To think dry cleaners could manage Monday morning?

[rottingparsnip]

DP and I both need to wear smart shirts/blouses to work. To cut time from ironing, we take them to a dry cleaners/laundry place to be washed and ironed. £2.50 a shirt. We are in the office 5 days a week.

Dry Cleaners are open 7am-8pm,
Monday-Saturday

Friday Morning at 7am, I drop off our 10 shirts for the week, and ask to pick up the shirts at 8:00am on Monday morning.

Dry cleaners says this is not enough time. He can do Monday evening. I say sorry that’s no good for me as we need to wear two of them on Monday. He tells me it’s because he won’t have time to quality check because he sends them somewhere else to be done.

Am I being unreasonable? Usually dry cleaners manage this no problem whatsoever.

The person ironing may well collect (a lot of items!) on Friday afternoon and drop off some time on Monday. Then he will check them. He is NU to state that timescale is not possible. YANBU to say that doesn't work for you....but you'd need to find somewhere else that can accomodate your needs

Presumably you have other laundry to wash, could you maybe do a load of shirts and then get someone to just iron them. They might have more flexible terms, and would possibly pick up and collect from your house?
(Every other MN is advised to take in ironing if they need extra money)

Buy an extra shirt each?

I reckon if you can afford to outsource the laundering of your shirts, you can probably buy one more each.

What do you do if one gets stained / torn, have to go out the same week to replace it?

Yes, our nearest dry cleaner doesn't actually do anything on site, so we go to the further one that does, and they are usually able to do things pretty quickly if we need.

My husband has a lot more than a weeks worth of shirts though so its never usually a stress.

You have absolutely no idea the workload the dry cleaners has already. They told you Monday PM as that's when they could deliver the service.

If it's that big of a deal, buy two shirts or launder 2 yourself for the Monday and take the rest. Maybe take the shirts to the dry cleaner more often so there isn't as many in one go.

Your poor planning doesn't constitute an emergency on their part. Taking something Friday and expecting it Monday is a tall order.

I used to work in a launderette, there was a 5 day turn around for dry cleaning.

If they can't do it they can't do it, can't you just buy another shirt each so you have a 6th to wear Monday?

Well it doesn’t work for his business

you also really need to have a spare set of shirts. Anything could delay your pickup on Monday morning. Owning 6 shirts instead of 5 is not a burden.