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smok3y666
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Play dot com

Post by smok3y666 »

We were told in our Parcelfarce WTL this morning that we have lost the play.com contract but no one knows why. Anyone on here shed any light on this?
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Post by rhino49 »

probably because we can't handle the size of parcels they send - I had two tiny pieces of kit delivered this week - a phone battery and a bluetooth headset - ordered together and delivered seperately in packages that could have each contained a large copy in hardback of Mrs Beatons Cookery book - WHAT A WASTE OF SPACE AND PACKAGING
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doveston
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Post by doveston »

rhino49 wrote:probably because we can't handle the size of parcels they send - I had two tiny pieces of kit delivered this week - a phone battery and a bluetooth headset - ordered together and delivered seperately in packages that could have each contained a large copy in hardback of Mrs Beatons Cookery book - WHAT A WASTE OF SPACE AND PACKAGING
then thats the sort of contract rm should be fighting for,they send out items in oversive packages,seperatly.don't forget the futrue is packets and d2d.
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Post by DGP1 »

Parcelforce and RM Letters are two different businesses but even if it means that all Play.com parcels are being sent by rivals then the majority will still end up in the RM system via DSA (just like Amazon did a couple of years ago).
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smok3y666
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Re: Play dot com

Post by smok3y666 »

I haven't seen any Play stuff for a while and we were told if we had anything on our vans at any time it should be returned to the depot because everything was being sent back to them. We also lost the National Lottery contract a few months ago.
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Post by BELIAL »

Ah well, still mountains of s**t to keep me gainfully occupied :chuckle
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Post by Thorby Bislam »

I've had several play.coms this week, including two today.
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Post by dvbuk55 »

BELIAL wrote:Ah well, still mountains of s**t to keep me gainfully occupied :chuckle
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andy2007
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Post by andy2007 »

No-one told us!

We had the usual amont of Play.com items yesterday. I'll have to ask about it on Monday. See if I can find out anything about it.
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Re: Play dot com

Post by DGP1 »

I think it's a Parcelforce contract as opposed to a RM contract.
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andy2007
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Re: Play dot com

Post by andy2007 »

Phew! Thats a relief! They send quite a lot of small parcels through us, every day. If we lost that contract, it'd hit is hard, as it's all 1st Class.
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