Parcel panic- Please join me if you are awaiting deliveries

[Countsinpotatoes]

Hello,
It's getting to that bit of Christmas where I'm starting to panic about things not arriving in time
Currently I'm awaiting a necklace, that has suddenly jumped to expected deliver on the 23rd. Its the main part of my mum's gifts

Lots of other bits struggling to find their way through the post including a key ring that should have arrived at the weekend.

What is everyone else waiting for?

Yes 5 xmas presents for children stuck in Cambridge I don't think it's going to arrive in time to be honest I really don't want to buy more presents but I may not have an option

Arrived this morning, fortunately. First time we had seen the postie for ages.

My last one is due today, it's at the local sorting office. Ordered 30 November 👃

Argh my parcel only just got picked up this morning even though I dropped it off to the parcel shop on Wednesday :( I really hope it gets to my parents by Xmas.

A personalised item I ordered from Etsy arrived… with the wrong spelling 😭🤦🏼‍♀️

Fucks sake!!! Surely the seller would double and triple check against the original order raaaaaaaahhhhh

So now I’ve asked them to resend it on Monday. Which will most likely not arrive in time

I panic brought a few things from John Lewis last night forgetting is was going m and s today and now waiting for royal mail 🙄 I got free delivery as spent over £50 , wondered if I should have got slick and collect and that would have been delivered to shop by them direct and not royal mail! Also waiting on school photos! Possibly royal mail ! Really wish I didn't buy them as I could have got similar in m and s today!

I've just looked on email and it looks like it's the royal mail 24 tracked so possibly be ok i need for Wednesday as teacher presents. I've got fingers crossed for me and everyone else waiting on something

I don't suppose anyone knows who Sports Direct use for deliveries? Their order confirmation is extremely vague!

@LovelyRachel they've used Evri for an order I placed on Thursday

@pennyfeatherington thank you so much! Did you receive it quite quickly? Our Evri is delivering on time at the moment x

Ordered something yesterday and spent £10
on Next day delivery with DPD rather than risk it never ever arriving via Royal Mail (there were 3 cheaper RM options including one that was free!) and it still hasn’t arrived today 😂 can’t win!
it’s not something for a Christmas present, just something I’d rather receive sooner than later so decided to splash out on the delivery.
other than that, not waiting for much that I’m concerned about. What comes comes and what doesn’t doesn’t.
I ordered something from Boots about a month ago and it took 3 weeks to come however they have always been shit with deliveries ime - nothing to do with strikes - just always slow. I never order anything from there that I actually need quickly!

advent calendars just arrived! only 4 weeks late!

If your Etsy seller refuses to refund or replace unreceived items just open a case through your orders page on Etsy, the seller's so-called disclaimer is worthless as it's in breach of UK consumer law. You'll automatically get a refund and they'll get a lesson learned.

I sell on Etsy, it's my main source of income. Crap like that harms the platform for the rest of us. The seller's within their rights not to send a replacement, but not to just leave you with no money and no product.

I’m waiting on quite a few things and have no idea if they will arrive before Christmas or not.

One order was sent this week ‘standard delivery’ so I can write that one off I think! Thankfully that’s things I can just pick up in the shops and return the parcel when it arrives.

That’s good to know, thank you. I know they’re a small business so I want to be fair to them but I can’t really afford to just write it off

Sent a load of parcels with yodel a few days ago. They're still sat at the parcel shop as no one has collected them.

Meanwhile the parcels I sent the day before with Royal Mail have already arrived. My DP sent his mum a Christmas gift using signed for and it was there in 2 days. Wish I'd just stuck with Royal Mail :(

I think I have everything I was waiting for myself which I'm thankful for as we're off on holiday tomorrow and didn't fancy coming back to a weeks worth of wet parcels.

Two parcels turned up (untracked) yesterday with RM thank god!

That is everything here now, no more ordering online before Xmas!

I ordered some vitamins from boots and yesterday a parcel turned up with one packet of vitamins in, what a waste of energy! Why didn't they just send them altogether?

Still waiting for my bloody contact lenses - have been promised and promised they’re on their way. You guessed it a dispatch email last night 🙄 I rang and said I’d go and pick them up but no….

I meant I’d rang before yesterday (last two weeks have been checking if they’re in stock so they DONT POST THEM 😒😩

My lovely lovely postie brought a load of packages for me yesterday - he knew it was DS birthday so had gone and had a rummage himself and brought them himself incase the RM parcel guy didn’t. What a superstar!

So is it Mon-Thurs we can ‘expect’ parcels this week? I have a horrible feeling a lot of mine won’t arrive. The courier ones as well as RM.

This is so lovely. And just shows the difference between RM and other crap delivery companies.

I ordered a nightshirt from New Forest Clothing on Dec 3rd, says its Royal Mail 24 hr tracking...no change in tracking message for 2 weeks. New Forest just told me 'there's a mail strike', I might ask for a refund.

@NecklessMumster a few things I’ve ordered have been upgraded to RM 24hr tracked but that’s worrying if you’ve still not had one since then!