Frustrating

It is so frustrating! We are trying to run an ecommerce shop, bought loads of new stuff for Christmas, paying money to have a brand new design on the website and Royal Mail decide to strike.

Well, for the bigger companies they can negotiate deals with a variety of couriers so that their customers will still be able to shop with them and get delivery of their goods.
For ecommerce shops that do not have a stock and just use drop shippers then they can pass the problem on to the drop shipper.
For those people that have a shop as well as a website they can try to ride the storm and hope that customers will temporarily turn their backs on websites and buy from a bricks and mortar shop.

For small companies that do not have the buying clout to get good deals with a courier, that is IF the courier will even consider them - then we have a big problem! We might not be able to get a courier to do our deliveries and if we do then we will have to pay high prices and probably be pushed aside if a bigger order comes through. As a small company, just developing, we are going to be hit hard. Our sales will take a nosedive because I believe that people will be unsure when they will receive their goods and do less shopping online.Also what sales we do make will make less profit as carriage will be more expensive.

Not an easy time at the moment, rant is now over, thanks for reading - going for a glass of wine!