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geoffc60
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Track & Trace 'Pre-Advice'

Post by geoffc60 »

Am awaiting delivery of a computer modem from BT it was sent yesterday. I have a tracking reference and according to royal mail track & trace its status is on 'Pre-advice Received'

Contacted BT this evening who said BT have made a mistake and I should have had it by now. Basically RM's fault.

Anybody heard of anything like this before?

BT's forums are littered with similar experiences.
barrowc
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Re: Track & Trace 'Pre-Advice'

Post by barrowc »

Customers using certain Tracked services submit an electronic pre-advice to Royal Mail which tells RM which packages to expect. The pre-advice is usually the first tracking event for those items and is followed by various Accepted and Delivered scans. It is certainly possible to pre-advise an item and not actually send it on that day. I don't think that anyone here could do more than speculate on whether that has happened in your case though - theoretically either BT, RM or both could be at fault

Keep an eye on http://www.royalmail.com/trackdetails to see if your item starts to move through the netwrok