The Loose Association of Wargamers

Hi folks

Many of us quick to criticise suppliers on delivery or communication but sometimes you just have to balancve that up with a good experience.. yesterday I put together an order for gripping beast on their online store. Nothing big around 80 GBP or so.. I payed by Paypal and pressed the complete purchase button at precisely 6:30 pm. All in the comfort of my own armchair.. I should also explain I live in Cataluña in Spain. Today at 3:45 pm my order arrived by carrier perfectly packed and complete..

21 hours from placing the order in a different country it was in my hands.. I only have one question well two actually
How the feck did they do that
Can it get any better

Bob De Angelis

Hello Curley.
Yes, excellent service indeed. Exceptional.
I must say that I'm still impressed when I get my 'on line' order delivered to my door a week after hitting 'send'. It's astonishing. I try not to get miffed until a week has passed. It seldom does.
Kind regards
Iain

Ground Zero Games reputedly use a 'wormhole' in space to deliver, such is the speed and efficiency of their service but even they would be pressed to complete an international order in under a day. Perhaps GB use Odins Ravens?

Living in OZ, one gets used to waiting for orders, as even interstate post usually takes 3 days (admittedly that is equivalent to the distance between Moscow and London), and International orders usually take around 2 weeks. Occasionally & exceptionally the postal gods intervene favourably & it's under a week. My record is 5 days from both the USA & UK.

How the feck did they do that - a combination of
1. Prompt response at Gripping Beast
2. Luck, there’s a lot of ‘just in time’ delivery schedules and that parcel may have hit a sweet spot in delivery timetables
3. Common Customs arrangements.

Can it get any better - probably not until Star Trek transporters become a reality, but it might get worse next year!

Etranger wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:14 am
Living in OZ, one gets used to waiting for orders, as even interstate post usually takes 3 days (admittedly that is equivalent to the distance between Moscow and London), and International orders usually take around 2 weeks. Occasionally & exceptionally the postal gods intervene favourably & it's under a week. My record is 5 days from both the USA & UK.

That's because the Ozzie postal service is ..kin awful and must consist of postmen riding tortoises
Anything I order from Oz seems to take a friggin age to arrive
I reckon all NZ directed post gets sent up to Darwin, sent on a left rather than right turn, circumnavigates the globe then arrive in NZ via hang-glider via Grizz's old Sarf Humerican haunts

At least it arrives here with modest duties. In Chile they tried to levy luxury tax on me because they insisted that my 6mm figs were jewelry.

valleyboy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 7:57 am
That's because the Ozzie postal service is ..kin awful and must consist of postmen riding tortoises
Anything I order from Oz seems to take a friggin age to arrive
I reckon all NZ directed post gets sent up to Darwin, sent on a left rather than right turn, circumnavigates the globe then arrive in NZ via hang-glider via Grizz's old Sarf Humerican haunts

You are not wrong. I once sent a parcel home from Sydney before heading overseas for a month. I arrived home a fortnight before the parcel did...
It takes 3 days for a letter from Adelaide to reach Melbourne, I can drive over and hand deliver it in 10 hours.

I once sent my girlfriend a postcard from PNG, finished it with I'll see you just before Christmas", this being mid November.

I received an irate letter in May asking me why I wasn't coming home for 7 months.

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:05 am I once sent my girlfriend a postcard from PNG, finished it with I'll see you just before Christmas", this being mid November.

I received an irate letter in May asking me why I wasn't coming home for 7 months.

To be fair, I've sent postcards from the UK that took a month.

Very impressive.
Makes us feel even more special when it can take nearly two weeks to get orders from companies less than 30 miles away...