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I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem?
Went to order some wine from Sainsbury, in particular the buy 6 save 25%.
When I click on the link it tells me this offer is not available in Scotland.
I am in Northumberland, I might be North of the Wall but I'm definitely in England.
Anyone had similar?
Which branch would it be delivered from?
Similar, i suppose.
Mail order companies not even knowing where addresses are...
I sometimes get a remote location flag on my address which adds an extra 20-25 quid to any European shipping.
Other places with the remote location flag are places like the Lofoten Archipelago, Hammarfest and Svalbard.
I actually live about a kilometer from a motorway between two of the larger cities in the country and have the actual Scandinavian distribution centres for most of the major shipping companies within an hours drive of me and local distribution hubs within 30 minutes... So i don't order much through those companies.
Not sure.
The nearest branch is in Alnwick but I don't know if this is where the delivery comes from.
I guess if it's coming from Kelso that might be the problem but that's 40 miles away.
Could be the hub it’s being delivered from is in Scotland.
Do you stand with Urien of Rheged, or the sons of Ida in Bernicia?
Just looking at all the Angles.
I have heard Northumberland wants to leave with Scotland when the union is dissolved. 😉
Isn't anything north of Watford gap Scotland?
Just looking at all the Angles.
Chapeau sir
I guess if it’s coming from Kelso that might be the problem but that’s 40 miles away.
I suspect that’s exactly where it’s coming from.
Just looking at all the Angles.
Very nice.
I am in Northumberland, I might be North of the Wall but I’m definitely in England.
Are you in the TD postcode area? It's mainly Scotland but does includes parts of England.
I've had Aberdeen is not on the uk mainland and we don't deliver to the Scottish Islands.
Are you in the TD postcode area?
No. NE postcode area.
@Drac - looking at the size of the Kelso branch compared to Alnwick, then I would guess your right.
Ridiculous. Everything from the Humber to the Firth of Forth is part of Northumberland.
Alnwick Sainsbury's is so crap - you aren't missing much by them refusing to deliver.
I had that Shetland isn't part of the UK, they really weren't for believing me lol! Being part of Norway again would probably very welcome just now 🤣
When we've rented holiday cottages in Northumberland the Sainsburys delivery always comes from Kelso. There's usually a little flag clue on the milk.
Could be worse.
They could believe Northumberland was somewhere north. When in reality it's fairly central to the whole shebang.
They may have associated where your ISP connects you from with your place of origin. Sometimes my home shows up as the North West or Yorkshire or Kent (I'm in Suffolk).
Just to add tha the Alnwick Sainsbury's is crap. We were up there over the summer and I popped out to get some bits and it was closed at 9pm on a Saturday, mental.
Is it to do with being godless, barbarian badlands rather than actual borders ?
🤔
Godless barbarian badlands - Westminster?
They could believe Northumberland was somewhere north. When in reality it’s fairly central to the whole shebang.
Erm....no
Erm….no
The map disagrees with you. Wick to Northumberland ~ 600km .
Northumberland to Brighton ~ 600k.
Technically Scotland is in Northumbria...
Tees to the Tweed...
I was once asked by an Environment Agency officer dealing with our waste licence whether we had an office in the UK, when I have her out head office address in Glasgow.
I did point out that we'd not left yet, but she still asked more than once, eventually correcting it to an office in England, which wasn't a prerequisite for licencing anyway.
Didn't inspire confidence in her abilities to represent a regulatory body.
lovewookie EA do england, NRW wales, SEPA do scotland, so they were asking to make sure they weren't stepping over regulatory boundries. not quite as rubbish as you think
Nah, definitely rubbish. She stated that to have an EA waste management licence we needed an office in the UK, after seeing we were in Glasgow. Then downgraded to an office in England. Which is nonsense.
A EA wml is for England and Wales, though NRW do administer it there now, I think. It's been a while since we deployed a licence to wales.
Never had any such issues when getting our NI licence.
so they were asking to make sure they weren’t stepping over regulatory boundries
That can only be assessed when we want to use it, and an individual site application will identify whether that is the case..
Sainsbury’s website thinks Northumberland is in Scotland
Close, but no bananas…
Presteigne, Powys has England on three sides. Try calling an ambulance there.
Just to add tha the Alnwick Sainsbury’s is crap. We were up there over the summer and I popped out to get some bits and it was closed at 9pm on a Saturday, mental.
Says an unorganised city dweller.
I suspect it'll be because the delivery comes from Kelso.
I once tried to order an oak bed from a company (somewhere down south), they said they didn't deliver to "the extreme north". At the time I lived in Keswick!
I get completely fed up with companies who either don't deliver to a Highland postcode because it isn't on the UK mainland or charge extra for the same reason.
I get completely fed up with companies who either don’t deliver to a Highland postcode because it isn’t on the UK mainland or charge extra for the same reason.
If you operated a business would you just suck up the extra costs?
But what extra costs? There are stories of Aberdeenshire companies charging Moray postcodes extra but happy to deliver at normal cost to remote areas like Kent and Cornwall. Mainland addresses are affected by this, but only one part of the island.