IHUK - A day in the life of….

[Simon]

@el:

@giles can’t beat the old singer machines. My grandmother bought this new, my mom had the motor changed in the eighties sometime, and I’m still using it today

Nice machine @el camino. What you have there is a Singer 201, the undisputed pinnacle of domestic Singer production. Unfortunately, with few exceptions, it was all downhill for Singer after this model.

[A Former User]

@Simon i quite like using that machine, it’s built like a tank

[Giles]

[Matty123]

@Giles:

The good news is, that I now have an equal amount of useful fingers as I have toes….

8?

[Giles]

Correct….

[Chris]

It still irks me how bad I am at using that machine.

[Giles]

Chicken-legged IH-666S-142…..

[Giles]

And chicken-legged IH-634S

[LewisStonehouse]

Possibly the best shorts Ive ever seen @Giles

[Giles]

[Giles]

@AdamC tries to get his head around todays delivery….Multiple shipments, but cartons missing from each

[Seul]

Ouch… Best of luck 

[AdamC]

We got there in the end! Some awesome new prods and restocks on the way…

[Giles]

And this what it looks like when we are missing cartons, no complete size runs, so we cant put new products live (or even measure them), or ship to retailers.  So there are piles of stuff waiting until we can move or ship….

[Wlemon]

Did something happen during shipping, @Giles?

[Giles]

Yep, UPS (as do most other shipping companies) ship to UK from Japan (and other places in Asia) via China.

As the world starts to open up after the lock-downs, the volumes of goods needing to be shipped, is far outstripping the available space in cargo planes.  So, there are delays happening now, that did not happen during the lock-downs.

19 carton shipment due here Monday.  Got 9 cartons Mon, 9 cartons yesterday and 1 today.  Ditto other shipments….

[Wlemon]

Oh, man. I'm sorry to hear! I'm sure that puts stress on top of an already stressful situation.

[Giles]

It's a real pisser, but there are worse problems to have…..

[dinobarnesberlin]

damn looters 

[AdamC]

To make space for Big Dug storage, we have to move motorbikes from our mezzanine…