DHL and the definiton of insanity


I'll start this by saying that after I ordered this amplfier I picked up another amp used that I really like so it isn't important for me to get this amp soon. 

I bought a kinki amp that shipped DHL Tuesdday and on Wednesday it left Hong Kong.  Arrilved Wed night in LA, Thursday morning in San Diego, on a truck for delivery to me at 11am.  Delivery by 8pm.  My address is a business address that closes at 6.   It didn't get there by 6pm last night and I didn't get it.  Today I get the same message, out for delivery at 11am, delivery by 8pm tonight. 

I thought they might recognize it as a business last night but apparently not.  So I started a chat with a DHL CS agent.  It went like this:

DHL:  Mr Stephenson, you cannot request a a specific delivery time.  Is there anything else we can help you with.

Me:  The problem is that you have my address classified as residential, it is a business address.

DHL:  Silence for a long time then:

DHL  "the shipper didn't specify the address as business."

me:  "Sorry, not my fault.  Now you have the correct information.  Can you fix it please?"

DHL:  "No, we cannot change it. Is there anything else we can do for you?"

me:  Can you just mark it as a business address?

DHL: "No, we cannot change it?"

me:  "So you'll keep trying between 1900 and 2000 every night for the next month?  Are we going to have to send it back to Hong Kong and start over?"

DHL:  Is there anyting else we can do for you?  

DHL ends chat.

So this package went from Hong Kong to LA in a day.  Now they can't get the last 20 miles in several days.  I'm going to sit back at laugh at the incompetence. 

I do recommend not using DHL after this experience.

Jerry 

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@carlsbad I'm in equally a frustrating situation with DHL here in the UK. I'm waiting on delivery of a DAC I bought here in the UK from a manufacturer only 200 miles away, maybe less.

It is now Good Friday, my DAC was originally due to be collected on Tuesday last week, wasn't until Wednesday, it then sat in their depot until today, it is rescheduled to be delivered next Tuesday. So basically, a whole week to travel just less than 200 miles. 

Just for context, I ordered a Bluesound Node PSU upgrade and LPS from Poland last week, and it is installed and in use right now. 

DHL are simply awful, followed by UPS

 

As for waiting outside:  I've done that before with Amazon and Fedex.  Both times I was setting in front of the building (the only way in or out) when I got the text "delivery attepted, notbody to recieve package".  So I concluded the drivers know it is closed and don't even drive by before they report "nobody there".