Millions of presents will get lost in the post

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 13 Dec 2007, 06:18

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 042873.ece

Up to six million families face a Christmas Day of apologies and excuses as gifts ordered online fail to arrive on time or disappear altogether.

Research suggests that if the failure rate remains the same as last year, 5.6 million parcels will either be returned to sender or disposed of by the carrier. Another 700,000 presents will trickle in after December 25.

Even conservative estimates suggest that Britons taking part in the online shopping boom, which reached a new high this week when Â£370 million was spent online in a single day, will find that 1.5 million gifts will go astray.

Paul Galpin, of dsicmm, the direct communications company behind the research, said that delivery companies had not learnt the lessons of last year. â€œNothing materially has changed in the way that distribution companies are handling the parcels,â€

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 13 Dec 2007, 06:19

Must be a slow news day they are reporting a story before its even had a chance to come true.

not me · Post by **not me** » 13 Dec 2007, 14:28

and how many are sop poorly addressed without return addresses that they cannot be delivered
or so badly packaged the virtually disintegrate in the system.

very slow news day!