MattF
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.. It can't be like that any more, can it?
It's full of Scots. What more is there to say.
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It's full of Scots. What more is there to say.
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my point exactly!
Seriously, I don't really believe that it's the same there as I just jokingly described, I'm just trying to find a factually tenable reason for increasing the price or even refusing shipments to the highlands, because I see that not so rarely ...????
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That is 100% accurate
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We do have cars now, but the delivery trucks struggle on our roads:What is it with the "Doesn't post to Scottish Highlands" .....?
I understand it a bit with the islands, you have to change the means of transport, but Scottish Highlands ....
I always fantasise about wild bears, rabid badgers the size of shirehorses, sabre-toothed tigers and blue-faced man-eaters armed with two-handed swords -
no paths, only bogs, etc. .... It can't be like that any more, can it?
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It’s not the landscape up there that puts people off, it’s all the big bloody Jessie’s 
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When a Jeep Wrangler gets there, it can't be that serious ...
The real LandRovers alone might have convinced me ... or a Unimog - pulling them all out - of cause
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Is that because I am 6' 3" and wear a dress?It’s not the landscape up there that puts people off, it’s all the big bloody Jessie’s
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sensitive souls could be really unsettled by this
btw.: how does that work out on your bike?
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Yep…I’m 6’3 and dont wear a dress….
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Aye you are quite right and since Covid there have been a lot more here than normal, usually in camper vans.It’s not the landscape up there that puts people off, it’s all the big bloody Jessie’s
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Northern Twatlanders?
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Because everything swmbo has is maintained by me for free, thinking about it I have also bought most of it
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To give the serious answer, it's not economically viable for couriers.
Royal Mail has to provide the universal service for a fixed fee, but I'd be pretty sure they'll lose money collecting/delivering within the area, but it's subsidised by the rest of the country.
Couriers on the other hand don't have to provide a universal service, and as they're very much commercially driven, they're not going to deliver a few parcels for several hours worth of driving.
As for companies that refuse to use Royal Mail, it could be down to various reasons.
From a purely commercial perspective,
For most companies, altering procedures for what is likely to be an insignificant percentage of potential orders, isn't going to be worthwhile.
It might sound harsh, but it's the commercial reality.
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The royal mail get a lot of flack but the amount of stuff they handle is enormous, they can be a bit restricted on parcel sizes though, I send stuff all over the world and it's not always as simple as folks think, if you get really stuck I'm happy to send stuff overMan it winds me up!!
It costs the same to post within the UK with Royal Mail. Highlands, Orkney, Shetland and NI all count as ‘mainland’ with them.
I have had several arguments on the phone about it. Told one bloke to shove a couple hundred quid order cos he was too lazy to walk to the post office, which from google maps was about 5 doors down!! Knob.
That said. Welly Welding always send RM to me rather than their usual carrier. So does Rob at Xtreme. I buy as much as I can there to repay the favour
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Posties dropped in a flyer the other day apparently they now do parcel puck up too
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