[Talk-GB] Courier Delivery Points

[SK53]

Pizza delivery (& other similar services) often have two postcode based
constraints:

   - A cost-based one, which might be what one expects
   - A franchise-based one. The individual franchisees get a delivery
   monopoly on given postcodes. Your postcode might not be in the franchise &
   they never persuaded anyone to buy the franchise area which contains the
   address.

As long as no-one thinks we should map Pizza Hut franchise boundaries I
think we're OK.

Jerry


On 7 August 2014 12:05, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 11:39 +0100, Matt Williams wrote:
> > On 6 August 2014 19:52, Brian Prangle <bprangle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Ive been out and about and doing some web research on secure parcel
> > > delivery/collection lockers. The Packstation system in Germany only
> applies
> > > to Germany and is a proprietary system operated by DHL. In the UK from
> what
> > > I can work out there are two operators: ByBox and InPost. Most other
> courier
> > > services tend to use these two, although I'm sure I've seen a MyHermes
> > > station somewhere even though their website says they use ByBox.
> >
> > There are also quite a lot of Amazon ones. There'll be several in each
> > city and many larger towns will have them too. There's 4 in central
> > Birmingham and 3 more in the outskirts.
> >
> > http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200966210
> >
> > Matt
> >
>
> Interesting, although the search is somewhat broken. My postcode area
> SY4, brings up nothing despite there being lots in Telford and
> Shrewsbury. I would expect it to be able to tell me where the nearest
> is, even if it was in Central London.
>
> Wonders if it would allow me to have something delivered to one of these
> locations.
>
> A few years ago pizza hut did prevent me ordering a pizza online for
> collection because the collection point was too far from my home (card
> registered address).
>
> Phil (trigpoint)
>
>
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