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to be laughing at all the retailers who stopped delivering to Scotland due to the "adverse" weather...

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gaelicsheep · 22/12/2010 00:03

... when it's now ten times worse in England. Serves them right for thinking all their Scottish customers are expendable.

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ILoveItWhenYouCallMeBoo · 22/12/2010 00:04

is it ten times worse in england?

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gaelicsheep · 22/12/2010 00:08

Well, I am comparing the Scottish Highlands with the north west coast of England. I can't speak for elsewhere. In my part of the Highlands we have about 2 inches of snow and the north west coast of England has ten inches and record low temperatures.

It seems that Scotland - particularly where I live - is an easy target for saving money. It might come back to bite them on the rear end.

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gaelicsheep · 22/12/2010 00:11

Oh, and my parents have just travelled north through the Central Belt with no problem at all. I know it's bad in the east, but most of Scotland is doing fine as far as I can tell. Yet no one will deliver here.

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cubbie · 22/12/2010 00:12

I ordered some toys from Amazon America as opposed to Amazon UK as they weren't delivering to Scotland!

They were cheaper in America but probably the same overall once the delivery was factored in, but I got them today after ordering just a few days ago! (can't remember how long ago exactly, but defo less than a week!)

cubbie · 22/12/2010 00:14

It was the 15th, at 11pm, so i think that was pretty good going!!

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gaelicsheep · 22/12/2010 00:19

Oh, I wish I'd thought of that! It was OK in the end, but very challenging finding the things I wanted within travelling distance. My parents are bringing up a couple of things they had to buy on my behalf down south.

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Seona1973 · 22/12/2010 08:10

my in-laws got dire warnings from the post office when they posted stuff up to us from England and it arrived the next day!!!!

Wanted to order flowers from Next but they arent taking orders from Scotland even though the weather is about a hundred times better than it was a couple of weeks ago.

altinkum · 22/12/2010 08:14

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Louii · 22/12/2010 08:22

There are a few retailers I will not be using again, doing a blanket ban on deliveries to Scotland is madness and very unfair.

We are in Fife, but the council have done a pretty good job keeping roads etc open and we have quite a lot of snow.

discobeaver · 22/12/2010 11:23

It's not always the individual retailers - it depends what couriers they are contracted to use. HDNL stopped Scottish deliveries but other companies were still delivering.

backwardpossom · 22/12/2010 11:25

I live in the north east of Scotland and have a foot of snow outside my door yet my postie has been every day and all my deliveries have arrived.

Seona1973 · 22/12/2010 11:47

it was HDNL that brought my amazon stuff last saturday so their deliveries havent stopped - they were incredibly slow though!!

Yulephemia · 22/12/2010 11:48

It's the blanket ban on "Scotland" that baffles me. Surely it's a lot easier to get stuff to the central belt than the Highlands and Islands? Was it really necessary to say "Scotland"? I get a bit mad when the whole country is treated like a region: OK, I know there's only 5m of us, but for goodness' sake!

I think people who live in the H&I get a raw enough deal from retailers who won't deliver at the best of times, or charge a lot more: whoever said this will come back to bite them in the bahookey is surely correct.

backwardpossom · 22/12/2010 11:52

Yule - it seems to be the central belt that's struggling, rather than us up north!

Yulephemia · 22/12/2010 11:59

We're not struggling any more, which makes more of a nonsense of the refusal to take orders! I'm in the west; I don't think the east has had much either, according to my parents.

Damn the lot of them! Shop local.

backwardpossom · 22/12/2010 12:07

Amen to that! loves a good Black Isle Brewery beer

RockinRobinBird · 22/12/2010 12:36

It's not the retailers in most cases, it's the couriers. DH works for an (independent) online retailer and they could not get anyone to take the parcels up to Scotland. They were perfectly happy to send them if so.

GentleOtter · 22/12/2010 12:44

After lots of hassling (and finding their private number) the delivery van came finally from Dundee up to us. They had been putting off the delivery because it was 'so bad'.

I offered to drive down perfectly ok roads to meet him but he managed eventually.

I think some of them are using bad roads as an excuse without checking if they are ok or not.

StewieGriffinsMom · 22/12/2010 12:50

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Anymajordude · 22/12/2010 12:54

The roads are fine here, I'm in East Lothian. Surely you try to deliver wherever possible but make customers aware of possible delays due to bad weather.

backwardpossom · 22/12/2010 13:14

I think some of them are using bad roads as an excuse without checking if they are ok or not

Exactly. It really is a nonsense.

Yulephemia · 22/12/2010 13:18

Glad to hear it's fine in East Lothian. Hoping my Boxing Day visit and ditching DD for a couple of nights to my parents' goes ahead without getting stuck in a blizzard. Mum says their street is icy but main roads are fine.

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