> Not delivering before the "due date" is SOP with UPS (In the States).

Here Fedex have no problem with delivering ahead of due date - and
manage to do so for me reasonably often - even when parcels are sent
economy rate.

Conversely, DHL have had brain fade and think that one day commitment
for local end delivery means ***MUST*** leave in van for one day, even
if the driver has the parcel before 7am on a given morning, regardless
of overall commitment date. I have seldom had more stupid explanations
advanced for why businesses do what they do than by DHL locally. I say
"seldom" as I occasionally have to deal with the local incarnation of
Vodafone. I assume, from the good things that people say elsewhere,
that this must be a special malignant malformation of the mother
organisation, or that they may even have an 8 Wakeling Avenue branch,
set up especially to deal with me. Their local cell site seems to get
in on the act. Getting half decent coverage here requires placing the
cellphone at the focus of a suitably pointed parabolic dish (do NOT
leave dish in sun / Doh!) and "service" here is often supplied from a
cell site about 6 miles away, despite there being many closer ones.


 Russell
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