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The 'wee' Scottish folk have now been abandoned by the retail multi's that are happy to take our cash in the fair weather.
The following GLOBAL MULTINATIONAL companies cannot get their goods from Carlisle to Gretna due to the weather!!!!! It's been a tropical 8c today!?
TESCO decide not to deliver their goods to Scotland! (http://direct.tesco.com/help/deliveryitems.aspx)
BOOTS decide not to deliver their goods to Scotland! (http://www.boots.com/en/Help/Delivery-information/#question1)
CARPHONE WAREHOUSE decide not to deliver their goods to Scotland! (http://selfhelp.carphonewarehouse.com/SelfHelp/request.do?view%28%29=c%7Bd248eab0-f978-11df-f8a4-f20203001e3d%7D)
So go to TESCO & BOOTS and ask the store managers how they have any stock at all when we see lorry after lorry arriving to stock their shops but cannot deliver to Scotland?!! Better still, use local suppliers.
Scarybiscuits03
12-Dec-10, 23:23
Tell me about it - I went to order some last minute Xmas pressies today. Took me all day to find something and when I did it was from Tesco Direct. "Great" I thought, "done at last!" only to be told that they cannot deliver to Scotland. [disgust]
Amazon Seem to still deliver up here. Ordered something on Thursday got it by Friday. I just took their mid range delivery option.
I have 4 parcels from Amazon in transit. Hope they get here in time!
I think they have a big depot in Greenock and another one in Glenrothes, so we should be ok...
Looks like for Christmas 2011 we will need to start buying in June or July. That way we will get them delivered while the weather is still OK.
The 'wee' Scottish folk have now been abandoned by the retail multi's that are happy to take our cash in the fair weather.
The following GLOBAL MULTINATIONAL companies cannot get their goods from Carlisle to Gretna due to the weather!!!!! It's been a tropical 8c today!?
TESCO decide not to deliver their goods to Scotland! (http://direct.tesco.com/help/deliveryitems.aspx)
BOOTS decide not to deliver their goods to Scotland! (http://www.boots.com/en/Help/Delivery-information/#question1)
CARPHONE WAREHOUSE decide not to deliver their goods to Scotland! (http://selfhelp.carphonewarehouse.com/SelfHelp/request.do?view%28%29=c%7Bd248eab0-f978-11df-f8a4-f20203001e3d%7D)
So go to TESCO & BOOTS and ask the store managers how they have any stock at all when we see lorry after lorry arriving to stock their shops but cannot deliver to Scotland?!! Better still, use local suppliers.
Nothing to do with you Phill?
Eight people - including a pregnant woman and a 76-year-old man - have been injured in an explosion at a Tesco store in Greater Manchester.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing smoke filling the store on Bolton Road in Walkden on Sunday afternoon.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said the surrounding areas were evacuated.
Initial reports suggest the explosion might have come from the bakery area when a pipe in a fridge burst. [hmmm]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-11979213 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-11979213)
Whitewater
12-Dec-10, 23:54
Amazon are great, I have had several deliveries over the last few days.
Oh no!
I have a courier order in transit....stuff from santa!
Hope it gets here...or im stuffed like the turkey!
It hasnt moved far since the order was picked up from the shop on the 6th!
It hasnt moved from the main depot:eek:..England somewhere...
purplelady
13-Dec-10, 00:19
I am waiting on stuff comming from england was told today that there is alot of stuff still in edinboro so we will see xxxxx
Scarybiscuits03
13-Dec-10, 00:42
Im waiting for a Xmas pressie for my daughter from her grandparents that was posted more than a week ago Next Day Delivery with Royal Mail - so the bad weather seems to be causing havoc with all companies........and Im still waiting for 1 more pressie from amazon ordered 2 weeks ago and one from Woolies ordered on the same day.....I do hope the imaginary snow goes away before Xmas! lol
we are waiting on several orders as well from amazon and other places!
These retail giants and the grubbiement are not going to be happy until we're all living in high rise flats in the south-east of England, [disgust].
oldmarine
13-Dec-10, 01:07
Amazon are great, I have had several deliveries over the last few days.
Amazon has worked great for me. Good to know that it works for you folks in Caithness.
Boots said it was a decision made by their couriers DHL.
Alice in Blunderland
13-Dec-10, 09:46
I ordered my daughters prom dress from China last Sunday evening during the horrible weather and it was delivered to my door on Friday morning by the lovely AJG delivery van. :) Fair enough I paid extra to have it couriered quickly however normal delivery was being quoted at seven to fourteen days, not much more.
Kinda makes Tesco's Boots and others look very bad now doesn't it. :~(
changilass
13-Dec-10, 10:03
It was mini Changi's birthday on the 5th, still awaiting a couple of packages that were posted at least a week afore that.
No matter, it just means he is like royalty, and will get 2 birthdays lol.
onecalledk
13-Dec-10, 10:18
hair tearing out time, have found both tesco direct and Toys r us have the items I am struggling to find but yep they dont deliver, why do toys r us not deliver to KW14!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!
K
hair tearing out time, have found both tesco direct and Toys r us have the items I am struggling to find but yep they dont deliver, why do toys r us not deliver to KW14!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!
K
You are right...
Remote / rural postcodeStandard delivery, taking up to 8 working days, is available to the postcode ranges listed below. Large items ordered by 12noon on 10th December and standard items ordered by 12noon on 17th December will be delivered before Christmas.
They only do: KW5. KW11-13. KW15. KW16-17 - that's a lot of places knackered..:~(
http://www.toysrus.co.uk/info/help/trubw-help-orders.jsf#6 (http://www.toysrus.co.uk/info/help/trubw-help-orders.jsf#6)
lindsaymcc
13-Dec-10, 12:05
Still waiting for a 1st class recorded delivery letter sent last monday from england..... really hoping it arrives by tomorrow as it contains vouchers that I need to send to the inlaws for christmas!
Otherwise thats £30 down the pan and Ill need to think of something else..... perhaps an email amazon voucher!!! No chance of that going missing!!!
Mine contains the little bits and pieces from santa for the parties I have to take a pressie to.
1st party is tommorrow...next is a week today...
I will have to go shopping after hubby gets home tonight to get something to wrap up as Im not holding out much hope!
Blast..im not going to get stuff as nice.
And I hate going out in the evening shopping, but, The girls are getting to the point you cant sneak stuff in the trolley while they are there!
FieryFairy
13-Dec-10, 14:51
You are right...
Remote / rural postcodeStandard delivery, taking up to 8 working days, is available to the postcode ranges listed below. Large items ordered by 12noon on 10th December and standard items ordered by 12noon on 17th December will be delivered before Christmas.
They only do: KW5. KW11-13. KW15. KW16-17 - that's a lot of places knackered..:~(
http://www.toysrus.co.uk/info/help/trubw-help-orders.jsf#6 (http://www.toysrus.co.uk/info/help/trubw-help-orders.jsf#6)
That must be new as I ordered something on the 28th (?) of November from Toys R Us (KW1 postcode) and it was delivered within a week... with free shipping as well.
our_town_magazine
13-Dec-10, 15:01
I'm waiting for loads of Christmas stuff from Very.co.uk and Dunhelm Mill. The latter has taken nearly 3 weeks so far :eek:
Chrisf1961
13-Dec-10, 15:21
That must be new as I ordered something on the 28th (?) of November from Toys R Us (KW1 postcode) and it was delivered within a week... with free shipping as well.
So they will deliver to Wick Kw1 as i also live within that postcode and didnt order fromTRS due to the above?
onecalledk
13-Dec-10, 16:00
KW14 is excluded by Toysrus because it is not MAINLAND. They have this lumped in with BPFO addresses and state they cannot deliver to outlying islands......
hmmmm last time I looked we were attached to the mainland cos we are , perhaps we have broken off and the flooding is actually the north sea ......
K
That must be new as I ordered something on the 28th (?) of November from Toys R Us (KW1 postcode) and it was delivered within a week... with free shipping as well.
Had another look, you were lucky or 'slipped through the net'!:
Where do you deliver to?
We deliver domestically to the UK mainland and Northern Ireland. Some items are not available for delivery to Northern Ireland - these are highlighted within the individual product details.
Unfortunately, due to the high cost of delivering to remote islands and the difficulty with arranging returns, orders can only be placed on and delivered to UK mainland and Northern Ireland addresses. The following lists the UK & BFPO postcode ranges we do not accept orders from or permit delivery to:
Scottish Highlands KW1 - 4; KW6 - 10; KW14
Shetland Isles ZE1 - ZE3
Guernsey GY1 - GY9
Jersey JE1 - JE4
Isles of Scilly TR21 - TR25
Isle of Man IM1 - IM9
British Forces PO BFPO1 - BFPO999
Had another look, you were lucky or 'slipped through the net'!:
Where do you deliver to?
We deliver domestically to the UK mainland and Northern Ireland. Some items are not available for delivery to Northern Ireland - these are highlighted within the individual product details.
Unfortunately, due to the high cost of delivering to remote islands and the difficulty with arranging returns, orders can only be placed on and delivered to UK mainland and Northern Ireland addresses. The following lists the UK & BFPO postcode ranges we do not accept orders from or permit delivery to:
Scottish Highlands KW1 - 4; KW6 - 10; KW14
Shetland Isles ZE1 - ZE3
Guernsey GY1 - GY9
Jersey JE1 - JE4
Isles of Scilly TR21 - TR25
Isle of Man IM1 - IM9
British Forces PO BFPO1 - BFPO999
I am registered on toysrus but haven't ordered from them for a little while. I made a mock order today, and while they would not honour the "free delivery over £50" option because of my address, they were happy to send by standard delivery and quoted delivery by 23rd Dec.
I live in Wick.
Oh no!
I have a courier order in transit....stuff from santa!
Hope it gets here...or im stuffed like the turkey!
It hasnt moved far since the order was picked up from the shop on the 6th!
It hasnt moved from the main depot:eek:..England somewhere...
Last year Dell failed Santa miserably. The family laptop (but labeled for my lil guy) that was supposed to be here for the 12th of December was delevired on 07th of January. The way I got around it was that I made glitter footprints, got a santa teddy and put him under the tree with a written note from santa on special paper apologizing for the delay, but that the elves had an accident in the workshop which delayed everything. I also put the same glitter in the envelope that I used for the footprints. And yes, he noticed! (get the bigger holographic glitter: it's easier to hoover up and still takes a while to get rid of!).
I think we should, as a country, boycott them all!!!
You can add River Island to the list as well, just wasted an hour.
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