I bought a 3 person couch from Maisons du Monde which contracts Rhenus Home for delivery. This turned out to be my worst experience with any delivery company.
1st time the 2 delivery guys claimed that it might be too narrow to carry the couch package to 3rd floor and pressured me to sign the delivery completion so they can leave the couch on the ground floor and i figured out carrying up myself. If 2 guys can’t carry the couch to 3rd floor, how could they expect me who weights just 49kg to ‘figure out’ myself? Not mention keeping pressuring me to sign off the delivery. Just ridiculous. I decided to reject delivery so they took the couch back.
Then Rhenus sent me an email for delivering for a second time. I accepted it as long as they can deliver to my apartment not in front of the door at ground floor. However this turned out to be even more wasting of my time: They emailed 1 day before for delivery window 14-16pm next day. On the delivery day, the delivery guy called me at 13:02pm saying they want to deliver in 10 minutes. I was out for lunch and just sat down after ordering my food. I said this was out of their acclaimed delivery window but i can be at home in 30 mins. He said okay. Then i had to rush my lunch and was at home in 28 mins actually. Guess what? nobody ever came and at 13:52pm they sent an email saying delivery failed since i was not there. They wanted to re-schedule for another day again. Are you kidding me? I am supposed to work from office today. Because of this delivery, i changed my plan to stay at home. It is you guys tried delivering at out-of-agreed slot first, made me rush through my lunch to be at home, had no show, and in the end stated ‘me’ as the reason for not being able to deliver today. What an unethical practice.
I personally have been working in ecommerce for 10+ years. I know in furniture vertical, delivery is always a pain point for customers. High return of furniture some times is more associated with unsuccessful delivery instead of furniture style itself. And high return kills a lot of profits for furniture brands/companies. I will genuinely advise any furniture companies to do their due diligence well in choosing their last-mile carrier and not choose someone like Rhenus Home due such poor customers experience and high frustration. What Rhenus Home Delivery did is unethical and showed incompetency. Worst of all, it wastes end- customers’ valuable time, and ultimately kills furniture sellers’ profits by multiple deliveries and automatic return due to unsuccessful deliveries.