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Right then guys, rather than type it all out again I will copy and paste below an email that has gone out to some customers this morning regarding the delay for US and Canadian customers..
Deep breath, here goes........
First of all please let me apologise for not responding quicker to your email and also the lack of information regarding your order.
What you may or may not know is that all orders that ship within the USA and Canada are done so by our small team in Alabama. All the stock they need to ship is supplied by us in the UK.
We shipped several cases of stock to Alabama to fulfil the pre-orders and this months on-going orders.
We always use DHL to move our stock around and on this occasion DHL have made us work unnecessarily hard to get stock to our guys in the USA. At first we had a routine inspection by US customs (completely normal) which typically will add an extra day to our lead times. Following this we see a “unavoidable clearance delay" on our tracking, this is when we started chasing for answers as to what the delay was and any new time scales. DHL apparently could not tell us anything nor advise of a fixed time line for the stock to arrive in the USA. Over the following days between myself and our team in the US we made masses of calls and emails to get this “Unknown” issue resolved with not a single person seemingly able to resolve, call us back as promised or generally do their job.
Of course we are getting more and more aggravated by the situation as the emails roll in from you our customers asking for an update (as you quite rightly deserved) and we have not been able to tell you a single thing due to DHL seemingly have a melt down of some kind with our shipment.
To cut a long story short the issue was resolved late yesterday, apparently they did not have a copy of our US teams import licence (which they had since our first shipment), why oh why they could not have asked for this ages ago is beyond any of us.
So the shipment is now being moved out of the DHL Hub in Cincinnati and should be at our guys by tomorrow at some point, at which time they will start shipping to all you that have waited so patiently.
We are very sorry for not updating you sooner, but we felt offering no information was of no help to you and wanted to get some firm details before we emailed you back.
If there is anything we can do for you by way of apology please ask.
Deep breath, here goes........
First of all please let me apologise for not responding quicker to your email and also the lack of information regarding your order.
What you may or may not know is that all orders that ship within the USA and Canada are done so by our small team in Alabama. All the stock they need to ship is supplied by us in the UK.
We shipped several cases of stock to Alabama to fulfil the pre-orders and this months on-going orders.
We always use DHL to move our stock around and on this occasion DHL have made us work unnecessarily hard to get stock to our guys in the USA. At first we had a routine inspection by US customs (completely normal) which typically will add an extra day to our lead times. Following this we see a “unavoidable clearance delay" on our tracking, this is when we started chasing for answers as to what the delay was and any new time scales. DHL apparently could not tell us anything nor advise of a fixed time line for the stock to arrive in the USA. Over the following days between myself and our team in the US we made masses of calls and emails to get this “Unknown” issue resolved with not a single person seemingly able to resolve, call us back as promised or generally do their job.
Of course we are getting more and more aggravated by the situation as the emails roll in from you our customers asking for an update (as you quite rightly deserved) and we have not been able to tell you a single thing due to DHL seemingly have a melt down of some kind with our shipment.
To cut a long story short the issue was resolved late yesterday, apparently they did not have a copy of our US teams import licence (which they had since our first shipment), why oh why they could not have asked for this ages ago is beyond any of us.
So the shipment is now being moved out of the DHL Hub in Cincinnati and should be at our guys by tomorrow at some point, at which time they will start shipping to all you that have waited so patiently.
We are very sorry for not updating you sooner, but we felt offering no information was of no help to you and wanted to get some firm details before we emailed you back.
If there is anything we can do for you by way of apology please ask.