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Heard it all now

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deanomac83
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Heard it all now

Post by deanomac83 »

Collared by the guvnor last Saturday. No lie, he said to me: 'We've had a complaint from a customer on X road who HAS NOT received a particular D2D. UNBELIEVABLE. Is this a first? also, could someone dig me out a quote of D2D delivery i.e. 100% is sometimes unachievable..... :crazy:
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How is 100% not achievable? You just take all the D2Ds for that address and put them through the door. :hmmmm
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Fair point. Not enough time perhaps. Anyway you have to pretty damn sad to complain.... :roll:
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deanomac83 wrote:Fair point. Not enough time perhaps. Anyway you have to pretty damn sad to complain.... :roll:
True but you never know if someone works for the company sending out the D2Ds so it's always best to just give them everything (unless you run out or they have an opt out).
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deanomac83 wrote: Is this a first?
No.
Every six weeks or so we deliver a voucher book.
We always get at least a couple who insist they didn't get it....they are liars. :neutral:
good times, bad times you know I've had my share
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deanomac83 wrote:Fair point. Not enough time perhaps. Anyway you have to pretty damn sad to complain.... :roll:
Or working for the organisation that sent it out.
Or working for a marketing organisation that tracks them.
Or part of the panel that reports on Royal Mail compliance

etc.

There are many reasons why someone would complain. The idea we have to get used to, and its going to take forever I know, is that D2D is just another mail stream that we have to deal with, and if we can't - it managements problem and to a lesser degree the Unions.
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deanomac83
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Re: Heard it all now

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fishtank wrote:
deanomac83 wrote: Is this a first?
No.
Every six weeks or so we deliver a voucher book.
We always get at least a couple who insist they didn't get it....they are liars. :neutral:
Ahh it may have been the rather large bloke at no. x. We delivered some money off coupons for frozen chips the other week :Very Happy
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deanomac83 wrote:
fishtank wrote:
deanomac83 wrote: Is this a first?
No.
Every six weeks or so we deliver a voucher book.
We always get at least a couple who insist they didn't get it....they are liars. :neutral:
Ahh it may have been the rather large bloke at no. x. We delivered some money off coupons for frozen chips the other week :Very Happy
Ahh methinks you could be being Fatist there. :hmmmm
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deanomac83 wrote:Collared by the guvnor last Saturday. No lie, he said to me: 'We've had a complaint from a customer on X road who HAS NOT received a particular D2D. UNBELIEVABLE. Is this a first? also, could someone dig me out a quote of D2D delivery i.e. 100% is sometimes unachievable..... :crazy:
My my. there are some sad b*stards in this world arn't they. I am sure if they asked their neighbours they would have let them scrounge in their bin to have theirs.
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DGP1 wrote:How is 100% not achievable? You just take all the D2Ds for that address and put them through the door. :hmmmm
boarded up houses, no access.
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daveyeff wrote:
DGP1 wrote:How is 100% not achievable? You just take all the D2Ds for that address and put them through the door. :hmmmm
boarded up houses, no access.
They should be updated on the A+ system and taken off the D2D system.
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DGP1 wrote:
daveyeff wrote:
DGP1 wrote:How is 100% not achievable? You just take all the D2Ds for that address and put them through the door. :hmmmm
boarded up houses, no access.
They should be updated on the A+ system and taken off the D2D system.
they arent though, some inaccessable addressess may only be undeliverable for a short while. i.e, letterbox screwed down because the addressee has gone away. then a few weeks later, it accessable as someone else has moved in. in these instances they dont bother their arses to faff about updating the count, then re-updating.
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Post by Indy »

fishtank wrote:
deanomac83 wrote: Is this a first?
No.
Every six weeks or so we deliver a voucher book.
We always get at least a couple who insist they didn't get it....they are liars. :neutral:
:Applause

Same here, whenever anything of any 'value' goes out as D2D we get complaints that items weren't received. Last one was for Mcdonalds :crazy: as there was a free coffee voucher :left:
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Post by ebbzie »

Indy wrote:
fishtank wrote:
deanomac83 wrote: Is this a first?
No.
Every six weeks or so we deliver a voucher book.
We always get at least a couple who insist they didn't get it....they are liars. :neutral:
:Applause

Same here, whenever anything of any 'value' goes out as D2D we get complaints that items weren't received. Last one was for Mcdonalds :crazy: as there was a free coffee voucher :left:
I have seen the D2D with subway vouchers on sale on E Bay!!!!!!!
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Post by PhilthyPhil »

deanomac83 wrote: could someone dig me out a quote of D2D delivery i.e. 100% is sometimes unachievable..... :crazy:
From the D2D terms of service
4c4 We allow for a 5% difference (under or over) in the estimated total number of items we will deliver. If the overall total we actually deliver falls short by more than 5% of the estimated total, we may credit you an amount equal to the amount of the shortfall, as long as the shortfall has not been caused by you either failing to provide enough items for us to deliver or delivering the items to the handover point late.