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POSTAGE
RATES AND DELIVERY TIMES (U.K.)
ON
THIS PAGE: The postage rates on this page are for orders placed online and paid online. All prices include VAT Royal Mail
deliver post on a Saturday but not on Sundays or bank holidays
DELIVERY
2 to 3 WEEKS Postage charge is £2.50. You will only be offered
this service for lightweight orders. Royal Mail, 2nd Class, not signed-for, not insured. This is our 'economy' service, it is excellent value providing you are not in a hurry. Posting schedule for 2 to 3 Week Delivery: We really have no idea if the order will take two weeks or three weeks. Someone will (in two or three days) send you an email with an approximate dispatch date - "approximate" because if the packer runs out of time, he will put your order aside for another day. But there is some good news: you are only paying £2.08 + VAT for postage and packaging, we really cannot make it cheaper than this! Included in the service: - if an item is
out of stock, it will automatically follow whenever it comes back into
stock - the postman will
not deliver to another address (except for a neighbour) if you are not
in
DELIVERY
3 to 6 DAYS (Are
there any delays this week? Click
here) Postage charge varies from £4.00 to £11.00 depending on the weight, but most orders cost less than £5.00. You will only be offered this service for items up to 10Kg (for items over 10Kg you will be offered a faster service, because it will cost less). We use Royal Mail. If we post the order the same day, we send it by 2nd Class post, otherwise we use 1st Class. We add Recorded Delivery if the value is more than nominal. The "3 to 6 days" includes Saturdays but not Sundays and bank holidays. Posting schedule
for 3 to 6 Day Delivery: Included in the service: - if an item is
out of stock, it will automatically follow a few days later (if the
delay is more than a few days we will contact you) - the postman will
not deliver to another address (except for a neighbour) if you are not
in
DELIVERY
IN 1 to 2 WORKING DAYS (Are
there any delays this week? Click
here) Postage charge is £10.00 up to 10Kg, or £15.00 up to 25Kg, or £18.00 up to 30Kg. We use the courier Interlink. There is an 80% chance that the item will arrive by 5pm the next working day (our deadline, for payment, is 4pm Monday to Thursday, or midday on a Friday). If any item is out of stock, we will email you for advice. Posting Schedule for 1 to 2 Day Delivery service:
If payment is received by 1pm on Monday, the most likely delivery day
is Tuesday (though it could be Wednesday) In theory, delivery can be any time up to 5pm, but in practice the driver tends to make deliveries in the morning. Included in
the service: Redelivery options (after the driver has left a card) are: - to collect from the depot
(there will be a map on the card) - although you
will be given a delivery 'slot' to the nearest hour, the driver will
not deliver at a time of your choice Important: nothing is ever 100% guaranteed. Over 99% of parcels arrive within two working days. This is not a 100% guarantee. NEXT
DAY DELIVERY BY 1pm (Are
there any delays this week? Click
here) Postage is £10.00 up
to 1Kg, or £12.50 up to 2Kg, or £29.50 up to 10Kg. Delivery is by 1pm the next working day, including Saturday if you usually receive post on a Saturday.* If any item is out of stock we will telephone you; if we don’t have your number (or if there is no reply) we will email instead. Posting Schedule for Next Day Delivery service: If
payment is received by 4pm on Monday, delivery will be by 1pm on Tuesday * The idea is that if you usually receive post on a Saturday, the postman will deliver the item (e.g. residential addresses and most shops) but if he knows you are closed on a Saturday (e.g. most offices and industrial areas) he will wait until Monday. But this is entirely up to the postman. Royal mail DO have a special "Saturday Delivery" service, it is intended for business addresses where the postman has to make a special journey, we do not use this service. Included in the service:
Not included in the service: - the postman will
not telephone you or deliver at a time of your choice Important: nothing is ever 100% guaranteed. 99.8% of parcels arrive on time. This is not a 100% guarantee.
VARIATIONS We have spent many hours studying hundreds of pages of charts of postage rates from different carriers, and there are always idiosyncrasies. Just very occasionally we notice that a price doesn't make sense, and we will upgrade the service you have requested. For instance, if your order is heavy and you have requested 3-6 Day Delivery (Royal Mail) and the order just happens to be small, and we just happen to be processing it in good time for the courier, then we will upgrade it to 1 to 2 Day Delivery (cheaper for us, faster delivery for you). Or a heavy item to be sent by Special Delivery by 1pm might be upgraded to a special courier service guaranteed before midday.
POSTAGE RATES AND DELIVERY TIMES (OVERSEAS) The computer is programmed with dozens of zones and weight bands. The only way to know the delivery time (and cost of postage) is to add the items to the Shopping Basket (Cart) and see what the computer suggests (you will be given a choice of posting methods). You don't have to complete the order, you do not have to pay, we will not ask you for money.
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