Our presents are sitting in their depot 25 minutes from our house. If they had contacted us yesterday or even this morning we could have gone and collected them but they didn’t even do this. I leave the country on the 27th back for my work in indonesia so I won’t even be here to receive the gifts and wrap them.

Shame on City Link - they have ruined Christmas.

Paul

Had my first delivery experience of Citylink today. Or should I say lack of.

Expected guaranteed delivery of an HD ready TV, Nice little 19 inch LCD thing. Some wires I needed ordered at same time arrived via Royal Mail. Fine.

TV’s bigger. Must be coming by courier I think. Check amazon and it states delivery arrived at 9.20. Check on Citylinks page and same story.

2 things. Amazon states its delivered simply to a town name which is about 5 miles away. Citylink tracking states simply its been signed for by someone called Harris.

My surname is not and is nothing like Harris. The town is 5 miles away. Citylink had no record of this other town but definately the Harris. WTF????

(A) Major mistake by Citylink in getting totally wrong address? HOW?
(B) Obviously someone dodgy called Harris who said. “Yeah, he lives here, lets see whats for christmas”.

Perhaps that or a dodgy local Citylink driver giving things to mates?

Citylink with all due respect stated they’d call me back and did so within 10 mins. No explanation given other than drivers going back to the house he went to to see if its there. AGAIN. WTF!!!!!!! even though they re-iterated it wasn’t that town.

Aparently the call centre told me he should be here in the next hour. Crossed fingers.

HUGE mistakes. Dont think any of my Amazon deliveries have come via Citylink before. I could be wrong.

Perhaps Amazon are cutting costs in the UK on this Citylink. Could be a big mistake on their part. Just done a google on Citylink problems which has brought to light a worrying number of complaints about them and hence led me to rant here. Lol

Albino

I am very thin and although i have not sized myself in American terms I did try on a pair of size 0 trousers when over there and they fit so I think I must be pretty close. the difference is that I am naturally this size - no matter how much or little I eat but my weight does not fluctuate so I dont have a choice.

People seem to assume that when you are thin you diet to get that way. People say that you should be your natural size but apparently that doesnt count if your thin. this is evident by the fact that I am constantly criticised for the way I look. The most recent insult being something along the lines of “I dont think skinny people look attractive, lizzie - you’re really thin - do you actually like being THAT skinny”

Lets here the flip side of that conversation. “I just dont think fat people are attractive - hey you’re really fat -do you really like being THAT fat” I would like to know if anyone reading this thinks that that would be an acceptable thing to say to anyone. Its a good job I have high self esteem otherwise I think I would have gone the other way and developed a binge eating disorder by now.

Anyhoo to sum up - starvation diets - definitely NOT a good thing and if you are starving yourself to reach size 0 then that is obviously not good BUT, not all thin people starve themselves to get that way.

Be nice to skinny people - we’re people too!

The problems I’ve had of late have probably been even worse and Amazon customer services have done little to help me.

My last 5 “one day” consequitive deliveries by CL have all taken 3 days and during this the web site says it’s out on delivery for the first day and never changes. So they keep you in waiting for as long as possible.

If I total up the no. of failed deliveries this year alone it’s well into the double figures. And it’s not just deliveries to my house but to other parts of the country as well.

One thing I still can’t make my mind up about if whether it’s Amazon cocking up or just CL. e.g. my last 3 labels (I started keeping them now - how sad is that) all say they were picked 2 days after Amazon told me they were? Also, they have the word REROUT on them which I’m told means rerouted but I don’t know how significant that is. Makes you imagine they don’t know where the hell it’s going!

Generally, I’m pleased with Amazon and use them a lot. One day Royal Mail always arrives on time. But when it comes to this I just can’t get any sense out of anyone and no one is doing anything specfically to address it apparently despite the numerous emails I’ve sent them.

What really gets me is the canned responses I get. Full of corporate platitudes. Amazon treats this very seriously and is does their best to ensure the customers is satisified blah blah. But when I ask them what are they doing specifically about my case - after all the excuses and corporate bull - nothing it would appear!

Funnily I wouldn’t rate CL the worst ever. That prize for me goes to Amtrak if they’re still in business but that’s another story.

Sorry rant over. Bangs head on desk repeatedly…

He writes on his web site:

“Because I believe in the dignity of all, in the potential that freedom brings and in the beauty of difference I am a liberal.”

I think what he actually means is I believe in the dignity of some, in the potential that the abuse of power brings and in the beauty of the alike I am a bigot.

I paid it the other day using 1p and 2p coins and stood for 25mins whilst the poor attendant at the council had to count it all out and queues built up.

In future I suggest not bothering to park in Gateshead, or at worst if you get a fine pay it in pennies at lunch time.