Exposing ROYAL MAIL LIES with an Apple AirTag

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  • Опубликовано: 9 сен 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 Месяц назад +540

    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 28 дней назад +21

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

    • @biddiemutter3481
      @biddiemutter3481 27 дней назад +7

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

    • @vabu94
      @vabu94 25 дней назад +5

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

    • @markhosking1882
      @markhosking1882 25 дней назад +7

      Funnily enough I was gripped.

    • @gdwnet
      @gdwnet 24 дня назад +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- 25 дней назад +179

    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 23 дня назад +7

      Worldxlass Uk 😂😂😂

    • @SalvageMasterEssex
      @SalvageMasterEssex 22 дня назад +36

      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 22 дня назад +2

      @@SalvageMasterEssex lol

    • @willdive6770
      @willdive6770 19 дней назад +6

      Must have been the express service.

    • @20chocsaday
      @20chocsaday 18 дней назад +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.

  • @61citystars
    @61citystars 24 дня назад +83

    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 21 день назад +6

      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 18 дней назад +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 16 дней назад +13

      Royal mail privatisation destroyed the service

    • @JohnMorten-px6my
      @JohnMorten-px6my 16 дней назад +3

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

    • @howardchambers9679
      @howardchambers9679 16 дней назад +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 Месяц назад +115

    Slight malfunction 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 brilliant

    • @baldvale5418
      @baldvale5418 Месяц назад +6

      That got me too : )

    • @merida1605
      @merida1605 Месяц назад +4

      😂😂 was hilarious

    • @Austinusername
      @Austinusername Месяц назад +5

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

    • @jenstone9308
      @jenstone9308 Месяц назад +5

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

    • @clarelwc2849
      @clarelwc2849 Месяц назад

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @fosterb247
    @fosterb247 Месяц назад +108

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +14

      Had to be done! 😂

  • @MrWillyMrBrightside
    @MrWillyMrBrightside 24 дня назад +81

    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 15 дней назад

      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 14 дней назад +3

      The service will hopefully improve then.

    • @alexandergutfeldt1144
      @alexandergutfeldt1144 14 дней назад +6

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

    • @BoroBootBoy
      @BoroBootBoy 14 дней назад +3

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

    • @MrWillyMrBrightside
      @MrWillyMrBrightside 14 дней назад +3

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

  • @lightningjack27
    @lightningjack27 29 дней назад +119

    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  29 дней назад +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 26 дней назад +3

      Same here 😂 now off to check out some more 😊

    • @debbiewray6257
      @debbiewray6257 22 дня назад +2

      Yeah same for me, I loved it.

    • @juliebriggs8999
      @juliebriggs8999 20 дней назад +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 20 дней назад

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

  • @TehJumpingJawa
    @TehJumpingJawa 12 дней назад +16

    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.

  • @tredoll6222
    @tredoll6222 25 дней назад +16

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

  • @markphillips8019
    @markphillips8019 Месяц назад +69

    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 RUclips 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  Месяц назад +20

      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 26 дней назад +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? 🙂

  • @jonathanmorgan1882
    @jonathanmorgan1882 28 дней назад +79

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

  • @edmundblackaddercoc8522
    @edmundblackaddercoc8522 29 дней назад +12

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  29 дней назад +4

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

    • @edmundblackaddercoc8522
      @edmundblackaddercoc8522 29 дней назад +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 26 дней назад +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 25 дней назад +1

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

    • @greenmantle87
      @greenmantle87 7 дней назад

      ​@@davidk3729 jay slater missed a trick there

  • @codeREDsim
    @codeREDsim Месяц назад +28

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

    • @russcattell955i
      @russcattell955i 21 день назад +2

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

  • @SierraNovemberKilo
    @SierraNovemberKilo 26 дней назад +17

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

  • @robfreer497
    @robfreer497 Месяц назад +32

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +3

      😂😂

    • @shankurrim5540
      @shankurrim5540 Месяц назад +1

      Honeslty. Had me in stitches too. 😂

  • @Lenny101
    @Lenny101 Месяц назад +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  Месяц назад +2

      I thought she was AI!

  • @tartanwallpaper
    @tartanwallpaper Месяц назад +39

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

    • @BloodSkullzRock
      @BloodSkullzRock 25 дней назад +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.

  • @crapbag9724
    @crapbag9724 Месяц назад +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  Месяц назад +2

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

    • @user-pf3ye6yi9n
      @user-pf3ye6yi9n Месяц назад +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 29 дней назад

      Royal Mail are useless👎🏻

    • @trishloughman5998
      @trishloughman5998 24 дня назад

      @@user-pf3ye6yi9n where does it do customs?

    • @freebeeaddict-pt3on
      @freebeeaddict-pt3on 24 дня назад +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.

  • @cathunter3874
    @cathunter3874 25 дней назад +7

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

  • @alanmon2690
    @alanmon2690 27 дней назад +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 24 дня назад

      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 24 дня назад

      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 16 дней назад +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

  • @ScottiStudios
    @ScottiStudios 14 дней назад +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 😅

  • @mysteryman5826
    @mysteryman5826 28 дней назад +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  28 дней назад +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 26 дней назад +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 26 дней назад +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 25 дней назад +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 25 дней назад +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.

  • @MrBoost2024
    @MrBoost2024 22 дня назад +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!

  • @NigelCornell_camping_travel
    @NigelCornell_camping_travel Месяц назад +24

    Nice edit on the animated map 👏🏼

  • @HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey
    @HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey 27 дней назад +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  27 дней назад +1

      Thank you!

    • @SpeccyMan
      @SpeccyMan 25 дней назад +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 25 дней назад

      @@SpeccyMan Royal Mail can't be trusted.

    • @marlbro-2473
      @marlbro-2473 22 дня назад

      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.

  • @wheelersinthewild
    @wheelersinthewild Месяц назад +12

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +6

      Yeah it was going so well until then!

    • @penningtonlfc
      @penningtonlfc 25 дней назад

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

  • @arkadventure2
    @arkadventure2 Месяц назад +25

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +5

      Thank you! I might do another one!

  • @schtoff8200
    @schtoff8200 2 дня назад

    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".

  • @baggedr32mk5
    @baggedr32mk5 Месяц назад +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  Месяц назад +1

      I was wondering if the driver would get a notification!

  • @joyelmes7814
    @joyelmes7814 13 дней назад +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.

  • @tequeena
    @tequeena Месяц назад +3

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

  • @anthony1636
    @anthony1636 11 дней назад +2

    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.....

  • @tracymac1111
    @tracymac1111 Месяц назад +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  Месяц назад +1

      Thank you Tracy!

  • @starvr
    @starvr 24 дня назад +1

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

  • @LeisureBit
    @LeisureBit Месяц назад +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  Месяц назад +2

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

  • @barrymaguire7958
    @barrymaguire7958 Месяц назад +8

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +1

      Ah ok. Makes sense!

  • @Live-life-1
    @Live-life-1 27 дней назад +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  27 дней назад +1

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

  • @lyfandeth
    @lyfandeth 14 дней назад +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.

  • @CoLD.SToRAGE
    @CoLD.SToRAGE 12 дней назад +3

    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  12 дней назад +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 2 дня назад

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

  • @tripl3daddy.221
    @tripl3daddy.221 День назад

    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 😂😂

  • @Cellestion
    @Cellestion Месяц назад +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  Месяц назад +2

      I’ll have to try one!

  • @deltafit
    @deltafit Месяц назад +2

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +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 Месяц назад

      @@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  Месяц назад

      @@frankichiro haha glad you noticed it too! 😂

  • @Matt_Alaric
    @Matt_Alaric Месяц назад +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 29 дней назад

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

    • @Matt_Alaric
      @Matt_Alaric 29 дней назад +1

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

  • @repatch43
    @repatch43 9 дней назад

    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  9 дней назад

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

  • @darreno9874
    @darreno9874 26 дней назад +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 23 дня назад

      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.
      .

  • @mrbates2
    @mrbates2 24 дня назад +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.

  • @jenstone9308
    @jenstone9308 Месяц назад +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  Месяц назад +2

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

    • @jenstone9308
      @jenstone9308 Месяц назад +1

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

  • @staciemiller1339
    @staciemiller1339 Месяц назад +5

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +1

      Hi! And thank you!

  • @TheRamblingRoseMedia
    @TheRamblingRoseMedia Месяц назад +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  Месяц назад +3

      I actually had that idea haha

  • @ParaBob12004
    @ParaBob12004 28 дней назад +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?

  • @abrr2000
    @abrr2000 10 дней назад

    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.

  • @nahornig
    @nahornig Месяц назад +4

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +1

      I’ll wait for an invite! Haha

  • @hanspuelinckx5602
    @hanspuelinckx5602 Месяц назад +2

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +1

      Thank you!

  • @betagombar9022
    @betagombar9022 23 дня назад +3

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

  • @pauldupre2269
    @pauldupre2269 Месяц назад +4

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +1

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

  • @MrWhelts
    @MrWhelts 14 дней назад +4

    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.

  • @LaizyDaisy
    @LaizyDaisy 12 дней назад

    ‘A chocolate in pain’ 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @BruceLauderdale
    @BruceLauderdale Месяц назад +7

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +2

      I nearly called for help

  • @Paxmax
    @Paxmax 28 дней назад +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.

  • @pixie706
    @pixie706 29 дней назад +3

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

  • @Xalinai
    @Xalinai 14 дней назад +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  14 дней назад

      It was showing constant updates the whole time though

  • @theotherside8258
    @theotherside8258 29 дней назад +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  29 дней назад

      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

  • @pa_maj.MARTINI-van-MAN
    @pa_maj.MARTINI-van-MAN Месяц назад +2

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +2

      Thank you!

  • @Pugwash.
    @Pugwash. Месяц назад +2

    An interesting experiment on the post!

  • @kevbills9884
    @kevbills9884 Месяц назад +1

    Slight malfunction was fantastic 😂

  • @camdengooner71
    @camdengooner71 28 дней назад +3

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  27 дней назад

      Glad you enjoyed it haha

  • @stevenausten-davies141
    @stevenausten-davies141 Месяц назад +1

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

  • @diwarburton5369
    @diwarburton5369 Месяц назад +3

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +2

      I’m like a chocolate doctor now! 😂

  • @LawnMowersThingsThatMakeNoise
    @LawnMowersThingsThatMakeNoise 26 дней назад

    That Cat replied to "how do you say meow in luxembourgian" Meowwwwww i heard it 🙂

  • @Beachgirl00213
    @Beachgirl00213 12 дней назад

    Why was I so invested in this....? 😂

  • @melvinphillips786
    @melvinphillips786 Месяц назад +2

    The Post Office telling lies???? 🤔 Did they think you were a Post Master???? 😂

  • @DirkvanZyst
    @DirkvanZyst 11 дней назад

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

  • @patrickmcardle4771
    @patrickmcardle4771 23 дня назад +1

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

  • @wendyhoward472
    @wendyhoward472 23 дня назад

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

  • @malacca1951
    @malacca1951 24 дня назад +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!)

  • @shellybelly35
    @shellybelly35 12 дней назад

    The weird hats sign, so 1950s look 😂😂😂

  • @DarranCariadCoins
    @DarranCariadCoins 12 дней назад

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

  • @realulli
    @realulli 11 дней назад

    The package not having left Switzerland is probably the legal terms. Legally, it *was* still in Switzerland, if the British customs service rejected the package, it would not have to be re-imported to Switzerland because it legally never left. When it got accepted into the UK, it got moved to the other building and from there it proceeded normally.

    • @Adz
      @Adz  11 дней назад

      The package had been in several countries and was physically in the UK. Therefore their tracking lies. It doesn’t matter why they lie. But their lie is something they could easily fix by re-wording their tracking

  • @martinsmith8572
    @martinsmith8572 19 дней назад +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  19 дней назад +1

      Thank you mate, that’s appreciated!

  • @TheRoba64
    @TheRoba64 Месяц назад +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  Месяц назад +1

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

    • @TheRoba64
      @TheRoba64 Месяц назад +1

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

  • @Misskiff
    @Misskiff Месяц назад

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

  • @davidioanhedges
    @davidioanhedges 11 дней назад +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  11 дней назад

      It was free for me

  • @grahamdauphin8824
    @grahamdauphin8824 3 дня назад

    What I find shocking about this is a package sitting in the UK depot for seven days, how can this be justified.

  • @ranger_escapes
    @ranger_escapes Месяц назад +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  Месяц назад +2

      Thank you mate! Yeah I loved making this one!

  • @SpecialisedMotorcycleTransport
    @SpecialisedMotorcycleTransport Месяц назад +2

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +2

      Thanks mate!!

  • @holsteincowboy
    @holsteincowboy Месяц назад +1

    Tracking a air tag is a really cool idea

  • @thecurrantbun
    @thecurrantbun Месяц назад +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  Месяц назад +2

      Thank you! It’s appreciated!

  • @NathansWargames
    @NathansWargames 19 дней назад

    "chocolate in pain" lol

  • @janjones7105
    @janjones7105 Месяц назад +1

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

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад +1

      Thank you! Glad to hear it!

  • @lyfandeth
    @lyfandeth 14 дней назад

    Sounds like your envelope was sent like our "parcel post" items. They go on a "space available" basis. So if the truck or plane is full, they get thrown in a warehouse corner and held until there is space available on another vehicle. However long that takes.

  • @Lynda-um2mr
    @Lynda-um2mr Месяц назад

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

  • @contessa.adella
    @contessa.adella 14 дней назад

    I’d like to know a)Where those ‘lost’ parcels sit. b) Why no staff says ‘Oh look, a stalled parcel…let’s get it moving again’.

  • @serenityjewel
    @serenityjewel Месяц назад +1

    You are freaking insane. 😂

    • @Adz
      @Adz  Месяц назад

      😂😂😂

  • @bc-guy852
    @bc-guy852 11 дней назад

    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  11 дней назад

      Haha thank you! It’s much appreciated!

  • @JoseASegura
    @JoseASegura 28 дней назад +1

    The flights you see in the app are only commercial flights, not the freight only flights, so might've flown in another plane that is not appearing there

  • @user-jy8mo5fi5q
    @user-jy8mo5fi5q 16 дней назад

    Royal Mail is always the same when it comes to checking tracking numbers, you can find it in the system and no matter how many times it is checked on line there is no movement shown until it arrives at your home. Only them do you get notifications that it has been delivered. It is pointless having a system they do not update

  • @sctmcg
    @sctmcg 21 день назад

    "Tom Hardy vs The Royal Mail" is not the video I expected but is well received!

    • @Adz
      @Adz  21 день назад

      Haha thank you!

  • @ryanallen3704
    @ryanallen3704 11 дней назад

    Don't ask me why, but RUclips 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  11 дней назад

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

    • @ryanallen3704
      @ryanallen3704 11 дней назад

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

  • @cassandragough
    @cassandragough 29 дней назад +2

    "How do you say meow in Luxembourgian?". "Meow", of course. Even the cat had comic timing!

    • @Adz
      @Adz  29 дней назад

      I can’t believe he answered me so efficiently 😂😂

  • @fivish
    @fivish 9 дней назад

    Airtag is Bluetooth with a 10 meter range. It only works over greater distances if other iPhone users with the Airtag app are near by. Theoretically the Tag can be tracked over great distances but in reality it does not work.

    • @Adz
      @Adz  9 дней назад

      That’s not quite how it works but yeah roughly. It works great for ideas like this though. I got plenty of updates