Deliveries

  • NewsAOL

    The five worst courier delivery fails

    How many times have you found yourself stuck in the house waiting for a delivery that never arrives? It happens to the best of us, with TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp taking to Twitter yesterday to complain that a £900 Amazon package had failed to

    3-min read
  • LifestyleAOL

    Why has local postie refused to deliver to this cul-de-sac?

    Derek and Patricia Read, pensioners from Dormy Close in Bramcote, Nottingham, have been told that the postman will no longer deliver to their house - or any of the others in their street - because their dog is to scary. It's not the first

    3-min read
  • BusinessAOL

    Will your Christmas deliveries arrive on time?

    It's all very well ordering all your Christmas presents online - but not of the courier company then fails to come up with the goods. While most deliveries go without a hitch, some go very badly wrong: the courier who appeared to fake an

    2-min read
  • NewsAOL

    Delivery driver appears to have been caught faking delivery of iPhone

    Bradley Stoker was waiting in at home for his new iPhone 6 to be delivered, so he was a bit surprised to get a message from delivery firm DPD saying it had arrived. When he looked into the delivery more closely, he was shocked by what he found.

    4-min read
  • BusinessAOL

    Amazon will deliver within an hour - for a price

    Amazon customers in the UK will soon be able to get their hands on deliveries within an hour of ordering their items. The service, which is called Prime Now, first launched in Manhattan in December last year. It has since expanded to Atlanta,

    3-min read
  • BusinessAOL

    Could the 'sharing economy' make parcel delivery cheaper?

    A new delivery service has been launched in the UK, which has promised to do for the delivery business what uber did for taxis and airbnb did for holiday accommodation. But does it really work and would you use it? The service is called Nimber.

    3-min read
  • PoliticsAOL

    Royal Mail will only deliver to a block of flats with a 69-year-old minder

    A bizarre postal delivery system has been agreed at a block of flats near Waterloo. After a woman in the flats was accused of having assaulted a Royal Mail employee, and the tyres on the delivery van were slashed, post was suspended. The company

    3-min read