Fast service from Farnell

[GeoffS]

Or I should say element14.

Ordered some connectors, pins and a crimp tool at 17:59 last night (rushing to get in before  cutoff for ovenight orders at 18:00)
Considering I'm in Tasmania and deliveries normally take a few days extra than to everywhere else, I was pleasantly surprised when the courier turned up about 30 minutes ago.
 

[EEVblog]

Yep, that's what couriers are for!
And Farnell do process stuff same day as promised.

Dave.

[grumpydoc]

Farnell are pretty good - in the UK you can order up to 7PM for next day.

The best ordering experience I had turned out to be a fridge though - ordered at just past 11PM on a Thursday evening, arrived before 10AM the following day!

EDIT: What I really want is Hoobnet - don't know if anyone has seen this; it's a UK (Channel 4) TV programme aimed at preschoolers. Some fluffy aliens (the Hoobs) have come to Earth to learn about humans. When they want something they order it on "hoobnet" and it generally arrives in about 30 seconds 

[steve30]

I've had plenty of stuff from Farnell and others come in the post next day.

Royal Mail really should get more credit.

Though Farnell are in Leeds and I'm in South Yorkshire so I'm assuming it won't have too far to travel.

[SeanB]

Phones RS yesterday at around 10AM to see if they had stock. Took all they had and both switches arrived this morning before 9AM. 24 hour courier fee was $4, but this is the same as doing a non web order anyway. Order pick confirmation was 4 hours from order to delivered to courier pickup  by Skynet.

[Simon]

Royal Mail really should get more credit.

indeed, although post office clerks can be sloppy, if i ask for a proof of postage I expect a proof of postage not the same goddamn meaningless recipe I'd have got anyway.

Farnell, yes ordered some parts yesterday morning and they were shipped from germany (just 2 triacs) and they arrived this morning.

[johnboxall]

Or I should say element14.

Ordered some connectors, pins and a crimp tool at 17:59 last night (rushing to get in before  cutoff for ovenight orders at 18:00)
Considering I'm in Tasmania and deliveries normally take a few days extra than to everywhere else, I was pleasantly surprised when the courier turned up about 30 minutes ago.
 

Kudos to Toll - they have to pick up the parcel from element14 at Chester Hill, get it through their DC and onto a plane that must take off before the Sydney airport curfew of 2300h.

[GeoffS]

Kudos to Toll - they have to pick up the parcel from element14 at Chester Hill, get it through their DC and onto a plane that must take off before the Sydney airport curfew of 2300h.

The slowest part would be getting from Hobart airport to where I live, about 50kms south.

The same courier driver showed up today, this time with his Fedex hat on, to deliver  some bits for the 3D printer which I only ordered  from Hong Kong on Monday so happy with that one too.
I'm awaiting another package from China that's being sent via China Post (or EMS). I expect another week or so for that one. 

[Simon]

well I ordered some parts last night at about half six and six this morning they are out for delivery so I guess here by 11am

[G7PSK]

I once ordered some wheel hubs and axles units from a company in Marseilles in France on a Friday afternoon 8 AM on Monday morning a truck turned up with the  all 100 units. I have never had anything like that performance since  if you consider distances.

[deephaven]

I've ordered stuff from Digikey in the US on a Friday evening and it's arrived at my office in the UK on the Monday which I thought was pretty good. Free postage too as my order was above their minimum.

[Simon]

well I'm guessing that couriers have to work weekends these days

[GeoffS]

In my case, there's only one regular courier that services my location so no matter whether it's sent Fedex, UPS or Toll, it gets delivered by (usually) the same guy.

It's road based delivery that is really slow. There's only one ferry per day between the mainland and Tasmania and it's a 12 hour trip.

[david77]

The company that impresses me most when it comes to speed of delivery is RS.
You order some parts in the afternoon and without fail the courier arrives with your order the next day before noon. Often with two or three packages. One sent from their German warehouse, one from France and one from the UK.
I can not understand how they do it - I suspect they have some form of top secret transporter system .

[Simon]

I think it is to do with the really small price parts cost to them and the major cost is storing it and moving it around

[peter.mitchell]

I ordered a special monitor from Seoul on a monday morning, arrived by DHL on wednesday morning - I live in the Outback (like you see in movies outback), usually I don't even get things in Australia in less than 3 days.
Was an eBay item with free postage, I wonder who won on that?

[T4P]

I see great experiences you guys have with both Farnell and RS
My local farnell (Now element14 of course) sends parcels out with Toll (used to be DP Express but Toll bought them over) and seems to take 2-3days before it reaches me ...
RS uses Toll too
The difference though, element14 has a 70buck minimum order and RS has none for free S&H
Odd?
Oh, the same man (who is my friend after all those deliveries freaking RS made me wait for) turned up so i was rather surprised for a june order involving both of my ESD mats and a switchcraft jack