Chronopost deliveries

[Blaze]

n't Coli Privé the one that's had so many arnaques ? I've dumped several spams from them, including a photo of "our" colis. Knowing we haven't ordered anything online for a while, they weren't destined for us, just the bin.

[widge]

Our house is on the main road about 500 m from the centre of a small town. The street name is clearly marked; the number is on both the house and the gate to the driveway and garden.
La Poste and associated drivers have learnt to deliver to the kitchen window on the street, as the entrance door is through the garden, but no-one has problems to actually find the house.
Except Colis Privé drivers.

The first time they couldn't find us I sent CP a picture with arrows indicating the numbers on the house, postbox in the garden wall, and entrance gate.
Subsequent drivers threw parcels over the wall or hedge, landing on and damaging pot plants, or becoming hidden in tall herbs.

Recently one of us has sat by the window on watch around 5 pm, their usual time, and seen the driver(s) stop opposite and get into the back of the van.
Parcels then fly out to land in the street until they reappear to gathers them up - our cue to shout and wave.

I was on watch on Wednesday when the house phone rang, so I left my post to answer it. "This is the livreur" - "Where are you" - "Outside" - "Please come to the window"

On returning, there was no-one there, no van anywhere in the street, and the house phone doesn't record numbers, so I could do nothing.
I checked my email later, and saw "Delivery attempted today at 6:11 pm. Unfortunately Colis Privé ran into an issue when attempting your delivery. They will try again"

They didn't.
I managed to find a link via tracking to redirect the parcel to a relais point. They are closed until Monday, but I should get it eventually.

After succeeding in speaking to a person at Amazon Fr. yesterday I poured out the above tale and asked for no more deliveries to me to be made using Colis Privé.
I was told this is not possible, but there may soon be an option to choose delivery companies, and was given the impression that something may be done about CP.

Colis Privé have stopped delivering in our area, i guess problems with drivers, now, anything that is shipped Colis Privé always arrives via la poste, the postman delivers, then we get an delivered email from Colis Privé.

[Hotrodder]

Colis Prive must have taken their drivers from DPD who used to be the worst of the lot. For some odd reason the Germans seem to favour them but perhaps that is only for "local" deliveries. Once the goods get to France it is a lottery.

[exile]

Colis Prive must have taken their drivers from DPD who used to be the worst of the lot. For some odd reason the Germans seem to favour them but perhaps that is only for "local" deliveries. Once the goods get to France it is a lottery.

dpd -Deutsche Paket Dienst - German package service