I have to check the price of sending a small parcel to Devon; going to try Royal Mail and DPD as both are quite reliable. Have a feeling it might be going DPD as last year the cost of sending Royal Mail was higher than the contents.
Have just done the Christmas cards, so have to get stamps and send them tomorrow.
gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 9488 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 25 4:36 pm Post subject:
At this rate it will be cheaper to drive to a shop than have a delivery
There is a 'retirement village' outside our village and don't think there is a bus goes there, so I suppose they have to rely on deliveries or car. It is within theoretical walking distance of the centre of the village which has a bus stop, but part of it doesn't have a footpath by the side of the road.
gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 9488 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 25 9:08 am Post subject:
We have a community bus service that can be ordered with the council/bus company. Also something similar for ex-mining villages.
Going by public transport limits you to what you can carry too. If you don't live next to the bus stop that's also a hitch.
I'm not going to be going on four bus journeys - one to town and one to supermarket then the same in reverse - to carry heavy stuff like aa 6 pack of baked beans on offer and a large pack of laundry powder that's on offer or cheapest.
No, tricky. Also depends on how you shop and how far it is. My mother had a shopping basket on wheels and used to walk about a mile each way to the shops when she was younger. We did the same, but not quite so far when we lived in the local town. Now I walk down to the local shops down the hill, which means carrying things back up. My limit now is about 2 4pt. bottle of milk that way. If I did much shopping there I would have to use a wheeled basket.
Deliveries are useful for some people, and virtually doubling the cost can be unfair on those that really need the service. There are a lot of people who seem to use deliveries who really don't need to though.
I think that the actual price of deliveries will drop again after the holiday period. Though they have crept up over the last 15 months to the average £3.50 now.
There's a village shop around the corner for small items like bread, a few potatoes. It's expensive as it has only a small turnover and is kept afloat by alcohol and vape sales. They try to supply canny but it all depends on the customer. They have gone independent as what Londis told them to sell wasn't what the village bought. It was 5.30am to deal with the newspapers when they only sold about 6 and none of the magazines that they were told to take. I think that it's only kept afloat really due to himself have other business interests. At one time in past history it was an offshoot of the village pub till the landlord changed.
Son is over from Switzerland today and says that UK prices have shot up this year (last visit before Christmas).
I use our local Coop for things like milk, but they don't really have a lot of other things I really want, or the things I want are a lot more expensive than elsewhere.
We will be eating leftovers for the foreseeable future. There are plenty of things in the larder, fridge and freezer, so only things like milk to buy I think, although we have now run out of tomatoes, so may have to buy some of them tomorrow too.
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