{"id":1606,"date":"2026-01-04T23:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:32:55","slug":"fuck-communication-fuck-the-law-courier-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/fuck-communication-fuck-the-law-courier-story\/","title":{"rendered":"F*ck Communication and F*ck the law!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Apologies for the title. You\u2019ll find out soon enough.

For the first time in yonks I couldn\u2019t find somewhere \ud83d\ude33

I looked at the map, cross referenced with the stars up above and still, nothing!

I had to swallow my pride and call the phone number given for contact.

In my defence it was an off grid building site but the damage is done. At this point seasoned couriers are reading with disgust, eyes slit, brows knit and generally a face of disgust towards me. Pathetic me aye.

I called the site contact who happens to be the construction site manager. Only he isn\u2019t expecting me until tomorrow. Remember that \u2018communication\u2019 thing I\u2019m always moaning about. Well, yeah. That!

So cancellation charge and I go elsewhere.

The day after site manager calls me around 9am. He wants to know my whereabouts. I told him that I\u2019m no longer involved in this collection. He said he knows. Another courier has just turned up, collected the stuff that needed to be collecting and a lot of other stuff too. Now he can\u2019t get hold of him. Do I know who it is? So yeah, communication can stop this sort of thing happening.

Thankfully nothing else worth noting happened.

Until.

A rather well established courier outfit beg me to knock \u00a35 off my quote at rush hour, eventually he gave up but insisted I need to collected and deliver asap. All the staff are going home, it\u2019s really important, that sort of thing. Sure thing.

Then he kindly informs me that I need to meet his driver for a collection. Who happens to be parked on the hard shoulder of the M4. Broken down!

I kindly declined. He insisted it\u2019s fine and safe. I declined a bit more sarcastically until he got the message.

Honestly do customers know about the clowns they\u2019ve got handling their consignments.

In other more pressing news I\u2019ve been on a mission to find some plant pots this week. So up and down the country at various garden centres I came across some lovely colourful things. My god they certainly aren\u2019t easy on the wallet!

Have a lovely weekend folks and if you want things done right get in touch. If I can\u2019t help, I\u2019ll know someone who will.

So, do you need a courier?

Click on www.frigate-express.co.uk<\/strong><\/a> and use the calculator to quote you.

If you have any questions???? Get in touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apologies for the title. You\u2019ll find out soon enough. For the first time in yonks I couldn\u2019t find somewhere \ud83d\ude33 I looked at the map, cross referenced with the stars up above and still, nothing! I had to swallow my pride and call the phone number given for contact. In my defence it was an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[79,18,20],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-moans","tag-communication","tag-courier","tag-logistics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}