Music to my ears...well sort of

[KiltedDawg]

I received the following e-mail today:

Thank you for your recent order to Scotweb. We are pleased to confirm that your order as detailed has been dispatched from our warehouse here in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Thank you!

The Scotweb Team

Now, I only have to wait the 20 or so days for economy (free) shipping to get my new Irish National and Saffron kilts to me. That shouldn't be too hard...should it?

[Bugbear]

Congratulations, hope it gets there soon.

[JolyStNicholas]

Noth'in to it, it's almost here now! Just think Ya don't have to hold your breath until it gets here!

[The Barry]

Actually, the "economy" shipping can take substantially less than 20 days. My order was shipped out, and I had it in about a week. I guess that the winds were strong that week, who knows.

[Nick Fiddes]

I only wish we ourselves understood why economy packages sometimes arrive in a few days, and other times not just weeks but months. We can never get any explanations from the carriers, and the downside is that if a consignment doesn't arrive (heaven forbid!) we can't start procedures to replace it for at least three months, whilst with tracked shipping we'll do so at once. There doesn't seem to be much discernable pattern to it. I sometimes suspect it depends on whether it's mating season for the trained courier dolphins to whose backs they strap the packages to take them across the pond.

[The Barry]

I would imagine that customs is the big bottleneck. My stuff didn't get held up by customs, so I received it in a week or so. If customs flags the package, all bets are off.

[Nighthawk]

I would imagine that customs is the big bottleneck. My stuff didn't get held up by customs, so I received it in a week or so. If customs flags the package, all bets are off.

Customs did that to my ghillie brogues a year ago. I ended up officiating a wedding wearing shined work boots. It was embarassing, to say the least. So I can see this as being a part of the problem.

[wyldathart]

Well since yours is forthcoming then mine slides up the list a notch or two. WoooHooo Good thing I'm back in school and my attention is off of thinking about how long I'll have to wait

[ForresterModern]

I got a package via ParcelForce from Glasgow a month or two ago that took three days to get from Glasgow to NYC customs, then sat there more than three weeks, before being released to the USPS for delivery two days after that. Not sure why it sat for three weeks----it was a kilt, price listed under the magic $200 limit, and the packaging was intact (except for a small transit tear in the envelope) without having been opened, so the only way they could have inspected it was via xray or drug or bomb sniffing dogs. Three weeks wait------must have been some pretty slow dogs. And I had a horrible jones on for each and every day of those three weeks becasue I could track the package electronically so I knew just exactly where it was the whole trip, and being my new MacDonald of Glencoe I was hoping it would arrive in time to wear in on the Feb 13 anniversary of the Massacre. Showed up on my doorstep at 7pm that very day---too late to wear in its wrinkled state that day.

[The Barry]

I hate it when that happens!