We ask our customers at random to submit a review of their Parcel Monkey experience 1 week after their order was placed. Here are those reviews, good and bad, giving you an honest insight into what you can expect from Parcel Monkey.
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Our average customer rating is: 4.5 / 5 (4.5/5) based on 237,495 reviews.
Never used parcel monkey before.
Used it to have excess baggage collected from my work to my home.
Used parcel force to do this through parcel monkey. Had no printer so used a service that did not require it. Booked the collection on Saturday so collection was for Monday.
they collected it before 9am so did not have to wait in so very happy about that. My delivery date was 2 days. It arrived around 1600hrs wednesday afternoon. With no damage very pleased with the service. Will defo use again
09/07/16 by Jayne
Great service , fast delivery , tracked all the way and well informed , parcel delivered in good condition -no damage Recommend !!! I will definitely use it again Thank you
09/07/16 by KasiaL
Been using PM for a few years now, always reliable and easy to use.
09/07/16 by Special one
Great service, I just wish the online booking more user-friendly. When I got to the post office, I couldnt figure out which company we have actually booked the delivery with as it wasnt mentioned on the printout. The lady at the post office was able to find it by trial and error.
09/07/16 by Martina
Very very happy with the service
09/07/16 by Miss chapman
Did everything as promised no fuss or hassle
09/07/16 by Karen
First time Ive used a service like this, it went through flawlessly.
09/07/16 by John Mac
Very good value. Labels easy to print off. Collected on agreed day and safely delivered
09/07/16 by Keith Kemp-Dillon
Cost effective and reliable and trust worthy would recommend
09/07/16 by Customer
Needed to send student coursework for moderation and it was a brilliant cost effective reliable service
09/07/16 by Customer Lisa
Very easy to setup the pickup online, picked it up without any issues and delivered very fast! Especially since I was shipping internationally, I was extremely impressed!
09/07/16 by Customer
So Parcel Monkey is a parcel delivery management company that allows you to book discounted delivery with couriers. They use couriers such as DPD, DX and Royal Mail and their prices are usually a little cheaper than booking direct; however, BEWARE! If you book direct with the company and there is an issue with the delivery, you may be entitled to some compensation but if you book with Parcel Monkey, they become the customer and you become the third person. If you have a problem, you have to contact Parcel Monkey and they then contact the courier. I recently booked a parcel delivery through Parcel Monkey using DPD on a 2 day service from the UK to Ireland (Not a massive distance!). I dropped the parcel off at the DPD Parcelshop drop off point and where it remained for 6 days! My customer was bouncing as they needed the package. To try and keep them happy, i refunded the £23 postage that i had paid and asked Parcel Monkey to do the same. They declined! The parcel was delivered some 9 days later. This is not good service, i will not be using again and i would advise that if you are going to use a Parcel Management tool that you use something like another courier who are cheaper and have better customer service.
09/07/16 by Richie Pett
I dont send parcels very often and didnt know which company to use. Parcel Monkey was easy, efficient and helped me to work out the best deal for me.
09/07/16 by E Stevenson
Excellent service calling again soon
08/07/16 by Mavis Kierszten
Sent 2 parcels in Romania.arrived in 5 days.tracking all the time.very happy
08/07/16 by Carmen
Apart from not sending the initial email with the postage label, it was a pretty good service. Much cheaper than other sites. The main thing is my parcel got to its destination in good time. I did the online chat to follow up my missing email and they sent the label straight through.
08/07/16 by sarah kent
A large parcel was collected the next day and delivered safely by DHL.
08/07/16 by J F Payne
Used parcel monkey to compare prices at first, found decent price and I now use them to send my parcels, they use trusted and reputable couriers services.
Recommend
08/07/16 by Ghazi
So, the item I had collected by DX via ParcelMonkey arrived with a shattered toughened glass door. It was clearly dropped or unsecured in the van as there was no damage to the box. Fortunately, or so I thought, Id taken out the extra insurance. Unfortunately ParcelMonkey kept insisting I send photos of the damaged box. I told them the box was not damaged. During this time, 10 days elapsed, so they invoked their clause claiming that all documents must be submitted to them within 10 days, and that my claim was thus closed. No come back, No acceptance that I shouldnt have to provide docs unrelated to what I was actually claiming. Wont be using again.
08/07/16 by R Speight
Our Response: Dear R Speight
I am sorry to read your item was damaged in transit with the courier you chose on our site.
Glass is a prohibited item advised at the time of booking and our claims team will review every case that comes through and will need the customer to cooperate to assist in the process of raising it with the courier who carried the item. Please do get in touch further via a support ticket and put FAO Manager so this can be looked into further
Apologies for the inconvenience caused
Kind regards
James
Top company and best prices Ive used them every time and highly recommend
08/07/16 by SY
Have used twice before very keen pricing also offers the cheapest comparisons and then the next 5 or so after that to compare and very easy to set up the payment, the drop off was very local, so particularly for heavy items ideal
08/07/16 by Mary Cassidy
Parcel posted from the UK Monday arrived today in The Gambia Friday!!!
ThanQ
08/07/16 by Anna Jarju
This was a most efficient and reasonably priced service. Large box collection done same day as placing order. Very pleased
08/07/16 by Joanna Carter
I had quite few parcels which has been delivered with damaged content and recently one of my parcels has been delivered to unknown receiver and different address still waiting for slow claim process. Getting a nightmare using UPS.
08/07/16 by Mr Minkov
Successful delivery with great service at cost that represents good value.
08/07/16 by Customer
Simple to arrange, clear and easy to use website. Will use them again.
08/07/16 by Chris - N Lincolnshire
very helpful staff and good pricing
08/07/16 by Tammy
Parcel was not collected on the date it should have been despite it saying on my Parcel monkey tracking page that it had been collected. I phoned to rearrange collection for a specific day the following week as I was out every other day but still had a note through the door every day saying that collection had been attempted. Parcel was eventually collected 5 days later than initially booked.
08/07/16 by Kendal Customer
All went as well as could be expected
07/07/16 by Customer rob
A lot cheaper than parcelforce. Delay in getting label so cant be used for last minute post office parcels.
07/07/16 by John
Avoid. Nobody wanted to accept responsibility or admit to making an error and refused to compensate me too!
07/07/16 by Keith millward
Our Response: Dear Keith
I am very sorry to hear about the issue with this collection, I can see you booked a DPD Drop Off to be collected from your local DPD store. If they fail to collect please raise a Live Chat so we can get it rebooked in and picked up. As soon as they have the item in the store scanned in, it should trigger the courier to go and collect so apologies for the issue with DPD
Kind regards
James
Good price and good service.
07/07/16 by Mr STEVE PILCHER
Website easy to navigate giving a variety of options prompt email giving instructions and parcel collected as agreed
07/07/16 by Anne
Great services
07/07/16 by Customer
The only problem I had was that there was obviously a breakdown in comms, from my parcel getting collected to H.Q. that the parcel had been collected. They came the next day to collect what had already been collected.
07/07/16 by Tony Chapman
We stayed in all day waiting for our parcel which never arrived.later we go out and connect to the internet to find they had a problem with the address,why didnt they just call us to tell us we could of met them somewhere. Now weve got no clue where our parcel is and the email is in Spanish we dont speak Spanish.
07/07/16 by Mandy.
Our Response: Dear Mandy
Sorry to hear you have been having an issue with delivery. We are not the courier so it would be the courier who may try to call you, please open a Live Chat or the sender can do this so we can contact the courier on your behalf and assist with this delivery.
Apologies for the inconvenience caused
Kind regards
James
Easy to book great value for money
07/07/16 by David Cunningham
I booked my parcel online, and had to print out a shipping label with a barcode. This service involved taking my parcel to a Post Office and sending it via ParcelForce. I used the Parcel Monkey service because it was several pounds cheaper than ParcelForces own website quoted. The label showed a despatch date of the following day, which was less convenient for me, so I contacted Parcel Monkey via the live chat service and asked if I could take the parcel a day early - they said yes. But when I took my parcel to the Post Office, they told me that the barcode would not scan, so they could not accept the parcel. I had to take it home and return the next day - at which point the Post Office said that the barcode had already been used, so they could not accept it. I had to contact Parcel Monkey again, to obtain a fresh set of labels which then scanned properly.
07/07/16 by Customer
send a parcel to spain and there wasnt adress on the box and the box has been open and also the items were damaged. the label was not in the box was to delivered in 4 days and it took more than a week . after 5/6 times using your service this was the first time and hopefully better service will come.
07/07/16 by Nadia Sousa
Our Response: Dear Nadia
Sorry to hear about the issues with the courier, we do not handle the items as a reseller
Please get in touch via a support ticket or Live Chat so we can look into this for you and help with a claim if you have protection cover
Kind regards
James
Parcel force didnt collect, I had to chase them to collect for Express 24 delivery - a week later!!!!!
07/07/16 by David
