Poor Service Saved By Excellent Employee
I engaged Parcel2go service as in the past I have had nothing but good service. This time however is a very different experience.
I chose myHermes via Parcel2go to collect a unit in North London and deliver to me in Northamptonshire. This was to be collected on Friday 4th December, it never happened. I tried and tried to find how to contact customer services to talk to someone concerning this failure. In the end I was directed to Live Chat, I found myself 107th in the queue, I patiently waited for about 40 to 45 minutes and finally it was my turn. I then received a message saying there was no representative available to talk to me and please try again later. I was absolutely livid with this. I contacted myHermes direct explaining the full problem and asking them when they will collect. I received a reply the same day saying that since this was not booked direct with them they cannot help me and to contact the customer services with whom I first contacted, Parcel2go. after a lot of time wasted trying to find how I could talk to a live person I finally conceded to rebook the delivery for Monday 7 December. Monday came and went and still no sign of myHermes and no parcel collected. Finally today Wednesday 9 December I did manage to get someone on live chat, that person being Vincenza. I was pleased to find that he got straight on to the problem re-booking a collection and delivery service through a different courier service for the next day. He was polite friendly with a no mess attitude in getting things sorted out. At this point all I can do is praise his efforts in the hope that this item will now be collected tomorrow and delivered to me in 48 hrs. This action has saved me engaging the services of the fair trade ombudsman or Trading Standards to sort out this mess.
On this occasion I would rate Parcel2go with a minus 5 for failure to collect on two separate occasions, minus 10 for now easy way to talk to a live rep minus 25 for now having a customer services icon to use on their site. BUT saying that, the gentleman today Vincenza earns my total gratitude for his ease of handling of this situation 5 Platinum stars deservedly earned.
I welcome any reply to this from senior management on how they can allow a failure to this extent and what procedure they will put in place to make sure this sort of event does not happen again, and further more a sincere apology for the events I have had to endure over the past 5 days.
Also it will go to prove that these replies are perused and taken notice of.
Regards
Sir David Gunn
Retired Director
General Haulage & Transport Services
9 December 2015
Unprompted review