · 04-11-2015 1:44am

I couldn't register either, so it must be a problem with their website. I'll try again tomorrow maybe.

mirec · 04-11-2015 1:51am

same problem here with registration :

Error occurred, please try again.

long_b · 04-11-2015 2:26am

Not a great start really. Nor is it a good sign of how seriously they're taking this new service.

Hoboo · 04-11-2015 4:42am

DPD from my experience are f****ing brutal.

My house is quite hidden though far from remote, I can see the M1 one field away. They deliver minimum one package per week, and it's always the same two drivers.

Yet when it's due it rarely comes, I ring, and they tell me there was an issue with the address........

Then when the driver calls me the next day, he says 'that's the house with the lab yeah?'.

I only use them because they're the company my supplier uses.

Parcel motel every time for me, mail me when it's in transit, mail me a photo of the package waiting comfortably on a sofa, and then a mail when it's in it's box, having a kip.

inforfun · 04-11-2015 8:53am

I think the big attraction of parcelmotel for most people is that they can pick their parcel up when it suits them instead of taking time off or having to go to some depot. The UK address was helpful too.
All DPD does, is creating a UK address for you.
Nice, but about 10 years too late.

Missing the point about that dpd, missing the point.

Kenny Logins · 04-11-2015 9:16am

inforfun wrote: »

I think the big attraction of parcelmotel for most people is that they can pick their parcel up when it suits them instead of taking time off or having to go to some depot. The UK address was helpful too.
All DPD does, is creating a UK address for you.
Nice, but about 10 years too late.

Missing the point about that dpd, missing the point.

Not really, the shipping cost direct to Ireland from UK on the majority of items on eBay is ridiculous. I'd much prefer to have them delivered to home/work instead of taking my lunch break or time after work to go pick up. For me, that's the whole point of it.

LittleMissDiva · 04-11-2015 9:23am

Muahahaha wrote: »

DPD/Parcel Wizard are offering 3 free deliveries for new users between now and the end of the year. Its like Parcel Motel except they deliver to your house instead of a locker.

Should be of use for the Xmas shopping next month.

https://www.dpdparcelwizard.ie/UK-Virtual-Address

Also their price of €3.85 to deliver to your door is pretty competitive given Parcel Motel charge €3.90 and you have to pick it up yourself. Good to see some competition in the market for this type of service.

brillant Thank you for sharing

soirish · 04-11-2015 9:40am

foxy_j wrote: »

Ya tried registering and the error message is coming up for me too...:(

Same here.

TheDriver · 04-11-2015 9:42am

Hoboo wrote: »

'that's the house with the lab yeah?'.

.

inforfun · 04-11-2015 9:47am

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Not really, the shipping cost direct to Ireland from UK on the majority of items on eBay is ridiculous. I'd much prefer to have them delivered to home/work instead of taking my lunch break or time after work to go pick up. For me, that's the whole point of it.

Of course it is, never said it wasnt. Delivery to Ireland is either not an option or it cost more than the budget for SW per year.

PM has the uk address and the pick it up at your convenience.
Deliveries at work never worked for me. Having a foreign name in Ireland doesnt help the mailroom or the reception to contact me when something is delivered.

ch750536 · 04-11-2015 9:49am

'An Error Occurred' still.

Curb Your Enthusiasm · 04-11-2015 9:59am

TheDriver wrote: »

Labrador I'm assuming. Unless he's running a breaking bad type operation

Yggr of Asgard · 04-11-2015 10:10am

I like the idea because if you combine it with the other functions of DPD that DPD offers via the parcelwizzard (hold/next day/other address/announcements) it means you can get the comfort of home delivery for the package for only €3.85 (after the 3 free ones). Parcelmotel charges €7.95 for their home service.

The added advantage is that with DPD you get a text with an hour delivery window (and can reschedule) while with Parcelmotel home service you have to guess.

They aim at different services here. DPD is home delivery for those of us who prefer that, while Parcelmotel offers collection when it suits unless you use the more expensive and less functionable home service.

Now if they would sort out the site so that one could actualy log on (existing customer here, can't log in with error occurred), that would be nice.

beazee · 04-11-2015 10:12am

Went through with the registration, alright.

But this time I allowed Flash on the site. <= could that be the issue?

Yggr of Asgard · 04-11-2015 10:17am

beazee wrote: »

Went through with the registration, alright.

But this time I allowed Flash on the site. <= could that be the issue?

I think they might have fixed the issue because I now can log in again.

vanti · 04-11-2015 10:27am

thanks op...nice to have a choice

flangemeistro · 04-11-2015 10:28am

I've been using parcel motel since it launched and it always ran like clockwork until this week when I got a flat packed orthopaedic chair for a family member who suffers from chronic arthritis delivered from a dublin retailer who doesn't deliver outside of Dublin to my Dublin Locker.

I knew it would be overweight and was willing to pay the overweight charges because I've done this once or twice before and I was basing my expected charges on an example given on their website of a 64kg 46 inch TV of €21.

Imagine my shock last night when I received an email telling me my card had been charged €112!

This is almost as much as the chair cost and now I'm gonna struggle for the rest of the week and I can't ask my family member for the money as they barely survive on disability benefit and used whatever they had saved on this chair.

I know people will say I shouldn't have registered the card and just topped up my account but I really didn't think I would ever be hit like this and I found the whole topping up procedure to slow down the delivery process.

Not saying DPD would have been any better but I'll be signing up with them after this.

Also their price of €3.85 isn't competing with parcel motels €3.90 it's competing with Parcel motels new delivery to your door service of €7.95 so they are a lot cheaper.

Kenny Logins · 04-11-2015 10:44am

inforfun wrote: »

Of course it is, never said it wasnt. Delivery to Ireland is either not an option or it cost more than the budget for SW per year.

PM has the uk address and the pick it up at your convenience.
Deliveries at work never worked for me. Having a foreign name in Ireland doesnt help the mailroom or the reception to contact me when something is delivered.

Make up your mind, are they completely missing the point or not?

They are going after the UK > PM > Door market, so of course that's what they'll mention in their marketing.

Basq · 04-11-2015 10:48am

Good god.. there's a lot of fluff in this thread!

Could be summarized by saying:

Use ParcelMotel if it suits (e.g not at home often, prefer collection on your own time 24 hours a day)
Use ParcelWizard if it suits (e.g Parcel Motel locker not near you, don't drive or have easy transport to a PM locker etc.)

Their services, while very similar, have enough differences to warrant using both.

inforfun · 04-11-2015 10:49am

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Make up your mind, are they completely missing the point or not?

They are going after the UK > PM > Door market, so of course that's what they'll mention in their marketing.

They are missing the point, in that they advertise that pick up at some box, as a negative.
For a lot of people that pick up at some box whenever it suits them, is just what they were looking for in PM.

Kenny Logins · 04-11-2015 10:54am

inforfun wrote: »

They are missing the point, in that they advertise that pick up at some box, as a negative.
For a lot of people that pick up at some box whenever it suits them, is just what they were looking for in PM.

They highlight it as a negative because they can't compete there, so to the rest of us that find locker pick up an inconvenience (their target market), it is a negative. They're not pitching to you.

The Ayatolla · 04-11-2015 11:12am

They could eventually build lockers and place them in non-Topaz locations....

Great to see a bit of competition. Dunno why people are getting so flustered over it.

bk · 04-11-2015 11:16am

Exactly, people seem to be missing the point here.

Either way PM will be losing lots of customers here. I'm not saying they will close down or go away, but PW, PC and An Post will all be cutting deeply into their market share now.

PM had two type of customers:
1) Those who can't take deliveries at home/work. Obviously PW won't change these people, however PC and An Posts new services may well cut into those.
2) People who used PM for deliveries from the UK, but could get deliveries to home/work. They had to either opt for a locker at €4 (inconvenient/out of the way) or home delivery at €8. Obviously PW service will steal all of these customers at home/work delivery of €4.

I predict now that after Christmas, as the competition heats up, PM will cut it's prices in half to €4 for home delivery and €2 for locker, in order to remain competitive.

The Ayatolla · 04-11-2015 11:18am

bk wrote: »

Exactly, people seem to be missing the point here.

Either way PM will be losing lots of customers here. I'm not saying they will close down or go away, but PW, PC and An Post will all be cutting deeply into their market share now.

PM had two type of customers:
1) Those who can't take deliveries at home/work. Obviously PW won't change these people, however PC and An Posts new services may well cut into those.
2) People who used PM for deliveries from the UK, but could get deliveries to home/work. They had to either opt for a locker at €4 (inconvenient/out of the way) or home delivery at €8. Obviously PW service will steal all of these customers at home/work delivery of €4.

I predict now that after Christmas, as the competition heats up, PM will cut it's prices in half to €4 for home delivery and €2 for locker, in order to remain competitive.

I was in the option 2 bucket. I'll be using DPD's service now in future, unless there's a rare time where I'm not at home or at work.

bk · 04-11-2015 11:19am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The An Post boxes are €69.99 ?
The internal dimensions should allow for the storage of a package 37cm long, 25cm high and 16.5cm wide.

Fantastic, as a person who shops at Amazon and ebay constantly I'm sold

Also great that you can use the box to send post and parcels.

However living in an Apartment, I have to wonder if it wouldn't be better if they following Deutsche Posts lead and put shared parcel motel style lockers in the apartment building, rather then having residents each have individual lockers.

LittleMissDiva · 04-11-2015 11:28am

working for me now after the error message :-)

Berty · 04-11-2015 11:31am

Here's a benefit. Your delivery to your home address won't be delayed because "its busy at Christmas so our lockers are full" which is PMs annual excuse.

trixiebust · 04-11-2015 1:02pm

Still wont let me register. After entering all my details, I don't get the email or phone verification.

Ambush Rebel 2010 · 04-11-2015 1:06pm

I found that it would only work on my PC and using Chrome. That may have been isolated to me but the only way i could get it to work.

04-11-2015 1:10pm

What I always found best about Parcel Motel is that a lot of apartment blocks simply cannot handle packages any bigger than.. well.. a tshirt.

LittleMissDiva · 04-11-2015 1:11pm

trixiebust wrote: »

Still wont let me register. After entering all my details, I don't get the email or phone verification.

I waited for 1 hour and than it was working fine for me - just leave it a while

Trond · 04-11-2015 1:37pm

Berty wrote: »

Here's a benefit. Your delivery to your home address won't be delayed because "its busy at Christmas so our lockers are full" which is PMs annual excuse.

Cant agree with you there. I ordered a load of stuff last xmas and was expecting some hassle given the time of year but everything arrived without a hitch.

Maybe its down to the individual area you are in as my own local motel would be very near their main warehouse..

MBSnr · 04-11-2015 1:51pm

^^^
I got a cached verify page this morning on Chrome but managed to login ok (I'd verified ok yesterday). Their calendar schedule feature seems to be a great thing. Most of the time I'd get it sent to work (set that as your home address). I can't work out exactly what the re-occurring schedule does. Perhaps if set for Mon-Fri one week, it drops to the next week after the Fri... Anyhow most of the time it can be left blank if you want delivery to your 'home address'.

Everyone has pros/cons of the Parcel services. I've had issues with both Parcel Motel and Parcel Connect.

The great thing is now there are 3 decent choices to suit everyone's requirements. Personally getting to a PMotel locker is an issue for me, but I can now get deliveries to work via PWizard or collect via PConnect at a Spar/Centra.

bk · 04-11-2015 1:55pm

Ambush Rebel 2010 wrote: »

I found that it would only work on my PC and using Chrome. That may have been isolated to me but the only way i could get it to work.

Worked fine using Firefox on Mac for me.

LittleMissDiva · 04-11-2015 1:57pm

Trond wrote: »

Cant agree with you there. I ordered a load of stuff last xmas and was expecting some hassle given the time of year but everything arrived without a hitch.

Maybe its down to the individual area you are in as my own local motel would be very near their main warehouse..

I'm using PM quite often and never had an issue with it - touch wood

bk · 04-11-2015 1:59pm

And the competition starts!

Just got an email at my company address of a special offer from Parcel Motel. 1 free stay and a reduced rate of €3.50 per stay until 31st December, 2015 for people who work at my company.

Funny how just a few months ago they assured me that they couldn't possibly charge less, that they absolutely had to increase prices to €3.90! Isn't competition great

04-11-2015 2:02pm

Looks like old BA favourite deliverme.ie is well and truly screwed now!

Muahahaha · 04-11-2015 3:04pm

flangemeistro wrote: »

I knew it would be overweight and was willing to pay the overweight charges because I've done this once or twice before and I was basing my expected charges on an example given on their website of a 64kg 46 inch TV of €21.

Imagine my shock last night when I received an email telling me my card had been charged €112!

This is almost as much as the chair cost and now I'm gonna struggle for the rest of the week and I can't ask my family member for the money as they barely survive on disability benefit and used whatever they had saved on this chair.
Also their price of €3.85 isn't competing with parcel motels €3.90 it's competing with Parcel motels new delivery to your door service of €7.95 so they are a lot cheaper.

€112 sounds crazy compared to €21 for a 64kg tv. If the chair was flatpacked for home assembly surely it can't of been a gigantic sized parcel? I know they base their prices on volumetric weight so it is a combination of size and weight that determines the price but even taking that into account €112 sounds like you might have been overcharged. Have you tried ringing them to query it?

bk wrote: »

And the competition starts!

Just got an email at my company address of a special offer from Parcel Motel. 1 free stay and a reduced rate of €3.50 per stay until 31st December, 2015 for people who work at my company.

Funny how just a few months ago they assured me that they couldn't possibly charge less, that they absolutely had to increase prices to €3.90! Isn't competition great

Great news, it didn't take them long to drop their price by 10%, they must be reading this thread

Kenny Logins · 04-11-2015 3:50pm

I haven't been able to log in once since registering.

Apt user name I suppose..

inforfun · 04-11-2015 4:04pm

Kenny Logins wrote: »

I haven't been able to log in once since registering.

Apt user name I suppose..

Especially when pronounced in Dutch.

_Whimsical_ · 04-11-2015 6:32pm

bk wrote: »

Fantastic, as a person who shops at Amazon and ebay constantly I'm sold

Also great that you can use the box to send post and parcels.

However living in an Apartment, I have to wonder if it wouldn't be better if they following Deutsche Posts lead and put shared parcel motel style lockers in the apartment building, rather then having residents each have individual lockers.

I think you may have overlooked the size of the planned An Post box,it's around the size of a shoe box.

DPD Parcel Wizard - DPD Pickup

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