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Scotland to Southen in 6 hours??

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jw1969
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Scotland to Southen in 6 hours??

Post by jw1969 »

Hi all, i have a parcel sent from west midlands to Dumfries (scotland) on 27th track and trace is showing a very strange movement, i.e from north western to carlise, i expect then for it to show a Dumfries Do (where i live) but it bizzarely then shows it is ready for delivery at Southend on Sea DO. - 350 miles away? is it possible for the track point to be wrong? seems odd to suddenly pop up that far south in that time scale?? cheers

29-OCT-2014 06:15 Ready For Delivery Southend-On-Sea DO
29-OCT-2014 02:02 Sales Order Raised
28-OCT-2014 22:31 Accepted at Inward Mail Centre Carlisle Mail Centre
28-OCT-2014 03:28 Outward RDC Volumetric Acceptance North Western Distribution Centre
27-OCT-2014 16:53 Pre-advice Received
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IcanthelpthewayIam
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Re: Scotland to Southen in 6 hours??

Post by IcanthelpthewayIam »

That timescale is pretty normal, royal mail use airplanes during the night to transport mail across the country so going from one end to the other in a few hours is normal. it is possible that it's an errornous scan, though unlikely. It has either been misread and sent there in error or you have been given the wrong tracking number or the wrong address or postcode has been printed on your parcel.

I would contact the sender to get them to chase up what has happened to the item
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fishtank
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Re: Scotland to Southen in 6 hours??

Post by fishtank »

It's more likely that the sender has given you the wrong tracking number and you're tracking the wrong parcel but yes things can travel that fast.

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jw1969
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Re: Scotland to Southen in 6 hours??

Post by jw1969 »

zx135 wrote:That timescale is pretty normal, royal mail use airplanes during the night to transport mail across the country so going from one end to the other in a few hours is normal. it is possible that it's an errornous scan, though unlikely. It has either been misread and sent there in error or you have been given the wrong tracking number or the wrong address or postcode has been printed on your parcel.

I would contact the sender to get them to chase up what has happened to the item
thanks both - it was delivered today, so it must have been an erroneous scan, quite funny when it says 'Ready for delivery in Southend DO, delivered in Dumfries Scotland) 4 hours later. Now thats what i call an impressive delivery :) heres the proof

29-OCT-2014 10:28 DELIVERED - No Signature Dumfries DO
29-OCT-2014 06:15 Ready For Delivery Southend-On-Sea DO
29-OCT-2014 02:02 Sales Order Raised
28-OCT-2014 22:31 Accepted at Inward Mail Centre Carlisle Mail Centre
28-OCT-2014 03:28 Outward RDC Volumetric Acceptance North Western Distribution Centre
27-OCT-2014 16:53 Pre-advice Received

anyway, alls well that ends well. cheers.
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