Just a little rant, I ordered some stuff over the bank holiday weekend, postage paid for with an 48 hour option for each item, great should arrive weds or Thursday at the latest, but no, two diff retailers didn't send the items till weds so one arrived Friday and one Saturday.
Put it down to Black Friday, but Weds snapped a light bracket so ordered one there and then, but again, just got the shipping confirmation.
Is everyone getting this? It didn't use to be like this when stock shows as in stock! Rant over...
Retailers/couriers who think Aberdeen is in Highlands and islands.
One wanted £30 delivery 🙄
Didn't use to be like this because Royal Mail used to be functional and the whole country didn't use to buy 95% of items on the internet. It's fairly expected these days
So you paid for the cheapest postage option and you are ranting because after a busy bank holiday, a retailer was 1 day late in dispatching your stuff?
Retailers/couriers who think Aberdeen is in Highlands and islands.
Most couriers surcharge for Scotland - Aberdeen is a long way from most national distribution hubs and there is a higher cost involved in servicing remote destinations. Seems pretty fair that I don't have to subsidise your delivery?
My "rant" is the opposite. Arranging a delivery date with Amazon so I know I'll be home to receive it but it comes 2 days early!
Most couriers surcharge for Scotland - Aberdeen is a long way from most national distribution hubs and there is a higher cost involved in servicing remote destinations. Seems pretty fair that I don't have to subsidise your delivery?
Back in reality it's neither Highlands nor islands.
But to the op. Cost of living and COGs mean people are cutting back on employees at the expense of service. The distributor, the shop. The courier
Baring in mind alot of retails are using the distributors as their stock room so you have double postage
The one I hate is free UK mainland delivery but then in the small print it excludes any PH or IV postcodes and some AB postcodes.
The one I hate is free UK mainland delivery but then in the small print it excludes any PH or IV postcodes and some AB postcodes.
Yeah, what gets me about this isn’t as much the extra charge (although that is sometimes a total piss take) but the lack of understanding of what mainland means really does my head in.
Most couriers surcharge for Scotland -
They don't for Scotland they do for some parts of scotland.
Aberdeen is a long way from most national distribution hubs and there is a higher cost involved in servicing remote destinations.
Its on a major trunk road, with an international airport and a direct mainline rail link to London. Its not remote?
Seems pretty fair that I don't have to subsidise your delivery?
Presumably you would be happy to pay more for all the energy you use so aberdeen doesn't have to subiside you?
I am not entirely sure you know what you are talking about.
It categorically isn not highlands or islands. Companies that decide it is are at it.
What, a month before Christmas and the same weekend as Black Friday and your parcel's late?
(isn't 48 hour delivery working days not weekends? yeah, I know people and companies actually work weekends now so it's always odd when people say 2 business days... they're all business days like 24 **** 7 right?).