"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:45:56 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:

I bought a Mac Mini online on Tuesday evening from an outfit called
Laptops
Direct - which pretty quickly got morphed into 'BuyItDirect'! (??) Anyway,
it was just too late for next day 'guaranteed' delivery on Wednesday and
so,
in all innocence, I expected it yesterday and *bingo* it didn't arrive -
despite them having nearly twice as long as most 'overnight orders' in
which
to get it delivered!

Laptops Direct (and their aliases) have been pretty reliable for me.
Maybe Christmas week, plus the snow, might cut them a little slack?


Yes, I was aware that my *timing* wasn't best when I placed the order, but
it was *after* Christmas and these firms don't need to rely on the Royal
Mail.

The computer isn't urgent and this time we were/are here in any case, so it
isn't the complete PITA it might be - I probably won't be able to even
switch it on until I get a VGA adaptor cable anyway and that's coming from a
different source!

I'm cool....

@:-)