It's approaching that time of year once more, so it's time to get the Xmas orders put together and sent in ready for wrapping and chucking under your festive flora of choice! Royal Mail have just released their postage deadlines, so here's our annual list of deadlines for Xmas orders.
Don't forget, if anyone is wanting any 10mm goodness to be waiting in their stockings this year, you will need to get your orders into us before:
| Pendraken |
| Ordering Deadline |
| UK | Tues 10th Dec |
| Europe | Wed 4th Dec |
| USA/Canada | Mon 2nd Dec |
| Rest of the World | Tues 26th Nov |
Don't forget, if you don't get your order in before these dates, then we cannot guarantee that it will be there in time for Christmas morning, so get them in as soon as possible!
8)
And for anyone sending items out themselves, these are Royal Mail's official posting deadlines, (NOT to be confused with our own deadlines above! #-o )
| Royal Mail | |
| Posting Deadline |
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| UK 1st class | Fri 20th Dec |
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| Western Europe | Sat 14th Dec |
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| Eastern Europe | Mon 9th Dec |
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| Canada | Tues 10th Dec |
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| USA | Fri 13th Dec |
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| Rest of the World | Wed 4th / Thurs 5th Dec |
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More info on the Royal Mail website here: http://www.royalmail.com/greetings (http://www.royalmail.com/greetings)
:-bd
:o i hate deadlines :o
:P :P :P
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams
You've gone and done it now Leon - you mentioned the C word.... I now have to start giving things serious thought about what to buy for whom and then leave it till the 24th to do!
I'm not worried. Santa knows what I want. :)
Bloody Christmas.......BAH HUNBUG.
IanS ;) :d
Quote from: fsn on 07 November 2013, 07:53:14 AM
I'm not worried. Santa knows what I want. :)
Socks and a jumper again?
I would have thought a tank top for his Centurion would be more suitable than a jumper
So its too late to order for the USA. :'(
Greetings
Quote from: Hoagie on 07 November 2013, 04:44:47 PM
So its too late to order for the USA. :'(
I suspect a typo somewhere as 2nd November was a Saturday so more likely it refers to Monday 2nd
December?
Regards
Edward
Wow, the US postal service sucks!
I guess in a couple of years the Royal Mail will have dropped to that standard.
Quote from: Hoagie on 07 November 2013, 04:44:47 PM
So its too late to order for the USA. :'(
:-[
Just a typo, fixed it now.
Quote from: Luddite on 07 November 2013, 04:47:26 PM
I guess in a couple of years the Royal Mail will have dropped to that standard.
Don't get me started on RM today, not impressed at all with them at the moment. >:(
Quote from: Fenton on 07 November 2013, 11:48:46 AM
I would have thought a tank top for his Centurion would be more suitable than a jumper
;D ;D ;D
Very good.
I love the Royal Mail. When you live on your own & have no-one to sign for stuff the Royal Mail are a pleasure to deal with.
Will Santa be bringing my Mongols for Christmas Leon??? I've been good(ish). :D
Quote from: get2grips on 07 November 2013, 07:27:32 PM
Will Santa be bringing my Mongols for Christmas Leon??? I've been good(ish). :D
Hopefully!
Quote from: Leon on 07 November 2013, 09:11:12 PM
Hopefully!
:'( :'( :'(
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So this is what it feels like to be FSN...I will never mock him again...
Well...'til next time :D
Sympathies, Brother.
Quote from: fsn on 08 November 2013, 08:11:45 AM
Sympathies, Brother.
:o :o :o
Now it's worse...pity from FSN
:'( :'( :'(
Last call for any orders from Aus/NZ and other parts of the wider world!
Last call for everyone in North America, get them in before midnight tonight if possible please!
8)
Might I enquire how the Dark Caverns of Pendraken will be celebrating the festivities? Hopefully you will be enjoying a well deserved break with plenty of Games Workshop fare to keep the fires blazing. Some relaxing downtime in front of the festive telly, with your arms wrapped around the arms of the one you love, or indeed the family? Are you actually capable of laying aside your mighty burden, or do you sketch potential new figures on your Christmas napkin? (League of Ausberg canary sellers, League of Ausberg grenadiers of extraordinary tallness, League of Ausberg Aztec machine gunners, League of Ausberg light armoured kangaroos.) And what have you crayoned onto your wish list for Santa? World peace (but with the occasional bush war to keep the ranges up) or mayhap new evidence that the Emperor Leopold I travelled extensively in the antipodes or indeed that FSN ends his dalliance with 10mm, finds 15mm again and buggers off to annoy Peter Pig?
Whatever, I hope it's not too early to wish you the compliments of the season and all the very best.
This year we'll actually be taking some time off over Xmas, something we've never done before (Well that's the plan at least...!) In previous years, Dave's quite often been out casting on Xmas morning, just keeping on top of things, so this year we'll put a big notice on the website saying we're closed, and that all orders will be dealt with on our return.
For myself, as long as I don't get ill, I'm happy. The last 3 years I've been out of action for 1-2 weeks over Xmas/New Year, and I'm hoping this strange annual bug doesn't get me this time around.
8)
'tis always the way. You work hard and then when you take a break - kapow! Accumulated illness catches up with you.
The forum won't be closed will it? It'll be bad enough spending another Christmas alone - a discarded Tukey and Stuffing Pot Noodle, a glass that has not been chinked in merry salute with another, a cracker unpulled for want of a companion's hand - without access to the cheerful messages of my forum brothers proclaiming their festive greetings and sharing news of the Pendraken goodliness their loving families have presented to them wrapped in gaudy paper and glittering twine.
I'll be all right. :'(
Quote from: fsn on 02 December 2013, 09:37:56 PM
'tis always the way. You work hard and then when you take a break - kapow! Accumulated illness catches up with you.
The forum won't be closed will it? It'll be bad enough spending another Christmas alone - a discarded Tukey and Stuffing Pot Noodle, a glass that has not been chinked in merry salute with another, a cracker unpulled for want of a companion's hand - without access to the cheerful messages of my forum brothers proclaiming their festive greetings and sharing news of the Pendraken goodliness their loving families have presented to them wrapped in gaudy paper and glittering twine.
I'll be all right. :'(
Go volunteer at a homeless kitchen for the day
The Forum will certainly be up, it'll need to be for when something big happens... More on that coming soon... :-\
Ok FSN your duty on the day will be to keep an eye on the forum for the rest of to make sure its working for the big event
Quote from: fsn on 02 December 2013, 09:37:56 PM
'tis always the way. You work hard and then when you take a break - kapow! Accumulated illness catches up with you.
The forum won't be closed will it? It'll be bad enough spending another Christmas alone - a discarded Tukey and Stuffing Pot Noodle, a glass that has not been chinked in merry salute with another, a cracker unpulled for want of a companion's hand - without access to the cheerful messages of my forum brothers proclaiming their festive greetings and sharing news of the Pendraken goodliness their loving families have presented to them wrapped in gaudy paper and glittering twine.
I'll be all right. :'(
You can't be lonely, you have centurions....
Quote from: Leon on 02 December 2013, 09:41:05 PM
The Forum will certainly be up, it'll need to be for when something big happens... More on that coming soon... :-\
Something big ? HAve you bought over the EE , scrapped all their 28mm malarkey, and revamped warmaster @-)
I also have a Soviet army on the way. My Xmas will probably be spent on my own with lots of Pendraken goodies to keep me company.
Happiness is.
Quote from: fsn on 02 December 2013, 09:52:26 PM
I also have a Soviet army on the way. My Xmas will probably be spent on my own with lots of Pendraken goodies to keep me company.
Happiness is.
I hope i'll be spending christmass with union and confederate tropps :P
And the wife and wilderbeast of course...
Just got to paint these british paratroops and leftover tanks first...
my xmas normally involves assembling toys all morning, intervening in fights all afternoon, getting slightly drunk and falling on the fire, then washing up... can't wait
Greetings
Our children have opted for a quiet family Christmas Day i.e. just four of us, so I might get a few minutes for some miniature time at some point on the day itself.
Regards
Edward
i hate bloody xmas :-q
Since my other half and I split up, several years ago now, I timeshift Xmas to Boxing Day. These days I have my parents, the two sprogs and my daughter-in-law round for lunch on the 26th and spend the 25th in gentle preparation, outright piggery and the destruction of pixel spaceships in EVE Online in about equal measure. I love Xmas, me.
I go the other way. My daughter comes to see me on Xmas Eve and that's when we do the whole Xmas thing. Xmas day is either spent with my mother (such fun!) or quietly on my tod with a boxed set of something, and some engaging activity. (This year it will probably be painting some 1941 Russians :> .)
I find that by mid afternoon on Christmas day I would like everyone to go back home and leave us in peace so we can do what we want, rather than engage in conversation or quizes that go on forever.
24th lunch at friends, afternoon leaving the screen (TV+PC) only upon severe threats of violence
25th presents for the hooligan (daughter), leaving the screen (TV+PC) only upon severe threats of violence
26th no idea
27th possibly meal gathering with friends
28th no idea
29th Counterstrike with friends.
30th leaving the screen (TV+PC) only upon severe threats of violence
31st ditto
1st ditto
2nd revert to normal duties
Last call for UK orders is Tuesday night, so not long left to get them in to us!
8)
Greetings
Well reminded and done.
Regards
Edward
Depending on when my paint order arrives, my Xmas will be spent resurrecting some Vallejo paint & using it... 8)