City link go tits up

clippedgull · Dec 25, 2014

If you are expecting a parcel via City Link you are going to have to pick it up from the depot yourself

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30602326

Barrel of Fun · Dec 25, 2014

Lots of redundancies. Merry Christmas

Better Capital own an odd bunch.

http://www.bettercapital.london/fund-portfolio.cfm

Brian Fantana · Dec 25, 2014

Not surprising. They've been making a loss for a long time.

Publius Ovidius · Dec 25, 2014

Jesus, they are one four cloud customers!

Ah!!!

AlbionPics&SouthCoastTwit · Dec 25, 2014

clippedgull said:
If you are expecting a parcel via City Link you are going to have to pick it up from the depot yourself

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30602326

Here are the last two packages. They were delivered to their employees.

Beach Hut · Dec 25, 2014

Sadly they have lost money for years and were sold for £1 not that long ago.

Bad news on the job front though

seagullsovergrimsby · Dec 25, 2014

Shame they couldn't survive a bit longer as click and collect (with a pick up point option from local corner shops) seems to be taking off.

GoldWithFalmer · Dec 25, 2014

seagullsovergrimsby said:
Shame they couldn't survive a bit longer as click and collect (with a pick up point option from local corner shops) seems to be taking off.

City link deliver click and collect to retail outlets,however the likes of newer players DPD have been eating into the market share over the years.

Herr Tubthumper · Dec 25, 2014

seagullsovergrimsby said:
Shame they couldn't survive a bit longer as click and collect (with a pick up point option from local corner shops) seems to be taking off.

This is huge in Berlin. I have three local shops (a newsagents, a dry cleaners and a locksmith) where my packets get delivered.

GoldWithFalmer · Dec 25, 2014

Herr Tubthumper said:
This is huge in Berlin. I have three local shops (a newsagents, a dry cleaners and a locksmith) where my packets get delivered.

can be a pain stuck in a que wating for a shop staff to find a parcel tho,increase in insurance premiums for shops to pass to the customer too.

easynow · Dec 25, 2014

What a dick move to do this over the christmas period.

seagullsovergrimsby · Dec 25, 2014

GoldWithFalmer said:
City link deliver click and collect to retail outlets,however the likes of newer players DPD have been eating into the market share over the years.

Some of the newer entrants don't give a **** about the package they're delivering , my son ordered a Karcher window vac for my Xmas present and because he wasn't in when they turned up it was lobbed over the garden wall onto the patio.

GoldWithFalmer · Dec 25, 2014

seagullsovergrimsby said:
Some of the newer entrants don't give a **** about the package they're delivering , my son ordered a Karcher window vac for my Xmas present and because he wasn't in when they turned up it was lobbed over the garden wall onto the patio.

This can be a problem and you cannot always when ordering have a say over what carrier company the sender may use,some carriers insist on signatures and no doorstopping such as you highlight,it's a difficult one...of the bigger players DPD in my area are very good as are TNT and UPS.....but i guess a lot comes down to the driver,does he/she take pride in their work,this can vary area to area..

Herr Tubthumper · Dec 25, 2014

GoldWithFalmer said:
can be a pain stuck in a que wating for a shop staff to find a parcel tho,increase in insurance premiums for shops to pass to the customer too.

I'm not how it works financially, or how it actually works in the shop, but it does work and it works very well. I used it a lot in the past month. Surely there is a huge saving to the courier company with no storage at their site and/or repeat attempts at the residential address which can be passed on as a payment to the shop and/or customer? It's taken off big-time so there must be some good to be had.

champion7 · Dec 25, 2014

I always have mine delivered to work,if I'm not there then someone else signs for it.

Barrel of Fun · Dec 25, 2014

seagullsovergrimsby said:
Some of the newer entrants don't give a **** about the package they're delivering , my son ordered a Karcher window vac for my Xmas present and because he wasn't in when they turned up it was lobbed over the garden wall onto the patio.

I saw a family deliver a package to a neighbour. Three or four parcels ended up on the road before they found the right one. They found a recipient, but the kids looked very bored.

crookie · Dec 25, 2014

Owner driver for UKMail, we were told 6 weeks ago they were folding after xmas, so no surprise really, union can't have had their ear to the ground if it was a surprise to them. Just need Yodel and Hermes to follow suit and hopefully rates can move up again, they've only moved downwards in recent years because of these, which is ridiculous considering the amount of stuff being ordered online, as the chaos this xmas has proved. Depots so busy they can't get the freight out and delivered, yet no-one is making much money ? Absolutely crazy.

Raleigh Chopper · Dec 26, 2014

crookie said:
Owner driver for UKMail, we were told 6 weeks ago they were folding after xmas, so no surprise really, union can't have had their ear to the ground if it was a surprise to them. Just need Yodel and Hermes to follow suit and hopefully rates can move up again, they've only moved downwards in recent years because of these, which is ridiculous considering the amount of stuff being ordered online, as the chaos this xmas has proved. Depots so busy they can't get the freight out and delivered, yet no-one is making much money ? Absolutely crazy.

If this is the case then why not announce it 2 weeks ago or earlier, why Christmas Day FFS do they get some sort of ultimate power trip out of it. Businesses that do this make my piss boil.

Wozza · Dec 26, 2014

easynow said:
What a dick move to do this over the christmas period.

Bit of an odd time to deliver news to their employees. Then again, if they were better at deliveries...

Pinkie Brown · Dec 26, 2014

Raleigh Chopper said:
If this is the case then why not announce it 2 weeks ago or earlier, why Christmas Day FFS do they get some sort of ultimate power trip out of it. Businesses that do this make my piss boil.

Its the lowest of low acts. No excuse for it at all. Worse than the stunt Phones 4U pulled a couple of months back when they announced they were ceasing trading at 8pm on a Sunday night.

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