“Been waiting a month, 3rd time this parcel has been sent twice it was lost! Why the company I bought with continued to use same carrier I cant quite get my head round. Finally get an ETA and item out for delivery! Then it does not show. Cant contact anyone from XDP what a useless bunch of crap. No update on delivery today either, I suppose this one will be lost too. 5th of May I placed my bloody order... 4th of June today. Absolutely rubbish!”
“Worst service ever! I had bought a bed from world stores, when they delivered it they were two hours late and brought me the wrong items (a double bed with a single mattress). Had arranged for them to pick up the items, however it has been three days since my scheduled 'pick up date' and I have yet to see them! I have called and emailed and have not been able to get in touch with anyone! I think this company and Worldstores are a scam! Will deliver you incorrect items, but will not pick them up so you can not receive a refund. Absolutely inexcusable and appalling”
“This has to be the worst delivery company in the world!!! No response to emails, no one ever answers the phone. The tracking system either doesn't get updated or my goods have just sat at their depot for over a week!!!! Not sure if my parcel will ever turn up. Angry doesn't even begin to cover it. I will never order anything again from anyone that uses this company to deliver their goods.”
“No delivery, absolutely no response to emails. Phone not answered. Tracking says parcel at delivery depot, it's been there one week, on a next day service.
Jim”
“Further to my review earlier today.Hope no one held their breath.Surprise,surprise.Arranged for someone to be available at my home during time slot.XDP did NOT attend AGAIN.Where do we go from here?No one to talk to at Company.World Stores will not provide refund until item is returned by courier.Disgraceful state of affairs all round.Best that members of the public take this as further examples of incompetence by both companies with no respect or consideration for customers.”
“Worst delivery company in the UK. I have been waiting 2 days for collection of my damaged chest of drawers and both days the track said carded. I have stayed in both days, tried to contact them but can't get hold of anybody. Worldstores haven't been very helpful either. DO NOT BUY FROM WORLDSTORES AND ASK COMPANIES WHO THEY USE FOR DELIVERY!”
“Absolutely dreadful. Specifically paid for a delivery date and item has been sat at their collection point all day. Emailed to enquire about the item and was told it will not be delivered until tomorrow. Really disappointed due to requesting leave from work and have now wasted a day where my valuable annual leave could have been spent with my family instead. Awful communication from the company. Use this company as a last resort!”
“Dreadful service,dreadful communication system.One word would describe the situation.Useless.Package due to be collected for return to supplier(World Stores).Three identical e.mails received from XDP reminding me that collection would take place with the usual three hour time slot and for someone to be available on Wednesday 27th May.Time slot would be advised during morning of delivery by e.mail.Wrong.Didn't happen.Tried constantly to speak to someone at XDP.Found myself in an automated telephone system which repeated the same selection of options and answers required FOUR times and still did not get the opportunity to speak to someone.No further forward.Spoke to supplier at World Stores.Staff very apologetic and confirmed they would find out what was happening and telephone me with result.Didn't happen.Tried again by e.mail this time to get a response from XDP.Didn't happen.Again spoke to supplier who advised me XDP would collect item the following day Thursday.Suggested I had an urgent medical appointment and would require a morning collection.Supplier would attempt to arrange.Guess what? XDP have now advised me a collection would be made between 3.46pm and 6.46pm.Need I say more.Watch this space but don't hold your breath.”
“World stores use this courier co. I eventually cancelled the order and got a refund, the service was so bad. Difficult to get hold of anyone and there seems to be a total disconnect between world stores who give the customer a delivery date and the courier who thinks he can deliver it when it suits him (I was told he would come late on a Sunday night when roads quiet!)... My advice would be to avoid this courier and any company that uses them”
“Cannot get through to the company at all. Paid £50 delivery with a company who said My items wood b delivered the next day by XPD, however that was a lie. Managed to speak to them once and they said the pallets hadnt been scanned. Told I wood definately get them on the Saturday but Nope hasn't happened, still can't get through to customer services. This courier company is a complete joke.”
“Ordered 2 packages. 3 times they claim to have carded me but I was in all 3 times and nobody came. Each alleged delivery date was at least a week apart. One package finally arrived after a month but had already been opened. Was in plastic packaging and there is no way this wasn't intentional. No sign of the second package at all and I'm starting to lose all hope that it will ever come. As everyone else has said, absolutely do not use.”
“I'll keep this short. If XDP are the delivery service that a company you are buying from is intending to use then do not order or insist on another delivery service.”
“My goods were delivered within the 3 hour time slot given to me on the tracking system, and after reading other reviews of xdp I was a little concerned to say the least. However, the delivery driver was so obnoxiously rude that I have to give a very poor rating. He seemed disappointed that I was in, I said well I looked at the tracking system so have taken time off work especially, he said 'oh you dont want to take any notice of the tracking system' then he asked me if I knew how heavy my sofa bed was I said of course not, he said it was massive he couldnt take it off the lorry. I said should it be a two man team then and he said noone wants to pay the extra for a two man delivery. At this point I was really getting fed up with his rudeness so I said well all I did was order a sofa bed, I didnt choose you as a delivery courier. He then proceded to try and get the package out of the lorry and managed to rip the strapping and some of the cardboard in the process. I then helped him to slide the package through my front door and he told me this was useless as the sofa bed would shrink with all the friction on the floor. For goodness sake, I was in to receive the delivery, the tracking system worked, I helped him, why keep making me feel as if I was totally in the wrong? He was hardly representing your company very loyally either. And he then said 'you know if you weren't in I would have had to just leave it at your front door'. So negative, unpleasant and needlessly aggressive. I wouldn't recommend this company just because of the aggro I got from the driver.”
“Got a note through my door to say they tried to deliver my package but couldn't so I rang the number on the card so rearrange for another day. Was told on the phone that it had been marked down to be redelivered on the same day that I was ringing on and I told them that there would be no one home to accept. Person on the phone accepted that and said no problem, we'll deliver on the day you want. Get home to find another card that says 'behind gate'. A gate that allows access to several people, is 6ft high and the package was heavy, breakable and expensive. And of course when I get to my package that has just been thrown over the gate onto a concrete floor, i find its well and truely smashed. This company is even worse than Hermes!”
“Ordered a Shower Door which was due to be delivered yesterday. Paid extra for this service. Needless to say it didn't turn up. It did, however, turn up today. The driver having waved over the top of the fence at the rear of my property, shouted that he had a delivery for me and was going to leave it here.....at the back of my house...on a public footpath...in a fairly busy cul de sac. I asked him through the fence to kindly bring it round the front as it was heavy and I had no way of bringing it round. He refused so I told him to wait, got my shoes on and ran round the back. He still refused to bring it round, a walk of about 1 minute. Stating he hadn't got time. I was tempted to mention the fact that he must have time as he'd had an extra day.......Still refusing to bring it round to the front, arguing that he'd been told to leave it at the back of the property (not I hasten to add on the delivery note or anything he could show me) I'm not sure why he would have been told to do that as they wouldn't have known that there was a road at the back of my house. I was standing there trying to think what I was going to do with a door I couldn't lift. Had visions of standing outside waiting on the off chance of someone I know passing by who'd be able to bring it round for me! At this point, fortunately, my partner drove up and accepted the delivery (he's a bit stronger than me, and able to carry said door) . Just thought I'd mention the state of the delivery van, which I noticed as I walked off. It had Argyle and Scottish Deliveries on the side, which had been partially ripped off. The mirror was broken and taped up. The front of the van was smashed up.. etc etc etc. We signed the delivery as "delivered damaged" due to the state of the packaging.
When I order anything in future I will remember to ask who the delivery company is. Will not order from anywhere that uses XDP again. Shoddy service, rude drivers, no replies to emails. Avoid at all costs.”
“XPD decided to repackage my trampoline and delivery half of it. All I have are the springs, Ring padding and Legs. Still waiting for the Posts, Mesh and bed. It has now gone past the delivery date which was a specifically requested day which I paid extra for and am still waiting for them to finally deliver the rest of the trampoline.”
“This has to be the worst delivery company in the country. I ordered two sofas from World Stores in February and, to date, I have still not received them. The first set of sofas were due to arrive on the 24th March. A pre-alert was sent out saying that I would be contacted within two to three days to arrange a delivery date.
The following morning the sofas arrived unannounced and, as no-one was there to accept them, (small issue of having to work for a living) they were taken away. No card was left so I was in constant contact with World Stores for days. I now have them on speed dial since XPD do not or cannot answer telephone calls and their emails don't work.
The one card that was left at the house (although they claim to have left several) had a mobile number which provided a direct link to Orange voicemail. I have spoken many times to the machine but never to a human.
After spending a whole two weeks in the house over Easter whilst the rest of the family went out and about enjoying the holiday, my frustration levels went through the roof. Apparently, XPD had "lost" both of my sofas.
Then, success. A driver rang me apologising for not sending me notification of delivery that day. He thought his supervisor would have done it for him.
My elation at being able to return the deck chairs to the shed overcame everything else. Then came the news - the driver said that it wasn't worth bringing either of the sofas to the house because they'd been so badly damaged that they were unusable. He filed a report on the Friday morning and on the Monday World Stores ordered two new sofas but they wouldn't be in stock until the end of April.
After a month the new sofas were in and dispatched with - XPD!!!
Deja vu - another pre-alert - another missed delivery - renewed friendship with World Store Customer Services - agreed delivery date for last Tuesday - day off work - no delivery - want to murder someone - sofas delivered unannounced last Wednesday - sofas delivered yesterday (allegedly) although it didn't appear as though anyone had been anywhere near the property. Today there is a message posted saying that the sofas are unwanted. I'm assuming that it must be my dog who has made that decision since he was the only living being here.
Tomorrow I will contact World Stores again and tell them exactly what I think of the incompetent, irresponsible and infuriating clowns that pass for a delivery company.
Siege mentality has set in. I want the sofas. Would I recommend XPD to anyone? Not a chance!”
“3 delivery dates and still no goods ,keep giving plenty of old flannel and promises,we wait for another delivery date i cannot recommend this company for have not seen any good yet just a lot of expsensive phone calls at my cost and waiting in”
