Category Archives: Shipping Stories

Shows, Shipping and Structures

We’ll start today with some hot-off-the-press news – due to an issue with the venue, this year’s Hereward wargames show, which should have been on the 8th of September, has unfortunately had to be cancelled. This is a shame for … Continue reading

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Hotel Hobbies

So, the latest from Royal Mail as far as sending overseas parcels goes is … err … no change. Although there is some light at the end of the tunnel as RM have started accepting overseas letters again (anything without … Continue reading

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Hacked!

Not us, fortunately, but it appears that the Royal Mail have been hit by a cyber attack that has severely affected their ability to ship parcels overseas. The current advice is not to send any new packages until the situation … Continue reading

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Deep and Crisp and Even

We have two pieces of Christmas-related news today. The first relates to our Christmas sale – or rather, the lack of this year. If you recall, Tony was a bit under the weather earlier in the autumn and was laid … Continue reading

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Holiday time

Next week Tony’s off for a late summer holiday (staying in a posh tent like the one below), so we will effectively be closed for a few days. We’ve posted as many orders as we could get done in the … Continue reading

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Postal delays and Return to Colours

If you’re in the UK you’ll probably know this, but for the benefit of our overseas customers, Royal Mail staff are staging a series of strikes which could affect our shipping times. The first one was last week and the … Continue reading

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Feelin’ Hot, Hot, Hot…

Tony is back at work after his holiday, so we thought it was time for a quick update on orders. We’re steadily working through the backlog that built up while he was away, so far we’ve managed to clear almost … Continue reading

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EU Shipping

We promised at the end of last year to implement a new system to handle the problems that EU customers are having with import VAT, and some quite eye-watering charges from courier companies to collect this tax. It’s taken longer … Continue reading

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Coming Up For Air

Order Update It’s been quiet on the blog lately, but I finally have a day away from the workshop to catch up on a few things. The response to the sale rather caught us off guard, we’ve had a similar … Continue reading

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More European Shipping News

As if we hadn’t already had enough, there’s yet another twist coming to the Brexit/VAT/shipping saga for our EU customers. However, for once it’s (mostly) good news – it has a painful initial effect, but in the long run it … Continue reading

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