Amazon & Royal Mail

[admin]

Chaps, ordered something on Amazon to get delivered to an NI address, but it's taking an awful long time to be delivered.

It was received by RM on Monday, spent 3 days in a sorting office in England somewhere, before finally being recorded as being in NI today, but still not out for delivery.

Is this normal, or is there a Christmas rush or something?

[matthewdick23]

I order frm amazon quite a bit. It varies loads


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[Bazza]

+1 Matthew. Depends on the seller. Normally the delivery is 2-3 days. Very good.

On a related note, I'm just about to order my Christmas present from the missus from Homebrewwest, a malt mill. Am at checkout but there's no facility for entering NHC number for discount. Tried phoning them but no answer. How do you use the code?

Cheers,

-Barry

[Bazza]

Cheers, Shane. I did get to that screen, stuck in the number and got an error:

Error: The coupon code you have entered is not valid, please use the back link and try again.


-Barry

[Damofto]

I've been finding Royal mail very slow over the past month or so, its taking 3/4 weeks sometimes.

I used the Homebewest code on wednesday no problems.

[Will_D]

Tried phoning them but no answer. How do you use the code?

Wait till after about 12 or so - don't think they go in before 11 !!

[Bazza]

I used the Homebewest code on wednesday no problems.

Yes; but unlike you, I was being a complete idiot and using my card membership number  : Duh!

All sorted now.

-Barry

[sub82]

On a related note, I'm just about to order my Christmas present from the missus from Homebrewwest, a malt mill.

Dead Jealous!

[Will_D]

Chaps, ordered something on Amazon to get delivered to an NI address, but it's taking an awful long time to be delivered.

It was received by RM on Monday, spent 3 days in a sorting office in England somewhere, before finally being recorded as being in NI today, but still not out for delivery.

Is this normal, or is there a Christmas rush or something?

Getting back OT:
Ordered from Amazon.uk on 14th (last Thursday), Dispatched on 15th, Got email from Parcel Motel on 19th (Tuesday). Picked up Tuesday afternoon.

Wow! That was quick!

Thing about Amazon: Not all the stuff comes from Amazon! A lot of orders are redirected to other suppliers so its up to them! Then of course there's the local distribution end to consider!

Just got a small packet (tracked for €4 ) from Spain - took 16 days to arrive!. It was tracked so I know it was put into the Spanish post system day after order!

[Parrot]

Royal Mail seems to think Ireland is on the dark side of the Moon so deliveries, North or South, often take considerable time.

Standard delivery times, USPS-Texas to Wexford - 5 days, Royal Mail-Liverpool to Wexford 12-15 days - go figure :

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