Postal Strike Cancelled - Free UK Delivery is back!

After weeks of sporadic industrial action by Royal Mail postal workers, it was announced today that there will be no strikes until next year, ensuring that this Christmas will be free of postal disruption.

On this note, we have decided to resume our FREE UK DELIVERY offer. All orders for UK addresses will be delivered, as in the past, free of charge, either by Royal Mail or in some instances, UPS. An express option will also be available for those of you who want your goodies quicker - this will be by Royal Mail Special Delivery or UPS. International customers can also now choose an express worldwide courier option.

We would like to thank all our customers for their patience during the strike periods. It has been a frustrating time but hopefully we're over it now - let's look forward to a blingtastic Christmas. Happy Shopping!

We now deliver using UPS Courier

Fed up with Royal Mail and their strikey ways? Well we are, so this week, we have ditched them in favour of UPS. It was a difficult decision as it means we can no longer offer free UK delivery and we also have to absorb some of the additional cost ourselves. However, I believe it's the right thing to do, during this time of impending national industrial action, in order to provide a reliable delivery service to our customers, particularly with the party and Christmas seasons coming up.

I have always had a less than secret obsession with UPS, not least because their vans are a yummy chocolate brown colour and their drivers are always smartly turned out in brown uniforms! Here's Brent from Texas, who has driven 1 million miles plus in the same van over 22 years - that's impressive!

This irrelevant comment aside, we have chosen UPS as they have always been very reliable and quick when our suppliers delivered to us - hopefully, they will provide the same excellent service in for our customers. We do appreciate that some of you will want a more economical delivery option - as soon as the reliability of Royal Mail stabilises, we may re-introduce the free delivery option. In the meantime, with memories of the backlog post mountains from the 2007 national strike(s) still lingering like a bad smell, we will put our packages in the safe hands of UPS...