My experience of DPD here in NL is pretty good in this regard: through their tracking I’ve usually been able to see the exact route and how many stops remain before the delivery driver arrives at my place.
Obviously, with how things normally work, DPD NL and DPD UK could be completely different operations, even franchised with no common ownership, but over here my experience has been that when a DPD delivery is imminent I’ve been able to follow it through their tracking site to the point where I can walk down and meet the delivery driver before they even have time to ring my bell.
@Daniel_Agorander All they tell me is I will get a text with a two-hour slot on the morning of the delivery, yes I can follow the delivery driver on his final route to my door but they don’t give any pre-delivery day stuff like where my laptop is now or an estimate of the delivery timeframe.
@Clockwork_Evolution had their tracking showing ‘Processed for Export’ whilst getting a text from DPD informing them that they’re getting a delivery that same day.
Fingers crossed DPD tracking is late too! I think they send the text by 11am.
Mine now shows sorted in Singapore and handed over to DHL alongside a DHL tracking number. On DHL website it states that I should have my unit before the end of Thursday.
It’s here! And a day earlier than promised! (5 days total, including weekend).
Note to future recipients in the Netherlands:
I got a SMS with the tracking info from DHL as soon as they picked up the package in Singapore. Tracking system said they would deliver on Tuesday (dinsdag), and displayed a note saying they deliver to private addresses between 17:30-21:00.
Tracking showed arrived at delivery facility in Amsterdam on Saturday, but continued to indicate delivery on Tuesday throughout the weekend.
This morning I got a SMS saying they would deliver today. The note about the delivery hours disappeared from the tracking system, and it just displayed “out for delivery” with nothing more about timing. Eventually arrived 15:30.
FYI and good luck!
Cheers. Good to know, since if it does a similar maneuver for me (I’m just outside AMS myself) I might need to keep an extra ear out for the bell since I might be sitting in a meeting with headphones on… (Good thing my doorbell has a “wake the dead” mode… )
FYI The tracking in the email did not show an update but when entering the tracking number into DPD in the UK, it now shows out for delivery. I hope i’ll receive it today. Until yesterday it still showed in transit.
So UK people: Try tracking the tracking number via DPD.
Mine arrived 1hr 30mins ago. Have put it together (DIY edition i7) and if this old woman with athetoid cerebral palsy can do it anyone can! Brilliant design but I have made one rookie (which for someone who has written software as long as I have is appalling!) forgot to format the thumb drive to fat32 AND forgot the size limit on fat32! Ordered 32GB thumb drives from Amazon. which should come tomorrow then I can load Xubuntu onto the machine and have some further progress.
Note to future recipients in the Netherlands:
