Somebody please, for the love of god, fix shipping/couriers
In the past three years I've had to ship items nationally or receive shipped items in the UK on a few occasions. The experience has been universally terrible. 1. Sign-up process is convoluted. This should be so simple. Are you a business or a person? What are your billing details and contact details? Done. Don't give me a Merchant ID or make me telephone you. Don't make me put in address information: you can have that when I send something. 2. Believe it or not, I do not know how heavy my item is or its exact dimensions. I threw away the packaging. I don't have a set of bathroom scales because I'm not a teenage girl. Charge me a premium for not knowing. I don't give a shit. Just don't force me to enter the dimensions of something which I might not have in front of me or schlep it to the scales at my friends' house so that you can calculate how much diesel you need to be putting in your v
Why it failed
In the past three years I've had to ship items nationally or receive shipped items in the UK on a few occasions. The experience has been universally terrible. 1. Sign-up process is convoluted. This should be so simple. Are you a business or a person? What are your billing details
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- georgespencer
- Ended
- 2012
- Source
- hackernews