(18 Dec 2014, 9:47 pm)aureolin wrote I've rarely had issues this year. I usually get the same bloke delivering, and I just ring him when I get the first card, and he'll drop it off as agreed.

It's been more the fact Black Friday/Cyber Monday crippled the operation - parcels on 'next day delivery' last week were being delivered 3 or more days later. At one point, we had over 500 trailers full of parcels stuck awaiting unloading in our 3 hub centres (Shaw in Oldham, Wednesbury in Birmingham and Hatfield in London) and it almost reached a stage where we were running out of empty trailers for them to load. Resulted in most (but not all) of the sort centres running shifts on Sunday morning to clear the backlog - we at Stockton didn't have to do a Sunday morning shift we just started our Monday shift late on Sunday night, after all we are presently the third top depot in the country.