eShakti and DHL (Topsoil Day, 7th of Snowy, Year 226)

[neotoma]

I got two boxes from eShakti today, which contained several items, including a pair of jeans and the two piece floral suit.

I have to say DHL is the most frustrating private post company I've ever had to deal with. I called twice, on two different days, to try and leave a note that the delivery driver needed to leave my packages with my apartment complex's package concierge office. Neither time was the message passed on, because I got a call from the delivery driver today asking if he could leave the package on my porch.

My apartment building slightly resembles a rowhouse, but it's obviously apartments. And no, you can't leave a package in front of the door. I had to walk him through the fact that there was an apartment office, and he needed to go there and leave the packages with the package concierge service, so I could retrieve it later from a locker with my personal code.

He managed that, and I did retrieve the packages. I will probably wear the floral embroidered shirt tomorrow, because it does look neat.

Sadly, the two-piece suit has turned out to be more mauve than the 'wine' I was expecting. I can wear jewel tones; I'm really dubious that I can wear something that is quite this grey/pastel. I'd really hate to have to send it back, since eShakti so rarely offers matching separates like this, but I think this might be exactly the wrong color for me.

Comments

[malkingrey]

DHL was the company that -- back in the day when publishers still sent out hardcopy copyedits -- held on to a rush mailing from our publisher for two days because they weren't going to send a truck all the way up to Colebrook for just one package. This resulted in a copyedited MS that arrived here on the day it was actually expected back. The publisher, who had paid for next day delivery, Was Not Amused, and didn't use DHL to send out copyedits and galleys any more, at least not to the north country of New Hampshire.

[fox]

DHL routinely reports that my package from eShakti is expected to be delivered by the end of the day - when at the beginning of the day it is still in New Delhi. I’m still learning to manage my expectations with those guys.

[neotoma]

Oh, DHL is wildly optimistic about their delivery times. It's the fact that they don't seem to learn the quirks of their routes that drives me bonkers.

UPS and FedEx have no problem with going to the package concierge office if the recipient isn't home, but DHL drivers always act like I've told them to deliver it to a llama.

[neotoma]

I dealt with DHL when I was working at the biorepository -- there were a couple of sites in England that preferred shipping with them.

The material was invariably a day later than expected and delivered less than a half hour before the end of day. Which meant I had to stay late to unpack it.

I really dislike them and wish eShakti would use FedEx, who are professional, and often hand off the package to the post office once it gets to my state -- USPS is utterly reliable and has keys to get into my building, which none of the private carriers are ever going to get.

Useless Company at eShakti

[rahulreddy31]

I bought a dress and a candle stands gif item both from an overseas company name https://www.eshakti.com and https://www.simcshandicrafts.com / .

The item ( candle stand) from SIMCS Handicrafts was delivered on time with Fedex priority but another packet which was suppose to be delivered via DHL was hanging on for 10 daysthat was from eshakti.

eshakti is such a useless company.

Re: Useless Company at eShakti

[neotoma]

Who are you and why are you commenting on a 2 year old post? Especially as you are attacking eShakti and not the company I actually had problems with, DHL.