Nigel
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Post by Nigel on Nov 6, 2007 12:30:27 GMT
You've got to love Pricing In Proportion.
It just cost me 7p more to send a packet of Top Trumps UK First Class than to send one Air Mail to Malta.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 6, 2007 23:09:19 GMT
Yeah all hail the shitty service of the Royal Mail.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 6, 2007 23:10:04 GMT
Don't start me on Royal bloody Mail!
-Ralph
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Gav
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Post by Gav on Nov 7, 2007 9:11:11 GMT
Don't start me on Royal bloody Mail! -Ralph Don't start him, people! |
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Hero
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Post by Hero on Nov 7, 2007 11:03:20 GMT
That's pretty decent considering Malta has a more powerful currency than us. Well it was last time I checked.
===KEN
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Post by legios on Nov 7, 2007 19:54:02 GMT
You've got to love Pricing In Proportion. It just cost me 7p more to send a packet of Top Trumps UK First Class than to send one Air Mail to Malta. Well of course - UK First Class probably represents more regular business than Air Mail to Malta so from Royal Mail's perspective it is only logical to make that more expensive - that way they increase the amount of money they make even further. The purpose of Pricing In Proportion is to maximise profits after all. It's not as if the post exists to provide a service to customers after all... Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 7, 2007 20:51:44 GMT
Nnnnngh...don't start me on Royal ******* Mail!
-Ralph
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Post by grahamthomson on Mar 28, 2010 18:17:46 GMT
Prices are going up again in the next week or so.
It's getting so a Transformers nut can't do a printed/posted fanzine no more.
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Post by glaug on May 30, 2010 13:35:32 GMT
Wasn't sure if this should go in here or Toys... I know that the Icelandic Geological flatulence really messed up international post lately, but is anyone else still finding that international post is taking its sweet time? Even internal UK stuff seems to have slowed down a lot lately. Just thought I'd see what the situation was like for the rest of the Hub, given that we're mostly in the UK ordering toys from overseas.  |
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Post by blueshift on May 30, 2010 13:38:53 GMT
Wasn't sure if this should go in here or Toys... I know that the Icelandic Geological flatulence really messed up international post lately, but is anyone else still finding that international post is taking its sweet time? Even internal UK stuff seems to have slowed down a lot lately. Just thought I'd see what the situation was like for the rest of the Hub, given that we're mostly in the UK ordering toys from overseas. I find overseas post is very random. I've had stuff take weeks to get to or from America, but an item I sold on ebay the other week got there in literally a few days. |
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Post by glaug on May 30, 2010 13:49:11 GMT
Yeah, I've had stuff send much faster from here to there than the other way round. But both myself and my better half are waiting on stuff ordered from HLJ about 3 weeks ago, maybe more, and I've got a bunch of stuff from the US which is taking about twice as long as usual to arrive too...
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Post by Shockprowl on May 30, 2010 18:12:08 GMT
Have some karma for 'geological flatulence'!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 7, 2011 16:59:08 GMT
So who's missing stuff at the moment?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 7, 2011 17:00:11 GMT
A DW book sent by Play in November never arrived, neither did a boxset from Play a few weeks later.
Amazon stuff usually arrives a few days ahead of their delivery estimate
My making of ESB harback is rogue, Amazon said expected yesterday and the tracking
information goes dead when it was passed from the couriers to Royal Mail.
They sent my Inception BD 31/12 and that's not turned up - Amazon say due tmw.
They sent some DVDs for Liz's Birthday 30/12, Amazon say due today, no sign of them.
I'm suspecting someone in the sorting office, possibly a temp, may be a little light fingered.
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Post by Kingoji on Jan 7, 2011 17:33:00 GMT
I'm awaiting stuff from Kapow which supposedly shipped on the 16th of December. A couple of Manga from United Publications, also, but I think the release on those was simply pushed back.
Damn you Kapow, I want my Jazz!
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 7, 2011 19:49:43 GMT
I too await a box from Kapow, long overdue as well as a DW CD box set from Big Finish.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 8, 2011 0:31:25 GMT
Random purchases from ebay, my polaris calendar and some issues of cereal geek. Although i am still getting xmas cards each day.
Andy
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 8, 2011 0:37:14 GMT
Transformers cybertron dvd but I think thats the seller as hes yet to respond to any questions or an ebay buyer dispute. One item just got returned to me after sitting in scotland for a month. I assume the postman forgot to put a card through the letter box. One other seems to have disappeared despite being tracked.
Andy
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Post by bertie on Jan 8, 2011 0:46:36 GMT
I'm hoping parts I ordered for my Mini yesterday morning, with guaranteed next day delivery, will turn up this morning, or it's going to be stuck in Bracknell when I skip town to Crawley tomorrow.
Elliott.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 8, 2011 9:28:21 GMT
Progress on the Making of ESB book:
31 Dec 2010 10:33:00 AM Gourock Inverclyde UK Order has been handed over to the carrier and is in transit
07 Jan 2011 03:55:02 PM North West Distribution Centre Arrival Scan
08 Jan 2011 05:40:12 AM South West Distribution Centre Arrival Scan
So a week in Inverclyde..... if the post is that shafted still in that direction that may explain where the other two Amazon parcels are.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 8, 2011 12:43:54 GMT
Had the 90 min round-trip to the sorting office today to pick up 4 Recorded Delivery items (expensive Masters of the Universe stuff). Alas, 3 of them are "lost in the system". Thankyou, Royal Mail, for losing £100 of stuff via your secure delivery service. I am not at all a happy bunny.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 8, 2011 13:05:38 GMT
Arseholes.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 8, 2011 14:20:03 GMT
Still waiting on a few books here to arrive from Amazon.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 9, 2011 10:06:36 GMT
I do hope they become unlost for they will be hard to replace. Some comics are also overdue. The BF package has now arrived OK. -Ralph |
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Hero
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Post by Hero on Jan 10, 2011 15:01:30 GMT
I got a parcel at 6pm the other day. 3rd party delivery people seem to be cropping up more.
Still waiting on lots of Christmas related stuff including presents, cards and decorations (I ordered back in November). A little too late for some of it now...
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 10, 2011 16:58:43 GMT
Nothing new today.
I've got a Shadow Warrior in transit that should be here by now.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 10, 2011 17:44:29 GMT
I plan to go back to the sorting office tomorrow after work for a 'chat'. They took my number on Saturday but no-one called me today...
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 11, 2011 2:03:32 GMT
Still no sign of The Christmas Siren or my Polaris calendar.
Damn you Royal Mail!!!!
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 11, 2011 8:41:01 GMT
My making of ESB harback is rogue, Amazon said expected yesterday and the tracking information goes dead when it was passed from the couriers to Royal Mail. Progress on the Making of ESB book: 31 Dec 2010 10:33:00 AM Gourock Inverclyde UK Order has been handed over to the carrier and is in transit
07 Jan 2011 03:55:02 PM North West Distribution Centre Arrival Scan
08 Jan 2011 05:40:12 AM South West Distribution Centre Arrival Scan
So a week in Inverclyde..... if the post is that shafted still in that direction that may explain where the other two Amazon parcels are. *Finally*with me. Now what about those DVDs |
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 11, 2011 8:59:37 GMT
I'm now making three claims. One for a package I sent was taken to the collection officethat then was so throughly buried when the person went to collect it royal mail couldn't find it and then eventually sent it back to me. One package I sent lost and one sent to me lost too.
Also one payment for an ebay auction went missing.
Andy
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