Exposing the postal service…

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  • Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
  • In this episode I caught out Royal Mail lying about the whereabouts of post!
    Van life doesn't have to be all about finding nice scenery. It turns out you can have a lot of fun with it in other ways too! (like shipping an AirTag and racing it!)
    I mailed an Apple AirTag so I could track its movements throughout its journey through the postal system. And whilst it travelled from Switzerland to the UK, I also drove a similar route to see if I could beat it home!
    I decided to use my hired motorhome to enter the 'Top Gear" style race across Europe. Which meant I could take any route I wanted (that's the beauty of van life).
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  • @bobknodelsgyroscope
    @bobknodelsgyroscope Місяць тому +553

    some people are easily amused by tracking a parcel across europe and try to beat it home. having said that. i just watched a 28 minute video of a man tracking a parcel across europe trying to beat it home 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @JimmPratt
      @JimmPratt Місяць тому +22

      all while saying "my name is, my name is" in French. :D @05:26

    • @biddiemutter3481
      @biddiemutter3481 Місяць тому +8

      He is very articulate which is refreshing (apart from the attempt at French 😂)

    • @vabu94
      @vabu94 Місяць тому +5

      @@JimmPrattEminem did pretty much the same and look at him now!

    • @markhosking1882
      @markhosking1882 Місяць тому +7

      Funnily enough I was gripped.

    • @gdwnet
      @gdwnet Місяць тому +5

      Some people have way too much time on their hands to watch stuff like this. I guess I have too much time on my hands.

  • @-DC-
    @-DC- Місяць тому +183

    Recently had 3 parcels delivered by Royal Mail 4 years after I'd ordered them lol Covered in dust and battered i didn't think that was a bad result 🤣

    • @-BY205
      @-BY205 Місяць тому +7

      Worldxlass Uk 😂😂😂

    • @SalvageMasterEssex
      @SalvageMasterEssex Місяць тому +37

      Was it Royal Mail 48? The thing they don't tell you is it could take 48 months not 48 hours to arrive 😂😂

    • @pomodorino1766
      @pomodorino1766 Місяць тому +2

      @@SalvageMasterEssex lol

    • @willdive6770
      @willdive6770 29 днів тому +6

      Must have been the express service.

    • @20chocsaday
      @20chocsaday 27 днів тому +3

      Wouldn't you prefer sending a parcel from Scotland to the middle of Africa by surface mail?
      That evening it went to Edinburgh and from Edinburgh airport to Heathrow. Or it went by mistake to somewhere in Germany, by air.
      It did get to Germany by mistake somehow and a day later they put it on a plane to the destination capital city.
      You don't often get service like that.

  • @lightningjack27
    @lightningjack27 Місяць тому +122

    I've absolutely no idea why youtube decided to pop you in to my videos, but man I'm glad they did! I never thought I'd sit and watch someone track an airtag thousands of miles across europe!! Bonkers and brilliant!
    I'm now working my way through your Arctic trip and looking forward to what comes next. Keep it up chap!

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +9

      Thank mate, glad they recommended it to you! Hope you enjoy the Arctic vids, that was my biggest adventure so far. But there will be more to come!

    • @ukwhitewitch
      @ukwhitewitch Місяць тому +3

      Same here 😂 now off to check out some more 😊

    • @debbiewray6257
      @debbiewray6257 Місяць тому +2

      Yeah same for me, I loved it.

    • @juliebriggs8999
      @juliebriggs8999 Місяць тому +1

      Same here, up he popped so I thought, OK, bite I will. Now I see there are other things here to keep me entertained 🤣

    • @debbiewray6257
      @debbiewray6257 Місяць тому

      @@juliebriggs8999 the arctic adventure is epic, I'd highly recommend if you have a spare hour or 2!

  • @61citystars
    @61citystars Місяць тому +89

    I worked for royal mail for 15 years and the last few years I watched a extremely well run business being gradually run into the ground,sad to see what it has become

    • @russcattell955i
      @russcattell955i Місяць тому +8

      Oh long before 15 years ago. In the late 90's working for Manpower, job was drive a long box 7.5 tonner to collect full load of roll cages at another Parcel Farce depot. On return some cages were emptied onto a big heap on the loading bay, the bulk emptied & thrown the length of the interior of a 40' box trailer. In 28 years of stores & logistics, I've never seen such a shitshow anywhere else.

    • @Vile_Entity_3545
      @Vile_Entity_3545 28 днів тому +5

      It still gets me how they prosecuted all those post masters for what could only be a glitch with the software.
      It was stunningly obvious there was something more than a load of people pocketing money.
      How would a conspiracy between so many people be possible without leaving any sign of communication between each other?
      Also how could there of been so many distrustful people all at once in such a position of trust?
      Instantly a red flag would have popped up saying this is something more than just a bunch of thieving postmasters somehow coincidentally all at it at the same time.
      Yes the conclusion would have been the new system that had been put in.
      Another case of somebody high up covering themselves and their careers for making a big cock up it seems. Chuck everyone else under the bus to save themselves no doubt.

    • @silondon9010
      @silondon9010 26 днів тому +14

      Royal mail privatisation destroyed the service

    • @JohnMorten-px6my
      @JohnMorten-px6my 26 днів тому +3

      @@Vile_Entity_3545 And they are still lying and blaming each other to cover their own arses.

    • @howardchambers9679
      @howardchambers9679 26 днів тому +4

      About 20 years ago we were moving to a new delivery office, so the old sorting frames had to be dismantled and moved, underneath we found letters ten years old. We were told to hand them in to the management, expressly told not to deliver them.
      At a village post office, the sub postmaster died, I was sent to help clear the place. We found parcels stacked up, some going overseas. He'd taken the money and not sent them. Again, told to keep our mouths shut.

  • @Thepbway
    @Thepbway Місяць тому +118

    Slight malfunction 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 brilliant

    • @baldvale5418
      @baldvale5418 Місяць тому +6

      That got me too : )

    • @merida1605
      @merida1605 Місяць тому +4

      😂😂 was hilarious

    • @Austinusername
      @Austinusername Місяць тому +5

      I had to rewind it to check if it was edited 😂😂

    • @jenstone9308
      @jenstone9308 Місяць тому +5

      This bit made me crack up 😅😅 Had to rewind!

    • @clarelwc2849
      @clarelwc2849 Місяць тому

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @MrWillyMrBrightside
    @MrWillyMrBrightside Місяць тому +83

    One thing that's struck me especially in these comments is how few people realise that Royal Mail not only has nothing to do with the government-owned Post Office, but is a privatised company much like British Gas or BT, and is soon/has been (not sure) taken over by a Czech company. It's the sort of thing that goes under the radar because people are just so used to it being a public service and don't check the news that often.

    • @TalesOfWar
      @TalesOfWar 25 днів тому

      Something else the Tories ruined by selling off. 500 years in public ownership then some bell end called David Cameron shows up and sells it off for peanuts to be run into the ground.

    • @BoroBootBoy
      @BoroBootBoy 24 дні тому +3

      The service will hopefully improve then.

    • @alexandergutfeldt1144
      @alexandergutfeldt1144 24 дні тому +6

      @@BoroBootBoyRoyal Mail was privatized in 2012. You will be waiting for a long time!

    • @BoroBootBoy
      @BoroBootBoy 24 дні тому +3

      @@alexandergutfeldt1144 I was referring to it being bought by a Czech firm. They can't possibly do any worse.

    • @MrWillyMrBrightside
      @MrWillyMrBrightside 24 дні тому +3

      @@BoroBootBoy Unlikely hahahahahahaha, it's been rubbish since it got privatised 10 years ago

  • @fosterb247
    @fosterb247 Місяць тому +110

    Putting chocolate in pain out of it's misery - Class 👍

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +15

      Had to be done! 😂

  • @markphillips8019
    @markphillips8019 Місяць тому +71

    What a great video. Your tag does not do "real time" updates. Rather, whenever an iPhone user encounters your tag (could be a random passer by - any iPhone within 10M) then the tag uses their phone to upload its location. So it could be that the truck parked in the back of the rest stop was only there for a short time but that there were no iPhone users nearby. It could be a good while before your tag encounters an iPhone which would account for why you do not get "live" updates. This is exactly the sort of content I watch UA-cam for. Well done. Keep it up. Maybe do a Lands End to John O'groats one in a similar fashion? Race the Royal Mail!

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +21

      It’s as good as live when they’re on main roads as there’s always iPhones around them. But also it tells you when it last pinged so I could see it was still there. And thanks! Not sure how well this video will do but if it does well I might do more!

    • @dh2032
      @dh2032 Місяць тому +1

      @@Adz there good but if ear shot a iPhone, but still way better nothing tracking something? as person, and a large company or government, with large backroom logistics, there great? 🙂

  • @TehJumpingJawa
    @TehJumpingJawa 22 дні тому +17

    Who'd have thunk it.... a privatised company with a monopoly becomes dysfunctional & corrupt, serving the short term interests of the shareholders & investors rather than the long term interests of the company & its customers.

  • @jonathanmorgan1882
    @jonathanmorgan1882 Місяць тому +83

    As the old joke goes.. If a stamp costs 50p then that's 10p for postage and 40p for storage.

  • @tredoll6222
    @tredoll6222 Місяць тому +16

    all i could think of during this video was catch that pigeon from the cartoon Dastardly & Muttley 😂😂😂

  • @SierraNovemberKilo
    @SierraNovemberKilo Місяць тому +17

    Considering how few crisps there are in a Walker's Crisp packet, you are quite correct, rattling around with lots of echo!😂

  • @crapbag9724
    @crapbag9724 Місяць тому +25

    That was such a good idea and a fun watch, cant believe how long it sat in the UK depot, well rapid through Europe but dog slow when it got here, sounds about right 😛

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +2

      Thanks! Yeah I thought there might be a hold up but not for that long 😂

    • @user-pf3ye6yi9n
      @user-pf3ye6yi9n Місяць тому +1

      Yes quite normal, if you get something online and it goes Parcelforce 48 (I know, not really Royal Mail, sure) it will take at least 72 hours 24 of which will be tracked as sitting in a depot.

    • @garymckenna2945
      @garymckenna2945 Місяць тому

      Royal Mail are useless👎🏻

    • @trishloughman5998
      @trishloughman5998 Місяць тому

      @@user-pf3ye6yi9n where does it do customs?

    • @freebeeaddict-pt3on
      @freebeeaddict-pt3on Місяць тому +7

      When it arrives in the UK, it needs to clear customs, that's why it sat in that first UK depot for so long. Following Brexit, customs clearance takes much longer.

  • @edmundblackaddercoc8522
    @edmundblackaddercoc8522 Місяць тому +12

    A guy put one in his recycling bin, ended up in landfill with regular trash😂

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +4

      That’s amazing 😂 I mean not where they dumped it. But that he found out! Is there a video of it?

    • @edmundblackaddercoc8522
      @edmundblackaddercoc8522 Місяць тому +2

      @@Adz yeah you'll have to search for it,wasn't that long ago. I just find it funny how we are all recyclingn'doing the right thing' they just dump it with everything else.

    • @davidk3729
      @davidk3729 Місяць тому +2

      I asked a resident in Tenerife where was the recycling depot. The big street bins were marked for metals, timber, paper/card, glass, cans, plastic. He said the wagons go up the mountain, reverse to the edge of a ravine and eject the lot. Great place to get rid of your rubbish. (Just saying).

    • @grumpyhale821
      @grumpyhale821 Місяць тому +1

      Yes ​@@Adz if it is the same person I saw a video about.

    • @greenmantle87
      @greenmantle87 17 днів тому

      ​@@davidk3729 jay slater missed a trick there

  • @alanmon2690
    @alanmon2690 Місяць тому +40

    My heart sinks when Royal Mail is involved. I've had packages disappear into the black hole only to get it delivered a week after the original date; I watched a small item (off Amazon) get picked up within about 4 hours in Gemany, and appear next day in Heathrow. I watched it on Royal Mail tracker as it went from one location to another before it finally appeared about 4 days later in the local Distribution Centre. I watched it get sent to the Local Delivery Office (the wrong one), get sent back the next day with the comment along the lines of "returning to maintain good record" and then it appeared the next day. The tracker never tells you when they will deliver, only that they failed to deliver. The service is so bad that I almost dropped dead on the spot when a package was delivered the day after ordering it; not believing they would deliver on time I'd gone out for a few hours and they delivered it 30 minutes after I'd returned home.

    • @josephbickerton2335
      @josephbickerton2335 Місяць тому

      Had a similar experience a couple of weeks ago. Checking tracking my item hadn’t moved for a week, contacted Royal Mail and was told my item was lost. Contacted the Company that sent my item and they were very pleasant and apologised for not getting my item . Turned up a few days later.

    • @anjakellenjeter
      @anjakellenjeter Місяць тому

      Years ago, I managed to get a parcel from Staten Island, NY to the West Midlands in less than 24hrs. The amount of shit that had to line up right between USPS and RM back then for that to happen probably pales in comparison to how much would have to line up right for that to happen now.
      Sad to say but even Evri is faster than RM these days.

    • @silondon9010
      @silondon9010 26 днів тому +1

      Royal mail revisions have made the walks completely unachievable to complete that is why the service is terrible, postal workers just bring the work back as they have run out of time

  • @tartanwallpaper
    @tartanwallpaper Місяць тому +39

    ‘It identifies as a pigeon…” 😂 love this channel. 👏🏽😁

    • @BloodSkullzRock
      @BloodSkullzRock Місяць тому +2

      I wasn't sure if I was interested in tracking post enough to watch but the second he said that I knew I'd enjoy it.

  • @cathunter3874
    @cathunter3874 Місяць тому +7

    watching your parcel is easily the most gripping yarn I've seen all day

  • @NigelCornell_camping_travel
    @NigelCornell_camping_travel Місяць тому +25

    Nice edit on the animated map 👏🏼

  • @codeREDsim
    @codeREDsim Місяць тому +29

    I can’t believe that short flight from Luxembourg to Lille. 🤦🏼‍♂️

    • @russcattell955i
      @russcattell955i Місяць тому +3

      Looks like the truck dropped off some of its load and moved on.

  • @arkadventure2
    @arkadventure2 Місяць тому +25

    What a novel idea! Enjoyed the video immensely. Appreciate all your hard work. Love your humour.

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +5

      Thank you! I might do another one!

  • @robfreer497
    @robfreer497 Місяць тому +32

    bakery malfunction made me snort my capri sun like a buffoon 🤣

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +3

      😂😂

    • @shankurrim5540
      @shankurrim5540 Місяць тому +1

      Honeslty. Had me in stitches too. 😂

  • @mysteryman5826
    @mysteryman5826 Місяць тому +33

    royal mail is no where near as good as it used to be. They lost a recorded delivery letter I posted and gave me a book of postage stamps as compensation. I then re-wrote the documents and posted them using "Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed by 1pm" 15 days later they still had not delivered the letter and declared it lost yet again. I was not a really strange address I was sending it to. It was in fact a goverment department in the uk! Also a few times people have sent me recorded delivery (royal mail signed for) and the post person has put it through my letter box without ringing my doorbell and signed for it theirself!

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +10

      From what I hear they don’t look after the employees. So I guess the employees just don’t care about doing the job well!

    • @chrissouthgate4554
      @chrissouthgate4554 Місяць тому +4

      Sign for to large addresses, such as government departments is a scam. All the mail is delivered in a pallet, which means no one sees it to sign for it. The first time anything happens is when the letter is opened & some action (or not) is taken. In these instances, the Royal Mail is offering a service that they cannot deliver. Hence my calling the service a scam!

    • @johnclements6614
      @johnclements6614 Місяць тому +1

      I have received tracked mail delivered to me that was supposed to go to a different street with a different post code. But strangely they managed to deliver some mail correctly to me at the same time.
      same thing has happened to a neigbour; not sure if they are now relying on the public to deliver to the correct address.

    • @Hiforest
      @Hiforest Місяць тому +5

      ​@johnclements6614 My friend has become friends with someone in a neighbouring village due to their post getting mixed up so often. They have similar addresses (same street and door number, different town/village). Their post still gets mixed up at least once a month, but they usually plan on meeting up anyway so they've stopped complaining about it lol.

    • @pancakesgo7995
      @pancakesgo7995 Місяць тому +5

      They have been pants for years and years! About 20 years ago I posted a mini fridge via Royal Mail, which then proceeded to go "missing". How you "lose" a fridge is beyond me.

  • @Lenny101
    @Lenny101 Місяць тому +10

    Every Goguessr player is now looking for your front door 😂. I thought they the malfunctioning girl was going to be stuck like that for ever until someone gave her a smack.😂

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +2

      I thought she was AI!

  • @HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey
    @HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey Місяць тому +25

    I am an admin to an online charity that sends knitwear to hospitals it is amazing how many packages get lost - interesting watch. Glad the pigeon made it.

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      Thank you!

    • @SpeccyMan
      @SpeccyMan Місяць тому +7

      Lost or stolen? I received an email from RM stating my package had been delivered 1 minute earlier, yet it never came through my letter box. Their proof of delivery was merely a photo of my front door and nothing else. Certainly not the package! Rogue postie maybe? The sender did replace my order and I do hope they got a refund from RM.

    • @EgoChip
      @EgoChip Місяць тому

      @@SpeccyMan Royal Mail can't be trusted.

    • @marlbro-2473
      @marlbro-2473 Місяць тому

      When you consider they handle 8,000,000,000 letters and 1,500,000,000 parcels each year, it's not all that surprising things may get lost.

  • @ScottiStudios
    @ScottiStudios 23 дні тому +4

    I recently dispatched an order to a customer who, it turns out, put the wrong postcode on the order. It has, for the last 45 days, been going between 3 Royal Mail sorting offices and depots...every single day! 😂 I phoned them up to tell them and the man said "oh it happens all the time, it will eventually get sent back to you" then he hung up 😅

  • @MrBoost2024
    @MrBoost2024 Місяць тому +3

    Imagine explaining to a customs officer that you’re tracking a pigeon on a cross-border espionage mission. Meanwhile, Lazy Larry’s out here living his best life, taking naps and making pit stops, while the pigeon is probably drafting its memoirs: '11 Days in Parcel Hell.' Honestly, this race should be an Olympic event!

  • @tracymac1111
    @tracymac1111 Місяць тому +6

    Brilliant episode Adz. So interesting, full of wild life and incredible locations. Delivered with the superb wit we expect of our host. Great job ….well done that man.

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      Thank you Tracy!

  • @wheelersinthewild
    @wheelersinthewild Місяць тому +12

    Great catch the pigeon chase 🐦🐤, trust the Royal Mail to let the side down!

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +6

      Yeah it was going so well until then!

    • @penningtonlfc
      @penningtonlfc Місяць тому

      @@Adz he should have sent from a real pigeon and got it early haha

  • @LeisureBit
    @LeisureBit Місяць тому +7

    Love it! Bet it was really exciting seeing what would happen! Definitely made the journey back more exciting :)
    Hope you enjoyed the motorhome, can’t believe Royal Mail let you down!
    Have a great week and weekend, all the best, David & Rachel 👍

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +2

      Yeah it was well fun tracking it! And thank you!

  • @Live-life-1
    @Live-life-1 Місяць тому +6

    Really happy this video came up. Enjoyed it and found it interesting. As a former "lazy Larry" it amused me that when transporting air mail by lorry after the channel tunnel opened (yes I'm old) we were carrying air mail underground!!
    We were going in the opposite direction, from Farringdon, London to Paris or Frankfurt and to this day I still say, depot to depot, we were the fastest and most efficient transport available at the time. This is the first of your videos I've seen and look forward to sampling more!!
    You have a new subscriber.

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah it was actually really interesting to see the route it takes to get to the destination!

  • @darreno9874
    @darreno9874 Місяць тому +11

    Great job exposing the uselessness of the Royal mail, I've had similar problems but never put an air tagin my parcel. On one occasion the post office informed me my parcel had been delivered but it hadn't, the following day it arrived and when asked I was told the buttons were to close together and he had accidentally pressed delivered, but he must also have accidentally taken a photograph and not knocked on my door. So appart from abusing their own managers they can't even get the basics of delivery right.

    • @waltermcphee3787
      @waltermcphee3787 Місяць тому

      Just wait untill the Chech, billionaire financier buys the Royal mail. How will he get back the 5.3 billion asking price and cover the 1.5 billion losses without screwing over the British public or asset stripping the company.
      .

  • @schtoff8200
    @schtoff8200 12 днів тому

    You know you're a bloke when you can happily watch a 28 minute video of a man trying to beat an airtag home from europe, all the while thinking "maybe I should do that at some point".

  • @CoLD.SToRAGE
    @CoLD.SToRAGE 22 дні тому +4

    I’m a Brit living in Switzerland - been here 8 years. The bus thing catches Brits out. They get on the bus expecting to pay, generally get a free ride, and get off puzzled. On the off chance they get asked for their ticket, it can get very expensive very quickly! Sometimes the inspector will give you a very long lecture and let you pay for the trip, but mostly they will fine you 90 Swiss Francs or more, and put you on a list of non-paying offenders. Why? Because you need to buy your ticket BEFORE you get on the bus or train or tram. No exceptions no excuses. 😅

    • @Adz
      @Adz  22 дні тому +2

      I’ve already had to explain this in another couple of comments but I did not have to pay. During the previous video I asked the bus driver myself, because the lady on the campsite told me I didn’t have to pay. The bus driver verified this. Not sure why but someone else said something about tourists get it free with their tourist tax. So yes there are exceptions

    • @CoLD.SToRAGE
      @CoLD.SToRAGE 12 днів тому

      @@Adz That’s true enough - in some cantons, tourists are presented with a free local travel pass by hotels and so on.

  • @baggedr32mk5
    @baggedr32mk5 Місяць тому +7

    I often get notifications on my phone saying an AirTag is beside me as I drive HGV’s for Royal Mail and always wonder if someone’s doing a test….. Now I know they are

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      I was wondering if the driver would get a notification!

  • @barrymaguire7958
    @barrymaguire7958 Місяць тому +8

    The lorry park was customs clearance at one of the border crossings Basel

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      Ah ok. Makes sense!

  • @joyelmes7814
    @joyelmes7814 23 дні тому +1

    You get a delivered notification when you have been watching out for three days and not even seen a van let alone a postman. Still waiting.

  • @Matt_Alaric
    @Matt_Alaric Місяць тому +3

    I remember drunkenly trying to get to my girlfriends house in Lewisham on a train like that once and waking up in Kent at the last stop on the last train. Never been a fan of that line since 😂
    Back on track, loved the adventure and appreciate you putting that chocolate out of its pain👍

    • @davidspear9790
      @davidspear9790 Місяць тому

      Its hardly the line's fault that you fell into a drunken sleep and missed your stop.

    • @Matt_Alaric
      @Matt_Alaric Місяць тому +1

      @davidspear9790 You don't get invited out a lot do you.

  • @lyfandeth
    @lyfandeth 23 дні тому +1

    Here in the US, the favorite game of the USPS parcel delivery drivers is to stay in the truck if it is cold or rainy or close to end of shift.
    So I've had more than one parcel returned (six weeks later) to the sender marked "no such address" when that's the exact same address receiving mail for years.
    And our Postal Inspectors, who are the only ones allowed and required to investigate, somehow never manage to.

  • @tequeena
    @tequeena Місяць тому +3

    "A chocolate in pain" 😂🤣😅 funny isht. I hope you thoroughly enjoyed putting it out of it's misery 👍

  • @ryanallen3704
    @ryanallen3704 21 день тому +1

    Don't ask me why, but UA-cam decided to recommend this to me at 3am, but frick me am I glad they did!!💯 🙌 binged watch 4 episodes of the artic series and haven't slept since 😭😂❤

    • @Adz
      @Adz  21 день тому

      Haha apologies about the lack of sleep but I’m glad they recommended it!

    • @ryanallen3704
      @ryanallen3704 21 день тому

      @Adz do it all over again pal 🙌 definitely a good laugh 😂... brilliant content man ✌️

  • @staciemiller1339
    @staciemiller1339 Місяць тому +5

    Watching you makes me smile!! Hello from Indiana, USA

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      Hi! And thank you!

  • @hanspuelinckx5602
    @hanspuelinckx5602 Місяць тому +2

    Your editingskills,camerawork&comedy are seriously evolving...Always looking forward to a new episode!✌😎

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      Thank you!

  • @Cellestion
    @Cellestion Місяць тому +5

    Well done and glad you got back safe and in time (haha) to receive the pigeon post. I'm partial to a pain au chocolat, so today I tried a lidl bakery pain au double chocolat. . That truly was 'the one' ooh lala!

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +2

      I’ll have to try one!

  • @mrbates2
    @mrbates2 Місяць тому +2

    Yep. I gave up waiting for a tow bar that was posted from Poland but sat in the UK at a depot for days being lost, found and lost again. I drove to the depot and collected it.

  • @pauldupre2269
    @pauldupre2269 Місяць тому +4

    Brilliant. Love this Channel. Love your lack of planning.
    Just hilarious.
    Keep it up Adz 👍🏻

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      It’s far more fun when it’s unplanned haha, thanks!

  • @DaisysOnTour
    @DaisysOnTour 6 днів тому

    Fantastic!! Really enjoyed this vid, loved the editing with the map as the pigeon changed from truck to train to plain etc!!! Keep up the amazing work!! 😊

  • @TheRamblingRoseMedia
    @TheRamblingRoseMedia Місяць тому +4

    Nah Adz..not falling falling for this.. we need to see you with some real racing pigeons now... 😅 all the best my friend and safe journeys x

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +3

      I actually had that idea haha

  • @MrWhelts
    @MrWhelts 24 дні тому +6

    You do take the p**s out of the Royal Mail but I live in Spain and their system is unbelievable. We ask relatives NOT to send cards at Christmas and for birthdays, we just won't get them. Money in a card is a definite no no. Credit/Debit cards, who knows where they go? Luckily we can cancel them. If you complain they just shrug. Perhaps you should send a tracker to Spain .............. love to know where that ends up.

  • @betagombar9022
    @betagombar9022 Місяць тому +3

    As lovely as my local postie is ❤ I have lost all faith in our Royal mail system. Fab vlog, interesting and amusing 👍

  • @tripl3daddy.221
    @tripl3daddy.221 11 днів тому

    Just so you know as a fellow trucker, he's probably on his 9hours off catching up on sleep. Because if he doesn't have his sleep it won't make it and end up in a heep somewhere when Larry falls asleep at the wheel 😂😂

  • @jenstone9308
    @jenstone9308 Місяць тому +3

    Adz I swear your videos are the best thing on YT 😅 So many laugh out loud bits in this, 'slight malfunction' had me dying 😂 And David Adzenborough, and a chocolate in pain 😂 Not to sound too weird but I love your bright blue front door and bee doormat 😍 Another awesome video 🙌

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +2

      Glad you find them entertaining! That little mouse/shrew thing was amazing! Haha. And yeah gotta love bees!

    • @jenstone9308
      @jenstone9308 Місяць тому +1

      @@Adz It was a little cutie 😁 You should definitely include more wildlife exploration in your videos 😁

  • @martinsmith8572
    @martinsmith8572 29 днів тому +1

    Never seen you before so I started your video and couldn't switch it off, that is the sign of someone very successful. Great video and well done.

    • @Adz
      @Adz  29 днів тому +1

      Thank you mate, that’s appreciated!

  • @nahornig
    @nahornig Місяць тому +4

    You'd be a good hire for Top Gear, mate!

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      I’ll wait for an invite! Haha

  • @ranger_escapes
    @ranger_escapes Місяць тому +1

    Fantastic episode & great idea! I know it took a lot of your time but really well edited. Thanks Adz! Keep up the amazing work and have fun doing it 🤘🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +2

      Thank you mate! Yeah I loved making this one!

  • @pa_maj.MARTINI-van-MAN
    @pa_maj.MARTINI-van-MAN Місяць тому +3

    Splendid editing mate. That Slight malfunctioning lass in the bakery shop 🤣

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +2

      Thank you!

  • @starvr
    @starvr Місяць тому +1

    I bet that depot drives them mad! "Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry..." LOL

  • @ParaBob12004
    @ParaBob12004 Місяць тому +13

    I would send this video to The Post Office HQ and ask them why it took so long for this Special Delivery to leave their International Postal warehouse... The key Question is What does Special Delivery actually mean?

  • @TheRoba64
    @TheRoba64 Місяць тому +1

    Brilliant and pure quality. The Adzborough genius. It shows a lot of editing and a quality piece of work. Keep it up Adz.

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      Thank you! Yeah this was a difficult one to edit!

    • @TheRoba64
      @TheRoba64 Місяць тому +1

      @@Adz best vlog yet Adz. Taking nothing away from your Artic epic which was fantastic

  • @BruceLauderdale
    @BruceLauderdale Місяць тому +8

    I nearly choked with “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh” (Slight Malfunction ) 😂😂😂

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +3

      I nearly called for help

  • @DirkvanZyst
    @DirkvanZyst 21 день тому

    Cool one Adz, love the concept. Glad I didn't hold my breath for that delivery service. Brilliant exercise mate, cheers from Australia.😎

  • @theotherside8258
    @theotherside8258 Місяць тому +3

    Sometimes Royal mail tracking seems to show little movement as if a parcel is stuck somewhere and then suddenly you get a delivery. I suspect when Royal mail is busy and delay is threatened they just stop bothering with tracking and their system stops getting updated. When you think a sender has paid for tracking they should get a bit more than a website saying package received at depot and a week later on a update saying package delivered

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому

      Yeah definitely. There’s many ways they could let you know for example that it’s waiting to clear customs or whatever. With a company that big it should be more efficient

  • @repatch43
    @repatch43 19 днів тому

    Massive benefit of the Samsung Smarttags is that they have location history so you can look up where it was in the past, makes this sort of thing easier.

    • @Adz
      @Adz  18 днів тому

      Ah yeah that would’ve been so much better! I’ll look into them!

  • @Pugwash.
    @Pugwash. Місяць тому +2

    An interesting experiment on the post!

  • @anthony1636
    @anthony1636 20 днів тому +1

    Totally Normal for Royal Mail. I had a parcel being delivered by royal mail this week. And again the tracking was as use full as a fart in a space suite. It was telling me it was still at the collection hub and would not change. I arrived home today to find a card saying nobody was home to sign for it. So it was back at the local post office. When I checked the tracking ??? Yes you have got it. Apparently it was still at the collection Hub. Royal Mail an absolute waste of space.....

  • @pixie706
    @pixie706 Місяць тому +3

    I've just learned a new French word ...errrrrrrr=rr...😊

  • @SpecialisedMotorcycleTransport
    @SpecialisedMotorcycleTransport Місяць тому +2

    The extra effort in editing really showed 😍
    Enjoyed that mate.

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +2

      Thanks mate!!

  • @camdengooner71
    @camdengooner71 Місяць тому +3

    Great video why I found it interesting god knows😂only stumbled across you by chance

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому

      Glad you enjoyed it haha

  • @Paxmax
    @Paxmax Місяць тому +2

    "We're going to Luxemberg". 1. Check for defibrilator and heart medication. 2. Consult your financial adviser. 3. Hang on to yer britches... Cuz daz 'spensive af.

  • @diwarburton5369
    @diwarburton5369 Місяць тому +3

    You are hilarious Adz ‘a chocolate in pain’ 😂😂

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +2

      I’m like a chocolate doctor now! 😂

  • @deltafit
    @deltafit Місяць тому +2

    When that Streetfighter picture came up I nearly spat my coffee all over the sitting room 😂

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      That was one of my favourite bits of this video and still makes me laugh. But no one else has mentioned it so far 😂😂😂 glad you enjoyed it haha

    • @frankichiro
      @frankichiro Місяць тому

      @@Adz I was searching through the comments just to find a mention of it, it was proper funny and I replayed it several times. Hilarious!

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому

      @@frankichiro haha glad you noticed it too! 😂

  • @Xalinai
    @Xalinai 24 дні тому +1

    Airtags can only tell their position, when close enough to other hardware to talk to that transfers their message. So all that stayin in the parking lot might just mean no other devices close to the letter.

    • @Adz
      @Adz  24 дні тому

      It was showing constant updates the whole time though

  • @moonwolf9782
    @moonwolf9782 8 днів тому

    So, I have also worked for Royal Mail. Where I worked they had building A and building B for the sorting hub. Nothing we sorted came externally into building A, it was all shuttled from across the way from building B somewhere nearby. I didn't work in that building and it wasn't in the same part of the retail park. It wasn't the same international sorting centre either like in this video.
    The overnight and next day delivery went direct to another sorting office. We didn't handle those. Most of what we handled was 2nd/3rd class or franked mail. Some of the letters were dated, by at least a few weeks by the post date stamp.
    I believe because of the backlog they just dumped the overs in building B, that was the entire point of the 2 buildings as one was just temporary storage for non-important packages. Or at least I think.
    If my thinking is correct, then the Royal Snail, due to staff shortages had too much volume of mail to sort and just dumped it in a storage warehouse still in it's crate/cage. It was eventually processed and send to the main sorting building and then sent out.
    Thanks for exposing this, it confirms my suspicions from twenty 24 odd years ago.

  • @thecurrantbun
    @thecurrantbun Місяць тому +1

    Mate, brilliant, simply brilliant, well done on putting together a hilarious and entertaining show, flippin great and full of the usual Adz humour. We love it, keep it up mate 👍🏻

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +2

      Thank you! It’s appreciated!

  • @danielkarmy4893
    @danielkarmy4893 22 дні тому

    Well, that was a nice recommendation from UA-cam! Don't know if I'll stick around, might do, might not, but if not, you seem like a lovely person and I hope you have a wonderful life!

    • @Adz
      @Adz  22 дні тому

      Thank you!

  • @davidioanhedges
    @davidioanhedges 21 день тому +1

    In Germany especially in cities you have to buy a validated ticket, they last for a few hours to days, and cover smaller or larger areas, not individual journeys
    If a ticket inspector stops you and you don't have a valid ticket you can be fined, instantly
    Mulhouse is a city in France ... It means Mill house

    • @Adz
      @Adz  21 день тому

      It was free for me

  • @stephenasmith49
    @stephenasmith49 23 дні тому

    Absolutely brilliant, such an interesting and refreshing way to present it. Really enjoyed it!

    • @Adz
      @Adz  23 дні тому

      Thank you!

  • @holsteincowboy
    @holsteincowboy Місяць тому +1

    Tracking a air tag is a really cool idea

  • @stevenausten-davies141
    @stevenausten-davies141 Місяць тому +1

    Interesting, and funny…..imagine around the world race, winner gets a pie

  • @some.dude.bradley
    @some.dude.bradley 5 днів тому +1

    8:48 quite funny errrrrrrrrrrrr for 4 seconds straight

  • @patrickmcardle4771
    @patrickmcardle4771 Місяць тому +1

    Amazing, used ❤to post to 🇿🇦 in the morning, be there next day. 60/70s 😂❤

  • @martprice7726
    @martprice7726 Місяць тому +1

    That was simply brilliant only you would’ve thought of it. ❤❤❤ ❤ ❤

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +2

      Thank you!

  • @MadeByHedgehogs
    @MadeByHedgehogs Місяць тому +1

    What a brilliant video Adam! The editing this must have taken 💪🏻

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      Thank you!! Yeah this was complicated with all the cameras plus screen recordings from the laptop and the phone! I’m happy with it though :)

  • @DarranCariadCoins
    @DarranCariadCoins 21 день тому

    Great video, love the motorhome. This is something I would do 😂, chase a parcel home. I like your sense of humour 😁

  • @anserkhan9430
    @anserkhan9430 Місяць тому +2

    Best video yet bro !! Stay blessed!!!

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      Glad you think so! Thanks!

  • @LS-ft7ho
    @LS-ft7ho Місяць тому

    You suddenly popped up on my UA-cam aswell and I've enjoyed your humour, watching you track your package through the countries, while enjoying some, not very ofter, sunshine in my garden with my two young cats playing. Thank you. 🙏🏽😊

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому

      I’m glad you enjoyed it. It’s appreciated!

  • @bc-guy852
    @bc-guy852 20 днів тому

    First time viewer. This was totally ridiculous so it was an easy: subscribe, notifications, like and a comment for the monster. I appreciate your sense of humour - especially when it comes to your diet!

    • @Adz
      @Adz  20 днів тому

      Haha thank you! It’s much appreciated!

  • @davewarren401
    @davewarren401 21 день тому

    Brilliant insight as to what happens during posting an item, it’s good old royal fail that has let the side down! Did it really need to take that long? Probably not but at least it made it back. Great work mate I can’t imagine the hours you put into making this visual feast, bravo!!!

  • @wendyhoward472
    @wendyhoward472 Місяць тому

    Cant believe I just spent 28 mins watching a parcel arrive. 😂😂😂 it was very entertaining.

  • @370DatsunZed
    @370DatsunZed 24 дні тому

    This was a compulsive 28 minutes viewing...who would have thought it? Well done young man, excellent entertaining content...Liked and subscribed.

    • @Adz
      @Adz  24 дні тому +1

      Thank you! It’s appreciated!

  • @malacca1951
    @malacca1951 Місяць тому +1

    I never thought that I would EVER watch a video of an Apple flavoured pigeon travel by road, air, truck, train, boat, ferry and probably foot half way across Europe! But (for some reason I haven't worked out yet!) I thoroughly enjoyed it all! I was better than TV OR cinema - but without any background music. Your photography is superb, the sound is perfect and your sense of humour is - well, humorous! I'm going to leave the last 5 minutes to watch when I wake up tomorrow. I want to know how the tracking device can transmit through metal vans and big whorehouses. I have trouble getting my phone to work in B&Q! Thanks for doing this! (I'm going to ask for a Chocolate Pain in town too!)

  • @janjones7105
    @janjones7105 Місяць тому +1

    We so love watching your channel, they crack us up! 😂😂😂

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      Thank you! Glad to hear it!

  • @dazens1
    @dazens1 24 дні тому

    really enjoyed this i mail stuff abroad a lot and royal mail tracking still showing as leaving uk when its already in a usa sorting office is crazy

  • @abrr2000
    @abrr2000 20 днів тому

    Royal mail only opperates inside the UK. International postal services opperate by the agreement of... "if we deliver your letters, you deliver our letters." It is entirely possible that as the letter is posted from outside the UK, the Royal Mail actually got £0.00 from this postage delivery.

  • @misterthegeoff9767
    @misterthegeoff9767 Місяць тому +2

    A lot of French towns near the German border have German names, Mulhouse also doesn't have a direct translation in German but Müllhaus would be German for rubbish house. So whenever I see a sign for Mulhouse while driving down to the Alps that's what I always think of.

    • @andreavanderschyff2380
      @andreavanderschyff2380 Місяць тому +2

      It means ‘mill house’

    • @davidk3729
      @davidk3729 Місяць тому

      And there is just about the finest motor museum you will find anywhere. Interesting back story too. Wartime, taxation and secret storage. Lady in the cafeteria told me tax is a sensitive subject in that region. Don’t mention it.

  • @neilgeorge8952
    @neilgeorge8952 Місяць тому +1

    You never fail to amuse me on your adventures 😂

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      Glad you liked it mate!

  • @mpguirey
    @mpguirey Місяць тому +1

    This vid is definitely The One!... Adz, please tell me how you made the map sections. They were so professional. Keep up the awesome work and travels.

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +2

      Thanks! Google earth studio for one of them and a travel map app for the other 2

  • @mysticalsouls
    @mysticalsouls Місяць тому +1

    What a great idea for a video Adz, was great to watch

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Місяць тому +1

      Thank you!

  • @kevbills9884
    @kevbills9884 Місяць тому +1

    Slight malfunction was fantastic 😂

  • @Misskiff
    @Misskiff Місяць тому

    Why is this so good. I’m watching you compete with a Apple tag lol 😂 but I can’t stop watching 👀

  • @Lynda-um2mr
    @Lynda-um2mr Місяць тому

    I love this show, better than Only Fools and Horses.