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WezV

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Building a Warmouth parts guitar
« Reply #30 on: December 28, 2007, 02:02:46 PM »
same here, i just payed one for £24.65 so that £11.15 vat and 13.50 clearance fee.  The way parcelfarce try to do it is hold on to it a few days, then try and deliver and collect customs on the day - dont tell you that they tried to deliver it.  then send a letter for the customs about to pay before they deliver.  On the one i have just payed online the redelivery date set itself to the next available day, so tomorrow on a saturday.  Luckily i read the little note above that said it would cost £12 extra for a saturday delivery before i clicked ok.

I much prefer DHL who will get the parcel to me and just send me a bill at the end of the month... and only charge £1.25 admin.  although they annoyed me yesterday when i was watching the order tracking so knew a parcel was en route.  I go into another room to cook my breakfast and when i return theres a card on the door mat :x  My house is only a little terrace - there is no more than 8 metres between my front door and my kitchen and all the doors were open between them.  But i phoned them up and they got him to come back - he said it was the 3rd one that day he had to go back to..... Take the bloody hint and knock a little bit louder!!!!

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« Reply #31 on: December 28, 2007, 02:49:01 PM »
FedEx are the same as DHL.  They send you a letter about 10 days after the package has arrived with what you owe them, and their admin charges are significantly lower than those of ParcelFarce too.

What gets me is that our village seems to be on the starter route for DHL, UPS, FedEx, City Link, and others so I tend to get my parcels before I go to work.  ParcelFarce (who's depot is nearest) always seems to get to mine about 2pm by which time I'm never at home even if I have gone back at lunchtime.  TNT is the worst because they're based in Bury St Edmunds, and if you're not in to get your parcel that's a bloody long way to go to collect a parcel from Norwich!  Plus if you want it re-delivered on a Saturday it costs you more! :evil:
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