I finally got round to adding Australia and New Zealand as shipping zones to the webstore. Sorry it took so long! You can now order non-courier items up to a combined weight of 1kg (everything bar bodies and necks) directly on the website without having to contact me for a quote first. PS – let […]
Some good news for a change! Now let us hope an agreement is reached by November 13th – we do not need any strikes in the run-up to Christmas!
Next Monday (November 4th) Royal Mail are staging a one day strike. While Post Offices will open for business (Post Office and Royal Mail are now separate companies) there will be no collections from Post Boxes or Post Offices on that day. To that end we are going to amend our dispatch times as follows: […]
Rain, rain, go away, come back another day (but not until Tuesday please!) It must be the August Bank Holiday weekend! The schedule for shipping from today is as follows: Any courier items ordered after 11am today will not ship until Tuesday 27th. This reflects the cut-off time for booking UPS and collections by Collect+ […]
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that necks would have to rise in price to cover the increase in shipping costs because of Royal Mail changing their services. A quick recap: Royal Mail have scrapped the Small Packet service and replaced it with a 3 tier Parcel service. The new size restrictions and change […]
Wow, April is nearly upon us! Hopefully you will be able to take advantage of the long weekend and cut loose a little. I will still be answering emails over the weekend, but to account for Bank Holiday Post Office/Royal Mail closures, posting/dispatch times for Easter weekend are as follows: Non courier orders received before […]
Earlier this month I wrote about the incoming changes to the Royal Mail parcel/packet services . I mentioned that I was writing to my MP and Ofcom, and I have had replies from both. The one organisation I wrote to about this that did not bother responding was, wait for it…Royal Mail. I complained about […]
Last year Royal Mail had a very extreme shake up of their services. The headlines focused on the increase in price of First and Second Class letters, however in all honesty those increases were not unreasonable. What was totally overlooked by the media was the removal of all weight bands below 750g for small parcels. […]
A list of last recommended posting dates can be found on the Royal Mail Website In summary we are recommending the following last order dates for customers : UK Wednesday 19 December : 1st Class and Recorded Signed For Monday 17 December : Courier orders International Sunday 9 December : Canada, Eastern Europe and USA […]
Public Service Announcement: Pending regulatory changes, Royal Mail may soon be opting every household in the UK in to the “Delivery To Neighbour” scheme. If you do not want your private and confidential mail, and Recorded Delivery items, left with a neighbour, make sure you use the “Opt Out” form linked on the page. FAQs […]
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