Metro Delivery is MOVING but not to India

Yes, we’re moving to our spacious NEW OFFICES & WAREHOUSE this weekend.

Metro Delivery bids a fond goodbye to the Sunny Southside of Ann Arbor, MI and, heeding the advice of Horace Greeley, heads to the Wild Westside of Ann Arbor, MI, from whence we shall continue to service the Southeastern environs of Michigan- and beyond!

And we would like be clear, we are NOT PRESENTLY moving to India:

…we all got our hopes up that Management had more expansive plans than we’d been led to believe, this morning when we found the below(click for screenshot) website, which looks remarkably like our website:

Which shows that we’ve established branches in:

India! at 41/3, Mahatma Gandhi Road Bangalore Karnataka – 560 001
PHONE NUMBER: + 917411577135

LONDON!
at Cortonwood Drive Brampton Barnsley S Yorkshire S73 0UF
PHONE NUMBER: + 44 703 195-3447

and…
NIGERIA!

at5/54 omolabake close of ilamoye street ijeshatedo lagos nigeria
PHONE NUMBER: +234 8133969916

…Unfortunately, that website that you see above is just another bunch of interwebs criminals who’ve copied our proprietary images and are trying to “hook” “pigeons” for their shady we’ve-got-a-package-for-you-but-you-have-to-pay-some-fees-to-get-it scam.

All the above phone numbers  etc. presumably allow you to contact actual criminals. We recommend that you avoid these weasels, if they should contact you.

Here’s a previous blog post regarding this interwebs phenomenon

…Anyway, Westside Ann Arbor is a good move for us.

LOOK OUT WESTSIDE ANN ARBOR METRO DELIVERY’S MOVIN’ IN!

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But England would have been nice…

Nigeria would have been awesome…

It just goes to show, you can’t believe EVERYTHING you see on the web.

Metro Delivery: Victim of Internet Penguin Larceny

Presto the Penguin, beloved mascot of Metro Delivery, was briefly kidnapped and taken across state lines for nefarious purposes!

Here’s the background: for years, we’ve been fielding the occasional phone call from people around the State of Arizona, regarding a notice of failed delivery left on their door by a “Metro Delivery.”

They reach us because we’re the at the top of the Google Searches for Metro Delivery. We always tell those people that we operate out of Michigan, and it must be another, unaffiliated “Metro Delivery” that they’re looking for.

We don’t operate in Arizona, though we’re licensed for deliveries there if called upon to do so. And that is also what we told the Arizona Attorney General’s Office when they started calling up regarding complaints they’d received about this other “Metro Delivery.” -it’s not us, Arizona Attorney General.

Arizona’s a long way from Michigan, so we paid all of this little mind.

Then two weeks ago we were Googling ourselves, the way internet-savvy businesses do nowadays, and we discover that this other “Metro Delivery” has set up a clumsy, amateurish website, (metrodeliveryDOTorg as opposed to our legitimate metrodelivery.com)- and look! It features our own logo from the photos on our facebook page, with the stylish “METRO” logo designed by Graphic Artist Judy Stopke, and Presto the Penguin as rendered by Sebastian, our Business Development Manager.

Here’s a screenshot of their technologically-impaired site, featuring our Purloined Penguin posed ironically next to the phrase: ” Metro Delivery Practices High Ethical and Professional Practices.”

OK, now they had our undivided attention.

Other highlights from their website:

• There’s no mailing or physical address listed for their business, there’s no phone number listed for their business,  just a couple blocky email contact forms, which is a heck of a way to run a delivery business.
• They don’t know how to spell “Perishable.”
• Their company slogan: “Where Affordability and Great Customer Service Goes Hand-in Hand” would be awkward even if the grammar wasn’t wrong.
• The website is registered under what appears to be a false phone number, which belongs to a cosmetics representative in Massachusetts, or something.

And we looked around on the internet and we found this thread, which provides much speculation about the activity of these jokers.  Sheesh.  Honestly, we don’t want to know.

On the advice of our attorney, we sent them this  message through their blocky email forms:

“Hi There! We’re Metro Delivery of Ann Arbor Michigan. Kindly immediately cease and desist use of our proprietary logo featuring the penguin, which you took from our legitimate Metro Delivery Facebook page for use on your extremely suspicious .org website.”

…and within 24 hours our penguin was released, replaced by a small map of Arizona and the catchy phrase: “Ve Service the Entire Sta”.

…So apparently they got the message.

We hope this blog entry serves as an official notice that we here at Metro Delivery of Ann Arbor not only are completely unaffiliated with the alleged Metro Delivery of Arizona, but further, that we view their activities with disapproval and extreme suspicion. There’s something pretty sneaky going on there in the Sunshine State.

Thankfully, now, Presto the Penguin is safely back here at our offices in Michigan, enjoying a nice warm cup of herring soup and recovering from this harrowing experience. What kind of people would take a poor little penguin to Arizona, of all places, anyway?