UK postal strikes may affect delivery of your order
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 by Kim Bolsover
POSTAL STRIKES
and How to Avoid Delivery Delays
UK postal workers are on strike today (Thursday) and tomorrow. Royal Mail reckon that this will create a backlog of around 150 million items.
It will take several days to clear this kind of backlog so you must expect delays in receiving your orders especially if we use Royal Mail to despatch your goods.
COURIER DELIVERIES
It’s normally far too expensive to use courier deliveries for smaller orders but we will help you out by picking up some of these courier costs ourselves until this dispute has been resolved:
- We will despatch orders by courier company where your shipping costs are GBP 5.00 and over.
- Orders where shipping costs are under GBP 5.00 will be despatched via Royal Mail.
THIS APPLIES WORLDWIDE
This does not just apply to UK orders. If you would like us to use a courier to despatch your goods to you (wherever you are in the world), then your shipping costs must be GBP 5.00 or more.
Shipping costs are calculated automatically by the shopping cart using both the destination and the weight of the total goods.
At the checkout, enter your country code for destination.
Then check what the system has calculated for your shipping costs.
- If it is GBP 5.00 or more, we will use a courier
- If it is less than GBP 5.00 we will send your goods out via Royal Mail. In this instance we have no control over strikes, backlogs, etc. so please be prepared for long delays.
NEXT WEEK
It is expected that the postal workers will strike again for 3 days next week so the backlog will just keep getting bigger and bigger…
ORDER SUPPLIES
To place your colour supplies order, go to
http://www.improvability.co.uk/consultants/index.html
and don’t forget to check your shipping costs at the checkout.
