City Link
For the love of God if you want to keep your sanity avoid this courier at all costs!!

My partner ordered a computer on Tuesday, and requested it be delivered on Friday. The courier was Shitty Link...so in true style they turn up on Thursday when there's no bugger at home. Partner calls..'oh yes sir, we'll have it to you tomorrow'.

Friday rolls around, i have the day off work to wait for the parcel. I let the cat out just at the right moment to see a Shitty Link van driving down the road with nary a wave or tinkle.

Call partner - who calls Shitty Link - who inform him that they forgot to put the package on the van. Well that's bloody terrific.

So partner asks if they can deliver on Saturday. 'Oh no, that costs extra sir'. Could they do it as a gesture of goodwill - seeings as they've buggered up twice?
'Well - we'll arrange to have it sent to you Saturday morning'.

Did it turn up Saturday morning?
Did it fucksocks.

Had to collect it ourselves yesterday. i hate them with all my soul.
(chili_kitten Cheese, peas and honey bees, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:27, 3 replies)

All I will say, to avoid trawling up some truly traumatic memories
is that Lynx are much, much, much worse than that.

Use Parcelforce, they seem to know what they're doing most of the time.
(Axeman Jim, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:34, closed)

I must concur
with the hatred of City Link. They are lying scum, having driven up to my door in a van and pushed a card through the door saying I wasn't in while I was standing in the hall watching the card fall to the floor. I still failed to catch the bastard in time.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:46, closed)

eBuyer use them
When I got my new PC bits from eBuyer, I stood and watched the delivery driver looking through the stack of parcels in the back of his van. he did this by picking each one up, checking the label, then throwing it over his shoulder into the opposite corner of the van.

Oh, and their Manchester depot is in the arse-end of nowhere. And only open for 30 seconds a day (ish).
(ScousersPet, Wed 7 May 2008, 13:17, closed)