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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: Oneyedwilly on July 10, 2013, 03:16 pm

Title: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: Oneyedwilly on July 10, 2013, 03:16 pm
As per the title? One of my orders has been 'in transit' for 9 days now and still hasn't arrived.  Apparently sent 1st class and I would assume it was sent as a letter.  Starting to get anxious...
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: mehmehmeh on July 10, 2013, 03:30 pm
I have had first class take 3 weeks if the seller skimps on postage, mail goes off to belfast and back with a charge added to release it. This is the only instance (for me) where first class is more than a couple days ymmv.
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: bealzebobs on July 10, 2013, 03:42 pm
Ive had one take around 10 days before, sometimes its just slow or stuff gets 'lost' in the system. Once one didnt turn up, waited 3 weeks thinking I had been scammed or worse it had been discovered - then I got a card from royal mail asking for 90p postage. Turns out the stamp had got kind of scraped off the letter somehow. These things do happen.
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: HeatFireFlame on July 11, 2013, 01:19 pm
if you had asked me yesterday i would have said 3 days, but this morning, i recieved a letter from a government agency (Not anything legal dont worry paranoia freaks) and it had been sent last tuesday.
Shit happens
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: Pure Red Eye on July 11, 2013, 01:45 pm
As per the title? One of my orders has been 'in transit' for 9 days now and still hasn't arrived.  Apparently sent 1st class and I would assume it was sent as a letter.  Starting to get anxious...

Your vendor may have put it in transit when the package hasn't been sent, i have made 7 domestic orders every one has arrived next day. However post does go missing i have waited over a month for a letter to turn up before that was sent 1st class. Royal mail sucks and will probably get worse now it is being privatised.
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: ukbenjy on July 11, 2013, 01:58 pm
My first class post normally takes two days, sometimes gets here in one day if I'm lucky. It was day two for something today though, and it didn't turn up, so looks like it's taking up to three days now!!
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: scraps1234 on July 11, 2013, 07:30 pm
I've been waiting 10 days for my first order which was sent first class though royal mail. Starting to get a little anxious now and really hope the vendor isn't a selective scammer, since their feedback seems very good :-/
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: angel555 on July 11, 2013, 09:15 pm
3 days is the longest, ive been lucky
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: Oneyedwilly on July 12, 2013, 09:45 am
I've been waiting 10 days for my first order which was sent first class though royal mail. Starting to get a little anxious now and really hope the vendor isn't a selective scammer, since their feedback seems very good :-/

hey scraps their name doesnt happen to begin with a x and end in a x does it?

i have just put my order into resolution - i really could do without my stats being damaged...
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: scraps1234 on July 12, 2013, 08:05 pm
no, not that name, still not received mine either :-/
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: Oneyedwilly on July 12, 2013, 08:18 pm
yeah the waiting sucks, and he isn't responding to my messages either but his profile says hes really busy....

i have had 4 other orders come thru no probs, apart from this one, i dont understand how uk - uk could take so long....

Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: scraps1234 on July 14, 2013, 02:10 pm
any luck with your package? still not received mine yet! :-/
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: Oneyedwilly on July 14, 2013, 02:33 pm
no, nothing.  they've been in touch saying something along the lines of 'we expect it's been received now...' i replied saying nothing has come thru....

reckon they've sent it recently so i'll wait and see what happens this week, if nothing comes i'll ask for a refund and take the hit to my stats and move on...
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: scraps1234 on July 14, 2013, 05:28 pm
Ah well, with any luck it's just royal mail being slow. Unfortunately for me this is my first order, so I've been pretty keen for it to arrive and every morning the postman has disappointed me!
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: Oneyedwilly on July 25, 2013, 03:58 pm
guess what!......it never turned up - feel like i was selectively scammed - the vendor mainly deals with herbs and i bought a small amount of mandy.  i guess he saw i was a new user and pocketed it and never bothered to send the mandy, looking at his feedback it seems i wasnt the only one to not receive anything. so i got 30% refund but seeing as the value of the btc has dropped so much since then it's basically peanuts....whaddacunt.  i now have a dirty looking 7% on my refund rate stats :(

Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: scraps1234 on July 25, 2013, 06:04 pm
Still haven't received mine, starting to think I was selectively scammed too, since I received an order from another vendor first. unfortunately I FE'd, so not really the best :-/ but I did order from another vendor who didn't require me to FE and I got my product the very next day :-)
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: lufc1992uk on July 27, 2013, 11:32 am
how long do packages take from Netherlands to UK?
Title: Re: Uk users - whats the longest you have waited for a first class letter?
Post by: Garrincha on July 27, 2013, 08:42 pm
UK 1st class should be 1-2 days, 2nd class 3-5. Don't forget just because the order reads 'in transit', doesn't always mean that this is the case. I've had to wait about a week for 'in transit' items before. Only done domestic and they've always turned up in the end.