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International Specials.

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BingBong
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International Specials.

Post by BingBong »

If a internatonal special delivery item (the ones that have to delivered by 5:30pm) fails to be scanned at the delivery point whether it be delivered or undelivered, does this show up on the system the same way as a normal UK special 1pm delivery does? I'm curious because I have numerous international packets on my walk that loom identical to some special internationals. Some with signatures. Some without.
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Re: International Specials.

Post by IcanthelpthewayIam »

There is no international special deliveries that need to be done by 5.30pm

Any international specials which need to be done (by 1pm) will be handed to you by the locker just the same as your normal specials and yes their failures show up exactly the same as the uk ones.

Anything which is showing up in a parcel bag looking like an international special is not one
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Re: International Specials.

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zx135 wrote:There is no international special deliveries that need to be done by 5.30pm

Any international specials which need to be done (by 1pm) will be handed to you by the locker just the same as your normal specials and yes their failures show up exactly the same as the uk ones.

Anything which is showing up in a parcel bag looking like an international special is not one
there are in our office. maybe its 15:30 but there are. as we do them all the time. can anyone clarify what these are. sometimes they have us post, or deutche post on them. and these are given to us by the locker.
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Re: International Specials.

Post by wotashitjob »

There was something in the courier a while back asking the same question about the times of international items to be scanned by and they said there is no time on them as long as you scan them in on the day you get them.Think Moya said it
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Re: International Specials.

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wotashitjob wrote:There was something in the courier a while back asking the same question about the times of international items to be scanned by and they said there is no time on them as long as you scan them in on the day you get them.Think Moya said it
we do get given them by our locker. i just wondered if they show up as failures and what not the same way a standard special does?
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Re: International Specials.

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wotashitjob wrote:There was something in the courier a while back asking the same question about the times of international items to be scanned by and they said there is no time on them as long as you scan them in on the day you get them.Think Moya said it
YES i read that also
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Re: International Specials.

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BingBong wrote:
zx135 wrote:There is no international special deliveries that need to be done by 5.30pm

Any international specials which need to be done (by 1pm) will be handed to you by the locker just the same as your normal specials and yes their failures show up exactly the same as the uk ones.

Anything which is showing up in a parcel bag looking like an international special is not one
there are in our office. maybe its 15:30 but there are. as we do them all the time. can anyone clarify what these are. sometimes they have us post, or deutche post on them. and these are given to us by the locker.

There is no such thing in any office, only the ones that come in the specials bags are treated differently and they are treated exactly as specials
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Re: International Specials.

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zx135 wrote:
BingBong wrote:
zx135 wrote:There is no international special deliveries that need to be done by 5.30pm

Any international specials which need to be done (by 1pm) will be handed to you by the locker just the same as your normal specials and yes their failures show up exactly the same as the uk ones.

Anything which is showing up in a parcel bag looking like an international special is not one
there are in our office. maybe its 15:30 but there are. as we do them all the time. can anyone clarify what these are. sometimes they have us post, or deutche post on them. and these are given to us by the locker.

There is no such thing in any office, only the ones that come in the specials bags are treated differently and they are treated exactly as specials
ok must just be our office then. there must be a reason why the locker gives us them. and they arent normal specials either.
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Re: International Specials.

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BingBong wrote:
zx135 wrote:
BingBong wrote:
zx135 wrote:There is no international special deliveries that need to be done by 5.30pm

Any international specials which need to be done (by 1pm) will be handed to you by the locker just the same as your normal specials and yes their failures show up exactly the same as the uk ones.

Anything which is showing up in a parcel bag looking like an international special is not one
there are in our office. maybe its 15:30 but there are. as we do them all the time. can anyone clarify what these are. sometimes they have us post, or deutche post on them. and these are given to us by the locker.

There is no such thing in any office, only the ones that come in the specials bags are treated differently and they are treated exactly as specials
ok must just be our office then. there must be a reason why the locker gives us them. and they arent normal specials either.

The international ones don't look like normal specials, they are just treated as them, if your locker is handing them out then that is the international ones for the special bags and they do require to be delivered by 1pm we have no other product with a delivery time other than 9am or 1pm any other time you are being told is made up
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Re: International Specials.

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wotashitjob wrote:There was something in the courier a while back asking the same question about the times of international items to be scanned by and they said there is no time on them as long as you scan them in on the day you get them.Think Moya said it

this is what we told our boss, however he said they are coming out of the locker as specials so they should be treated as such.


sometimes no signature required, they have said they need to capture the signature to get paid, so why not treat as tracked? seems to be a bit of a mix up?
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Re: International Specials.

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zx135 wrote:
BingBong wrote:
zx135 wrote:
BingBong wrote:
zx135 wrote:There is no international special deliveries that need to be done by 5.30pm

Any international specials which need to be done (by 1pm) will be handed to you by the locker just the same as your normal specials and yes their failures show up exactly the same as the uk ones.

Anything which is showing up in a parcel bag looking like an international special is not one
there are in our office. maybe its 15:30 but there are. as we do them all the time. can anyone clarify what these are. sometimes they have us post, or deutche post on them. and these are given to us by the locker.

There is no such thing in any office, only the ones that come in the specials bags are treated differently and they are treated exactly as specials
ok must just be our office then. there must be a reason why the locker gives us them. and they arent normal specials either.

The international ones don't look like normal specials, they are just treated as them, if your locker is handing them out then that is the international ones for the special bags and they do require to be delivered by 1pm we have no other product with a delivery time other than 9am or 1pm any other time you are being told is made up
i dont know then. not sure why none of us have had failures for delivering after 1pm if they are meant to be treated the same. who knows.
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Re: International Specials.

Post by A2B »

Our office is roughly split between driving duties and HCT, all domestic specials are delivered by the vans in case the HCT won't make it before the deadline. All foreign "specials" are issued to the HCT duties as they are not time dependent and just have to be delivered that day.

I've had two identical packages going to the same address, both required scanning but one was issued as a special the other just came through as normal parcel, the value printed on the outside was identical too
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Re: International Specials.

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A2B wrote:Our office is roughly split between driving duties and HCT, all domestic specials are delivered by the vans in case the HCT won't make it before the deadline. All foreign "specials" are issued to the HCT duties as they are not time dependent and just have to be delivered that day.

I've had two identical packages going to the same address, both required scanning but one was issued as a special the other just came through as normal parcel, the value printed on the outside was identical too
this must be what ours are.
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Re: International Specials.

Post by Scotland1 »

If u receive a international special from the locker, it isn't guaranteed for 1pm so do not take notice of ur boss, how can it be guaranteed by 1pm when it is taken days to get here in the first place
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Re: International Specials.

Post by windermeredave »

we deliver many internationals after 13.00. never been pulled up for a failure yet