Ordered mine from Sports Direct, then got the family to forward it to Japan! Thanks to the Royal Mail, took 4 and a half weeks to get here! Which is so wrong on many, many levels! Why oh why are RM so cr@p! Japan Post manages 1 week, Japan to England, no matter what. Royal Mail? I had something get here in 4 days, and a couple of things take a month and a half! Still, kit is now hung up, and waiting for a suitable moment for an official unveiling! Managed to talk my local bar into putting up its new TV in time for the England/Japan game. May end up being deeply unpopular... I love the home kit, but the new red one is still a very nice number over which I have no complaints! Well done once more to Umbro!
Probably because British Aerospace was closed for a long time. I don't think you can really blame Royal Mail for that.
If Royal Mail were sending by airmail, then they would have had massive delays as the airspace was shut for about a week.
It's hard to deliver items half way across the world when you can't fly them over. Or did you think the Postman would drive all the way there in his little van?
Oh! British air space! And my folks actually put the packages in the post about 5 days before the volcano kicked off. So thats not an excuse. Unless Royal Mail habitually hold on to packages for 6 days before delivering...