The Interparcel & bikes / bike frames joke!

add595
add595 Posts: 196
edited May 2012 in The Crudcatcher
Well after years of p*** poor customer service, but otherwise acceptable delivery, I have just realised what a joke Interparcel are.

Booked a bike frame to be sent through their economy service (UPS) last night. Got up early(ish) this morning to wait for them as they usually arrive at 08:30-09:30, no sign of them at 10:15... Checked emails and what do you know, apparently bicycle frames (as they are extremely fragile and prone to shattering I guess) are a prohibited item! And to make this even more hilarious, I have read UPS's prohibited items directly, on their own website, and it mentions nothing about bikes/frames being prohibited!

So this is a heads-up to anyone sending such items, which will be a few of you I guess.

Interparcel have lost a customer unless they provide a reasonable explanation for this.

Oh, and Parcel Monkey has gained more custom from me.
2009 Giant Trance X5
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Comments

  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,980
    That's a crap joke.

    This is a crudcatcher joke.......

    Gazlar walking through the woods at night with FoxC.
    FoxC: "These woods sure are scary!"
    Gazlar: "Dunno what you're complaining about-I have to walk home alone..."

    Or

    What is 18 inches long, stiff and makes women scream at night?










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  • pauljoes
    pauljoes Posts: 186
    Being a driver for ups this seems to be interparcel issue not ups as we do collect bikes and have a contact with royal dolton which I Suspose would come under the fragile bracket. This is surely just is for insurance purposes they use, of it's packed correctly it won't get damaged or so I tell my customers, not like some muppet that wanted to send a car bonnet with just a label on it not raping and asked will it be ok like that......
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    This thread needs to be moved to the Commuting forum.
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  • Raymondavalon
    Raymondavalon Posts: 5,346
    pauljoes wrote:
    not like some muppet that wanted to send a car bonnet with just a label on it not raping and asked will it be ok like that......

    A man who rapes a car bonnet? How bizarre!!
  • pauljoes
    pauljoes Posts: 186
    My apologies wrapping I meant........
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  • bennett_346
    bennett_346 Posts: 5,029
    Dry night for teh CC then
  • Gazlar
    Gazlar Posts: 8,083
    That's a crap joke.

    This is a crudcatcher joke.......

    Gazlar walking through the woods at night with FoxC.
    FoxC: "These woods sure are scary!"
    Gazlar: "Dunno what you're complaining about-I have to walk home alone..."

    Yes..............................joke, thats right
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