We have made two changes to the delivery of beacon hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For UK deliveries,<\/strong> we now use DPD rather than UPS<\/strong>. After 11 years with UPS, they increased our UK prices considerably, making the service unsustainable for us. UPS has been pruning lower-margin business and restructuring its network, including closing facilities, cutting operational roles and increasing prices for smaller customer accounts. We have be trialling DPD for the last two months and we are confident our customers will see no difference in the service they receive. UK delivery remains a 1\u20132 day courier service and we have prevented a large increase in delivery fees. For now, we will continue to use UPS for International orders but this is under review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have also stopped delivering beacon hardware to the USA<\/strong>. This is due to a combination of increasingly onerous import documentation requirements, a new arbitrary UPS fee if they contact our customer, the removal of the de minimis limit and continued uncertainty around import taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have made two changes to the delivery of beacon hardware. For UK deliveries, we now use DPD rather than UPS. After 11 years with UPS, they increased our UK prices considerably, making the service unsustainable for us. UPS has been pruning lower-margin business and restructuring its network, including closing facilities, cutting operational roles and … Continue reading “Changes to Delivery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10167,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions\/10167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}