All of our products prices are listed inclusive of VAT and are the prices you would pay if you were to visit our store in Colchester. For anybody unable to visit us, we are happy to provide a full mail order faciltity and add the following charges to cover postage, packing and administration. The rates are based on Royal Mail 1st class postage for small items, and nationwide parcel delviery via the APC parcel network for all other items. All transport charges include VAT at standard rate. These rates are based upon the total weight of your order, not on each individual item, so you can save postage and packing charges by combining several items within a single order.

 

We also provide FREE* delivery on all orders over £65.00 to UK Mainland destinations. (Not Scottish Highlands or Northern Ireland)* When you get to the checkout page select ANY shipment method and the full transport charge will be deducted as soon as you are transferred to the secure payment handling system.

 

 

Delivery Option	Up To	Price
1st Class Postage - Large Letter	0.5 kgs	from £1.25
1st Class Postage - Packet	1.0 kgs	from £2.00
Local Delivery (CO1 - CO16 and IP1-4 postcode areas)	5.0 kgs	£3.99
Local Delivery (CO1 - CO16 and IP1-4 postcode areas)	20.0 kgs	£4.95
Courier delivery within England, Wales and Lowland Scotland - 1 day	5.0 kgs	£5.95
Courier delivery within England, Wales and Lowland Scotland - 1 day	10.0 kgs	£7.25
Courier delivery within England, Wales and Lowland Scotland - 1 day	20.0 kgs	£7.95
Courier delivery within the Scottish Highlands - 1-2 days	10.0 kgs	£20.00
Courier delivery within Northern Ireland - 1-2 days	10.0 kgs	£20.00
Courier delivery elsewhere in the UK - Channel Islands, IoM, IoW etc	10.0 kgs	from £13.95
Please contact us for details of delivery rates for all other destinations

 

For items ordered and despatched Monday to Thursday, we would anticipate 1-2 day delivery if the item is sent via the postage system, or Nextday delivery if sent using our overnight parcel carrier. For items ordered and despatched Friday, we would anticipate Monday delivery for all items. Any items ordered over the weekend will be processed and despatched on Monday.

 

Large and bulky items over 1kg will always be sent for next working day delivery via our overnight parcel courier, APC Overnight, and will require a signature. If you are not going to be home, please leave written instructions for the driver to deliver to a neighbour or to leave the items in a safe place. The driver will  need to be able to remove these instructions and will carry them out at entirely at your risk. Saturday is not normally considered a working day but can be arranged at extra cost if required.

 

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"Lowland Scotland" is taken to mean all those areas North of the border to the Clyde and the Forth and includes Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Perth. It DOES NOT include areas with the following postcodes, to which we can deliver, but for which a higher rate is unfortunately applicable - please contact us for details.

 

Sottish Highland Postcodes: AB, IV, KW, PH15-50, PA21-76, FK19-21, KA, ZE1-3, HS1-9

 

Deliveries to Scottish Offshore locations covered by postcodes : HS1-9, IV41-56, KA27-28, KW15-17, PA20, PA41-49, PA62-76 and PH42-44, will take at least TWO working days to achieve.

 

We can ship any item, up to a maximum weight of 2kgs per parcel, to ANY Worldwide destination via the Royal Mail using either the Surface Mail or Airmail services. Simply enter your country code during the checkout procedure and our sytsem will calculate the appropriate postage charges.

  

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*Our Free Delivery, option which is avilable on purchases over £65.00, does not apply to the Scottish Highlands or Northern Ireland. If you intend to place an order above this amount, please contact us and we will provide a discount code which will reduce the postage by £6.50, representing the standard rates our carriers charge us for deliveries to UK mainland destinations. (The remainder of our delivery charge represents packing costs.)