BLACK MAIL - YOU AIN'T GONNA LIKE THIS

Well maybe some of them will take notice of my previous moans on here about charging me a couple of quid postage for a few packets of seed, only to send me 2 thumping great catalogues that I didn't ask for that arrive before the seeds do.

Oi, Chiltern Seeds, wake up and smell the coffee. I didn't want your Catalogue, I didn't want to pay postage for my seeds if you were going to send me a catalogue. I found the online catalogue, I didn't need a hard copy.

 

Maybe some of those names mentioned in the article will learn to only send me one copy of each catalogue instead of two or three identical copies. If they dedupe their mailing lists, reduce mailouts to lapsed customers, and use email where the customer has asked for email rather than paper mail, then they will easily save themselves, and therefore their customers, from the postage prices rise.

 

At least the Chiltern Seed Catalogue has got soft pages, isn't that right Sheal

 

Oy, Chiltern, NO !!!

 

I thought we'd buried the above subject once and for all!!!

Ziggy, not sure about the Chiltern seed one, but Suttons wasn't to bad.

Armandii........Knowing our local shipping, it's probably still sitting on the dock at Liverpool.

 

Thanks Armandii, they've got plenty of time, the weather shouldn't be too rough now until October.

 

BP in 2010 lost around $40 bn of petrol and another $7.8 Bn in compensation.......since December 2010 there has been a rise of about 40/5 pence more per lt , That will affect every business , that including killing business who where living on mail order and chep import but at the same time will boost local business.......price of plant in my local nursery it`s almost doubled since last year...but at the same time plants on ebay are cheap but with the postal order will be even more expencive.
I was thinking of buy a messenger pigeon , so that we could swap seeds for free ......but then realise that the pigeon will eat the seeds

 

Maybe van Meuwen will actually put multiple plants in a single box now ... it really T's me off that they send each individual plant I order in a separate box all the way from Holland, and each box has a mini-catalogue (the same one for all the packages I buy ... so it just gets binned) and the same junk mail. I already have a Mantis thank you very much, 15 identical special offers is no use to me ...

 

Yeah, the seed companies need to prune their mailing lists and also the number of issues of the same magazine they send out per annum. One would do, with updates/ sales info etc. available on line.

 

As ziggy said , if you order on line there is a fair to middling chance you have browsed the web catalogue. The glossy one ( you receive with each order ) is never used.............it goes straight in the blue bin. I am sure they will wise up a bit now . Its the glossy printers who will be worried !