So how can my lbs be quicker than next day delivery if they do not have said item in stock?
Probably 3-5 days to get in stock and that’s if they are doing an order that week.
Really? If a customer of ours needed something tomorrow*, and we were able to order it for them, we’d do so. There might be carriage to pay (though we could usually cobble together an order for any of our main suppliers of a sufficient value for free carriage at more-or-less any time) and said customer might need to pay that carriage (depending on the value of what they’re ordering, and how we felt on that day. But I’d like to think we could get anything that’s in stock with our suppliers at least as quickly as “the internet” could, for someone who’s bothered to come and ask us to do so. And we’re not a big shop by any measure.
Sorry to hear of your difficulties BTW.
*not tomorrow at the time of posting, as that would be Sunday, and no-one (not even CRC!) delivers then.