If you are in the UK you may have seen on the news the current going-ons at the Royal Mail. It looks like we are set for national strikes causing severe disruption to our postal service leaving a backlog of millions of letters and parcels. This could run on into the Christmas shopping period for this year.
With this part of the year being the busiest, and the predicted trend of ecommerce sales to increase, it could turn into a horrible situation with late parcels, and ones getting lost altogether. Even small items like budget photo takers are a risk. But there are a few ways to try and avoid problems for yourself.
- Place your orders in good time, don’t wait until the last deliveries can go out, order early in case the parcel gets lost, damaged or you have to return it.
- Try and have deliveries sent by a courier (such as TNT, Parcelforce, DHL, Interlink, Fedex etc) when possible. Thankfully a lot of electrical goods already are due to their size and value.
- Keep in contact with the company you have purchased from. Even if it is only a few days you may want to drop them a call simply enquiring when to expect delivery. It is good to know where you are at so complications can be spotted quickly.
- Logistically the bigger companies normally have better processes in place than smaller companies. So if possible you may want to purchase from someone like Amazon. Smaller businesses tend to be a lot more affected by postal strikes. We don’t like to encourage people to avoid small business (we are one ourselves!) but in this case it may save you a lot of time/hassle.
Finally just keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best! Or alternatively drag yourself around the horribly busy shops on a cold night. Ecommerce is great so don’t let the Royal Mail strikes put you off. And come the magical day you can play with that new quality high def video recorder with your family!
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