Manky Monkey Motors

Feeling really fed up with waiting around for deliveries that don't turn up.
Over the past few years, I've had a quite a few parcels go missing. At one point, I joked that somewhere, someone, was building a trike just like mine from the bits that disappeared enroute.
Recently a company who's name resembles an alpine form of singing, managed to lose, or as they put it "missing in transit" a pair of wire spoked wheels, one of which had a tyre on it. This is a package, that is 27" diameter 9" deep weighs 50lb and looks like, well, two wheels and a tyre ! How can you lose that !
 I am now waiting for a vintage car radiator, that was supposed to be delivered on Thursday. God I hope it's been packed extremely well, otherwise, I hate to think what sort of state it will be in, if it ever gets here, after being tossed around in vans and warehouses, sorry, distribution centres, for the past week.
With it being a bank holiday, it will be Tuesday before there is any chance of it being delivered.

Rant over. For now anyway.

Seriously Dave, pay for the petrol & I'll pick up your parts personally. I really enjoy roadtrips. The Alpine boys are one of the worst outfits in the business, but they're cheap. That's why people use them.
Really hope your parts arrive soon -don't want your project to stall because of crummy couriers.

Never heard of them ? I used some courier guy for my wheels..amazing sense of duty he displayed..went out of his way,despite being ill with food poisoning

I have to appologise to RM as it seems the sender decided to ship it via APC (never heard of them) next day tracked and signed for. Should have arrived on the 25th.

I've always used http://www.myparceldelivery.com they are good prices are cheap and they are relieble no matter shape or size they will take it.

i ordered and paid for a bull bar for my van nearly two weeks ago,not heard anything yet,i went away for the weekend expecting it to be here as promised last thursday,...more phone calls and emails now. >:(

Crazy! where can all these parcels go there must be millions of parcels MIA that are no good to anyone.

No sign of the wheels, so tomorrow I shall be asking for a refund. Still can't quite work out how larger items can go "missing in transit" or are Ford now building vans with TARDIS like capabilities.   
I have been assured that the radiator will be delivered tomorrow.  ::) We shall see.

Maybe they've been fitted on the Transit.

 :D
Well another day totally wasted waiting for the rad.
 After phoning the depot and being assured that the parcel, really was on the van and would definitely be delivered today..... nada, zip, zilch, nothing.  >:(
A parcel, ordered from China just last week, arrived today with no problems.

You want to ask them WHERE it's being delivered - my daughter was told her parcel had been delivered and signed for - which it had, but not to her!

I know what you mean BG.  :)
They have not delivered it anywhere, it just keeps going back to the depot. I have a horrible feeling that it may have got mangled and the drivers don't want to face the customer. This has happened before.
Called the local depot and was informed that, "yes it was on the van yesterday, but it's not today"! ???
As a token of goodwill, it has been booked as a pre 10.00 am delivery for tomorrow, without charging any more for early delivery. What that really means is, they are not going to charge extra, for delivering it ten days late, on a next day service ! ::)

think i would have lost my temper by now!!!!!! big time!!!!

mine turned up yesterday,not by a courier as i was told but parcel force 48,which took two weeks. ???

I have joined the queue now, again! two alloy rocker covers, tracked to the depot in Plymouth, now anywhere, in transit sir. 3 days later??? (still in depot sir) can I collect?? no, they are on a van sir, out delivering (but not to my house) >:(

The rad has turned up !!! ;D Not before 10.00 as promised but it has arrived.
Now the bad bit. Despite being very well packed and being covered in 'fragile tape' the filler has taken a bit of a blow, but luckily, it's still usable. :(
Wonder what ever happened to those wheels. At least I got my money back via ebay.

Hope those rocker covers arrive Coppersmith.

One has arrived ! it clearly says on the package 1of2 asked the guy and he just grunted and said that's all you got on my list. Probably see you in the morning then.

The other one has arrived, yippee!! My Hermes has got something to my door, all be it a tad late. I ordered a steering rack at 9am and it was delivered by hand at 10.30. I never knew they were local. Onwards and upwards  ;D

It must be nice to have your own greek god.

Hermes have a network of local deliverers, they mostly do catalogue deliveries, theres one in our village, a few houses down.
Tried using them to pick up a parcel for me - it was shear nightmare, never again.