Aldi now delivering Specials (UK)

slave1

Aldi starting to deliver their specials, UK only so PM/PW/AnPost etc.
Free delivery for a while then a charge, could be an option for lower sized high value items perhaps?

https://www.aldi.co.uk/specialbuys/all-specialbuys/c/specialbuyscategories

loyatemu

no Aldi in Norn Iron, so it would probably have to be the AnPost service:

While geographical location can restrict some of the delivery services we are able to offer on some products, we deliver to most postal areas in mainland UK.

jamesd

Damm the An Post address wont fit into Aldi's address field, says a max of 30 characters per field.

loyatemu

jamesd wrote: »

Damm the An Post address wont fit into Aldi's address field, says a max of 30 characters per field.

that was one of the (many) criticisms of AddressPal on this forum. Does it still not fit if you abbreviate AddressPal to "AP"?

jamesd

loyatemu wrote: »

that was one of the (many) criticisms of AddressPal on this forum. Does it still not fit if you abbreviate AddressPal to "AP"?

Tried that and still not enough space

smallgarden

Im way too excited for this than I should be

Niemoj

jamesd wrote: »

Tried that and still not enough space

loyatemu wrote: »

that was one of the (many) criticisms of AddressPal on this forum. Does it still not fit if you abbreviate AddressPal to "AP"?

Didn't AnPost issue letters recently where they said they changed the length of the IDs?

I've not used AddressPal yet but I do remember getting a letter about it.

seanin4711

Just electrolyte s in sports,meh

jamesd

Niemoj wrote: »

Didn't AnPost issue letters recently where they said they changed the length of the IDs?

I've not used AddressPal yet but I do remember getting a letter about it.

I only signed up yesterday with them and the address they gave me was
FirstName LastName
AP 44A 2784 0217829
Air Business
Unit 5, The Merlin Centre
Acrewood Way
St Albans
Herts AL4 0JY

Aldi have 2 options
1) Postcode which is no good as does not show the exact address but about 8 other businesses
2) Manual address input into 3 or 4 boxes and none to have more that 30 characters each

crabbypaddy

jamesd wrote: »

I only signed up yesterday with them and the address they gave me was
FirstName LastName
AP 44A 2784 0217829
Air Business
U5 Merlin Centre, Acrewood Way
St Albans, Herts AL4 0JY

Aldi have 2 options
1) Postcode which is no good as does not show the exact address but about 8 other businesses
2) Manual address input into 3 or 4 boxes and none to have more that 30 characters each

You can drop the Herts for a start, royal mail deleted counties from postal addresses a couple of years ago. Theres only 14 matches for that postcode so Air Business plus the postcode should be enough to get it delivered especially with the volume of packages that they would be taking in.

This should be more than sufficient and fits in 30 characters.
AP 44A 2784 0217829
Air Business, U5 Merlin Center
St. Albans
AL4 0JY

loyatemu

crabbypaddy wrote: »

You can drop the Herts for a start, royal mail deleted counties from postal addresses a couple of years ago. Theres only 14 matches for that postcode so Air Business plus the postcode should be enough to get it delivered especially with the volume of packages that they would be taking in.

This should be more than sufficient and fits in 30 characters.
AP 44A 2784 0217829
Air Business, U5 Merlin Center
St. Albans
AL4 0JY

If you don't use your name at the top of the address, will the Post Office staff actually give you the parcel when you go to pick it up?

crabbypaddy

loyatemu wrote: »

If you don't use your name at the top of the address, will the Post Office staff actually give you the parcel when you go to pick it up?

Theres seperate boxes for the name, the issue is cramming the address and ap number into 4 lines one of which has to be postcode.

jamesd

crabbypaddy wrote: »

You can drop the Herts for a start, royal mail deleted counties from postal addresses a couple of years ago. Theres only 14 matches for that postcode so Air Business plus the postcode should be enough to get it delivered especially with the volume of packages that they would be taking in.

This should be more than sufficient and fits in 30 characters.
AP 44A 2784 0217829
Air Business, U5 Merlin Center
St. Albans
AL4 0JY

Gave it a go and it fitted - Thanks. Here's hoping it will be delivered now

jamesd

Payment rejected by their payment provider - Damm.

Quackster

jamesd wrote: »

Payment rejected by their payment provider - Damm.

What payment method did you use? If you used Revolut, you'll probably need to change your address in the Revolut app to match the delivery address you inputted on the Aldi website.

jamesd

Quackster wrote: »

What payment method did you use? If you used Revolut, you'll probably need to change your address in the Revolut app to match the delivery address you inputted on the Aldi website.

No I used my mastercard with irish address so probely why it failed?

_Whimsical_

Quackster wrote: »

What payment method did you use? If you used Revolut, you'll probably need to change your address in the Revolut app to match the delivery address you inputted on the Aldi website.

I never heard of Revolut before, does it allow you get over the problem of your delivery address in the UK not matching the address on your Irish reg credit card?

Seamu$

jamesd wrote: »

No I used my mastercard with irish address so probely why it failed?

I'm in the same boat, just checked my purchase from earlier today that I thought had gone through & it's saying order cancelled. Any ideas as to how to get the payment to go through with the Irish billing address/UK delivery address? Thanks

_Whimsical_

Seamu$ wrote: »

I'm in the same boat

Makes sense as you both have essentially the same name!
Nothing else to add, sorry, I couldn't resist.

uck51js9zml2yt

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

I never heard of Revolut before, does it allow you get over the problem of your delivery address in the UK not matching the address on your Irish reg credit card?

You obviously don't read the Bargain Alerts thread much;)

_Whimsical_

Amelie Grumpy Victor wrote: »

You obviously don't read the Bargain Alerts thread much;)

Care to enlighten to me then or just comment on how I don't know what you're talking about? ☺.do you know the answer to my initial question?
I read BA everyday but I missed revolut somehow.

snubbleste

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Care to enlighten to me then or just comment on how I don't know what you're talking about? ☺.do you know the answer to my initial question?
I read BA everyday but I missed revolut somehow.

Ah now, it's been on the front page for months

_Whimsical_

snubbleste wrote: »

Ah now, it's been on the front page for months

Well ye are full of helpful insights!

And what with you all being experts on it could any of you answer the question? can you reg a UK address to a revolut card?

will56

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

I never heard of Revolut before, does it allow you get over the problem of your delivery address in the UK not matching the address on your Irish reg credit card?

You can chnge your billing address on Revolut to match your delivery address

_Whimsical_

will56 wrote: »

You can chnge your billing address on Revolut to match your delivery address

Thank you so much Will56!

curranbaz

For the lazy amongst us

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057481488

jamesd

Joined Revolut, topped up and changed the address on it and made my order. Looks like all went fine and got ordered email and money taken from the credit card

Doge

curranbaz wrote: »

For the lazy amongst us

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057481488

So because people dont have time on their hands to read through over a 1000 posts to find their answer they're lazy?

Doge

loyatemu wrote: »

no Aldi in Norn Iron, so it would probably have to be the AnPost service:

Hold up a second, has anyone tried ordering to PW or PM regardless of this?

If they post the item out it nay deliver to northern ireland.

Quackster

Doge wrote: »

Hold up a second, has anyone tried ordering to PW or PM regardless of this?

If they post the item out it nay deliver to northern ireland.

If Aldi has the same structure as Lidl in that the Lidl UK operation only covers GB and NI comes within the remit of Lidl Ireland (and Aldi Ireland simply hasn't decided to open stores in NI yet), then Aldi UK may deliberately choose not to deliver to NI.

But certainly worth trying if nobody has yet.

_Whimsical_

Doge wrote: »

Hold up a second, has anyone tried ordering to PW or PM regardless of this?

If they post the item out it nay deliver to northern ireland.

It says on their site that they post to "most locations in mainland UK" so I doubt they'd send it to NI but I suppose there's no harm giving it a shot. It will probably reject your order due to the postcode during the order process if it doesn't work.

Doge

Thanks lads.

I know it was bought locally buy we picked up the Hose and Reel Cart in Aldi today and there doesn't seem to be a special buys super thread to post in.

The Hose Cart for €25 is really high quality, the frame and drum is made of proper metal and there's a nice bit of weight to it.

The one we bought in Lidl a good few years back had that crappy cheap chrome coloured tubing and a plastic drum, and the whole cart would come dragging with the hose when you pulled it!

The new Aldi one stays put when you pull it, it has a little pulley the Hose goes through that spins when when you pull the Hose to stop it dragging too.

Surprised it's so good for the price.

jamesd

Collected by Aldi juicer from the local post office yesterday, I was the first to use the new An Post uk packages so it took 15 minutes for the post lady to work things out.

ipnface

jamesd wrote: »

Collected by Aldi juicer from the local post office yesterday, I was the first to use the new An Post uk packages so it took 15 minutes for the post lady to work things out.

Is this still possible? Payment keeps failing for me. Not sure where I'm going wrong..